“Heart Attack” is the penultimate track on the album All Killer No Filler, Sum 41’s debut album from the Spring of 2001. The opening string plucks fade in as the ending of “All She’s Got” is in the process of fading out, but it isn’t long before the bass and some light strikes of the ride cymbal are brought to the forefront of the mix and essentially mark the start of the track.

The song is an ode to laziness and sleeping in; if there is nothing new to experience upon getting out of bed in the morning then what is the point of getting up at all? That is the point Deryck Whibley makes throughout, softly singing in the quiet verses before the gearing up and letting loose in the loud and defiant choruses, disregarding the importance of his alarm or any communication with the outside world.

Musically, it’s typical pop-punk stuff. Power chords everywhere. But it does play with the time signature at one point, and the track contains a notable performance on the bass by Jason ‘Cone’ McCaslin. Always hum along to it.

It really has nothing to do with a heart attack for first time listeners, that’s the joke. Somehow though the title still manages to fit.