The Lord doesn't like us to be dead. Be alive. Sometimes I dance to the glory of the Lord, because He said so.
It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.

