Haven’t seen my friend and fellow Home4Lifer Chris Annetts for a few weeks because of festivities and isolation. But I was listening this Saturday morning to a beautifully crafted song he wrote and put up on the old Youtube a short while before I first knew him.

Lyrically its a reflection on the never ending search for a scientific version of the Holy Grail. Some kind of water of life that will extend our ability to live forever…or at least, put off the dreaded day for a few years or decades. In the hook line of the song Chris says….”I’m not having that. Death is a part of living. Just give me a bit more now, not some kind of techno-denial about our inevitable mortality”.

Don’t want to live forever, oh, no no, oh, no no, oh, no no. Just one more night.

Knowing Chris, I can say that he very much lives the lyrics he’s written here …. though that doesn’t necessarily apply to every song he sings! And along the way we’ve had some interesting discussions about life and death, and everything in between.

As someone who is very much into getting fitter and who jokes to my sons (but is actually a wee bit serious) … “Watch me…I’m gonna live till I’m 118!”, it’s a good thing for me to hear.

Don’t ever get so focussed on staying alive, that you forget how to live.

Chris always writes great melodies too. So enjoy the song and the entertaining video he made. And I hope that both you and I will recover at some point from the sight of him dressed as the backing singers/dancers in his own band.

Oh, no, no!