Hitting on the irony of death personified to an individual versus the activity that person was doing, the song is about how we feel bad for the people who die engaged in the very activities that are killing everyone on a slower, more global scale. Adding to the irony is we feel bad for these people briefly and then it drifts away yet what they were doing is killing everyone and we can't figure out why we're all getting harmed.
Hitting on the irony of death personified to an individual versus the activity that person was doing, the song is about how we feel bad for the people who die engaged in the very activities that are killing everyone on a slower, more global scale. Adding to the irony is we feel bad for these people briefly and then it drifts away yet what they were doing is killing everyone and we can't figure out why we're all getting harmed.