I`ve had a wordless phase, and that`s still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.
I try to imagine how we would live if we didn`t know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.
I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it`s a mystery and it will always be a mystery, although it is something we all have in common: everybody knows that life ends with death.