Everyone's last tune

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell

"This song belongs to a version of my life I think about often."

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell

"It's the song that makes sense of everything else."

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

"This is how I'd want to be summed up, if it came to that."

Lua

Bright Eyes

"It's the song that plays in my head on good days and bad ones."

Let Her Go

Passenger

"We walked down the aisle to this song."

The Night We Met

Lord Huron

"It's the song I'd want as my final word, in a way."

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

Skinny Love

Bon Iver

"This song sat with me through the darkest stretch of my life."

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

"It's the sound of Sunday mornings in our house."

Holocene

Bon Iver

"It's the song I turn to when I need to feel less alone."

Let Her Go

Passenger

"I'd rather be remembered through this than through a eulogy."

Skinny Love

Bon Iver

The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel

Death With Dignity

Sufjan Stevens

"I want people to feel the ache in this, because it's real."

Death With Dignity

Sufjan Stevens

"I've never once skipped this song. Not once."

Naked as We Came

Iron & Wine

"This song sat with me through the darkest stretch of my life."

Skinny Love

Bon Iver

"I want this to be the last thing people hear me 'say'."

Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Iron & Wine

"This is the song that finally let me cry when I needed to."

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

"It's the song I sing in the car when no one's watching."