I need a song for a tribute.

[Fuzzy LaRue]

A young kid, 21 year old Marine Shane Feldon was killed in Iraq. I knew this kid. I used to do his oil changes and would detail his car. He took my daughter out a couple of times.

His brother gave me a couple of memory card with photos of Shane on them. He wants me to put together a tribute video.

I need a song. Somehow, my mind is not helping me on this one.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. How about "We're Not Gonna Take It"

My sincere condolences on the loss of your acquaintance.

[Zomby Woof]

2. I am sorry about this news

No song idea immediately comes to mind, but felt you should know we all will be here for support in one way or the other.

[bo44]

3. Have I told you lately that I love you by Van Morrison

[da_chimperor]

4. You have my condolences

is there a specific genre of music you're looking for? Perhaps an artist that he listen to? Anyone come to mind?

[Syrinx]

5. "Imagine" is a very beautiful song

I'm not sure it would fit your plans though.

Sorry about your friend.

[SeekingTruth]

6. Stranger by David Baerwald...

This song is wonderful......off the Bedtime Stories cd...it's about Vietnam....

My heart goes out to you and his family...

Stranger (Baerwald)

brother at this moment
you ain't feeling any pain
and you're staring out the window
and it looks like rain
and you're a veteran and you know
about monkeys on the brain
you watched every dream you've had
lie broken in the drain
three hundred thousand men
all different all the same
three hundred thousand men
all different all the same
piled up like driftwood
in a pouring rain

hey stranger
ain't there nothing I can say
can you think of any way
that you can make it through the day
hey stranger
ain't there nothing I can do
you lost it all for me
there must be something I can do for you

a quarter of the country
is one paycheck from the street
a tenth of the country
has never had enough to eat
and one one hundredth of the country
is strangling all the rest
and every policeman on the street
is wearing a bulletproof vest
three hundred thousand men
all different all the same
three hundred thousand men
all different all the same
piled up like driftwood
in a pouring rain

hey stranger
ain't there nothing I can say
can you think of any way
that you can make it through the day
hey stranger
ain't there nothing I can do
you lost it all for me
there must be something I can do for you

© 1990 Zen of Iniquity Publishing

[mark414]

7. turn turn turn

by the byrds

"i will remember you" by sarah maclachlan
"in my life" by the beatles
"beautiful boy" john lennon


and i am truly sorry for your loss

[The Traveler]

8. "Brothers in Arms"

Dire Straits. Its about soldiers and guerrillas. It is an anti-war song.

[jdj]

17. that one is beautiful.

thanks for reminding me.

mark knopler has a new CD coming out.

[MI Cherie]

9. Does someone know his favorite song?

Perhaps bits & pieces of several different songs?

Sincere condolences.

[Fuzzy LaRue]

10. Not to hijack my own thread but,

my daughter is home again after getting wounded and blinded in her left eye in Iraq.

A couple of days ago I was watching a Bush speech on CNN and she walked in wearing her Ipod and singing Pink's song, "Just like a Pill." When she walked into the room she was right at the part where the chorus goes, "You're just like a pill. Instead of making me better, you're making me ill. You're making me ill." Whe she sang "you're making me ill" she pointed at Bush on the TV. I guess you had to be there.

[jdj]

14. Bless your heart.

I am so glad she is home safe. It makes me so angry that she had her sight taken from her in one eye. Be sure and tell her thank you for her service to this country, and our thoughts and prayers are with you.

[SeekingTruth]

15. wow......

have three daughters myself...all my best wishes and thanks to your family....your daughter is a queen....

[JohnKleeb]

16. oh man I am so sorry about everything

It's just no fair, I really am sorry about your daughter and her friend. I hadn't personally known the feeling until I found out the other night that my best friend from when I was a kid had enlisted. As for the song, I'd like Amazing Grace preferably on bagpipes, because it just communciates the sense of loss so well.

[jdj]

18. yes, we played that at my grandmother's funeral

no words are necessary with that one.

