Now there is one thing
That keeps my head above water when things are getting tough
When I'm feeling like I'm too weird for this world
Just like a permanent square peg in a permanent round hole
Like I'm permanently clawing my way up the side of the bell curve
Sticking my flag in the peak and sliding my way back down
Over and over and over and over again
When I feel like I'm in this cycle of hopelessness
I'll never go anywhere
I'll never amount to anything
I'll never be anyone
Whenever I feel like there's just no way I'll ever get out of this mess alive
There's one thing I keep in mind that really just makes things just swell
And I think it's worth setting a reminder on your phone
Every half-hour, go for it man, put this thing on your phone
Just, you know, never forget it, keep it in mind at all times
This one fact that just makes everything awesome
And if I just tell you what that thing is it's not really going to translate
So I wrote this song, which I hope gets the point across
'Cause god knows I wouldn't be able to just babbling at you like I'm doing right now
Anyway
This is a song that I like to call "The Most Important Thing in the World"

One day you'll look up at the ceiling above
Your three o'clock, your nine o'clock, the ones that you love
The lights in your eyes fade and life flashes by
One day you're going to die
One day you'll sleep and you'll never wake again
Heaven, hell, Nirvana, nothing, no-one knows how it ends
Rest in peace or pieces and won't even know why
One day you're going to die

Read your horoscopes, your palms and tarot cards
But either way your destination ain't very far
You could drown, or choke, or burn, or be hit by a car
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger
But something will eventually

One day you'll look back at the life that you led,
No more future left to fear that you'll have the past to regret
But your worries will be over when you truly realize
One day you're going to die
Take it away, hands

In the fabric of time, and in the vastness of space
A billion amounts to nothing in infinity's face
At most a couple generations will remember the ways in which
Your life never mattered
So, who cares if it's a waste?

Well, one day you'll be not even a faint memory, no
At most a ghost or falling leaf from your family tree
Your history's not yours to see. Nor is your eulogy
And you'll never know what this shit all means

But you'll be at peace before you sleep if you just keep this in mind
That everything and everyone goes with the passage of time
So whether it's cancer, murder, or suicide
One day you're going to die
Try not to think about it
One day you're going to die
But there ain't no life without it
One day you're going to die
There's probably nothing after
One day you're going to die
So if you only have one chance you oughta try your best to live as you like
One day you're going to die