day 24 - a song that you want to play at your funeral

Is it still called a funeral if you aren't being buried?

I'd like mine to be called an osaraba party, which I'm sure is atrocious grammar (because there's actually an idiomatic phrase for a real "going away party"), but whatever -- in Japanese, (o)saraba means a farewell (the "o" is an honorific used with certain words, in certain forms). ...and now you also know the meaning of my tag, yay!

So at my "funeral", there shouldn't be ONLY sad music played, but because I am overly enamored of epically sad music/lyrics in general, these are my top two choices; they are guaranteed to make (me) you(?) shed a tear.

Stan Rogers' Northwest Passage
Fave lines: tracing one warm line through a land so wild and savage

I love that line so much I had part of it tattooed on my wrist. And basically, the whole fucking song is an amazing adventure relived every time I hear it (lyrics here).

Sakamoto Kyu's 上を向いて歩こう (Ue wo Muite Arukou) ["I Look Up When I Walk"]
Fave lines: ue wo muite arukou / namida ga koborenai you ni / nakinagara arukuu / hitoribotchi no yoru (i look up as i walk / so that the tears won't fall / though the tears well up as i walk / tonight i'm alone)
Japanese romaji & English translation of lyrics here.

I can never articulately describe how sad and beautiful this song is and it bugs me SO EFFING MUCH that it was called "Sukiyaki Song" in the 60s when it crossed over to the US, and then that the "English version(s)" fell so flat in comparison to the original.

List of all days.

GIVE ME MORE ACOUSTIC LOVE, BDEN. (also, your FACE)

Oh, so you know those X103.9 high quality acoustic P!ATD songs you can find on youtube? First of all, DAMMIT, I want more high quality acoustic songs, and not just the same popular ones. I love when they play acoustic -- jesus fuck, Bden, your VOICE -- I really wish they'd put out an acoustic album and it's kind of awesome to hear all the "ear candies" stripped from those songs we love so well and just have it down to the basics.

Anyway, I ripped the audio from those vids and then trimmed the extra silence in the beginnings and ends. If anyone wants the mp3s, just let me know.

The Ballad of Mona Lisa
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
Lying Is the Most Fun...

Same goes for It's Almost Halloween because it had like 30 seconds of silence at the end... and when I put it on repeat for like an hour one day I got really tired of having that looooong silence interrupting the flow.

/dork

I think Ready to Go (Get Me Out of My Mind) is possibly my new fave song of the moment. It's just-- catchy and fun? And then it's that whole rockabilly/greaser scene in the video. EVERY TIME I WATCH IT I CAN'T HELP DANCING WITH MY SHOULDERS. Also, you know, I have always (loved and) lusted over that aesthetic and basically BDEN GET IN ME. Yeah.


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