Funeral songs

[walking for miles]

When it's your funeral is there a specific song you'd want played?

 

[$yck]

I made a playlist for this exact reason :] [idk if I can link it so I'll just list it]

1. Ivy - Frank Ocean
2. First Gymnopedie - Yusef Lateef
3. Peace Piece - Bill Evans
4. Song on the Beach - Arcade Fire
5. There Is Something On Your Mind - Big Jay McNeely
6. How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - Al Green
7. That's Life - Frank Sinatra
8. Let Me Go - Chicago Gangsters
9. Someday We'll All Be Free - Donny Hathaway
10. Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead
11. My Body's Made of Crushed Little Stars - Mitski
12. someday i'll get it - Alek Olson
13. Back, Baby - Jessica Pratt
14. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters
15. Funny How Time Slips Away - Willie Nelson
16. You're Gonna Miss Me - Connie Francis
17. We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn
18. Wings - Mac Miller
19. Ghost Town - Kanye West

 

[bgh3192]

Amazing Grace.. kinda ironic that I am an atheist. I think it's beautiful song. I was lost but now I am found.. hits me hard.
Also Prayer of St Francis by Sarah Mclachlan. The line "for it is in dying that we are born to eternal life" stirs something in my soul. Gives me some comfort.
If you haven't listened to it, give it a try.. it's beautiful
what about you walking for miles?

 

[PatheticLoner]

my ultimate funeral song

 

[NoPoint2Life]

Amazing Grace.. kinda ironic that I am an atheist. I think it's beautiful song. I was lost but now I am found.. hits me hard.
Also Prayer of St Francis by Sarah Mclachlan. The line "for it is in dying that we are born to eternal life" stirs something in my soul. Gives me some comfort.
If you haven't listened to it, give it a try.. it's beautiful
what about you walking for miles?

I am an atheist too. I want to be cremated. but your religious -ish response Actually made me think of an answer to this. I've always loved the song Hallelujah. I have no idea why. I am too dumb to figure out what the lyrics really mean, but there are so many different versions of it. The first time I ever heard it happened to be the Bon Jovi version. I thought it was an original song lol

 

[bgh3192]

I am an atheist too. I want to be cremated. but your religious -ish response Actually made me think of an answer to this. I've always loved the song Hallelujah. I have no idea why. I am too dumb to figure out what the lyrics really mean, but there are so many different versions of it. The first time I ever heard it happened to be the Bon Jovi version. I thought it was an original song lol

Listen to the version of Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley. Absolutely haunting. I had forgotten all about that song. thanks for the reminder, friend. I think I ll add as my third.

 

[lost in the lilies]

When it's your funeral is there a specific song you'd want played?

Funny enough this is something I think about quite often.
Ideas have come and gone but so far the two songs that have stuck are Rain Dogs followed by Anywhere I Lay My Head by Tom Waits. Idk if you're familiar with his music, I honestly could nerd out about him for hours and paragraphs on end. Definitely check him out if you haven't before, I've never seen an artist so versatile in his sound and poetic in his lyricism.

Coincidentally these two are also my favorite songs from him, they just speak to me on a really personal level. I'm sure everybody has this sort of relationship with their own favorite songs, but I feel like they "understand" me. I saw a comment about the first one, a quote, supposedly by Tom himself;
"(...) after a rain in New York all the dogs that got caught in the rain, somehow the water washed away their whole trail and they can't get back home so about 4 in the morning you see all these stranded dogs on the street and they're looking around like - won't you help me get back home, sir, please - excuse me, sir - excuse me, sir - can you help me find my way back home? all makes and models. The short ones, the black ones, the tall ones, the expensive ones, the long ones, the disturbed ones, they all want to get home."

As for the second one, I think the lyrics are pretty self-evident, but the ending is what really makes it great. What in itself sounds like an actual funeral song with a strong "send off" vibe & kind of somber lyrics is finished off with a cheerful jazz band. I saw someone compare it to these 'jazz funerals' which iirc are a big thing in new orleans, where, instead of a gloomy & solemn occasion, the funeral is treated as a sort of party - a celebration of that person's release from life's troubles and suffering.
Both are honestly so beautiful I can start to tear up any time I really start to think about them. Waits really is one hell of an artist.

I also feel like On GP by Death Grips expresses the sheer amount of frustration, anger, resentment & sadness that builds up in a life where you're just forced to go through the motions in a place you can't wait to get out of really well, but I'm not sure it's one I'd want played at my funeral.

 

[NoPoint2Life]

Listen to the version of Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley. Absolutely haunting. I had forgotten all about that song. thanks for the reminder, friend. I think I ll add as my third.

Thanks! Just did. It was beautiful, although I'm not sure if I've ever heard a bad version. And I did a Google search on Jeff Buckley. You learn something new on this site every day.

 

[Greyhawk]

 

[nyotei_]

I feel like I have both several and no options at the same time? I consider "Subways of Your Mind - FEX" my credits theme, but idk about a primary funeral one. this song is pretty high up there though: