What is YOUR funeral song?

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  • Artaxia
    Artaxia Posts: 185
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    Sigur Ros - Untitled 1
  • FlabFighter86
    FlabFighter86 Posts: 233 Member
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    Don't stop me now - Queen
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
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    No funeral, please. Just stick me in the ground. You may leave flowers. Better yet, plant a tree. :flowerforyou:
  • levicrouch
    levicrouch Posts: 99
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    Queen another one bites the dust. Executed as follows:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp_jALfbwEU
  • keef1972
    keef1972 Posts: 411 Member
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    Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones
  • michellemybelll
    michellemybelll Posts: 2,228 Member
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    Jokes on you. I'm immortal.
    strong first post :flowerforyou:
  • Kymmu
    Kymmu Posts: 1,650 Member
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    I don't feel like dancin' ( no sir no dancing today). Scissor Sisters.
  • RickNeedzToGetShreaded
    RickNeedzToGetShreaded Posts: 293 Member
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    Christina Novelli - Concrete Angel
  • Timshel_
    Timshel_ Posts: 22,834 Member
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    Aye, Piobaireachd.

    Cumha na Chloinne (Lament for the Children)
    Even better if I could have Bruce play it for me.

    http://youtu.be/eKRZFNpI6hg
  • 42hockeymom
    42hockeymom Posts: 521 Member
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    I am being cremated, and have told my family that I do not want any sad things happening. I WANT A PARTY!!

    So, I've asked that they throw a kegger and have everyone bring a dish to pass. Besides, my husband is one of the biggest cheapskates in the entire universe, so this works well with him. LOL :laugh: (Not really, he is frugal, but he wouldn't deny me of anything)

    If there has to be a moment of silence or something of remembrance of me then I'd like for them to play The Prayer by Lizzie West. It speaks volumes of how I feel about death.


    "Do not stand at my grave and weep
    I am not there I do not sleep
    I am a thousand winds that flow
    I am the sunlight on my own grave

    I am a gentle autumn rain
    I am the swift uplifting rush
    of quiet birds in circled flight

    do not stand at my grave and cry
    do not stand at my grave and cry
    do not stand at my grave and cry
    I am not there I did not die

    (Spoken)
    man as yet is half grown
    Even his flower stem has not appeared yet
    He’s all leaves and roots without a sign of stem in sight
    Blossoming, establishing a new pure relationship with the cosmos
    It is the sign of heaven.
    It’s the sign of the cobra.
    It’s the sign of a man who knows himself royally.
    Crowned with the sun.
    His feet gripping the earth as he goes.
    We have arrived.

    Do not stand at my grave and cry.
    Do not stand at my grave and cry.
    Do not stand at my grave and cry.
    I am not there I did not die.
    I am not there I did not die."

    And then they can play anything they want as long as it's not We Found Love by Rihanna or What Does The Fox Say.......
  • leebesstoad
    leebesstoad Posts: 1,186 Member
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    I have to go old school. Really, really old school. Like early 17th century madrigal old school. The Silver Swan written by Orlando Gibbons. All in about a minute 20 seconds.


    The silver Swan, who, living, had no Note,
    when Death approached, unlocked her silent throat.
    Leaning her breast upon the reedy shore,
    thus sang her first and last, and sang no more:
    "Farewell, all joys! O Death, come close mine eyes!
    More Geese than Swans now live, more Fools than Wise."


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfNmZ3LCrAY


    Of course, the other option would be Dido's lament from Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell

    Recitative

    Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me,
    On thy bosom let me rest,
    More I would, but Death invades me;
    Death is now a welcome guest.

    Aria

    When I am laid, am laid in earth, May my wrongs create
    No trouble, no trouble in thy breast;
    Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
    Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_50zj7J50U
  • baldzach
    baldzach Posts: 1,841 Member
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    A couple of people mentioned I Will Rise by Chris Tomlin -- I want this Choral arrangement sung -- maybe without the African parts, but the choir nails it...

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FQb-cVwbKE‎
  • kaylikee
    kaylikee Posts: 68 Member
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    Someday by Disciple
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFEXcQMZUvs
    then light up the sky by the afters. I want it in the evening so they can shoot off fireworks like they do in the video
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8LQH6UDi15s

    and I'm sorry... but playing dust in the wind would make me laugh... couldn't think of anything but Tim Hawkins...
  • lorenzovonmatterhorn7549
    lorenzovonmatterhorn7549 Posts: 495 Member
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    Dust in the Wind.
    You're my boy Blue!!!!!
  • runs4zen
    runs4zen Posts: 769 Member
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    I want something entirely inappropriate. Of course, bear in mind that I'm having a Beowolf type of funeral and will be sent to eternity, sailing on a raft, into a river where someone will shoot flaming arrows my way, setting the raft on fire and sending me to glory in a blaze of flames!

    For that, we need something "BIG". I think I'll go with Theory of a Deadman's "Bad Girlfriend". Hopefully, some of the attendees will take a trip down memory lane as a result! My other choice would be "Fire Woman" as sung by The Cult.
  • illuvatree
    illuvatree Posts: 185 Member
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    highway to hell.
  • martini83
    martini83 Posts: 113 Member
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    DOA by foo fighters when people come in.
  • Nimnyn
    Nimnyn Posts: 69 Member
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    Ohne Dich by Rammstein, and I want someone to read John Donne's Holy Sonnet #10

    Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
    Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
    For those whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow,
    Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
    From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
    Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
    And soonest our best men with thee do go,
    Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.
    Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
    And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell;
    And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
    And better than thy stroke; why swell'st thou then?
    One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
    And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
  • Gkfrkv
    Gkfrkv Posts: 120
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    Dido's Lament by Purcell

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGQq3HcOB0Y
  • sixout
    sixout Posts: 3,129 Member
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7oGx2dImE8

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