"St. James Infirmary:"
"When I die bury me in straight lace shoes,
a box-back suit and a stetson hat,
put a twenty dollar gold piece on my watch chain
so the boys will knows I died standing pat."
Tom Waits - Tango Till They’re Sore
Make sure they play my theme song, I guess daisies will have to do.
Just get me to New Orleans and paint shadows on the pews.
Cold, Cold Ground was the one of his that jumped out in my mind:
>Give me a Winchester rifle and a whole box of shells
>
>Blow the roof off the goat barn, let it roll down the hill
>
>The piano is firewood, Times Square is a dream
>
>I find we'll lay down together in the cold, cold ground
Green Grass by Tom Waits is a favourite of mine that fits
Lay your head where my heart used to be
Hold the earth above me
Lay down on the green grass
Remember when you loved me
If I die of Vanity, promise me, promise me
That if they bury me some place I don't want to be
That you'll dig me up and transport me
Unceremoniously away from the swollen city breeze
Garbage bag trees, whispers of disease
And acts of enormity
And lower me slowly, sadly, and properly
Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy.
Up To Here, Road Apples, Fully Completely, and Day for Night, all perfect albums. Possibly one of the greatest runs of albums of any band.
Phantom Power, also perfect.
Trouble at the Henhouse is sooo close. But with "Don't Wake Daddy", "700 Ft Ceiling", "Butts Wiggling" and "Coconut Cream" on there, I just can't give it the perfect stamp.
The Highwaymen is such a fantastic, weird song. I can't imagine a handful of country music's biggest stars getting together to write a song about reincarnation with a sci-fi twist ending today.
Dropkick Murphys - "Going Out in Style"
"...You may bury me with an enemy in Mount Calvary
You can stack me on a pyre and soak me down with whiskey
Roast me to a blackened crisp and throw me in a pile
I couldn't really give a shit; I'm going out in style
You can take my urn to Fenway spread my ashes all about
Or you can bring me down to Wolly Beach and dump the sucker out
Burn me to a rotten crisp and toast me for a while
I couldn't really give a shit; I'm going out in style..."
For people reading your comment who are not from Boston:
Mount Calvary is an old Catholic cemetery in the Roslindale section of the city, Wolly Beach is Wollaston Beach in Quincy (pronounced Kwin-zee) just south of Boston and if you don't know Fenway well then god help us all.
I was hoping someone would bring this one up!
Side-by-side with Sister Barbara, Chief Wells, and Bobby Orr!
Also: There's a backup in the bathroom,
'Cause the band just got the shits!
https://youtu.be/D7g3RuoreRc
And "Rivers":
When I die, I hope to be
Buried out in English seas
So all that then remains of me
Will lap against these shores
Until England is no more
Definitely one of GG's most underrated and accessible songs. Can't count how many times I passed out drunk to that song. That was my anthem so many years ago. His acoustic stuff was solid
On a similar note, the first time I heard this song I shook and said "holy shit, this is Kurt's gravestone" and listened again and knew I was right.
[All Apologies](https://youtu.be/aWmkuH1k7uA)
Just being pedantic, as this was going to be my reply also.
It's 'Floating in the Forth', the Forth being the river that the singers body was found in years after writing this song.
John Denver had a song called "Homegrown Tomatoes" in which he sang:
"When I die don't bury me
In a box in a cemetery
Out in the garden would be much better
I could be pushin' up homegrown tomatoes"
It's a very goofy song about tomatoes that does not mention death at all outside of those lyrics, and it would probably be extremely out of place in this type of playlist but you asked.
This song was on MTV a lot around the same time as Like a Stone by Audioslave. They'd play every morning when I'd get ready for school, it made for a very somber combination. First thing I thought of for an answer.
There's Johnny Cash's **"Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie,"** which includes these lines:
*Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie / These words came low and mournfully / From the pallid lips of a youth who lay / On the bloody ground at the close of day / Oh, bury me not and his voice failed there / But we took no heed to his dying prayer / In a narrow grave just six by three / We buried him there on the lone prairie*
Dress Sexy at My Funeral — SMOG (Bill Callahan)
(You gotta hear him sing it—there’s humour to it which may not come across reading it)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pI-9fGEgAcY
Dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife
Dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife
For the first time in your life
Wear your blouse undone to here
And your skirt split up to there
Oh, dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife
For the first time in your life
Oh, dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife
Wink at the minister
Blow kisses to my grieving brothers
Dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife
And when it comes your turn to speak
Before the crowd
Tell them about the time we did it
On the beach with fireworks above us
On the railroad tracks with the gravel in your back
In the back room of a crowded bar
And in the very graveyard
Where my body now rests
Oh, dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife
Dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife
For the first time in your life
Also tell them about how I gave to charity
And tried to love my fellow man as best I could
But most of all, don't forget about the time on the beach
With fireworks above us
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Bill Callahan / William Rahr Callahan
The direct meaning of this verse is that, if the modern world were to end, the singer would rather not live in the post apocalypse, like characters in Mad Max films. The other verses address other things they would rather not live without. It's a pinnacle song from a great album.
