Everything Goes On
Whenever I play Porter Robinson's song "Everything Goes On", my friends see that the song is a collaboration with League of Legends , and this immediately colors their impression. A piece of me dies every time this happens because you don't have to know anything about League of Legends to enjoy this song. I personally know very little about the gameplay and lore surrounding League of Legends , yet "Everything Goes On" stands among my favorite songs of all time. Despite its sparkly instrumentation and uplifting chords, "Everything Goes On" is a song about grief. The lyrics are from the perspective of someone who does not have much longer to live. The song opens with the chorus, where the singer tries to convince someone to forget about him after he is gone. The song tells a story about a time when the singer actually said the words in the chorus, and the verses flow from the singer attempting to justify those words, to later regretting the...