We All Wanna Party When The Funeral Ends - Slime

WE ALL WANNA PARTY WHEN THE FUNERAL ENDS //

✋gummy clear sugar scrub
👃guava tres leches cake, dulce de leche, tamarind-chile-candy-wrapped plastic straws, lime

Although “💀 All Your Friends” (a b-side on MCR’s The Black Parade) was written long before 2020, the lyrics feel eerily relatable to the collective trauma of the past 6 years as we continue to navigate an ongoing 🍳demic & cognitive dissonance.

“You can sleep in a coffin but the past ain't through with you” reminds me of how the v👁️rus continues to 💀 & disable people, but many of us cope by pretending it doesn’t exist anymore in an effort to feel the normalcy of a pre-C world,

The song is confrontational about that tension. “We are all a bunch of liars / tell me, baby, who do you wanna be?” sits in the uncomfortable space of actively or passively choosing adaptation or avoidance.

It takes courage ( & resources & support) to disrupt the dominant narrative & embody the values we want to hold.

The song continues: “We all wanna party when the funeral ends / we all get together when we bury our friends.” There is cultural pressure to rush past grief, put on a happy facade, perform normalcy, and return to productivity as if nothing has changed. For the sake of the economy, those in power sold us the lie that the 🍳demic is past-tense, a temporary tragedy (“And we are all about to sell it, 'cause it's tragic with a capital T”).

Meanwhile, community & innovation sprang from disabled communities, finding creative & safer ways to gather with masks, air purification, testing, & transparent communication.

“It's been 8 bitter years since I've been seeing your face / you're walking away & I will die in this place” - Differences in values & choices create distance between loved ones. This is the dissonance between disabled folks & those not yet disabled - loved ones walking away from community care that keeps us alive.

The song ends with “You'll never take me alive / do what it takes to survive / 'cause I'm still here,” speaking to resilience & adaptation; disabled people surviving; how beautiful life can be when we imagine new ways of being & care for each others.