NO DEATH
By Minnamari on January 17, 2026 9:42 pm
Have you ever felt like, you're in grief but your mind is trying to tell you, it's nothing to be sad over anymore. Or, you have this concept in your mind, that there is no death anyway, (we're all a part of The All/God/Spirit etc) so why be sad about it. And yet, you need to grieve. The grief still needs its own process. And often it's a spiralic process. It comes and goes.
I originally wrote this song back in 2017, after grandmother died in 2017. She had Alzheimer's, so for a few years it had felt like she was already gone somewhere else and the physical death felt more like a release and a relief. There can be this whole loop of thoughts and emotions where you feel guilty for not being "sad enough". And then in 2024, I experienced a sudden death of another close relative, and that grief really dropped over me like a heavy blanket, and I had the opposite experience - "I should be over it by now", "I have to be able to be present with my kids, but I can't cause I'm too sad"...... Currently, that grief is more in the background but it can still pop up from time to time.
Now, after those experiences, I revisited this song, and felt like I could add some additional layers of emotion to it now, and decided to record at least a first raw version of it.
Musically, I feel there's some grunge elements in the song that I like and would like to hone, maybe do a version with some rough guitar and bass sounds. But I also kind of like this "ukulele grunge" version.
Lyrics:
How can I be so calm now that she's gone
Gone to another world
Gone to another world
Sure I'm sad and all but mostly I'm just calm
I guess it feels like she's still around somewhere - in the air
But my little plant
a lovely ivy
is dropping leaf after leaf after leaf to the floor
And for this little plant my tears fall like the leaves
tear after tear after tear
to the floor
to the world
THERE IS NO DEATH, ONLY A CHANGE OF WORLDS
THERE IS NO DEATH, ONLY A CHANGE OF WORLDS
How can I be so sad over a withering plant
but calmly say goodbye to the dead?
Maybe the death feels more real when I have to hold the dry leaves
and clean them up from the floor
Her body I don't need to hold
Her body I don't need to see
That's someone else's job
Her body I don't get to hold
Her body I don't get to see
That's someone else's job
Not me
THERE IS NO DEATH, ONLY A CHANGE OF WORLDS
THERE IS NO DEATH, ONLY A CHANGE OF WORLDS
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Love the chorus section especially. Such triumphant chords and excellent voice!