This sounds dark, but it was an assigned topic for English to find quotes about Death to go along with Morrie's aphorisms in Tusedays with morrie, and it being me, I'd love them to be from songs. Must relate to death specifically, not the afterlife, not a desire to die (maybe a mindset about death could work though), etc. Things like:
"On the day that I die/I'd like bells to be rung/And songs that were sung to be hung out like blankets" - Paul McCartney
"Tell them that I realize/That everyone who lives will someday die/and die alone" - Brand New
"I just might die with a smile on my face after all" - The Smiths
"Do you realize/ that everyone/ you know/ someday/ will die?" - The Flaming Lips
"Seasons don't fear the reaper/ Nor do the wind, the sun or the rain... we can be like they are" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Some die under the mountain looking for gold/some die looking for a hand to hold" - Brand New
"You wasted life/why wouldn't you waste death?" - Modest Mouse
"And once you're gone/ you can never come back/ When you're out of the blue /and into the black." - Neil Young
"In my time of dying, want nobody to mourn/ All I want for you to do is take my body home" - Bob Dylan
Other good ones? Really could use as many as possible here, thanks all. _________________
Do you have to read My Sisters Keeper too? The SRVUSD required reading is weird, it's half classics and half modern crap.
Anyways, here's some
"I know you ain't scared to die. But we all gotta go, ya know?" - 2Pac
"I've seen the world, kissed all the pretty girls. I've said my goodbyes and now i'm ready to die" - The Unicorns
"There'll come a time when all of us must leave here. There's nothing sister Mary can do" - George Harrison
Do you have to read My Sisters Keeper too? The SRVUSD required reading is weird, it's half classics and half modern crap.
We were supposed to last year I believe but I took AP so we read other stuff, more focussed on classics but for some reason a really subpar nonfiction book, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks". Was not a fan at all, and had that exact same "half classics half modern weirdness" feel. Whatever, that class was great cuz we got to pick a lot of our own books and I loved the teacher.
This year's been Catcher In The Rye, Things They Carried, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (though that was our choice from a few on a list), 1984 (we were supposed to read Brave New World but another class still had the class set so we had to switch), and now Morrie. I feel like I'm forgetting one ... IDK. I know we end the year with Cyrano de Bergerac, though, which could be pretty good.
Also glad it sounds like I'm not the only one who didn't like Morrie. "You'll read it in a day", my teacher claimed excitedly, and I did, just cuz it's a fairly simple read that's not poorly written, I just don't get anything out of it. It reads as a drawn out suicide note/manifesto, just a more upbeat one than many. I don't know how to describe it exactly, but I don't like the overall vibe.
/rant
Thanks for the quotes too, those were all good ones. _________________
I can't think of a single favorite song I have at the present which has lyrics about death. I remember Antony And The Johnsons had the one popular song which seems special to some.
Actually, Against Me! had 'Dead Friend' on the new album which does count
Sometimes I look in a mirror and ask myself:
Am I really scared of passing away? If it's today, I hope I hear a
Cry out from heaven so loud it can water down a demon
With the holy ghost 'til it drown in the blood of Jesus
I wrote some raps that make sure that my lifeline
Reeking the scent of a reaper, ensuring that my allegiance
With the other side may come soon, and if I'm doomed
May the wound help my mother be blessed for many moons
I suffer a lot, and every day the glass mirror
Get tougher to watch; I tie my stomach in knots
--"Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" by Kendrick Lamar _________________ ...and for dessert!
Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die Die- Avett Brothers, "Die Die Die"
In all seriousness, my favorite songs that regard death are the classic bluegrass tune "I'll Fly Away" and Elton John's "Sixty Years On." I mean, goodness, here's the first line-
"You walk me down to church when I'm 60 years of age
When the ragged dog they gave me
has spent ten years in the grave.
Senorita plays guitar
plays it just for you
my rosary has broken
my beads have all slipped through."
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