This is one of my favorite songs. I was living in San Francisco and this song came out during the AIDS epidemic in 1988 where friends and acquaintances were dying every week. I was a volunteer at Hospice of San Francisco and helped a lot of guys whose families had completely disowned them or, worse, told them AIDS was God's punishment (if death by disease is God's punishment then I guess we're all going to be punished at some point).

A lot of times, my "help" was just sitting with them so they weren't alone. I would listen to this song and it was very cathartic. Of my core friend group of four people (including me), only two of us lived to see 30. When I first found out I had prostate cancer, my immediate thought was "well, I've been living on borrowed time for almost 40 years."