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When I die, let the wolves enjoy my bones.
When I die, let me go.
When I die, you can push me out to sea.
When I die, set me free.
When I die, let the sharks come round to feed.
When I die, set me free.
Oh the world is dark, and I've looked as far as I can see.
When the years have torn me apart, let me be.
When I die, let the flames devour me.
When I die, set me free.
When I die, throw my ashes to the breeze.
When I die, scuttle me.
Whole world is dark, and I've looked as far as I can see.
When the years have torn me apart
Let me be, let me be, let me be, let me be
Daylight is waiting for you. Daylight is waiting for you...
This voice is chilling .... "let me go!"
This will be played at my funeral.
At mine too, as I'm buried in a woodland to return my nutrients to nature.
DLS-Wolves
I'll assume your forgave your mom for dying after you learned more about addiction.
I'll assume you forgave the OP for their egoic struggle after you learned more about parental neglect through the lens of grief and loss.
Let's all forgive one another, if we can bear it.
My mom died a year ago at 59, She gave up on life by slowly poisoning herself with opiates and barbituates and nicotine, knowing what she was doing. She just didn't wake up one day.
She wanted this song played at her memorial when she died. The family overruled the song not ready to let go.
I still have a hard time forgiving her for giving up. I miss her.
I'll assume your forgave your mom for dying after you learned more about addiction.
Caitlin Canty - I Never
(Still waiting to hear back on my marriage proposal.)
Caitlyn does some great work with the boys from Darlingside
Darlingside & Caitlin Canty - Sweet & Low
Caitlin Canty & Darlingside - Wildflowers (Tom Petty cover)
It makes me feel the same way that
To Build A HomeThe Cinematic Orchestra does.
Both 10++
She is amazing
One of many songs on RP that broach the fragility of life... I have given them all 10's though I have no need to die... much more to live for!
Eastmountainsouth was a duo formed by Peter Bradley Adams (with Kat Bode). They split up after recording one album.
Mr. Adams then teamed up with Caitlin Canty to form the duo Down Like Silver. They broke up after one album.
I think I'm detecting a pattern here, Peter...
Hah! May the best man win. ; )
Not to take away from RP, but this short (3-song) performance and interview is quite good, IMO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSAEJKXb18s
(Still waiting to hear back on my marriage proposal.)
Get in line, Beach. I was there first!
Caitlin Canty - I Never
(Still waiting to hear back on my marriage proposal.)
Indeed!
It's at least an '8', eh Beach?
She wanted this song played at her memorial when she died. The family overruled the song not ready to let go.
I still have a hard time forgiving her for giving up. I miss her.
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light" —Dylan Thomas.
My Condolences.
I'll second that. Eternal heaven or hell sound equally as bad, in their different ways.
On a Friday afternoon aside, the SF author Philip José Farmer wrote a series of books under the title "Riverworld" which posited a rather different, and very human, type of afterlife.
Hell, as Sartre memorably said, is other people. Or, in a digital world, where we might eventually be uploadable/copiable to a machine substrate, it could be computer systems. The penultimate Iain M Banks SF novel, before he died tragically early, was "Surface detail", which had the most graphic description of eternal torture inflicted on digital beings - it made Hieronymous Bosch seem like Laurie Lee.
She wanted this song played at her memorial when she died. The family overruled the song not ready to let go.
I still have a hard time forgiving her for giving up. I miss her.
Thanks for posting this - moving. This is one of the songs I'd like played at my funeral (then some happy songs at my wake), particularly if (as I wish) I'm put into a cardboard degradable box and allowed to re-release my nutrients to the earth that produced me. A tree on top would be nice :)
There's an atmospheric video to go with this song.
She wanted this song played at her memorial when she died. The family overruled the song not ready to let go.
I still have a hard time forgiving her for giving up. I miss her.
Nerubo wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling
A life-stopper.
Duc1098 wrote:
Yes, hearing this for the first time today. Had to stop what I was doing to identify it and comment. To call it "haunting" seems trite, but my mind refuses to offer up any synonyms.
Or, for a less extreme option, there's the PSD button. Unless your system doesn't support it, in which case your only option is death. Ah well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuttling
Having read the lyrics I am bumping my rating from a 4 to a 7.
I'd kill to hear this live in my local watering hole on a quiet, rainy night. 9.
They play it all the time there
I like the tune, but that is really funny.
Or, for a less extreme option, there's the PSD button. Unless your system doesn't support it, in which case your only option is death. Ah well.
They play it all the time there
Upon first listen, very nice. 8
As is the comment. Why is "derivative" an insult? If it's a neutral adjective, then it's the bleedin' obvious, as after thousands of years of human music making there is nothing that is original, so all music is derivative of something.
If you don't like a song, just say so. Trying to use a poncey adjective to justify the dislike is just silly. One listener's godlike is another's sucko-barfo, usually for no explicable or rational reason, and long may that state continue.
Wow, I wish there was a +1 button on RP, as I think this is the best comment I've ever seen. Amazing.
As is the comment. Why is "derivative" an insult? If it's a neutral adjective, then it's the bleedin' obvious, as after thousands of years of human music making there is nothing that is original, so all music is derivative of something.
If you don't like a song, just say so. Trying to use a poncey adjective to justify the dislike is just silly. One listener's godlike is another's sucko-barfo, usually for no explicable or rational reason, and long may that state continue.
I'd kill to hear this live in my local watering hole on a quiet, rainy night. 9.
When I die, let me go.
When I die, let the wolves enjoy my bones.
When I die, let me go.
When I die, you can push me out to sea.
When I die, set me free.
When I die, let the sharks come round to feed.
When I die, set me free.
Oh the world is dark, and I’ve looked as far as I can see.
When the years have torn me apart, let me be.
When I die, let the flames devour me.
When I die, set me free.
When I die, throw my ashes to the breeze.
When I die, scuttle (?) me.
Whole world is dark, and I’ve looked as far as I can see.
When the years have torn me apart
Let me be, let me be, let me be, let me be
Daylight is waiting for you. Daylight is waiting for you…..
By my sign here,
philbertr
Ah - Coccyx - you're back !
VERY-VERY-VERY WONDERFUL
I propose that RP have a week where an alternate, rarely played song from each album is played, kind of like the "flipside" week ...
Um, that is every week here. Keep listening.
That's a perfect description.
I propose that RP have a week where an alternate, rarely played song from each album is played, kind of like the "flipside" week ...
To me happens the same... it makes me think "When I die"
Female singer is Caitlin Canty and her music is also worth checking out. (Unfortunately my uploads of some of her tracks were rejected. Maybe someone else has better luck.)
Returning our nutrients to nature seems like the least we can do after having extracting so many of them for so many years, besides there are very few things I can imagine worse than being stuck in a graveyard. Please, please, set me free...........
fredriley wrote:
Probably, but wtf, at least it returns your nutrients to nature. No coyotes and bears over here, I'm afraid, so for me, stick me in the ground and plant a tree on top of me. After I'm dead, mind, and any useful organs have been harvested... ;-)
midreaming wrote:
Probably, but wtf, at least it returns your nutrients to nature. No coyotes and bears over here, I'm afraid, so for me, bury me in the woods and plant a tree on top of me. After I'm dead, mind, and any useful organs have been harvested... ;-)
Bit morbid but not bad.. Like to hear a few more from the CD.. Looks like all the pieces are their instrument wise. Bill? Care to share anything else from them?
Edit: no pun intended. Just a very morbid and bleak song. Don't like.
My mom died a year ago at 59, She gave up on life by slowly poisoning herself with opiates and barbituates and nicotine, knowing what she was doing. She just didn't wake up one day.
She wanted this song played at her memorial when she died. The family overruled the song not ready to let go.
I still have a hard time forgiving her for giving up. I miss her.
You really did not honour your late mother's request? And this comment is all thumbs up?