I particularly like the musical interlude from 2:50 to 3:15. It has that wonderful lead-up to what sounds to be a bowed instrument.Originally posted by Skweeky@14 November 2003 - 00:07
I would like ' Nothing lasts forever' from Echo and the Bunnymen. Just because it has nice lyrics, and because it has a special meaning for me (and someone else)
For me:
Bare Naked Ladies- Tonight is the night I feel asleep at the wheel. Ironic, clever but not cutesy and views death in a whimiscal but utimately peaceful manner. A true 2 part song spanning some 9 minutes, but well worth a listen.
Here are some nice tidbits:
Drivin' home to be with you,
The highway's defiant, the city's in view.
As usual I'm almost on time,
Your're the last thing that's on my mind.
Wish I could tell you the way that I feel,
But tonight is the night I fell asleep at the wheel.
From the ceiling, my coffee cup drips,
While out my window the horizon does flips.
The worst part was hitting the ground,
not the feeling, so much as the sound.
He then goes on to describe people watching the ambulance and fire department arrive, he wonders if he is dreaming. The tone is that of slight amusement at the whole spectacle.
Then, in a refrain almost reminescent of a drunken bar song, he says:
I guess it's over now,
'cause I've never seen so much, never seen so much, never seen so much...
-one more time-
I guess it's over now,
'cause I've never seen so much, never seen so much, never seen so much...
Blood!!!!
In all the confusion,there is something serene.
I'm just a post-humous part of the scene.
Now I'm floating above, looking in
As the radio blares and wheels spin, I can see my face turned up with a grin.
And you....Your're the last thing on my mind.
-Ah, so that is what he meant-
The song then transitions with a dramatic ahhhhhhhhh! to his after death experience. The music conveys a sense of "floating" and he becomes acclimated to his new existence.
Final tidbits:
Shivering madly in the dark,
like an animal abandoned in the car park.
And she held me, and then she showed me the beauty of...the human heart.
Inside ourselves, a hidden sun that burns and burns,
But never does any harm, to any one.
A hidden sun that burns and burns,
but never does any harm, to anyone.
Anyone
Ohhhhh Anyone....
Anyway, a real treat it would be to pass away to this humorous, ironic and ultimately uplifting death serenade.
@Magic Nakor- Although Moonlight Sonata is a great song, it is so melancholy. I can feel the cold hands of death about my neck even now. I can hear the coarse grating sound as the the stone tablet seals me in my mausoleum crypt.
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