What song would you want at your funeral? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I used to fancy Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding - Elton John. Still think it is a great choice. My first choice would be:

One (U2)

Is it getting better
Or do you feel the same
Will it make it easier on you now
You got someone to blame
You say...

One love
One life
When it's one need
In the night
One love
We get to share it
Leaves you baby if you
Don't care for it

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
Well it's...

Too late
Tonight
To drag the past out into the light
We're one, but we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other
One...
Have you come here for forgiveness
Have you come to raise the dead
Have you come here to play Jesus
To the lepers in your head

Did I ask too much
More than a lot
You gave me nothing
Now it's all I got
We're one
But we're not the same
Well we
Hurt each other
Then we do it again
You say
Love is a temple
Love a higher law
Love is a temple
Love the higher law
You ask me to enter
But then you make me crawl
And I can't be holding on
To what you got
When all you got is hurt
One love
One blood
One life
You got to do what you should
One life
With each other
Sisters
Brothers
One life
But we're not the same
We get to
Carry each other
Carry each other

One...life

One

Edited by valravennz

"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence"
- Robert Fripp

"Afterimage" by Rush.

On a similar note, I had a friend when I was a teen that was killed in a car/motorcycle accident. His brothers insisted on playing "Spirit In The Sky" & "He Ain't Heavy" at his funeral. This was absolutely heart-rending, although it was a staunch Baptist church, and some of the older folks were about to have a coronary

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Frank Zappa - Stink Foot

Keith Jarret - My Song ...no words a lot of emotion

Enema...by Tool....if I had to die I want to take everyone down with me.

Good Question. I can't decide between playing something reflective or being able to play my choice to a captive audience ---- finally

It has got to be Zappa's 'Zoot Allures' for me. The outro guitar section is just the most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard. Heavenly.

That jazz standard played at funerals in New Orleans

(it's "Didn't He Ramble", isn't it?).

"In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun

'The End' (DOORS) or 'Goodbye Cruel World' or 'Outside The Wall' (FLOYD) seem appropriate...

Marmalade...I like marmalade.

I would like for the full Thick As A Brick album but in acoustic (congas instead of drums, etc...) and then have fire set to my pyre, and throw the guitar,flute and congas (maybe not the players though) that played the tune into the bonfire !!!!!! No mass , as I am atheist but a pagan feasting!

Actually I'd probably come back to life just to listen to it. (maybe even record it )

Edited by Sean Trane

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword