What's that coming over the hill, is it a monster? / The perils of drink.
Just under a year ago we had a funeral for my wife's cousin.

He was 29

Drink killed him, far too much of it for a long time.

The song we played as we went into the crem was the one in the title of this post, as this is what he used to sing to his kid sister, but replacing monster with her name.

Watching his mum and sister break down as the opening bars played out was one of the most horrible moments of my life, and one that I never want to be repeated. Everyone, even his well 'ard mates were sobbing.

Every time I hear that song it takes me back to that funeral, and I suppose that is the kind of emotion you want to convey in a mix tape.

No it's not on topic, but I don't care, I wanted to share.
( ogwen69 has returned from Reddit, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 10:55, 6 replies)

Aw...
That's the first proper cd my 7 year old nephew got. He loves that song.

Thanks for sharing.
( girlinthehole, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 11:34, closed)

I had a similar experience
a friend of mine, Jon, passed away some time ago.

Misadventure really, he was drunk, had a badly broken arm from a previous accident and decided to climb over the back fence of his house rather than walk around...

He and I used to listen to War of the Worlds quite a bit, and one of the songs played at his funeral was Forever Autumn by Justin Hayward from said musical.

Moved me to tears then and on several occasions since.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 11:45, closed)

On the subject of funeral songs...
The ex-mother in law succumbed to nasty secondary breast cancer a few years back. Once she knew that there wasn't any chance of recovery, she told us that she didn't want a miserable funeral, and wanted people to laugh and remember the person she was. And she desparately wanted something appropriate musically as her coffin was sliding into the furnace. After much discussion on this subject, we all agreed that there was only one choice (I did think she was going to expire there and then from laughing so hard).

And so, when the day came, and she slid towards the flames in her wooden box, she was accompanied by her favourite artist, Elvis, singing 'Return to Sender'...

Bless her and rest in peace. Lovely woman.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Mon 11 Feb 2008, 12:29, closed)

My cousin
commited suicide 4 years ago when he was only 20. 10 minutes before the funeral, "leave right now" by Will young came on the radio and now that horrible gobshite reminds me of my cousin. Also, I was one of the cord bearers, I helped lower his coffin into his grave. I got back into the car after, barely holding myself together, and Busted's "sleeping with the light on" came on...... "slippin' through my fingers..." I still think that was him, that was just his sense of humour.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 16:25, closed)

Even worse when it's self inflicted
feels so much more of a waste.
( Dabooka_ has changed his name on, Mon 11 Feb 2008, 23:58, closed)

What was the sister's name?
I'm assuming "Amanda", but if it was Jill, that'd be pretty weird.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Wed 13 Feb 2008, 0:06, closed)