It depends on the person, I guess, so say your funeral, to make it simple; Or just in general, in theory. Would you choose something uplifting, like we see in some movies, or do you want it darker..
(or no song at all, or even no music at all)
Or a song to listen before or after a funeral
I have had this conversation before with people, so they don't f*ck up my funeral. I've also devised ironic selections based on possible unforeseen outcomes.
Serious selections: Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life (to be played at the end)
Into My Arms by Nick Cave
Ave Maria by Maria Callas
How Great Thou Art by Elvis
Take My Hand Precious Lord by Mahalia Jackson
The Crystal Ship by The Doors
Fearless by Pink Floyd
Jesus Is A Dying Bed Maker by Charley Patton (When I'm getting put in the dirt)
Since I've Laid My Burden Down by Mississippi John Hurt (When I'm getting put in the dirt)
All these Type O Negative songs; because they put the "fun"in funeral!!!
Dead Again
Everyone I Love is Dead
Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)
Die With Me
Everything Dies
I Think I'm Dead. Lost Sounds
I Love the Dead. Alice Cooper
The End. The Doors
Laura Nyro. And When I Die
When I'm Dead. Stabbing Westward
My Boy Builds Coffins. Florence + the Machine
Satin in a Coffin. Modest Mouse
Tasteless song at a funeral:
Break on through to the otherside by the doors (I don't care if that's exactly what it is called).
Songs I remember at my Dad's funeral:
Danny Boy (Cello Duet)
We had these lyrics from Paul Simon's Quiet (editing the middle 8 ) written because he's burried at the bottom of the Wasatch Mountains next to sage (a smell he loved his whole life).
I am heading for a time of quiet
When my restlessness is past
And I can lie down on my blanket
And release my fists at last
I am heading for a time of solitude
Of peace without illusions
When the perfect circle
Marries all beginnings and conclusions
I am heading for a place of quiet
Where the sage and sweet grass grow
By a lake of sacred water
From the mountain's melted snow
"Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin.
"Six dance-hall maidens to bear up my pall.
"Throw bunches of roses all over my coffin.
"Roses to deaden the clods as they fall."
"Then beat the drum slowly, play the Fife lowly.
"Play the dead march as you carry me along.
"Take me to the green valley, lay the sod o'er me,
"I'm a young cowboy and I know I've done wrong."
"Then go write a letter to my grey-haired mother,
"An' tell her the cowboy that she loved has gone.
"But please not one word of the man who had killed me.
"Don't mention his name and his name will pass on."
I more or less am the opposite of this cowboy stuff - but it still seems sincere and beautiful when Mr. Cash sings it.
I don't know if other Christian traditions play "God be with us till we meet again", but that's been a thing throughout my life.
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