For All I Know

This song is a result of a unit I taught on existentialism. It's about existing, or the state of existence, and its relationship to life and the universe, which is also existing right now but in outer space - and perhaps even in inner space as well.

Let me clarify. Circumstantially, each of us has life. It's our own life, notwithstanding everyone else's, and it's designed from a body full of molecules and DNA that solidifies as a person unique unto the design itself. It's a life that we hitherto craft and meticulously maintain throughout the entirety of our existences. Consequently, it's a life that will inevitably end with a death, a death that in actuality results from the failing of one or many vital systems that ironically sustain life itself.

And that is what this song is about, how each of us is alive and how each of us can walk around in this miracle we call space without automatically dying.

Just as life, this song also evolved quite a bit from it's original form, for it too is made of molecules. But unlike life, it will never die because I invented the internet, which as you may be aware sustains molecular transport with binary systems that depend on electricity and magnets (which also won't, strictly speaking, die).

This is the song's first iteration. I conceived (?) of the song as somewhat peppy and upbeat. I think I did this because I'm a happy person.

But while Jeff is a sad person, I think he takes pleasure in making others happy. And therefore when he sent back his take on the tune, I giggled, which in turn, I imagine, made him happy, too.

The problem occurred when I re recorded the tune with my voice, which because it's a bit lower has the propensity to create overwhelming feelings of sadness. But Jeff is immune to that sort of thing because, as I mentioned earlier, Jeff is a sad person.

Here's that track. But be sure to take it easy if you're prone to bouts of melancholia.

Here is the 'final' draft. 'Final' is in quotation marks because I'm already thinking about going back to the original key. Enjoy.

For all I know

     Are my neurons slowly dying

     Or are they simply realigning

     I don’t know

     Ohhh. I don’t know

     Is there a reason in defining

     If I’m laughing or I’m crying

     I don’t know

     Ohhh. I don’t know.

     Well, I don’t know if I should care

     If I get there or go

     For all I know

     Ohhh. For all I know

     I stretch my changing mind

     Until we both slow down in time

     And now we know

     Ohhh. And now we know

     That there’s nothing in the sky

     It’s just a well-designed disguise.

     For all I know.

     Ohhh. We’re all alone

     And now I know that I don’t care

     If I get there or go.

     For all I know

     Ohhh. For all I know

     so it’ll never be the same

     it’s just a fucked up cosmic game

     that I think I know

     ohhh. That I think I know

     because it means I’ve been supplying

     all these babies for the dying

     for all I know.

     Ohhh. For all I know.

     Know. For all I know

     Ohhh. For all I know

     Love.

  

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