NIHGT SOGNS: Rilo Kiley "Pictures of Success"

When you die, or rather, when you're about to die, do you think you'll be thinking about all those times that could have been? Or would you be satisfied on your death bed?

Rilo Kiley "Pictures of Success"

We'll never know and the song states that we should just be prepared to go no matter the consequences of our lives. That though there are tough times, at the end, you won't have to revisit them. Sort of an upside to a downside.

Whatever your personal belief is about spirituality and death is, it all comes down to whether you thought you lived or not. Did you take that high paying job in another country? Were you there for that person when they needed you? When things got sour, did you run away or did you face it head on, the consequences be damned, knowing in your heart that you were right and could make things work out?

The song is pretty heavy for being a lounge around like song. It'd work perfect at the end of a romantic dramedy where the lovelorn couple is on the rooftop where it's lightly raining. She asks if he really loves her and he ... walks away, down the stairs. But the guy who has loved her this entire time comes up and doesn't say anything. Moving slowly closer to her they hug and without words, they kiss. ROLL CREDITS.

Notable Lyrics

I'm a modern girl but I fold in half so easily

When I put myself in the picture of Success

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When you're dead, in resting homes and clinics

When you're dead, it must be nice to finish

When you're dead.

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These are times that can't be weathered and

We have never been back there since then.