While We’re Here

While We’re Here explores mortality, religious differences and the tensions of coexistence in a world shaped by migration and conflicting beliefs. Its central question is not whether people can reach an understanding, but whether they can allow one another to live, even when their views of existence are fundamentally incompatible.

The idea that people can share the same place and moment while inhabiting entirely different understandings of time, death and the meaning of existence. Agreement may be impossible, but living alongside one another remains necessary.

Not one of us here is dead just yet Time is short though none of us knows when We won't meet in heaven you and I Fairytales go dark when we are dead Tonight we can still go have a drink Tomorrow we can still talk like fools We won't meet in heaven you and I No next life can bring us back again Like galaxies drifting away Though our clocks never run the same While we're standing in the same place Still our lives keep crossing anyway So let's keep it gentle if we can I call that dependent arising Call it what you will For joy atonement washing clean Don't take that from anyone This world's rotten maybe you are right There may be no meaning to this life I won't pretend to know that much So please put that knife away right now Like galaxies drifting away Though our clocks never run the same While we're standing in the same place Still our lives keep crossing anyway So let's keep it gentle if we can Call it whatever makes sense to you We don't need to use the same name For joy atonement washing clean Leave everyone their time to live Come on I'm asking you just this once Nobody here wants to die tonight

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FeralSyntax

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