Everyone's last tune

Blackbird

The Beatles

"My mum used to hum this in the kitchen. It's the sound of home."

Losing My Religion

R.E.M.

I Will Always Love You

Whitney Houston

Naked as We Came

Iron & Wine

Losing My Religion

R.E.M.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Queen

"It's the song I'd want carved into the memory of the day."

The Night Will Always Win

Manchester Orchestra

Exit Music (For a Film)

Radiohead

"It's not an easy listen, but it's the truest one I've got."

Streets of Philadelphia

Bruce Springsteen

"I want people to really listen to the words this time."

Streets of Philadelphia

Bruce Springsteen

"I want this to be the last good thing people hear."

The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel

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

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

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

I Will Follow You into the Dark

Death Cab for Cutie

"This is the song that makes loss feel less like an ending."

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

Take On Me

a-ha

"It's the smell of my childhood home, somehow, in song form."

Hallelujah

Jeff Buckley

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

"I've loved this since the first time I heard it, and that hasn't changed."

Good Vibrations

The Beach Boys

Cemeteries of London

Coldplay

The Night We Met

Lord Huron

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