Discover the story of the song > When I Go – Slow Club

The protagonist is asking her partner if they will marry her at different ages if they are both still single. If they don't have a spouse by the time the protagonist is thirty, she will ask them nicely to marry her. If they don't have a spouse by the time the protagonist is forty, she will write them a letter asking to marry her. If the protagonist reaches sixty and is ready to retire, she wants her partner to let her live out her days peacefully. Throughout the song, the protagonist asks if her partner will hold her hand when she eventually passes away.