"We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow" is a song by French singer Soko, from her studio album I Thought I Was an Alien. The track began to chart in 2014, thanks to the number of views of the viral YouTube video First Kiss, which the song is featured in. Production and composition "We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow" was inspired by the death of Soko's father when she was five years old. According to her, "I think it affected my and brother's lives in such a way that we are absolute lovers of life. I get so attached, so quickly because I have this extremely high consciousness of death, that it's just around the corner. So I hold on to every bit of love I can get." She said the song was "calling people out on being even more loving, and stop all the "I'm too busy for a relationship" talk, and selfish things of that kind, just because they are scared to be vulnerable and to love" and "about embracing love as the most grandiose thing in life." She claimed to have been crying throughout the song's writing process. Soko wrote and produced "We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow", with additional production from Fritz Michaud. The track's instrumentation consists of a guitar, soft violin and Soko's vocals. On the night she wrote the song, she called Yeti Beats for a session, recording the vocals and guitar at the same time in two takes. She later asked her friend Indiana to perform the violin, and "wanted her to play a lot of harmonics because I think they sound like crying whales, and I find it to be the saddest and most beautiful comforting sound ever." The session lasted for only a few hours, and was "the easiest studio day ever". The track was later mixed by Bob Clearmountain, and finally mastered by Dave Cooley and Mandy Parnell. Commercial performance In 2014, "We Might Be Dead by Tomorrow" topped both the United States' Billboard Streaming Songs and Rock Streaming Songs chart, with 11.5 million streams. 99% of the streams came from the viral YouTube video First Kiss that included the track. The same week, the song debuted at number nine on the country's Hot 100 chart, with 96% of the point coming from the streams, and was download 10,000 times in addition. It was 2014's first top 10 Hot 100 debut,