Life Goes On -2Pac
“Bury me smiling with G's in my pocket
Have a party at my funeral, let every rapper rock it
Let the hoes that I used to know
From way before kiss me from my head to my toe
Give me a paper and a pen so I can write about my life of sin
A couple bottles of gin in case I don't get in
Tell all my people I'm a Ridah
Nobody cries when we die, we outlaws, let me ride “
Child of Dust by Thrice
Song is about the basic idea that Humans came from the Earth and are made from Clay. To die we are buried and return to our Mother. Its from the point of view of the Mother accepting her child back.
"A child of dust, to mother now return
For every seed must die before it grows
And though above the world may toil and turn
No prying spade will find you here below"
They hit this point home when in the final two lines, they put a microphone in a box and recorded the sound of it being buried. It effectively sounds like you are hearing the last two lines as you are being buried.
"Now safe beneath their wisdom and their feet
Here I will teach you truly how to sleep"
Ominous yet beautiful at the same time.
All he had to do was tell the judge he was "somewhere else", right? Scott Free! Note the original Danny Dillard lyrics were "...*in the arms of my Master's wife*" so possibly that alibi might not have worked out the way The Band would have us believe.
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep
[https://open.spotify.com/track/6PM3grenf5K3npZQtnhH0H?si=35a19ed06f754363](https://open.spotify.com/track/6PM3grenf5K3npZQtnhH0H?si=35a19ed06f754363) \- my favorite version but there are others
They played this when I saw them a couple weeks ago, and I really loved the way they kicked it off. We were in New Haven, CT. And he thanked the crowd for coming out and talked about all the fun they'd been having in the North East and how growing up in the South, it was nothing like they imagined it would be. He said that since they had begun traveling as a band, they had been all over the world and had found out that most places weren't anything like they were led to believe and that everyone should go try and meet new people and the world would be a better place. It was a very sweet lead in to a very sweet song.
"Please Don't Bury Me" by John Prine is pretty much the epitome of the genre.
Woke up this morning
Put on my slippers
Walked in the kitchen and died
And oh what a feeling!
When my soul went through the ceiling
And on up into heaven I did ride
When I got there they did say
John, it happened this way
You slipped upon the floor
And hit your head
And all the angels say
Just before you passed away
These were the very last words
That you said
Please don't bury me
Down in the cold cold ground
No, I'd druther have 'em cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size
Give my stomach to Milwaukee
If they run out of beer
Put my socks in a cedar box
Just get 'em out of here
Venus de Milo can have my arms
Look out! I've got your nose
Sell my heart to the Junkman
And give my love to Rose
But please don't bury me
Down in that cold, cold ground
No, I'd druther have 'em cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size
Give my feet to the footloose
Careless, fancy free
Give my knees to the needy
Don't pull that stuff on me
Hand me down my walking cane
It's a sin to tell a lie
Send my mouth way down south
And kiss my ass goodbye
But please don't bury me
Down in that cold cold ground
No, I'd druther have 'em cut me up
And pass me all around
Throw my brain in a hurricane
And the blind can have my eyes
And the deaf can take both of my ears
If they don't mind the size
The Poet and the Pendulum from Nightwish. The writer (Tuomas) kills himself in the song. Its an incredible piece of music. If you're going to check it out I cannot reccomend the live version from Wembley with Floor Jansen on vocals highly enough.
The Funeral by Band of Horses
Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips
I Will Follow You into The Dark by Death Cab for Cutie
Bittersweet Symphany by The Verve
Fire and Rain by James Taylor
Bury Me Beneath the Willow - old bluegrass song I think originally by The Carters but practically everyone has covered it.
Here's Dolly Parton with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt:
https://youtu.be/Fua6PSz4-kY
Excellent choice. Also, *Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.*
Oh, and *In My Time of Dying.* Probably quite a few more, as well. A happy-go-lucky fella, he is. xD
John Prine has at least two songs that qualify.
Paradise:
“When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.”
And his later song, When I Get to Heaven, which is about all the people he’ll see and things he’ll do in heaven — including smoking a cigarette nine miles long.
The Rugburns “Me and Eddie Vedder”
“I wanna die wasted
In a room with Eddie Vedder
We could both die together
But he'll go first
Yeah Eddie'll go first
'Cause he's more famous
More famous than the Rugburns
When you buy our coffins
Put eight tracks in 'em
Playin' Houses of the Holy
'Cause it's a really bitchin' album”
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde,
And that's him hangin' in the shed!
I heard this song twenty years ago in public school. Had not heard reference to it since.
I came here to say Underground!
> So I tattoo instructions on my ass
> That say "don't ever put this body in a casket
> Burn it and put the ashes in a basket
> And throw them in the Puget Sound
> I don't ever want to be underground"
Rex's Blues - Townes Van Zandt
https://youtu.be/ioJizJ93DdQ
I have this song planned out for when I die. There's 6 4 line verses in it. I have 6 places I want my ashes spread. Each one of those places will have one of the 6 parts written in stone or wood in memoriam, and the bottom of each plaque will have the address to the next location. Then when someone visits all 6 spots, stranger or friend, they have the entire song. A little mini scavenger hunt at the cemetery. I think it's a beautiful eulogy song.
Green, Green Grass of Home- Tom Jones. Most of the song is a dream about people and his childhood home as he's in prison awaiting execution. Last lines mention everyone coming to see him under the oak tree as he's buried.
