MuzikTyme Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Hello, Songfactors! I love music! (as if you haven't already noticed) lol My question, though, is: What is your favourite song concerning death? Mine is the one that follows: (btw, it's Pink Floyd's rough draft for "Time") Childhood's End ~ Pink Floyd You shout in your sleep Perhaps the price is just too steep? Is your conscience at rest If once put to the test? You awake with a start Just the beating of your heart? Just one man beneath the sky, Just two ears, just two eyes. . . (solo) You set sail across the sea Long past thoughts and memories... Childhood's end Your fantasies Merge with harsh realities! And then as the sail is hoist, You find your eyes are growing moist All the fears never voiced, say you have to make your final choice! (solo) Who are you and who am I? To say we know the reason why? Some are born; Some men die... Beneath one infinite sky There'll be war, there'll be peace But everything one day will cease... All the iron turned to rust; All the proud men turned to dust! And so all things time will mend So this song will End... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious_Peaches Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Dust in the Wind Kansas I close my eyes Only for a moment and the moment's gone All my dreams Pass before my eyes, a curiosity Dust in the wind All they are is dust in the wind Same old song Just a drop of water in an endless sea All we do Crumbles to the ground Though we refuse to see Dust in the wind All we are is dust in the wind Ohh... Now don't hang on Nothin' lasts forever but the earth and sky It slips away And all your money won't another minute buy Dust in the wind All we are is dust in the wind (All we are is dust in the wind) Dust in the wind (Everything is dust in the wind) Everything is dust in the wind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted September 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Well hello, Ms. Peachy! I have to agree with Kansas' "Dust in the Wind!" (it's a strumming song that takes more than one finger) Thanks for your contribution and lyrics! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious_Peaches Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 I've always said I wanted that sung at my funeral. Not that I'm having a funeral, mind you. I want to be cremated and have my ashes sprinkled in Jack Black's food dish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted September 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 I, hopefully will be late to my own funeral. But once I arrive, my eulogy will consist of this next song The memories of a man in his old age Are the deeds of a man in his prime... You shuffle in gloom in the sickroom And talk to yourself 'til you die! Life is a short warm moment And death is a long . . . cold rest! You'll get your chance to try In the twinkling of an eye: Eighty years, with luck, or even less! So all aboard for the American tour, And maybe you'll make it to the top! And mind how you go, I can tell you 'cause I know You may find it hard to get off! (solo) You are the angel of death And I am the dead man's son! And he died like a mole in a fox hole And everyone is still on the run... And who is the master of fox hounds? And who said the hunt has begun? And who calls the tune in the courtroom? And who beats the funeral drum? The memories of a man in his old age Are the deeds of a man in his prime. You shuffle in gloom in the sickroom And talk to yourself 'til you die. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tenacious_Peaches Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Teen Angel - Mark Dinning One Sweet Day -Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky Posted September 24, 2009 Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Creepy song that my 14 year old self was fascinated by: DOA - Bloodrock (the video has the lyrics). yuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted September 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 I remember teen angel! Late last night The car was stalled Upon the railroad tracks! Thanks TP! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted September 24, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2009 Hi, Lucky! Thanks for looking in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Teen Angel - Mark Dinning Along that tip, how about Last Kiss-J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers Tell Laura I Love Her-Ray Peterson Laurie (Strange Things Happen)-Dickey Lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted September 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Along that tip, how about Last Kiss-J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers Tell Laura I Love Her-Ray Peterson Laurie (Strange Things Happen)-Dickey Lee Hello, ryansgirl! Nice tip ! I'm still listening to your great suggestions, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 One of my favorites... written by Reverend Gary Davis but my favorite version is off Hot Tuna's first album (1970) Death Don't Have No Mercy Well now death don't have no mercy in this land Well now death don't have no mercy in this land He'll come to your house and he won't stay long Look 'round the room one of your family will be gone Death don't have no mercy in this land Death will leave you standin' and cryin' in this land Death will leave you standin' and cryin' in this land He'll come to your house and he won't stay long Look 'round the room one of your family will be gone Death don't have no mercy in this land Well death don't give you time to get ready in this land Well death don't give you time to get ready in this land He'll come to your house and he won't stay long Look 'round the room one of your mama will be gone Death don't have no mercy in this land Well now death don't have no mercy in this land Well now death don't have no mercy in this land He'll come to your house and he won't stay long Look 'round the room one of your family will be gone Death don't have no mercy in this land Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 I want to be cremated and have my ashes sprinkled in Jack Black's food dish. I laughed out loud and was almost made to leave the office! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 I'm surprised no one's mentioned Don't Fear The Reaper , but I'm going to go with the more uplifting Spirit In The Sky: "When I die and they lay me to rest I'm gonna go to the place that's the best" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberjudge Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Tears in Heaven-Eric Clapton (about the tragic death of Clapton's own son) Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would you feel the same if I saw you in heaven? I must be strong and carry on 'Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven... Would you hold my hand if I saw you in heaven? Would you help me stand if I saw you in heaven? I'll find my way through night and day 'Cause I know I just can't stay here in heaven... Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees Time can break your heart, have you begging please... Beyond the door there's peace I'm sure And I know there'll be no more tears in heaven... Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would you feel the same if I saw you in heaven? I must be strong and carry on 'Cause I know I don't belong here in heaven... