Written by Loudon Wainwright
The ultimate carpe diem, live for today song. It's pretty explicit about the message; no subtext here. After LW3 imagines a drunkard, a spendthrift, and a man wondering where the time went, he just comes out and says it. "Tomorrow might get it but there's no way to know / So live for today, there's no tomorrow." Loud-O has always written about mortality, but at the time of this album he was 65 and living in the moment (like his dog!) probably seemed like a great idea. It's clear he had a lot of life left from this song, however; his vocal is as spry, playful and strong as ever as he sings, bellows, tosses out asides, and holds the notes with youthful energy.
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