Songs on your funeral (you know you want to!)

The Host Of Seraphim by Dead Can Dance

I'd chose Radiohead's Pyramid Song.

"all my lovers were there with me
all my past and futures
and we all went to heaven in a little row boat

there was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt"

This would be pretty cool to have played at your funeral:

Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.

Wake up - sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead. She's gone where the goblins go,
Below - below - below. Yo-ho, let's open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong' the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!

interesting choice.

thorin, your transformers icon is pure class

The above song would be amusing, yet scary.

thank you solitaire.

I would like people to reflect on the good times, not to be so sad...

As far as traditional hymns go, I like the Battle Hymn of the Republic. I liked the tune from an early age and it's one of the first things I really learned how to play on my keyboard. It's also kind of triumphant and not the kind of depressing stuff you hear at a lot of funerals. That would be a good "exit song"--leaving people on that note.

But for the "quieter" part of the service, I'd play "Breakthrough". It admits to bumps in the road, so to speak--but is softly upbeat, and speaks of dealing successfully with those things and being at peace.

And the ending line:

"I feel untied, beatified, and loved forevermore..."

Oooooh, wouldn't that just be perfect? I think it would be a pretty, very peaceful image for people to think about.

High Hopes followed by A Day In The Life.

Or maybe Iron Man ...

Maybe Motion Picture Soundtrack by Radiohead. Quite beautiful, really.

Nice choice, Radiochair.

Comfortably Numb without a doubt! Imagining everyone sitting through the guitar solo once brought a tear to my eye...

but hey! i'm only 17!!

Sam

First I would ask that no flowers be sent to my funeral - why waste the money, eh? Send the cash to charity instead.

Then I would like to have the following tunes during the memorial service - most of them are from David's shows last January:



"Fat Old Sun"
"Smile"
and
"At the Dimming of the Day" (either David's or Linda Thompson's version would be lovely - I heard it at work before I left Florida and was enchanted...)

Then I'd like to close the whole thing out with "Let's Get Metaphysical" and "Breakthrough" (for the same reasons that FloydWright mentioned - lovely song).



Cheers!

GeeDub#1
<who is thinking about this a lot, since she left the age "30" behind...)

Who cares, I'll be dead.

well i really shouldn't think about this at my age (15) but i have thought about this a lot of time.. i dont know it seems fascinating.. I would definetly choose pink floyd at this moment.. with first Echoes, and then Comfortably numb (too beautiful, everybody crying... i hope) and then.. after that.. They need a big party to celebrate.. so i would like to have Steppen wolf with magic carpet ride.. and then a nice party with a cool band or something... well.. that should be it..

Jesse