This would be a "fun" song for my funeral. But here's the thing: listening to this song makes me glad to be alive for just a little bit longer.
And seeing a new generation turned on to my favorite music, hearing it for the first time vicariously through fresh ears, renews just a bit of my own youthful optimism from an earlier time; for a time, at least. Reaffirms my favorite quote from Nietzsche, and my personal motto, "Without music, life would be a mistake."
When I die and they lay me to rest/
Gonna go to the place that's the best/
When I lay me down to die/
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky/
Goin' up to the spirit in the sky (spirit in the sky)/
That's where I'm gonna go when I die (when I die)/
When I die and they lay me to rest/
I'm gonna go to the place that's the best/