When it comes to life, the sons of Korah are positive thinkers, as they’ve got to admit it’s getting better, a little better all the time. “Mercy and truth have met together,” they sing. “Righteousness and peace have kissed.” Basically the boys are saying that everything has come together again.
But remember, these are the boys whose family was cursed. Once their father, their mother and their siblings fell to their deaths in the dark crevasse that YHWH had dug just for them, the lives of these surviving sons — as four other fabulous lads would later sing — couldn’t get no worse.