Everyone's last tune

Re: Stacks

Bon Iver

"I want the room to go quiet and then feel something real."

Respect

Aretha Franklin

"This song says more about who I was than I ever could."

One More Light

Linkin Park

Mad World

Gary Jules

"It's the song that makes sense of everything else."

Don't Look Back in Anger

Oasis

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

Superstition

Stevie Wonder

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

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

"It still gives me butterflies, even now."

The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel

Such Great Heights

The Postal Service

Baby Can I Hold You

Tracy Chapman

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

Yesterday

The Beatles

Waterloo Sunset

The Kinks

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

I Will Always Love You

Whitney Houston

Fake Plastic Trees

Radiohead

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

Teardrop

Massive Attack

Running Up That Hill

Kate Bush

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

Chasing Cars

Snow Patrol

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

Stand by Me

Ben E. King

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

Baby Can I Hold You

Tracy Chapman