A song want played at my funeral
Sigh No More by Mumford & Sons. From the album Sigh no More.
Yes people, Mumford & Sons did release more than just Little Lion Man and The Cave. In fact the whole Sigh no More album is noteworthy. The reason I like it so much is one of the chief reasons that I would want this song played at my funeral that is that it is so raw, emotive and true reflection of life.
This whole album has so many christian metaphors and and biblical references that you could almost call them a Christian band. But they aren’t. To me, it seems that this album illustrates the writers acknowledgement of God and the imperfections of man while at the same time expressing doubt, conflict and anger at God.
Anyway, I literally searched my music collection for four hours before coming to the conclusion that this was my funeral song. Its just so hard. I kept changing my mind as to what kind of song I wanted – happy, sad, reflective, redemptive or plain stupid. Other considerations were I’m Too Sexy because its funny, Human because Its sounds like a ‘goodbye’ song and The Past and the Pending but I’ve already used that for day 10 (plus I didn’t want peeps to think I was copying Heath Ledger).
Anyway, I ended up choosing this song because it is illustrative of the imperfection of man and how love is what gives man so much potential. Now I think love in this case is meant to be interpreted in the context of God and forgiveness.
The first stanza speaks of serving and loving God and this life not being the end. The second, third and fourth stanzas tell you not to be sad because even though the departed were not ‘pure’ there is something about man that redeems him. This redeeming quality is love, and love in the context of the first stanza is love as it was made to be and what purer for of love is there than Gods love? I mean man does have the capacity to love but in every circumstance it is tainted, it is conditional – you can always do something to destroy love. But with God there is perfect, unconditional love. The singer here is talking about how such godly love unlocks the true potential of man, and that that love is what saves man.
So when I die I want people to know that even though I wasn’t pure, I died being redeemed through Gods love and my faith in him. And that is a comforting thought.
August 16, 2011 at 3:31 am |
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