Song Review: White Lies - Death

"I live on the right side and sleep on the left. That's why everything's got to be love or death."

From the album "To Lose My Life" comes the righteous album opener of "Death." The entire album is so fantastic with tracks like "To Lose My Life" and "Farewell to the Fairground" but I chose to focus on this jam in particular. Very reminiscent of early Killers, the song compares the start of a new relationship with flying on an airplane and the fear of it crashing. It's so beautiful at takeoff and the novelty of seeing the clouds. But then comes the moment of "Oh crap, I'm 30,000 ft above the ground!" and you fear everything will come to a fiery demise. Was this even worth it from the start? And then at 3:17, the song kicks it up to an entirely different level as it bursts through the exit row seating and rips the door off the plane. Enjoy