Everyone's last tune

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

"I want people to sit with this, even if it's uncomfortable."

Mad World

Gary Jules

The Night Will Always Win

Manchester Orchestra

"Because life is long and complicated and this song gets it."

Black Hole Sun

Soundgarden

Numb

Linkin Park

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

Don't Stop Me Now

Queen

Baby Can I Hold You

Tracy Chapman

"We chose this for our wedding because it said everything we couldn't."

John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

Sufjan Stevens

Skinny Love

Bon Iver

"There's a line in this song that always gets me."

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

Glycerine

Bush

"The artist wrote this when they were broken. So was I when I found it."

Cemeteries of London

Coldplay

"It just feels true, every single time."

Black

Pearl Jam

"I want people to feel the energy of this in their bones."

Hotel California

Eagles

"This song understands something about endings that I never could put into words."

Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Iron & Wine

Blackbird

The Beatles

Holocene

Bon Iver

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

Africa

Toto

"Some things don't need explaining. This is one of them."

Running Up That Hill

Kate Bush

Cemeteries of London

Coldplay