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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 10:49
No prog (get a life, dead people!LOL), but I've long wanted the final movement from Handel's Water Music, which I find very uplifting, and Somewhere Over the Rainbow -- perhaps as sung by John Martyn.

I think the lyrics are apt:


Somewhere over the rainbow
Way up high
There's a land that I heard of
Once in a lullaby

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?

Some day I'll wish upon a star
And wake up where the clouds are far behind me
Where troubles melt like lemondrops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me

Somewhere over the rainbow
Bluebirds fly
Birds fly over the rainbow
Why then, oh why can't I?



"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 10:37

How about Awaken by Yes.

 

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:56
In a Gadda da Vida, Played on Church Organ Cool
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:53
Eh... good question. I'd play 'Motion Picture Soundtrack', by Radiohead.
The best you can is good enough...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:47
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Maybe "Bridge Across Forever" by Transatlantic, but I really want REMs Electrolyte which ends with the words "I'm not scared, I'm outta here".


It's funny you bring up "Bridge Across Forever" because I was listening to it in my car and thought, "I'd like this played at my funeral". I just hope this wasn't foreshadowing something imminent.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:42
Veşnica pomenire!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:40
"Yesterday" by the Beatles.  "To Lay Me Down" by the Dead.  "If you want to sing out, sing out" by Cat Stevens.  "Ten Years Gone" by Zeppelin.  All four have as much spiritual meaning to me as Amazing Grace, although they can sing that one too!!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:32
Maybe "Bridge Across Forever" by Transatlantic, but I really want REMs Electrolyte which ends with the words "I'm not scared, I'm outta here".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 18 2007 at 09:16
What song would you want played at your funeral? I would have either The great escape by Marillion or Goodbye to yesterday by Spocks Beard.
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