What song would you like played at your funeral?

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Recorded Rickie Lee Jones said elsewhere, not written here
That’s always changing, depending on how I think I’m going to die. At the moment, I’d like my own song Away from the Sky at my funeral.

The Guardian, Honest playlist, The Guardian, 29 May 2023 source ↗

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Rhys Ifans Welsh actor and musician
The Importance Of Being Idle by Oasis. I’m in the video, which is basically my own funeral, so it’d be nice and macabre.
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I just wait. I accept that I might not write anymore. I accept that life changes and that maybe it’s not the end of the world even if it feels like it. That was a thing going on about 15 years ago with me. I don’t really feel that way anymore, but when it was happening it was hard. It feels like it might never come again, and then you just accept it.
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