Out Alive

[DISCLAIMER]

Photo credit, photographer: Scott Dudelson/Getty Images, fair use

On her 2019 album This Is Not My Final Form, lyricist Chelsea Reject released a track entitled “Out Alive” which addressed transitioning from one stage in life to the next. This is a common theme in my personal and professional practice of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).

Making it “out alive” could relate to escaping the throes of an unpleasant situation relatively unscathed enough to have survived. Supporting this perspective, the chorus states:

Gonna make it out alive

Where’s your drive

Taking it and strive

Little weed, roll it, getting high

Everything in life make we wonder why even try

Gonna make it out alive

Make it out alive

Said we gonna make it out alive

Make it out alive

Gonna make it out alive

Make it out alive

While the lyricist’s words express an optimistic outlook, Chelsea Reject reportedly died a couple months ago at the age of 22. The entertainer didn’t make it through existence alive before her brain had a chance to complete development, generally at 25-years-old.

Nevertheless, Chelsea Reject leaves behind a consequential message for those of us who remain among the living. It’s one that the Foo Fighters brought to bear on their fifth album In Your Honor (2005). In particular, on the anthology was “DOA”, as lyrics accurately state:

It’s a shame we have to die my dear

No one’s getting out of here alive

This time

What a way to go, but have no fear

No one’s getting out of here alive

This time

Not a single one of us is getting “out alive” regarding this life. Every one of us will inescapably die. Once we unconditionally accept this inevitable truth, we can then set aside optimistic hope and instead value a neutral perspective: we live and we die. There simply is no “out alive.”

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Deric Hollings, LPC, LCSW

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