Funeral Song Meme

[laura_seabrook]

OK, I'm starting a new meme. Here's how it goes...

List who you got this from, and pick from 3-5 songs that you'd want played at your funeral, and why (it's OK to just list a few lines from each song by way of explanation). Here's mine:

1. Billy Thorpe - Most People I Know (Think That I'm Crazy)
   Hey, just let me do my thing!
2. Cold Play - God put a smile upon your face
   Perennial grim but cheerful song.
3. Flaming Lips - Do you realise
   A song about how transitory life is, and for these two lines:
      You realize the sun doesn't go down
      It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round
4. Pretenders - Hymn to Her
   Always makes me feel good, though I'll Stand by You comes a close second, as it's always been a hymn to Hecate for me.
   
5. U2 - Beautiful Day
   When I was in Phuket having my surgery (golly, back in 2000, seems so long ago now) this, and Blur's Music is my Radar, was endlessly repeated on MTV and elsewhere. These lyrics especially seemed relevant back then:
       What you don't have you don't need it now
       What you don't know you can feel it somehow
       What you don't have you don't need it now 
       Don't need it now
       Was a beautiful day
   

Comments

[kath-ballantyne.livejournal.com]

The Willow and Tara one always makes me cry

Willow & tara

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

That's why I picked it. There's about six different versions of the song on YouTube, including the original Pretenders clip.

[faffinoodle.livejournal.com]

Aww they only let you play 2 in reality :P
Been to many, many funerals ((and planned some)), and it's 2 songs max.
I'd have Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea and ... That's as far as I've thought really. The songs played at my Aunties funeral were rock songs, and people got offended... Dunno why, it's got nothing to do with them :/

Dad's

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

At dad's funeral, he had three!

Re: Dad's

[faffinoodle.livejournal.com]

Woah! That's pretty good, everytime we had a funeral we were told no more that 2 :/ I'll do this meme tomorry - If I could have 5 I would, haha :)