LGBT
Related: About this forumI've been thinking about songs to play at my funeral & as a Femme Dyke
A 100% chance I will not hear them, but as a femme dyke I want a woman singing Willie Nelson only version of To All the Girls I've Loved Before
irisblue
(36,509 posts)I will tell Dr Dave to put the song in the file...just in case.
ShazzieB
(21,941 posts)irisblue
(36,509 posts)..
chouchou
(2,591 posts)irisblue
(36,509 posts)jxla
(252 posts)Lyrics of Long Way There by Little River Band
verse
People on their own are getting nowhere
I am on the road to see
If anything is anywhere and waiting, just for me
Every night I walk around the city
Seems like I′ll never know
That feeling of being together when I go
It's a long way there, a long way to where I′m going
It's a long way there, it's a long way to where I′m going
Hey everybody, don′t you feel that there's something
But you know in a moment it is gone
I live for the day when I can hear people saying
That they know, and they care for everyone
But I feel like I′ve been here for the whole of my life
Never knowing home (never knowing home)
It's a long, long way
It′s a long, long, long way there
I'm gonna keep on tryin′
I'm gonna keep on tryin', yeah
Keep on tryin′
I′m gonna keep on tryin', ah
Been away from home for such a long time
And got to know this town
But I don′t seem to matter much to anyone, who's around
Is there anybody around?
Every night I walk around the city
Seems like I′ll never know
The feeling of being together when I go
And it's a long way there, it′s a long way to where I'm going
And it's a long way there, it′s a long way to where I′m going
It's such a long way
Everybody knows it′s a long way there
Everybody knows it's a long way there
I know, I know it′s such a long, long way
Travelling around is gonna get me down I know, I know
It's such a long, long way
It′s such a long way there
outro
Hey everybody, yeah
Don't you feel that there's something? (Feel it, feel it)
Hey everybody, yeah
Now don′t you feel that there′s something in the air tonight
It's such a long, long, long way to go
Writer(s): Graeham George Goble
chouchou
(2,591 posts)ShazamIam
(2,967 posts)loved morning all my life. When I have stayed up too late and or partied too hard I am angry that I wake up late and miss the early morning.
6:00 AM is my favorite get out of the bed time.
Bobstandard
(2,088 posts)The refrain goes:
Will you please dance on my grave
With your bare feet on the ground
Will you turn the music way up loud
Will you please dance on my grave
The coda is especially poignant:
No procession
No depression
Only good thoughts
From you and my kin
No more crying
No goodbye-ing
Rejoice my past
Have a good stiff drink and
Kick your shoes off and
Please dance on my grave
With your bare feet on the ground (etc)
Probably not high on the traditional lgbt funereal playlist but worth a listen and, who knows, maybe just what your family and friends will need in that moment.
littlemissmartypants
(30,862 posts)An Anatomical Gift. If I make the cut.
Haley Bonar - Quiet Breathing
Make my bed on a pallet of linen
Lay my head on a pillow of down
I close my eyes and see you
But in the morning, gone.
Rest my bones where the earth meets the heavens
Place my name on the things that you grow
Just close your eyes to find me
Save you a place where I go.
TlalocW
(15,671 posts)And am using a savings app that rounds up to the nearest dollar (or two, three, etc) when you buy something to pay for it. The program will have a quote from Cookie Monster and a cartoon, and the poem, "Ozymandias," in it. I'm thinking of having a merch table.
I have a lot of years ahead of me, but I'm at the age where sooner rather than later that I should get my affairs in order.
cbabe
(5,879 posts)dickthegrouch
(4,151 posts)oberle
(236 posts)I have played lots of different things for funeral. For mine, I want "The Old Gray Mare She Ain't What She Used To Be".
OldBaldy1701E
(9,464 posts)Then, this one... which is personal to me in so many ways...
ColoringFool
(50 posts)What I had for my husband: "Amazing Grace."
But WERE I to add a "Pop" song, it would be "The Last Thing On My Mind" by the Chad Mitchell Trio (mostly solo Mike Kobluk).
Seinan Sensei
(1,241 posts)Patty Griffin
What the song means, what it does
https://www.coolmediallc.com/why-not-alone-always-connected-now/
And you are not alone
Laying in the light
Put out the fire in your head
And lay with me tonight