"Life" is a song I wrote in between making Yearbook and the EP Midterms. I had been struck by a car in New York City in the summer of 2021, and that incident, combined with the unexpected deaths of several close friends, had me thinking deeply about mortality. The song references a line from John Denver’s “Thank God (I’m a Country Boy)”—Life ain’t nothing but a funny funny riddle—which becomes a kind of incantation throughout the track. In retrospect, it feels like an expression of rage more than anything else. That aggressive underpinning was amplified by the drumming of Jeff Lipstein, who also went on to mix the song (and my next two albums).

Once again, when it came time to make the video, I found perfect source material by searching for archival footage at The Prelinger Archives.