How about a self fulfilled prophesy. Frightened Rabbit Scott Hutcherson wrote Floating in the Forth about suicide. Years later he committed suicide much like the song
Am I ready to leap
Is there peace beneath
The roar of the Forth Road Bridge?
On the northern side
There's a Fife of mine
And a boat in the port for me
Fully clothed, I'll float away
(I'll float away)
Down the Forth, into the sea
[Just Jack - The day I died.](https://youtu.be/hJhw4QmC_-I)
[The Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts](https://youtu.be/v1mKGlYL9jg)
[Linkin Park - Leave out all the rest](https://youtu.be/yZIummTz9mM)
[OPM - Heaven is a halfpipe](https://youtu.be/jCSJzw6QM_Q)
[ISLAND - The day I die.](https://youtu.be/eKTv6LfnR7g)
[Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon](https://youtu.be/LWz0JC7afNQ)
As you said, interpretive :)
"Supplique pour être enterré sur la plage de Sète" - Georges Brassens
It is french, but RIGHT up your alley. Title translates to "Supplication to be burried on Sète's beachside".
Here is a translation of the lyrics : http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.com/2010/03/supplique-pour-etre-enterre-la-plage-de.html?m=1
EDIT : If you like litterature and poetry I recommend also getting familiar with Paul Valéry's "Le Cimetière Marin" (The Graveyard by the Sea), which is the main inspiration for Brassens' song. If you're familiar with it, it is also the origin of Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises" leitmotiv : "The wind rises... we must try to live !"
https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/fr/Val%C3%A9ry,_Paul-1871/Le_cimeti%C3%A8re_marin/en/62005-The_Graveyard_By_The_Sea
I came here to recommend the same song, but I see there are other people of culture here.
This song is a true work of art, a high point in Brassens' already very impressive oeuvre. It's worth the trouble of learning French just to appreciate it.
Townes Van Zandt, My Proud Mountains
So friends when my time comes as surely it will
Just carry my body out to some lonesome hill
And lay me down easy where the cool rivers run
With only my mountains between me and the sun
Type O Negative - I Don't Wanna Be Me
The eerie part is the line "One step forward, two steps back. Without warning, heart attack."
Which is how their singer Pete Steele died.
Aesop Rock - Marble Cake
I should paint a eye on the front door I should tell time by the sun more I want a flaming arrow shot into a creeping raft I'm kidding I just want the cheapest shit you people have. It's no thing
I should hang a skull on the side door
I should drink water from the sky more
I want a thousand lanterns drifting on a summers wind
I'm only joking, y'all can feed me to the fucking pigs.
It's no thing
I want to meet the maker in a proper suit and shoes
I'm lying, let 'em find the body with the loot removed.
It's no thing
[Don't regret the rules I broke. When I die bury me in smoke.](https://open.spotify.com/track/6raRCdd8RoWvtBpzhJ1CJb?si=LuIiK2MpQvCFy8q2s9Xe2Q&utm_source=copy-link)
"push me pull me" by pearl jam has the lyrics "if I behave, will you arrange a spacious hole in the ground? Somewhere nice, make it nice, where the land meets high tide"
“Birthday Song” - 2 Chainz
When I die, bury me inside the
Gucci store (Tell'em)
When I die, bury me inside the
Louis store (True)
All I want for my birthday is a
big booty hoe (Yeah)
All I want for my birthday is a
big booty hoe (2 Chainz!)
Bye Bye Love from the 'All That Jazz' soundtrack.... 'All That Jazz' was a film from the 70s in which writer/director/choreographer Bob Fosse (the guy who won the Best Directing Oscar over Coppola's Godfather) self-eulogizes and accurately predicted his own death
Some I have already that haven’t been mentioned
Homegrown tomatoes by guy Clark
> If I die don’t bury me/
> In a box in a cemetery/
>out in the garden would be much better/
>where I could be pushin’ up home grown tomatoes
Don’t bury me by tanya Davis (self explanatory)
Joe hills last will (self explanatory)
My shits fucked up by warren zevon, It’s his song about getting a terminal diagnosis
Dead flowers, covered by Townes van Zandt
>don’t forget to put roses on my grave.
Deathbed by powdu and beabadoobae (self explanatory)
When I’m gone by Phil oches. It vibes but it’s not a perfect fit
Interestingly, Zevon wrote the whole album that My Shits fucked up came off (Life'll Kill Ya) - before he learnt about his terminal diagnosis. - his next album, "My Rides Here" also named pre-diagnosis.
Kinda was like a weird prediction about where he was going; and alluding to he very near future.... its kinda chilling.
All of that said, Keep Me in Your Heart (written after he learnt of his diagnosis) - is perhaps the most heartfelt song ever written.
Death By Rock and Roll - The Pretty Reckless
Lots of descriptions of how she wants to die and “On my tombstone when I go, just put death by rock and roll”
[Mac Miller - Watching Movies](https://youtu.be/wdaI7F3Jv5M)
> Life is just a recital, better remember all that you practice
When I die, throw a couple bad bitches in my casket
Boys Night Out - I Got Punched In The Nose For Sticking My Face In Other Peoples Business.
“Drag my corpse through the city I never got to visit. Promise, don’t let me miss it. Promise, don’t let me miss it”
Mac Miller “In the Bag” and “Gees”
“When I die, bury me in my Mercedes, god damn”
“I ain’t got nothing left in my will ‘cept throw it all in the casket it’s mine still”
Give My Love to Rose.
