I'm listening to: Coldplay - Shiver

I feel a little creeped out by what I wrote two posts ago, in light of recent events. It's always hard to (or not to) say goodbye when you never thought you had to - this I have really come to understand. You're sad to be left behind when someone else's gone ahead of you, but we'll all eventually catch up anyway; and then the most important thing is to have had a wonderful journey. This is what it means to me: I compiled a list of songs I would like to be played at my wake, in no particular order.


Boston - Amanda
Goo Goo Dolls - Name
Absinthe Glow - Contradictions
Savage Garden - I Knew I Loved You
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Mae - Skyline Drive
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence (Piano Version)
The Eels - The Stars Shine in the Sky Tonight
Travis - Under the Moonlight
Billie Holiday - I'll Be Seeing You
Hole - Malibu
The Carpenters - For All We Know
Saigon Kick - Love is On the Way
Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down
Alanis Morissette - Mary Jane
Chicago - If You Leave Me Now
Yellowcard - Ocean Avenue
Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
Bobby Darin - The Other Half of Me
Sixpence None the Richer - Kiss Me
The Temptations - My Girl
Jason Mraz - You and I Both
Sugarcult - Memory (Acoustic)
Anberlin - Naive Orleans
The Drifters - This Magic Moment
R.E.M. - Daysleeper
Buddy Holly - Maybe Baby
Norah Jones - Sunrise
Dido - Take My Hand
The Beatles - Ticket to Ride
Saves the Day - Driving in the Dark
The Eagles - Love Will Keep Us Alive
The Juliana Theory - Top of the World
Copeland - Coffee
Human League - Together in Electric Dreams
Butch Walker - Take Tomorrow
Katie Melua - Nine Million Bicycles
The Raveonettes - The Christmas Song
Ben Folds Five - Air
U2 - Sweetest Thing
Elliott Smith - Alameda
Camera Obscura - French Navy
Metric - Love is a Place
Something Corporate - As You Sleep
Belinda Carlisle - Summer Rain
The Cranberries - You and Me
The Platters - Sea of Love
Incubus - Echo
Jolie Holland - Sascha
Otis Redding - These Arms of Mine
Belle & Sebastian - Another Sunny Day
Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know
Barry Louis Polisar - All I Want is You
Our Lady Peace - Somewhere Out There
Foals - This Orient
Coldplay - The Scientist
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
Vanessa Carlton - San Francisco
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It be Nice
John Mayer - Not Myself
Aqualung - Brighter Than Sunshine


** You know who you are; I'd be very grateful if you'd please arrange this for me =)

Some of my favourite songs aren't here, but I think these suit the occasion and they're so lovely and evocatively nostalgic. By then, they might all have become REALLY vintage and I can't quite imagine Dashboard and SoCo being 'old school'.