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Perennial TearsPerennial Tears Posts: 133
edited January 2008 in The Porch
There have been many posts over the years about what Pearl Jam song we would want played at our funeral.. well I found a collection of funeral songs on iTunes if anyone's interested.

Click on the "Next Step" Tab to find Pearl Jam. The song added is "Man of the Hour".
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewMix?id=159094760&s=143441&wm=4

Thanks,
PT
...........MemorieslikestatuesthroughthemIdriveliketreesonthesidesidewalksmoretreesevenstopsignS
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  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    Celebrate LIFE....

    live life to the fullest..

    I always liked Van Morrison's Moondance album to celebrate Sadness and grief with...The song, Caravan...

    The words almost carry your soul into another dimension or you feel like you are bathing in some healing salts...It's a great song...

    And the caravan is on it's way
    I can hear the merry gypsies play
    Mama mama look at Emma Rose
    She's a-playin with the radio
    La, la, la, la...

    And the caravan has all my friends
    It will stay with me until the end
    Gypsy Robin, Sweet Emma Rose
    Tell me everything I need to know
    La, la, la...

    Turn up your radio and let me hear the song
    Switch on your electric light
    Then we can get down to what is really wrong
    I long to hold you tight so I can feel you
    Sweet lady of the night I shall reveal you

    Turn it up, turn it up, little bit higher radio
    Turn it up, turn it up, so you know, radio
    La, la, la, la...

    And the caravan is painted red and white
    That means ev'rybody's staying overnight
    Barefoot gypsy player round the campfire sing and play
    And a woman tells us of her ways
    La, la, la, la...

    Turn up your radio and let me hear the song
    Switch on your electric light
    Then we can get down to what is really wrong
    I long to hold you tight so I can feel you
    Sweet lady of the night I shall reveal you
    Turn it up, turn it up, little bit higher, radio
    Turn it up, that's enough, so you know it's got soul
    Radio, radio turn it up, hum
    La, la, la, la...

    the other one,

    Into the Mystic is one that seems to someone make me feel like my loved one's soul is being transferred from our Mother (earth) into the Cosmos....

    The best advice I can give anyone, is that the feelings of greif come in waves and time does heal....peace...and Respectful concern...
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • LedbetterusLedbetterus Posts: 592
    Obviously 'Long Road'. However I think if I died tonight I would want 'Light Years' to be played. :D
    Abraham Lincoln once said, "If you are a racist, I will attack you with the North."
  • pdalowskypdalowsky Doncaster,UK Posts: 15,080
    I've always said Black, and recently comeback, forget this nonsense that a funeral should be a happy occasion and uplifting, I want mine to be as miserable as possible, for fuck sake I'll be dead
  • lowlight1lowlight1 Posts: 273
    Ledbetterus wrote:
    Obviously 'Long Road'. However I think if I died tonight I would want 'Light Years' to be played. :D
    Long Road for me.
  • rocknrollgurlrocknrollgurl Posts: 99
    A friend of mine & I have a pact that we will make sure that Light Years is played at the others' funeral...if we are the one who lives longest out of the 2 of us...

    That is all.
    rocknrollgurl = *bee girl* @ www.myspace.com/pearljamgrrl

    Everything you've imagined...needn't be stuck in your mind.
  • PureandEasyPureandEasy Posts: 5,805
    The Song is Over . . . . The Who
    Don't come closer or I'll have to go
  • failedpersephonefailedpersephone Posts: 3,424
    dead flowers.

    The Stones. ;) and there damn well better be dead flowers on my grave!
    IF YOU WANT A PLATE OF MY BEEF SWELLINGTON, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PAY THE COVERCHARGE.
  • AlreadyInLoveAlreadyInLove Posts: 14
    In My Life, the Beatles. I think narrowing it down to one PJ song would be too difficult, but now that I'm thinking about it...
    *~*~*~*~*~*~*~
    I am a Stoney Pony!
    *~*~*~*~*~*~*~
    Don't mean to push, but I'm being shoved
    We all got scars, they should have 'em too
  • Fu_ManchuFu_Manchu Posts: 422
    wow....this is depressing
    Nil Satis Nisi Optimum
  • melodiousmelodious Posts: 1,719
    PureandEasy wrote:
    The Song is Over . . . . The Who
    "I should've known it....." Behind Blue Eyes...



    *The process of grief is the depressing part...but once you truly realize that metamorphisis has occurred, you start opening your consciousness to yet another realm in life's journey... You know your loved one is at rest and doesn't have to deal with all this garbage that Earth travvellors experience...You loved ones are out there and that you have a Guardian Angel always with you. If you look at grief, it happens in every phase of our lives. Death really is life's beginning...The process, hurts like ten chingatumadres, but nevertheless, a part of life...

    I think this is a great thread and submit high respect to all of you...
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • laurababy0105laurababy0105 Posts: 32
    Long Road - Pearl Jam
    Hunger Strike - Temple of the Dog
    War is Over - Melissa Etheridge

    The rest are the soundtrack of my Life! WooHoo
    ~Changing the world...one person at a time~
    ~www.myspace.com/laurababy0105~
  • IndySarahIndySarah Posts: 42
    Wrapped in My Memory by Shawn Smith-- every time I hear it, I almost cry. Such a good song.
    "You look like you'd be sticky" --

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  • dontgimmenolipdontgimmenolip Posts: 198
    I hope my kids look fondly enough upon me to play Man of the Hour at my funeral, though they will most likely use my corpse to re-enact the "Parrot Sketch".

    Seriously though, I'd probably like to have either Low Light or Other Side played.
    - Justin

    You think the Slayer tour is out, or what?

    "Finally! I get to save the earth with deadly lasers instead of deadly slide shows." -- Al Gore.
  • prodacakeprodacake Posts: 319
    i am having release played at my funeral
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