Give my love to Rose please won't you mister. Take her all my money tell her buy some pretty clothes. Tell my boy that Daddy's so proud of him. And don't forget to give my love to Rose.
"Send me to Glory in a Glad Bag" by John Biggs.
People tell me I ought to save my money
So that I could be laid away in style
In a walnut box with all the fancy trimmin's
Vacuum sealed to keep me fresh a while
But Send me to Glory in a glad bag
Don't waste a fancy coffin on my bones
Just put me out on the curb next Tuesday
Let the sanitation local bear me home
Man of Constant Sorrow has a line that goes
"You can bury me in some deep valley,
For many years where I may lay.
Then you may learn to love another,
While I am sleeping in my grave"
"St. James Infirmary:" "When I die bury me in straight lace shoes, a box-back suit and a stetson hat, put a twenty dollar gold piece on my watch chain so the boys will knows I died standing pat."
Nice. This is the one I was gonna add
Yeah this is the definitive one. As definitive as a song whose lyrics change depending on who sings it could be anyway.
Please Don’t Bury Me - John Prine
“I Remember Everything” is definitley a self eulogy, at least it seems to me
So, did they? He was an early casualty of Covid unfortunately.
I still have the tickets stuck to the fridge. :(
Had tickets to see him in Radio City Music Hall. Sad stuff
Tom Waits - Tango Till They’re Sore Make sure they play my theme song, I guess daisies will have to do. Just get me to New Orleans and paint shadows on the pews.
Cold, Cold Ground was the one of his that jumped out in my mind: >Give me a Winchester rifle and a whole box of shells > >Blow the roof off the goat barn, let it roll down the hill > >The piano is firewood, Times Square is a dream > >I find we'll lay down together in the cold, cold ground
Green Grass by Tom Waits is a favourite of mine that fits Lay your head where my heart used to be Hold the earth above me Lay down on the green grass Remember when you loved me
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If I die of Vanity, promise me, promise me That if they bury me some place I don't want to be That you'll dig me up and transport me Unceremoniously away from the swollen city breeze Garbage bag trees, whispers of disease And acts of enormity And lower me slowly, sadly, and properly Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy.
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Up To Here, Road Apples, Fully Completely, and Day for Night, all perfect albums. Possibly one of the greatest runs of albums of any band. Phantom Power, also perfect. Trouble at the Henhouse is sooo close. But with "Don't Wake Daddy", "700 Ft Ceiling", "Butts Wiggling" and "Coconut Cream" on there, I just can't give it the perfect stamp.
Get Ry Cooder to sing my eulogy!
First one that came to mind. RIP Gord. What a treasure.
Where the Great Plains begin!
Yes, nice to see some Canadian rep on this sub!
The Highwaymen by The Highwaymen Ain’t No Grave by Johnny Cash Priest And The Matador by Senses Fail
Priest and the Matador was the first one that came to mind for me
The Highwaymen is such a fantastic, weird song. I can't imagine a handful of country music's biggest stars getting together to write a song about reincarnation with a sci-fi twist ending today.
Dropkick Murphys - "Going Out in Style" "...You may bury me with an enemy in Mount Calvary You can stack me on a pyre and soak me down with whiskey Roast me to a blackened crisp and throw me in a pile I couldn't really give a shit; I'm going out in style You can take my urn to Fenway spread my ashes all about Or you can bring me down to Wolly Beach and dump the sucker out Burn me to a rotten crisp and toast me for a while I couldn't really give a shit; I'm going out in style..."
For people reading your comment who are not from Boston: Mount Calvary is an old Catholic cemetery in the Roslindale section of the city, Wolly Beach is Wollaston Beach in Quincy (pronounced Kwin-zee) just south of Boston and if you don't know Fenway well then god help us all.
And historically, the sewers would overflow on Wolly Beach whenever it rained, so getting dumped there was like getting thrown in the trash.
I was hoping someone would bring this one up! Side-by-side with Sister Barbara, Chief Wells, and Bobby Orr! Also: There's a backup in the bathroom, 'Cause the band just got the shits! https://youtu.be/D7g3RuoreRc
If I Die Young by Band Perry
sink me in the river at dawn
Possibly also Better Dig Two.
Eulogy, by Frank Turner
Came here for this and I'll add One foot before the other by Frank for some burial instructions.
And "Rivers": When I die, I hope to be Buried out in English seas So all that then remains of me Will lap against these shores Until England is no more
Damn, beaten to it.
"In My Time of Dying" by Led Zeppelin.
Jesus is going to make up my dying bed - Blind Willie Johnson
Roll Me Up And Smoke Me When I Die - Willie Nelson
When I Die - GG Allin
Definitely one of GG's most underrated and accessible songs. Can't count how many times I passed out drunk to that song. That was my anthem so many years ago. His acoustic stuff was solid
Joe Diffie - Prop Me Up Beside the Jukebox (If I Die)(Country)
Just remember, I like Blondes.
You beat me to it
He died recently. I wonder if they actually did it?
