Life'll Kill Ya (song)
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"Life'll Kill Ya" is a song by Warren Zevon
Warren Zevon
Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...

 from the album of the same name
Life'll Kill Ya
Life'll Kill Ya is an album by American singer/songwriter Warren Zevon, released in 2000. . The album was recorded in 1999.-Themes:...

. The song contains various musings on death
Death
Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include old age, predation, malnutrition, disease, and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury....

, the after-life, and various causes of death, such as thoughts on Heaven
Heaven
Heaven, the Heavens or Seven Heavens, is a common religious cosmological or metaphysical term for the physical or transcendent place from which heavenly beings originate, are enthroned or inhabit...

, Reincarnation
Reincarnation
Reincarnation best describes the concept where the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, is believed to return to live in a new human body, or, in some traditions, either as a human being, animal or plant...

, and Terminal Diagnosis. The song ends with the conclusion that, whoever you are, life will always find and kill you in the end. At various points in the song you can hear the phrase "Requiescat in pace", which is Latin
Latin
Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. It, along with most European languages, is a descendant of the ancient Proto-Indo-European language. Although it is considered a dead language, a number of scholars and members of the Christian clergy speak it fluently, and...

for "May he rest in peace". The song was among several on the album that dealt with death and decay.
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