Listening to Metric’s “Breathing Underwater”, I suddenly realized that one of the lines — “I can see the end / But it hasn’t happened yet” — resonates pretty hard with my current work-in-progress. Like that’s a pretty pithy encapsulation of the entire theme of the story.
Also, if you haven’t encountered Metric before, you should really check them out. I haven’t heard a song from them I haven’t loved.