This song was the first of two singles from the album.

The lyrics remind us that life is short and that there’s no point moping around when we could be out enjoying it.

There’s an interesting story about this song. In 2003, the internet was relatively new to the general population and there was a bit of controversy because Metallica sued the website Napster over the illegal downloading of their songs on the internet. Before the Dance of Death album was released, this song was played live a couple of times and vocalist Bruce Dickinson told the audience that he didn’t care if people recorded the song and put it online, as long as they’d buy the album once it came out. These recordings of low quality were the only versions of anything on the album before its release and had raised the fans' curiosity. It turned out to be a good marketing gimmick and fueled more interest in their upcoming album than ever before.