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Be Safe, Be Good is really the prime example of an RTC song. The only instrument for 90% of the song being a piano is wonderful, and the chords just instill a heartbreaking feeling of regret, yet resolution. It makes me think of the first half of It's Just A Ride with how much it speaks in the past tense. It feels like the anthem that plays in the choir's head all throughout the musical as they're coming to terms with their deaths. They all tried to so hard to be healthy and safe, and they still died. They died in a way that they couldn't predict, control, or prevent. They're not truly angry, not for most of it anyway. It's a full range of grief. There's almost a solemn comedy in the feeling, with how many precautions are mentioned, only for the ending to be a complete, out of hand incident. It really speaks to me as a song that Ocean would sing. She's the golden child, and most definitely did everything she could to be up to standard from a health and physical standpoint. In an ideal world, this song would be her own Talia, a lament of how she really feels going through this. She tried to be perfect, did everything she could to live a long life, and none of it mattered. If there was ever a song that captured living after the worst regret you've made, this is it.

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