Everyone's last tune

Here Comes the Sun

The Beatles

"It's the kind of song that makes you glad to have been here."

Mad World

Gary Jules

"If you know this song, you know me."

Grace

Jeff Buckley

"I want people to know I left on my own terms."

Streets of Philadelphia

Bruce Springsteen

This Is the Day

The The

Africa

Toto

"I want whoever's there to know this was a deliberate choice, and it mattered."

Respect

Aretha Franklin

Both Sides Now

Joni Mitchell

"This song gets it. Gets me."

Naked as We Came

Iron & Wine

Such Great Heights

The Postal Service

"I want whoever's there to know this was a deliberate choice, and it mattered."

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

"It's the song I'd choose if I could only ever choose one."

Cemeteries of London

Coldplay

Wonderwall

Oasis

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

Naked as We Came

Iron & Wine

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

Death With Dignity

Sufjan Stevens

Let Her Go

Passenger

"I've played this more than any other song, and that says everything."

Blackbird

The Beatles

"This song is, weirdly, the most 'me' thing I own."

Sweet Child O' Mine

Guns N' Roses

Take On Me

a-ha

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

The Night Will Always Win

Manchester Orchestra