It Will Still Be Here

It Will Still Be Here Mix 2

Here's a song about death. It raises the question, "Do our consciousnesses merge into some kind of collective when we die, the same way our bodies merge into the earth when we die?" 

I read a recent post on Facebook, where the author was talking about the law of conservation in physics, or whatever that's called - y'know, that one that says matter and energy can't be destroyed. Because of that, not only do our bodies stick around when we die (but turn into the earth again), but our minds must, as well, if the energy that comprises a mind can't be destroyed. The idea in the post was that maybe this energy just goes on to take a less orderly form.

I'm likin' the idea that, if there isn't an afterlife, per se - as in Heaven or the Bardo or the Spirit World, rather than turning into some mass of entropy, maybe our minds merge with a collective, just as a rain drop merges with the river it falls into.

The lyrics are:

After we die, and out bodies are still here

They turn into earth, but I'm unclear
What happens to our conscious perspective?
Do we just merge into the collective?
Or is it Heaven that's waiting?
Maybe in the end, it is the same thing
Melting into the river when we die
Might feel like how it … feels to be high

It will still be here, it will still be here, it will still be here

I melted into the water again
I turned back into the river again

It will still be here, it will still be here, it will still be here

And we will see everyone in the sea
Melting again into that great mystery

Here's the alternative player thingy, in case the one up top isn't your cup o' tea: