When I Died
The Thermals Lyrics

The Earth was too hot,
The planet had become so hot that it was unbearable for me to remain on land.

the air was too thin
The air had become too thin to breathe, making it difficult for me to live.

I took off my clothes
In an attempt to cool down, I started removing my clothes.

I took off my skin
I was so uncomfortable that I started to peel off my skin, trying to find relief.

I crawled to the sea
As I couldn't bear the heat, I started crawling towards the sea, which was my only hope for survival.

that was crawling from me
The sea waters were slowly receding, which made me feel like the sea itself was rejecting me.

so I could swim
I wanted to immerse myself in the sea to avoid the scorching heat and find relief.

I was sick of the land
I was exhausted and tired of living on land with the unbearable heat, and needed a change.

I was sick from the heat
The high temperature had made me feel sick and unwell.

I was sick of the sun and the sky and the trees
Everything around me, including the sun, the sky, and the trees, seemed to amplify the heat, making me feel even sicker.

Over the air that I needed to breathe
I couldn't breathe properly due to the thin air, which made everything else feel worse.

When I held with my hands
I couldn't find anything to hold onto to keep myself steady.

When I walked on my feet
Walking had become difficult for me due to the unbearable heat.

Started shedding my arms
I began losing my limbs, which I thought would eventually grow into fins.

To start getting my fins
I thought that growing fins would help me better adapt to living underwater in the sea.

Crawled to the sea that was calling for me
The sea seemed to be calling me, as if it knew that it was my only hope for survival.

so I could swim, swim the ocean wide
I wanted to embrace the sea and the freedom of swimming without any worry or discomfort.

I was only just past the riptide
However, I was not able to swim for long and had barely entered the sea when I was overpowered by the sea's strong force.

When I died
It was at that moment when I died.

My head did swell
After my death, my head seemed to swell from the experience of being underwater.

I said to myself
In those last moments, I was reminiscing to myself.

Nature should take its sweet time
I accepted that the natural order of things should take its time with me before I transcend to the next life.

I was already losing my spine
Even before my death, my body had started to fail me, and I had lost my spine.

It's the end of the story I was certain to tell
This was the end of the story that I was destined to tell, and there was nothing more to say.

Watching their faces as they pulled me from the sea
As my dead body was being rescued from the sea, I could see how horrified and shocked everyone around me was.

Feeling for the place I thought my gills would be
During my last moments, I was searching for my gills, which I thought would help me breathe underwater.

Busted and wrecked
My body was completely damaged and ruined beyond repair.

Justly infected
I was infected in a justified and natural way, as decreed by the universe.

My body beyond repair
There was no way to restore or fix my body after I had died.

Had no objection sir
I had no objections or complaints, as I had accepted what had happened.

My only questions were
However, I had some unanswered questions that were still left lingering.

Where do I go and will I know when I'm there
I wondered about the afterlife and where I would go, and if I would recognize it when I reached there.

But I really couldn't say that I cared
Ultimately, I realized that I didn't care much anymore, as I had already crossed over to the other side.