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Spirit In The Sky came on the radio one day, and my daughter says..."gee this is such a happy sounding song about death, isn't it?"....I agree Carl, uplifting tune, makes you wanna sing a long that's for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Joe Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 This has always been one of my favorites by Laura Nyro and Blood, Sweat and Tears: And When I Die And when I die and when I'm dead, dead and gone, there'll be one child born and a world to carry on, to carry on. I'm not scared of dying and I don't really care. If it's peace you find in dying, well, then let the time be near. If it's peace you find in dying, when dying time is here, just bundle up my coffin cause it's cold way down there, I hear that's it's cold way down there, yeah, crazy cold way down there. And when I die and when I'm gone, there'll be one child born and a world to carry on, to carry on. My troubles are many, they're as deep as a well. I can swear there ain't no heaven but I pray there ain't no hell. Swear there ain't no heaven and pray there ain't no hell, but I'll never know by living, only my dying will tell, only my dying will tell, yeah, only my dying will tell. And when I die and when I'm gone, there'll be one child born and a world to carry on, to carry on. Give me my freedom for as long as I be. All I ask of living is to have no chains on me. All I ask of living is to have no chains on me, and all I ask of dying is to go naturally, only want to go naturally. Don't want to go by the devil, don't want to go by the demon, don't want to go by Satan, don't want to die uneasy, just let me go naturally. And when I die and when I'm gone, there'll be one child born, there'll be one child born. When I die, there'll be one child born. When I die, there'll be one child born. When I die, there'll be one child born. When I die, there'll be one child born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Good one Joe! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_Laurie_ Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Seasons In The Sun ~ Terry Jacks Knockin On Heaven's Door ~ Bob Dylan I Cheat The Hangman ~ Doobies...This is a great tune! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuzikTyme Posted September 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Hey, guys! I'm trying to listen to all of your great selections! Alls I can say is that, it seems to me, y'all have the: GREATEST musical taste, ANYWHERE on this entire planet, universe or whatever goes beyond! Love y'all! ~muzik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chutzpah Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 ok... "Dead Babies" Alice Cooper" "I love the dead"-Alice Cooper" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 the epitaph reads - "September 1983 - December 1929 Lord, It's One Kind Favor I'll Ask Of You See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" from jazz.com... "No one did more than Blind Lemon Jefferson to create a commercial market for traditional blues. The success of his Paramount releases from the 1920s inspired many other record labels to jump into this market, and created opportunities for numerous blues musicians to release their own 78s. But Lemon's work still stands out among the crowd these many years later. This is a dark and troubled song, and like many of the best blues of the era, it touches on subjects that rarely figure in popular music. Jefferson's guitar always surprises, moving inside and outside the typical 12-bar form. You don't hear many of Lemon's peculiar licks here; instead he maintains a ruminative groove. But toward the end he stops chording and delivers resounding low register tones that imitate the funereal tolling of church bells. There are flashier blues from the 1920s, but "See That My Grave is Kept Clean" is about as deep as blues can go. What a shame that Lemon's grave remained neglected and unmarked for so many years. But eventually people paid attention to the admonishment in the song title, and his gravesite is now a much visited (and well tended) monument to a towering blues artist." Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave is Kept Clean Well, there's one kind of favor I'll ask of you Well, there's one kind of favor I'll ask of you There's just one kind of favor I'll ask of you You can see that my grave is kept clean And there's two white horses following me And there's two white horses following me I got two white horses following me Waiting on my burying ground Did you ever hear that coffin' sound Have you ever heard that coffin' sound Did you ever hear that coffin' sound Means another poor boy is under ground Did you ever hear them church bells tone Have you ever hear'd them church bells tone Did you ever hear them church bells tone Means another poor boy is dead and gone Well, my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold And, my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold Well, my heart stopped beating and my hands turned cold Now I believe what the bible told There's just one last favor I'll ask of you And there's one last favor I'll ask of you There's just one last favor I'll ask of you See that my grave is kept clean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 No one has mentioned Free Bird or Bohemian Rhapsody? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Taj Mahal - You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond off the Giant Step album You're gonna need somebody on your bond child You're gonna need somebody on your bond When it's late 'round midnight and old man death comes slippin' into the room You're gonna need somebody on your bond You take Mary and Martha standin' up in the hillside Mary explainin' to Martha, "Darlin', look at the river deep and the water wide" Here comes ole Moses, faithful Moses carryin' big ole stones up the hill Tellin' everybody they're gonna need somebody on their bond Whoa, you take Maivus Staples and ole Corn Cheevers(?), they got the good side on their bond Oh I been listen to the music people ever since the day I was born My momma raised me in a room across from the church by the tree, and that sweet gospel music, oh how it used to comfort me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesboy Posted September 25, 2009 Report Share Posted September 25, 2009 Another favorite... Bobbie Gentry - Ode to Billie Joe It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet" And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge" "Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas "Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please" "There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow" And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night? "I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right" "I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge" "And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?" "I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite" "That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today" "Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way" "He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge" "And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge" A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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