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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4444 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
I know some good places in Arizona!
What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2
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Personally, I think that the choice must depend of the deceased and on those left behind. Since no funeral is really meant for the deceased, but rather for those left behind.
I'm a wee bit Scottish, so there must be a piper. In Orange County, Calif, the Highland Games have always been held on Memorial Day weekend. And typically we'd always have a massed pipe band playing of "Amazing Grace" (the first time the massed bands piped in after the soloist, we the audience were all blown back a few centimeters in our seats). But one year, a solo piper played "Going Home" and I found it very moving. It's a spiritual that Dvorak incorporated into the second movement, Largo, of his "New World Symphony."
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Tangle Member Posts: 9510 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Apparently 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' is very popular
Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
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jar Member (Idle past 422 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Or "The grass is always greener." on the other side right now.
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dwise1 Member Posts: 5952 Joined: Member Rating: 5.2 |
About five years back I went on a South of Spain cruise out of Southampton. A few thousand British passengers plus a couple hundred Americans, so we felt a bit outnumbered. I loved the English breakfasts (especially the bacon and the beans, but skipped on the puddings), liked the steak and kidney pie, kick myself for not trying the bubble and squeak, and made the right decision to not try the Marmite.
Final night at sea is usually a big party on all cruises. The atrium ran nearly the full length of the ship and it was packed with passengers where they played all the popular British music. One of our party got into a very heated but friendly argument with a Brit over whether the Rolling Stones are British or American -- British in name, yeah, but they definitely crossed over. The last song was "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" whereupon the lights dimmed, the crowd quieted down, and everybody with a lighter lit it and held it high. And sang along. I guess it's their National Anthem now.
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ramoss Member (Idle past 640 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
When Terry Pratchett passed, there were several items on top of his casket at his funeral. One was a sword that he forged from a meteorite when he was knighted by the queen of England, , the other was a place card that said two words
"The End"
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
ramoss ends with
the other was a place card that said two words "The End" brings to mind another fine music suggestion, and we have The Doors to thank for that."I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside." - xongsmith, 5.7d
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Tangle Member Posts: 9510 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
Great song but somewhat challenging for a funeral.
The End" This is the endBeautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the endOf everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I'll never look into your eyes again Can you picture what will be?So limitless and free Desperately in need Of some stranger's hand In a desperate land Lost in a Roman wilderness of painAnd all the children are insane All the children are insane Waiting for the summer rain, yeah There's danger on the edge of townRide the King's Highway, baby Weird scenes inside the gold mine Ride the highway west, baby Ride the snake, ride the snake To the lake, the ancient lake, baby The snake, he's long, seven miles Ride the snake He's old and his skin is cold The west is the best The west is the best Get here and we'll do the rest The blue bus is calling us The blue bus is calling us Driver, where you taking us? The killer awoke before dawnHe put his boots on He took a face from the ancient gallery And he walked on down the hall He went into the room where his sister lived, and then he Paid a visit to his brother, and then he He walked on down the hall, and And he came to a door And he looked inside "Father?" "Yes, son?" "I want to kill you" "Mother? I want to..." Come on baby, take a chance with usCome on baby, take a chance with us Come on baby, take a chance with us And meet me at the back of the blue bus Doin' a blue rug, on a blue bus, doin' a Come on yeah Fuck, fuck-ah, yeah Fuck, fuck Fuck, fuck Fuck, fuck, fuck yeah! Come on baby, come on Fuck me baby, fuck yeah Whoa Fuck, fuck, fuck, yeah! Fuck, yeah, come on baby Fuck me baby, fuck fuck Whoa, whoa, whoa, yeah Fuck yeah, do it, yeah Come on! Huh, huh, huh, huh, yeah Alright Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill This is the endBeautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end It hurts to set you freeBut you'll never follow me The end of laughter and soft lies The end of nights we tried to die This is the end Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
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ringo Member (Idle past 440 days) Posts: 20940 From: frozen wasteland Joined: |
AZPaul3 writes:
And one of very few singers that I would call an artist. Uniquely beautiful lady. My first thought for funeral music was:
We are stardust
We come from a place much brighter than "Intelligent Design".We are golden And we've got to get ourselves Back to the garden -- Joni Mitchell"I call that bold talk for a one-eyed fat man!" -- Lucky Ned Pepper
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Phat Member Posts: 18345 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
I would go with Shine On You Crazy Diamond
"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** “…far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.”- Dr.John Lennox “A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.” “The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” — Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 6.4 |
for you believer types (not my cup of tea):
Death Is Not The End/ Bob Dylan? [Down In The Groove - 1988] [As reproduced in the official songbook] When you're sad and when you're lonely and you haven't got a friendJust remember that death is not the end And all that you've held sacred falls down and does not mend Just remember that death is not the end Not the end, not the end Just remember that death is not the end When you're standing on the cross-roads that you cannot comprehendJust remember that death is not the end And all your dreams have vanished and you don't know what's up the bend Just remember that death is not the end Not the end, not the end Just remember that death is not the end When the storm clouds gather 'round you and heavy rains descendJust remember that death is not the end And there's no one there to comfort you with a helping hand to lend Just remember that death is not the end Not the end, not the end Just remember that death is not the end Oh, the tree of life is growing where the spirit never diesAnd the bright light of salvation shines in dark and empty skies When the cities are on fire with the burning flesh of menJust remember that death is not the end And you search in vain to find just one law abiding citizen Just remember that death is not the end Not the end, not the end Just remember that death is not the end Not the end, not the endJust remember that death is not the end "I'm the Grim Reaper now, Mitch. Step aside." - xongsmith, 5.7d
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Tangle Member Posts: 9510 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8
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It was written for Syd Barret of course so it would be blasphemy to use it. Anyway, the words don't apply.
That's the trouble with Floyd; great music but very specific - and usually paranoid - lyrics.
Shine On You Crazy DiamondPink Floyd Remember when you were young, you shone like the sunShine on you crazy diamond Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky Shine on you crazy diamond You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom Blown on the steel breeze Come on you target for faraway laughter Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon Shine on you crazy diamond Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light Shine on you crazy diamond Well you wore out your welcome with random precision Rode on the steel breeze Come on you raver, you seer of visions Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine Edited by Tangle, : No reason given.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4444 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.1
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I always felt this song would echo through my consciousness at the loss of someone deeply loved.
Forever Autumn sung by Justin Hayward of The Moody Blues
quote: The song was originally part of a larger production, a musical version of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds.
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds quote: What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Tanypteryx Member Posts: 4444 From: Oregon, USA Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
That's the trouble with Floyd; great music but very specific - and usually paranoid - lyrics. The guitar is really sublime (I cannot explain what this means) though, I use part of it as a ringtone on my phone. If I could only listen to one artist for the rest of my life it would be David Gilmour.What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq
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Tangle Member Posts: 9510 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 4.8 |
It's a great song and a great tune and it's incredibly sad.
But it's a bit presumptuous for a funeral, saying everybody's sad because I'm not there etc. Tricky business this funeral song lark.Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London.I am Finland. Soy Barcelona "Life, don't talk to me about life" - Marvin the Paranoid Android "Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
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