If ;you had one last song to hear, what would it be?

[Patiod]

If you knew when you were going to die (or go deaf, if that seems less morbid) and could hear one last song, what would it be?

They just played "Thunder Road" on Meet the Press because it was Tim Russert's favorite song to end the show with a montage of Russert photos. Which was a weird juxtaposition, plus a friend of mine and I used to joke that the last thing we wanted to hear before we died was our favorite Springsteen songs - and "Thunder Road" is mine.

[begin_within]

1. This

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtZKwp6cjd4

[skygazer]

2. Comfortably Numb

Or perhaps Shine On You Crazy Diamond. Or Careful With That Axe Eugene. Or about any other Floyd song.

[lizziegrace]

3. "What a Wonderful World" sung by Louis Armstrong

:)

[Ptah]

4. Sunrise, Sunset

http://youtube.com/watch?v=v4CWgQQGyr4

[one mean sheath]

5. if i was dying...

"death ain't you got no shame" by those poor bastards.

it's kinda perfect.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. Gonna close my eyes and watch you go --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44tVAJVmQCM&feature=related

"The One I Love"

Gonna close my eyes
Girl and watch you go
Running through this life darling
Like a field of snow
As the tracer glides
In its graceful arc
Send a little prayer out to ya
'cross the falling dark

Tell the repo man
And the stars above
You're the one I love

Perfect summers night
Not a wind that breathes
Just the bullets whispering gentle
'mongst the new green leaves
There's things I might have said
Only wish I could
Now I'm leaking life faster
Then I'm leaking blood

Tell the repo man
And the stars above
You're the one I love
You're the one I love
The one I love

Don't see Elysium
Don't see no fiery hell
Just the lights up bright baby
In the bay hotel
Next wave coming in
Like an ocean roar
Won't you take my hand darling
On that old dancefloor

We can twist and shout
Do the turtle dove
And you're the one I love
You're the one I love
The one I love

[Forkboy]

7. Superstars Of Greenwich Meantime by Uncle Jim

Uncle Jim being Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls. The song is a 16 minute drunken rant that is the coolest thing I've ever heard.

"You wouldn't know cool if you were a Charlie Parker horn solo!"

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My husband, playing a song he wrote, on the piano...

[hobbit709]

9. One of these

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY0IXwsCxZI
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ha1tJ1VT6mk

[arcadian]

10. 'Ode to Joy', it goes well with machine gun fire.

That's how I'm gonin' out. Thanks Bruce Willis!

[Haole Girl]

11. "Carefree Highway"

by Gordon Lightfoot.

Now the thing that I call livin' is just bein' satisfied
With knowin' I got no one left to blame

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FhjiM0qjX9k

[KitchenWitch]

12. Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

[Patiod]

20. Mmmm....Izzy

Friends of ours got turned on to Izzy when they were in Hawaii, and everthing stopped for the day of his funeral. They thought "anyone this loved has to be something special." They were playing his music at a party, and we were surprised, because back then, people here in the East hadn't heard of him yet.

[GoneOffShore]

13. We Sail - Ian Tyson & Sylvia Fricker -Great Speckled Bird

[bertha katzenengel]

14. Charlie Chaplin "Smile" n/t

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. A really, really long one

[Adsos Letter]

18. LOL!!!

best answer yet. :rofl:

[PassingFair]

16. "Who wants to live forever?"

Child version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-S6_q_VPHw

[Carnea]

17. A really long one like that endless symphony that goes for forty years...NT

[Adsos Letter]

19. This one...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp0ccQVy1og

[Connonym]

21. Fat Bottomed Girls by Queen

don't you judge me!

[hellbound-liberal]

22. Fields of Gold by Eva Cassidy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YVil3Ajjs

[PassingFair]

26. I want that one played at my memorial service...

I'm MEAN.

(It WILL make people cry.)

;)

[steelemagnolia]

28. Triple love Eva....great choice eom

[RainDog]

23. The Long Road

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b33vOZKcS0

Nusrat fateh ali Khan and Eddie Vedder

[Lyric]

24. Hallelujah--the Rufus Wainwright version, because

the song is just heartbreakingly haunting, Cohen (bless the man) can't sing it well himself, and Jeff Buckley's voice is irritatingly breathy and wispy to me.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

25. The Lord Is My Shepherd

If I was in the stages of dying

[Bennyboy]

27. Dark Star......That would keep me going for about 40 minutes or so!

Depending on the version......

[khashka]

29. The Man With The Child In His Eyes

by Kate Bush. It always gets me. A different choice for my funeral. Also by her - Night of the Swallow - "give me something to show for my miserable life".

Khash.

[JVS]

30. this is the song that doesn't end. Yes it goes on and on my friend. Some people started singing...

it, not knowing what it was, and they'll continue singing it forever just because, this is the song that doesn't end....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNTxr2NJHa0

[steelemagnolia]

31. Mine would be Clair de Lune - link attached

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9Ij3CjQltM Enjoy!

[hellbound-liberal]

32. Thanks steelemagnolia! That song always reminds me of my mother.

It was her favorite piece of music.I can almost see her smiling right now!