“And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.
And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us, to die by your side,
the pleasure, the privilege is mine.”

—  Morrissey

from the 1986 song "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out"
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