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Last

By Micah Tyler

1,615 views Sep 13, 2026 updated Different album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Micah Tyler starts "Last" with an observation nobody warns you about — "every new beginning has an end" — treating mortality as an overlooked footnote to the usual advice about fresh starts, rather than a separate somber topic. "I can't go back and start again, but I can live today like it might end" pivots from a fact that can't be changed to a choice that still can be made.

"There's a time to laugh, a time to cry, the day you're born, the day you die" borrows Ecclesiastes' catalogue of seasons and compresses an entire life into a single line, using that scope to make the following resolve feel urgent rather than abstract. "I'll fight for what has meaning, and let go of the rest" turns the awareness of limited time into a specific filter for daily decisions, not just a mood.

"Nobody knows the hour, and nobody knows the date" echoes Jesus's own words about the unknown timing of the end, applied here to personal death rather than the end of the age. "When I reach the end it's just the beginning" closes the song by reframing the entire premise — the urgency isn't fear of ending, but readiness for what follows it.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

There's a first time for everything but what nobody told me

Is that every new beginning has an end

Cause every day is numbered and there's no turning back

And time has proven it's nobody's friend

And I can't go back and start again

But I can live today like it might end


There's a time to laugh, a time to cry

The day you're born, the day you die

And suddenly your future is in the past

Wherever he leads I'll follow

And love like there's no tomorrow

I'm gonna start living like today could be my last

Like today could be my last


I'll fight for what has meaning, and let go of the rest

And choose to see the good in everything

I'll take less time to worry, I'll forgive a little more

And hold onto what matters in the end!


There's a time to laugh, a time to cry

The day you're born, the day you die

And suddenly your future is in the past

Wherever he leads I'll follow

And love like there's no tomorrow

I'm gonna start living like today could be my last


Nobody knows the hour, and nobody knows the date

When he will call me home to walk through heavens gates

So I will run this race, until it's time for me to go, cause I know...


There's a time to laugh, a time to cry

The day you're born, the day you die

But when I reach the end its just the beginning

Wherever he leads I'll follow

And love like there's no tomorrow

I'm gonna start living like today could be my last

I'm gonna start living like today could be my last


Like today could be my last...


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