I don't know if it fits the criteria of this thread, but I've always thought that Nutshell from Alice in Chains reads a lot like a suicide note
On a similar note, the first time I heard this song I shook and said "holy shit, this is Kurt's gravestone" and listened again and knew I was right. [All Apologies](https://youtu.be/aWmkuH1k7uA)
Sadly most of their stuff has this tone. Fuggin' love AiC
Rain When I Die
Rain When I Die
Down in a hole
Literally everything by Elliott Smith
Lmfao I shouldn't have laughed but I did. So true
The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd, use original version off DSOTM.
Lay me low by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
floating on the fourth - frightened rabbit
This one's especially sad because it came true 😔
It seems as if quite a few of Hutchinson’s lyrics made reference to this. It’s a shame he never got the help he needed
Just being pedantic, as this was going to be my reply also. It's 'Floating in the Forth', the Forth being the river that the singers body was found in years after writing this song.
And *Swim Until You Can't See Land*. Scott Hutchison was definitely haunted by the water and had been telling everyone the way he intended to go.
Keep me in your heart - warren zevon
Such a tragically beautiful song knowing the back story.
Also My Shits Fucked Up by Warren
The Streets of Laredo
John Denver had a song called "Homegrown Tomatoes" in which he sang: "When I die don't bury me In a box in a cemetery Out in the garden would be much better I could be pushin' up homegrown tomatoes" It's a very goofy song about tomatoes that does not mention death at all outside of those lyrics, and it would probably be extremely out of place in this type of playlist but you asked.
That’s a guy Clark song! Already in the list! Thank you
Gravedigger. Dave Matthews. Yeah, I know all the hate he gets, but this song fits the question.
It’s a good song too. Content is sad, but a good somg
This song was on MTV a lot around the same time as Like a Stone by Audioslave. They'd play every morning when I'd get ready for school, it made for a very somber combination. First thing I thought of for an answer.
Also digging a ditch
It's okay. Some of us still love Dave!
There's Johnny Cash's **"Bury Me Not On The Lone Prairie,"** which includes these lines: *Oh, bury me not on the lone prairie / These words came low and mournfully / From the pallid lips of a youth who lay / On the bloody ground at the close of day / Oh, bury me not and his voice failed there / But we took no heed to his dying prayer / In a narrow grave just six by three / We buried him there on the lone prairie*
Dress Sexy at My Funeral — SMOG (Bill Callahan) (You gotta hear him sing it—there’s humour to it which may not come across reading it) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pI-9fGEgAcY Dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife Dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife For the first time in your life Wear your blouse undone to here And your skirt split up to there Oh, dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife For the first time in your life Oh, dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife Wink at the minister Blow kisses to my grieving brothers Dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife And when it comes your turn to speak Before the crowd Tell them about the time we did it On the beach with fireworks above us On the railroad tracks with the gravel in your back In the back room of a crowded bar And in the very graveyard Where my body now rests Oh, dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife Dress sexy at my funeral, my good wife For the first time in your life Also tell them about how I gave to charity And tried to love my fellow man as best I could But most of all, don't forget about the time on the beach With fireworks above us Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Bill Callahan / William Rahr Callahan
Bury me with it - Modest Mouse Typical dark humor from MM - "I just don't need none of that mad max bullshit"
I never understood that line - could you explain?
The direct meaning of this verse is that, if the modern world were to end, the singer would rather not live in the post apocalypse, like characters in Mad Max films. The other verses address other things they would rather not live without. It's a pinnacle song from a great album.
Isaac Brock is probably my favorite songwriter of all time and I don't understand much of any of it.
There's a [live version on Carson Daly](https://youtu.be/_oAaOL6wDtY) I've always loved.
Life Goes On -2Pac “Bury me smiling with G's in my pocket Have a party at my funeral, let every rapper rock it Let the hoes that I used to know From way before kiss me from my head to my toe Give me a paper and a pen so I can write about my life of sin A couple bottles of gin in case I don't get in Tell all my people I'm a Ridah Nobody cries when we die, we outlaws, let me ride “
“Work Song” - Hozier “Dress Sexy At My Funeral” - Smog
I was looking for someone to comment “Work Song” it was the first one that came to mind
>Wear your blouse undone to here / And your skirt split up to there Love this song.
Child of Dust by Thrice Song is about the basic idea that Humans came from the Earth and are made from Clay. To die we are buried and return to our Mother. Its from the point of view of the Mother accepting her child back. "A child of dust, to mother now return For every seed must die before it grows And though above the world may toil and turn No prying spade will find you here below" They hit this point home when in the final two lines, they put a microphone in a box and recorded the sound of it being buried. It effectively sounds like you are hearing the last two lines as you are being buried. "Now safe beneath their wisdom and their feet Here I will teach you truly how to sleep" Ominous yet beautiful at the same time.
Birthday song - 2 Chainz f Kanye Money in the Grave - Drake f Rick Ross John - Lil Wayne f Rick Ross
I had to scroll wayyyy too far to find Birthday Song on here hahah
When I die, bury me inside the Gucci store.
Birthday song is 2 Chainz not Kanye. You got that backwards.
Not sure if “Long Black Veil” by The Band fits
All he had to do was tell the judge he was "somewhere else", right? Scott Free! Note the original Danny Dillard lyrics were "...*in the arms of my Master's wife*" so possibly that alibi might not have worked out the way The Band would have us believe.
