Everyone's last tune

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell

John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

Sufjan Stevens

"I used to play this on repeat during the hardest year of my life. It helped."

Holocene

Bon Iver

"It's melancholy, but it's mine, and I want it heard."

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

"It's not complicated. It's just right."

John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

Sufjan Stevens

"It's my way of having the last word."

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

"It's the last thing I want ringing in people's ears."

Lua

Bright Eyes

"It's tied to a place I haven't been back to in years, but never forgot."

Lua

Bright Eyes

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell

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

Naked as We Came

Iron & Wine

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

Holocene

Bon Iver

"I used to play this on repeat during the hardest year of my life. It helped."

Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Iron & Wine

"This song helped me through grief I didn't think I'd survive."

Skinny Love

Bon Iver

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

Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Iron & Wine

"This is the sound of everything I felt and couldn't explain."

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

"It's the song that taught me grief and love are the same thing, really."

Lua

Bright Eyes

"Simple. Beautiful. True."

First Day of My Life

Bright Eyes

Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Iron & Wine

"It still gives me butterflies, even now."

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

Holocene

Bon Iver