Not long to go but what will be your epitaph song?

Posted by: Tony2011 on 01 September 2012

Morbid?Nah... we all have our favourite tracks of all time but will they be good enough to see us through the big gates that will lead us  to audio nirvana(atheists have a special pass) karma? I have always loved this  track by JD but would be willing to take on offers (before the moment arises, of course).

KR

Tony

Posted on: 02 September 2012 by BigH47

I asked for 2112, Freebird and Stairway, but it would make for a rather long ceremony.

Posted on: 02 September 2012 by connon price

BigH47,

What do you care the length of the ceremony. At that point you've got nothing but time... 

 

So why not ask for Bach. 

 

BWV 1-1128.

 

Posted on: 02 September 2012 by Bruce Woodhouse

Easy one

 

Kirsty MacColl 'Days'

 

 

Posted on: 02 September 2012 by naim_nymph

AC/DC Highway to Hell  

 

and for the cremation...

 

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8

 

 

 

Posted on: 02 September 2012 by GraemeH

"Sympathy for the Devil" (just in case...). G

Posted on: 02 September 2012 by Paper Plane

Status Quo - Caroline, 'cos if I ain't quite dead that would get me up and out of the box.

 

Mind you, Muse's Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist might be quite apt...

 

steve

Posted on: 02 September 2012 by Redmires

I would bow out with Joe Walsh's "Life's Been Good"

 

 

Posted on: 02 September 2012 by GregU

Jackson Browne For a Dancer.  Hookey, I know, but I like the song

Posted on: 02 September 2012 by Guido Fawkes

 

A mistake has been made
It’s a fact they can’t hide
Though I’m partly to blame

It cannot be denied
There ain’t no use defending
It seems I’ve been tending
The wrong grave for 23 years
A letter dropped onto my doormat one day
And I thought: “I’ll ignore that, it might go away”
And I took up my shears
To the place where for years
I presumed my sweet darling had lain
Curse those in charge of plots
Curse these forget-me-nots
I’ve been sharing my innermost thoughts with an Edward McCrae
I’m inconsolable and at times uncontrollable
Ah but she wouldn’t know ‘cos she’s two hundred metres away

 

Let’s complain…
On my long weary journey back home I took the less frequented path and ended up in the Meadow of Consolation. It was a magical place – I half expected a nymph to appear, shyly from out of the brake. Some not unexpected She from the brushwood; and me dressed as a dandy in practice for the Summer Eights …even the glebe cow started to drool …but then, almost inevitably, Claire Rayner appeared

 

I’m numb from the sting
That I’ve been tending
The wrong grave for 23 years
I walked up in autumn, I ran up in spring
To the wrong grave for 23 years
Oh ding-a-ling-a-ling-a-ling
Now ain’t that a thing
The wrong grave for 23 years
The wrong grave for 23 years
The wrong grave for 23 years



Posted on: 03 September 2012 by Adam Meredith
Originally Posted by Guido Fawkes:

A mistake has been made
It’s a fact they can’t hide
Though I’m partly to blame

It cannot be denied
There ain’t no use defending
It seems I’ve been tending
The wrong grave for 23 years
A letter dropped onto my doormat one day
And I thought: “I’ll ignore that, it might go away”
And I took up my shears
To the place where for years
I presumed my sweet darling had lain
Curse those in charge of plots
Curse these forget-me-nots
I’ve been sharing my innermost thoughts with an Edward McCrae
I’m inconsolable and at times uncontrollable
Ah but she wouldn’t know ‘cos she’s two hundred metres away

 

A song like this comes so close to tempting me to try HMHB.

 

Unfortunately, their reluctance to issue on 8-Track means that I shall have to look elsewhere for satirical, sardonic, and sometimes surreal songs.

Posted on: 03 September 2012 by Willy
Shut it Tight by T Bone Burnett

I find it hard sometimes to say the way that I feel
I do the very things I hate to do
I act like a child and I'm afraid of what is real
And so I try to cover up the truth

I stumble like a drunk along this crazy path I walk
I have a hundred thousand questions too
I'll go to any length to prove that nothing is my fault
Then later on I will deny the proof

I don't like to win but then again I hate to lose
And in between is something I can't stand
I don't care what you think and I hope that you approve
I am just an ordinary man

Sometimes I want to stop and crawl back into the womb
And sometimes I cannot tell wrong from right
But I ain't gonna quit until I'm laid in my tomb
And even then they better shut it tight




Willy.
Posted on: 03 September 2012 by Tony Lockhart

Just the sound of a screaming Ferrari V12 F1 car disappearing into the distance. Short and sweet, just like me. 

 

 

Tony

Posted on: 03 September 2012 by Wugged Woy
Originally Posted by Paper Plane:

Status Quo - Caroline, 'cos if I ain't quite dead that would get me up and out of the box.

 

 


Hence your membership name, Steve ?

Posted on: 03 September 2012 by Paper Plane
Originally Posted by Wugged Woy:
Originally Posted by Paper Plane:

Status Quo - Caroline, 'cos if I ain't quite dead that would get me up and out of the box.

 

 


Hence your membership name, Steve ?

Yep!

 

steve

Posted on: 03 September 2012 by Brad S

I want to have my ashes scattered at sea with Dido's Lament playing in the background.  

 

B

Posted on: 03 September 2012 by Tony2011
Originally Posted by Tony Lockhart:

Just the sound of a screaming Ferrari V12 F1 car disappearing into the distance. Short and sweet, just like me. 

 

 

Tony

Would have to be a 250 GTO!

Posted on: 03 September 2012 by Tony Lockhart

No, a 250 GTO's V12 is far too smooth, which hardly describes me!

 

This is what I mean: http://youtu.be/7fLV3L91otE

 

Tony 

Posted on: 03 September 2012 by Tony2011

Tony,

Respectfully

 

I'd rather have the beauty than the beast at my sending off...

Meet on the other side  where we'll have plenty of time to compare notes.

KR

Tony

Posted on: 06 September 2012 by Wugged Woy

You hum it son, I'll play it.