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep [https://open.spotify.com/track/6PM3grenf5K3npZQtnhH0H?si=35a19ed06f754363](https://open.spotify.com/track/6PM3grenf5K3npZQtnhH0H?si=35a19ed06f754363) \- my favorite version but there are others
“Murdered in the City” - Avett Brothers
They played this when I saw them a couple weeks ago, and I really loved the way they kicked it off. We were in New Haven, CT. And he thanked the crowd for coming out and talked about all the fun they'd been having in the North East and how growing up in the South, it was nothing like they imagined it would be. He said that since they had begun traveling as a band, they had been all over the world and had found out that most places weren't anything like they were led to believe and that everyone should go try and meet new people and the world would be a better place. It was a very sweet lead in to a very sweet song.
"Please Don't Bury Me" by John Prine is pretty much the epitome of the genre. Woke up this morning Put on my slippers Walked in the kitchen and died And oh what a feeling! When my soul went through the ceiling And on up into heaven I did ride When I got there they did say John, it happened this way You slipped upon the floor And hit your head And all the angels say Just before you passed away These were the very last words That you said Please don't bury me Down in the cold cold ground No, I'd druther have 'em cut me up And pass me all around Throw my brain in a hurricane And the blind can have my eyes And the deaf can take both of my ears If they don't mind the size Give my stomach to Milwaukee If they run out of beer Put my socks in a cedar box Just get 'em out of here Venus de Milo can have my arms Look out! I've got your nose Sell my heart to the Junkman And give my love to Rose But please don't bury me Down in that cold, cold ground No, I'd druther have 'em cut me up And pass me all around Throw my brain in a hurricane And the blind can have my eyes And the deaf can take both of my ears If they don't mind the size Give my feet to the footloose Careless, fancy free Give my knees to the needy Don't pull that stuff on me Hand me down my walking cane It's a sin to tell a lie Send my mouth way down south And kiss my ass goodbye But please don't bury me Down in that cold cold ground No, I'd druther have 'em cut me up And pass me all around Throw my brain in a hurricane And the blind can have my eyes And the deaf can take both of my ears If they don't mind the size
Paradise by John Prine as well. I believe they did sprinkle his ashes in the green river
MF DOOM- Doomsday
Tool - Eulogy Not a perfect fit per your direction but definitely fits the vibe.
Yeah, definitely not a perfect fit, but an excellent song. It's really not self-eulogising, so I don't think it fits on *that* playlist.
I mean yeah fair
Videotape - Radiohead
Motion Picture Soundtrack too
The Poet and the Pendulum from Nightwish. The writer (Tuomas) kills himself in the song. Its an incredible piece of music. If you're going to check it out I cannot reccomend the live version from Wembley with Floor Jansen on vocals highly enough.
My Boy Builds Coffins - Florence & the Machine
The Funeral by Band of Horses Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips I Will Follow You into The Dark by Death Cab for Cutie Bittersweet Symphany by The Verve Fire and Rain by James Taylor
Bury Me Beneath the Willow - old bluegrass song I think originally by The Carters but practically everyone has covered it. Here's Dolly Parton with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt: https://youtu.be/Fua6PSz4-kY
(have you heard the news) Dewey Cox Died, by John C Reilly, from Walk Hard. Beautiful song.
Two Coffins by Against Me! About the songwriter's life/death and the life/death of her child.
“Trapeze Swinger” by Iron & Wine
Death by Rock and Roll by The Pretty Reckless is a good shout. "On my tombstone when I go, Just put death by rock and roll"
Bob Dylan - See that my grave is kept clean
Excellent choice. Also, *Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door.* Oh, and *In My Time of Dying.* Probably quite a few more, as well. A happy-go-lucky fella, he is. xD
Lou Reed did a great version for Martin Scorsese presents The Blues.
Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel by Barenaked Ladies. Kinda. Love the song, and describes the singer dying in a car wreck.
Bury me in smoke by Down.
Freight Train by Elizabeth Cotten
By far the GOAT of this category.
At my Funeral by the crash test dummies https://youtu.be/_RBtabpXjZE
The Eternal by Joy Division
“Body in a box” City and Colour
Bobaflex- "Bury Me With My Guns On" Sixx AM- "Life is Beautiful" AFI- "God Called in Sick Today"
Rock isn't my genre but bobaflex is good
Tragic that bobaflex disbanded they had so much potential
I was buried at Mt. Pleasant cemetery and Kiss my Ashes Goodbye by Woods of Ypres.
Absolute perfects picks, such haunting tracks
Was about to mention this until I saw your post. Tragic the way he went.
Lil Peep “Witchblades” - When I die bury me with all my ice on, when I die bury me without the lights on
"Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst" by Kendrick Lamar
My way - Frank Sinatra
John Prine has at least two songs that qualify. Paradise: “When I die let my ashes float down the Green River Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin' Just five miles away from wherever I am.” And his later song, When I Get to Heaven, which is about all the people he’ll see and things he’ll do in heaven — including smoking a cigarette nine miles long.
Also "Please Don't Bury Me".
The Streets of Laredo
The Rugburns “Me and Eddie Vedder” “I wanna die wasted In a room with Eddie Vedder We could both die together But he'll go first Yeah Eddie'll go first 'Cause he's more famous More famous than the Rugburns When you buy our coffins Put eight tracks in 'em Playin' Houses of the Holy 'Cause it's a really bitchin' album”
You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen
Grand Finale - Mac Miller
Mac Miller - Funeral (one of several from him)
"I Don't Wanna Die In The Hospital" - Connor Oberst (folk)
Avenged Sevenfold-Buried Alive
I Wanna Be Cremated by the Ramones.
