For the record, it’s in a song sung by a child worker who’s happy about the one day off she has in a year. Her song then goes on to inspire someone to kill a king, so the line is not really as optimistic and complacent as it sounds like nowadays.

The same phrase also pops up in Neon Genesis Evangelion, as the motto of the secretive organisation everybody works for. It’s definetly still pretty plausible theyre familiar with Pippa Passes too, given Elysium has an absolute shitton of literary references