Everyone's last tune

Yesterday

The Beatles

"I want people to leave humming this, not crying."

Amsterdam

Coldplay

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

Mad World

Gary Jules

Fake Plastic Trees

Radiohead

Waterloo Sunset

The Kinks

"It's heavy, but it's honest, and I want honesty."

With or Without You

U2

"This is the song I'd want playing when I arrive, wherever that is."

Creep

Radiohead

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

Naked as We Came

Iron & Wine

Always Look on the Bright Side of Life

Monty Python

"It's imperfect and messy and that's the point."

Landslide

Fleetwood Mac

One More Light

Linkin Park

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

Amsterdam

Coldplay

"The lyrics say everything I've never been able to."

Losing My Religion

R.E.M.

Someone Like You

Adele

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

Waterloo Sunset

The Kinks

Both Sides Now

Joni Mitchell

Respect

Aretha Franklin

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

"I want this to be the thing people associate with me, long after."

My Way

Frank Sinatra

"I want people to feel something, not just sit there."