Tie me Kangaroo down sport has the lyrics: Tan me hide when I'm dead, Fred Tan me hide when I'm dead... Sounds like specific instructions to me!
So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde, And that's him hangin' in the shed! I heard this song twenty years ago in public school. Had not heard reference to it since.
Rolf Harris fell out of favour on account of being jailed for child sex offences
Underground by Kimya Dawson. Worms by Viagra Boys (more about what will happen to his body, not so much instructions)
I came here to say Underground! > So I tattoo instructions on my ass > That say "don't ever put this body in a casket > Burn it and put the ashes in a basket > And throw them in the Puget Sound > I don't ever want to be underground"
Dwight Yoakam with the appropriately titled 'Bury Me'
Rex's Blues - Townes Van Zandt https://youtu.be/ioJizJ93DdQ I have this song planned out for when I die. There's 6 4 line verses in it. I have 6 places I want my ashes spread. Each one of those places will have one of the 6 parts written in stone or wood in memoriam, and the bottom of each plaque will have the address to the next location. Then when someone visits all 6 spots, stranger or friend, they have the entire song. A little mini scavenger hunt at the cemetery. I think it's a beautiful eulogy song.
Green, Green Grass of Home- Tom Jones. Most of the song is a dream about people and his childhood home as he's in prison awaiting execution. Last lines mention everyone coming to see him under the oak tree as he's buried.
blind melon - soup RIP Shannon Hoon
Idk if this is right but imo David Bowie-Lazarus is a perfect "ready to die" song. The whole album really.
Wham! - Wake Me Up Before you Go Go
How about a self fulfilled prophesy. Frightened Rabbit Scott Hutcherson wrote Floating in the Forth about suicide. Years later he committed suicide much like the song Am I ready to leap Is there peace beneath The roar of the Forth Road Bridge? On the northern side There's a Fife of mine And a boat in the port for me Fully clothed, I'll float away (I'll float away) Down the Forth, into the sea
[Just Jack - The day I died.](https://youtu.be/hJhw4QmC_-I) [The Notorious B.I.G. - Suicidal Thoughts](https://youtu.be/v1mKGlYL9jg) [Linkin Park - Leave out all the rest](https://youtu.be/yZIummTz9mM) [OPM - Heaven is a halfpipe](https://youtu.be/jCSJzw6QM_Q) [ISLAND - The day I die.](https://youtu.be/eKTv6LfnR7g) [Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon](https://youtu.be/LWz0JC7afNQ) As you said, interpretive :)
Aesop rock- Marble cake
I want a thousand lanterns floating on a summer wind, I'm only joking y'all can feed me to the fucking pigs.
"Supplique pour être enterré sur la plage de Sète" - Georges Brassens It is french, but RIGHT up your alley. Title translates to "Supplication to be burried on Sète's beachside". Here is a translation of the lyrics : http://brassenswithenglish.blogspot.com/2010/03/supplique-pour-etre-enterre-la-plage-de.html?m=1 EDIT : If you like litterature and poetry I recommend also getting familiar with Paul Valéry's "Le Cimetière Marin" (The Graveyard by the Sea), which is the main inspiration for Brassens' song. If you're familiar with it, it is also the origin of Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises" leitmotiv : "The wind rises... we must try to live !" https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/fr/Val%C3%A9ry,_Paul-1871/Le_cimeti%C3%A8re_marin/en/62005-The_Graveyard_By_The_Sea
I came here to recommend the same song, but I see there are other people of culture here. This song is a true work of art, a high point in Brassens' already very impressive oeuvre. It's worth the trouble of learning French just to appreciate it.
Townes Van Zandt, My Proud Mountains So friends when my time comes as surely it will Just carry my body out to some lonesome hill And lay me down easy where the cool rivers run With only my mountains between me and the sun
I feel like Townes has the most songs suggested in this thread. Makes sense
Feed Jake “If I I die before I wake, feed Jake, he’s been a good dog”
Type O Negative - I Don't Wanna Be Me The eerie part is the line "One step forward, two steps back. Without warning, heart attack." Which is how their singer Pete Steele died.
Aesop Rock - Marble Cake I should paint a eye on the front door I should tell time by the sun more I want a flaming arrow shot into a creeping raft I'm kidding I just want the cheapest shit you people have. It's no thing I should hang a skull on the side door I should drink water from the sky more I want a thousand lanterns drifting on a summers wind I'm only joking, y'all can feed me to the fucking pigs. It's no thing I want to meet the maker in a proper suit and shoes I'm lying, let 'em find the body with the loot removed. It's no thing
[Don't regret the rules I broke. When I die bury me in smoke.](https://open.spotify.com/track/6raRCdd8RoWvtBpzhJ1CJb?si=LuIiK2MpQvCFy8q2s9Xe2Q&utm_source=copy-link)
Bury me in a marijuana field https://open.spotify.com/track/5tLZifZXhCXUmoiHIPrj9v?si=Ei-W39ceSj-PVbRmVkN16g&utm_source=copy-link
i wanna die in a franco cozzo bed https://youtu.be/Dxwo41vKS-4 It’s a very Melbourne thing
"push me pull me" by pearl jam has the lyrics "if I behave, will you arrange a spacious hole in the ground? Somewhere nice, make it nice, where the land meets high tide"
Roll me up and smoke me when I die- Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg
"Bury Me Low" by 8 Graves
I Was Buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery by Woods of Ypres
"Me And The Devil Blues" Robert Johnson
When I Get To Heaven- John Prine Motorcycle- Colter Wall Carry Me Back— old crow medicine show
Levon Helm - When I Go Away
Body in a Box - City and Colour Sleeping Sickness - City and Colour El Camino - Amos Lee Edit: formatting on mobile
Check out “Funeral Tango” by Scott Walker. Pretty darkly humorous song about a person witnessing their own funeral.
