Just a little bit of background information on the story behind the song and the music video:
On March 28, 2016 (which is the date on the calendar in the music video), a four-year-old little girl was brutally slashed 23 times and beheaded by a deranged man on her way home with her mother in Taiwan. People were furious and hopeless in the wake of this senseless tragedy, and as a singer who has always been conscious of what was happening in society, A-Mei commissioned this song from friends and singer-songwriters HUSH and JJ Lin. In her words, she told them she wanted a song that is "straightforward in a way that it pushes all your buttons and tears every wound open so you can have a good cry and maybe start to heal after releasing all your emotions." She also wanted a song like this because she had lost her sister several years ago and had been devastated by her death.
The music video is shot with one take, and it goes through everything the Taiwanese traditionally imagine would be after death: family and doctors gather in the autopsy room; the body is then stored in the morgue; at funerals the body can be viewed in an open casket after the service surrounded in flowers; after the ceremony the body is cremated; then the ashes will be put in a jar and placed in a grave tower (where ashes are stored and visited); and finally, the door to the grave tower opens, and we see the mother at the seaside reminiscing and remembering, watched by a little girl behind a window.
Yes, it's a song about death and loss and grief, but A-Mei also wanted it to remind us to cherish what we have and treat every day and every interaction like our last.
I hope this makes more sense!