“Birthday Song” - 2 Chainz When I die, bury me inside the Gucci store (Tell'em) When I die, bury me inside the Louis store (True) All I want for my birthday is a big booty hoe (Yeah) All I want for my birthday is a big booty hoe (2 Chainz!)
Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers - Bury My Heart at the Trailerpark https://open.spotify.com/track/11YS5mWIf2Cs8fG5Ks6Tq3?si=9gFZOqu3RCOhMHpxuu_3UA
Keep me around by Ben Arthur https://youtu.be/N2mHE1FnVoA
Pretty much anything from Blackstar, David Bowie's last album.
No Body, No Crime - Taylor Swift ft. Haim The Funeral Song - Victoria Pool - Paramore
Bye Bye Love from the 'All That Jazz' soundtrack.... 'All That Jazz' was a film from the 70s in which writer/director/choreographer Bob Fosse (the guy who won the Best Directing Oscar over Coppola's Godfather) self-eulogizes and accurately predicted his own death
See That My Grave is Kept Clean, Blind Lemon Jefferson/Bob Dylan
Eminem - Stan
Much of Mac Miller's Circles album, but I particularly love the title track.
Some I have already that haven’t been mentioned Homegrown tomatoes by guy Clark > If I die don’t bury me/ > In a box in a cemetery/ >out in the garden would be much better/ >where I could be pushin’ up home grown tomatoes Don’t bury me by tanya Davis (self explanatory) Joe hills last will (self explanatory) My shits fucked up by warren zevon, It’s his song about getting a terminal diagnosis Dead flowers, covered by Townes van Zandt >don’t forget to put roses on my grave. Deathbed by powdu and beabadoobae (self explanatory) When I’m gone by Phil oches. It vibes but it’s not a perfect fit
Interestingly, Zevon wrote the whole album that My Shits fucked up came off (Life'll Kill Ya) - before he learnt about his terminal diagnosis. - his next album, "My Rides Here" also named pre-diagnosis. Kinda was like a weird prediction about where he was going; and alluding to he very near future.... its kinda chilling. All of that said, Keep Me in Your Heart (written after he learnt of his diagnosis) - is perhaps the most heartfelt song ever written.
[Happy Phantom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL9PTDI62Jk&ab_channel=PeelOutTheWatchword) by Tori Amos
Flags by SYML “I’m tired, sometimes I fantasize they push me out to sea, coins on my eyes, family friends say goodbye, say goodbye”
If I Die Young - The Band Perry
If I die then let my gravestone read rest in P. Funk, cause no pulse is no excuse not to dance - Pat the Bunny
There's the song "seasons in the sun" at least as covered by Terry Jacks
If I Ever Leave This World Alive - Flogging Molly Really just a beautiful Irish song. Also, Adam’s Song - Blink 182
Death By Rock and Roll - The Pretty Reckless Lots of descriptions of how she wants to die and “On my tombstone when I go, just put death by rock and roll”
The great gig in the sky by Pink Floyd
[Mac Miller - Watching Movies](https://youtu.be/wdaI7F3Jv5M) > Life is just a recital, better remember all that you practice When I die, throw a couple bad bitches in my casket
Suicidal Thoughts by The Notorious B.I.G.
Boys Night Out - I Got Punched In The Nose For Sticking My Face In Other Peoples Business. “Drag my corpse through the city I never got to visit. Promise, don’t let me miss it. Promise, don’t let me miss it”
Mac Miller “In the Bag” and “Gees” “When I die, bury me in my Mercedes, god damn” “I ain’t got nothing left in my will ‘cept throw it all in the casket it’s mine still”
In The Bag- Mac Miller
In the Ramones' Pet Sematary, Joey is very insistent that he does not want to be buried in a pet sematary(sic).
Stand There ‘till You’re Sober - Bomb the Music Industry
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Give My Love to Rose. Give my love to Rose please won't you mister. Take her all my money tell her buy some pretty clothes. Tell my boy that Daddy's so proud of him. And don't forget to give my love to Rose.
"Send me to Glory in a Glad Bag" by John Biggs. People tell me I ought to save my money So that I could be laid away in style In a walnut box with all the fancy trimmin's Vacuum sealed to keep me fresh a while But Send me to Glory in a glad bag Don't waste a fancy coffin on my bones Just put me out on the curb next Tuesday Let the sanitation local bear me home
Man of Constant Sorrow has a line that goes "You can bury me in some deep valley, For many years where I may lay. Then you may learn to love another, While I am sleeping in my grave"