[JohnKleeb]

22. I prefer it instrumental honestly

Adagio for Strings is another great song like that, they played on 60 mins for all the soldiers who died, I was nearly in tears. Amazing Grace is also good because it shows and no offense to anyone here but it shows that you are in heaven and have found peace. Another nice song I guess would be Marley's Redemption Song, though I prefer instrumentals for tributes.

[jdj]

26. Redemption Song is beautiful.

Wow.

I haven't heard that in a long time.

Looks time it's time to go light some incense and kick back to some reggae.

[PittLib]

25. Good lord ... we want them to see the photos with the music ...

if you play that, everyone will blind with tears. Nothing makes me cry faster than that. In all seriousness, excellent recommendation. :cry:

[JohnKleeb]

27. Well I thought of the symbolic purpose

Amazing Grace always has meant to me loss but release from suffering and passage in to the heavens.

[jdj]

11. I am so very, very sorry.

"Joe Hill" by Joan Baez is one that comes to mind, although that may cut too close.

How about "Travelin' Soldier" by the Dixie Chicks? That is a beautiful song.

Also "Blowin in the Wind" by Bob Dylan.

Just about anything by Neil Young.

I am so sorry for your loss, I am sure the repukes have calculated in the 6 degrees of separation into their war plan, or how long they can fight this illegal war before everyone knows someone who has passed in it.

[Lancer]

12. This one will sound very odd,

but "Your Funny Uncle" is a beautiful song by the Pet Shop Boys about losing a young friend too soon. It also has subtle military overtones. A lovely, elegiac work. Quite unfamiliar to most people.

Just my two cents.

[CornField]

23. "The Dance" by Garth Brooks

I'm glad I didn't know
The way it all would end
The way it all would go
Our life is better left to chance
I could've missed the pain
But then I'd have to miss the dance.

[Fuzzy LaRue]

24. This song...

has always gotten to me. Always.

[politicat]

13. An acoustic version of Green Day's Good Riddance.

Another turning point
A fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist
Directs you where to go
So make the best of this test
And don’t ask why
It’s not a question
But a lesson learned in time
It’s something unpredictable
But in the end is right
I hope you had the time of your life

So take the photographs
And still frames in your mind
Hang it on a shelf of
Good health and good time
Tattoos of memories
And dead skin on trial
For what it’s worth
It was worth all the while
It’s something unpredictable
But in the end is right
I hope you had the time of your life

It’s something unpredictable
But in the end is right
I hope you had the time of your life

It’s something unpredictable
But in the end is right
I hope you had the time of your life

[Fuzzy LaRue]

19. The kid liked bagpipes and...

there are going to be bagpipes at the funeral sunday. I can't hear bagpipes at a funeral because I start wailing like a baby. There is nothing so mournful as bagpipes at a military funeral.

Can a song be captured off of a flash file and converted to an mp3?
"I can't cry hard enough" is a song on a 9-11 tribute site. I am going to try several. The kid deserves my best effort.

[Bossy Monkey]

29. Capturing mp3s from flash animations: Yes

This is brand-spanking new, so there are few reviews, but it's supposed to do what you're asking for:
http://www.download.com/Zealot-SWF2Video-Studio/3000-2194-10320369.html?tag=lst-6-12
Free to try for a week.

[Mojambo]

20. When I'm Gone by Phil Ochs

Trust me. Find this song and listen to it.

There's no place in this world where I'll belong when I'm gone
And I won't know the right from the wrong when I'm gone
And you won't find me singin' on this song when I'm gone
So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here

And I won't feel the flowing of the time when I'm gone
All the pleasures of love will not be mine when I'm gone
My pen won't pour out a lyric line when I'm gone
So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here

And I won't breathe the bracing air when I'm gone
And I can't even worry 'bout my cares when I'm gone
Won't be asked to do my share when I'm gone
So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here

And I won't be running from the rain when I'm gone
And I can't even suffer from the pain when I'm gone
Can't say who's to praise and who's to blame when I'm gone
So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here

Won't see the golden of the sun when I'm gone
And the evenings and the mornings will be one when I'm gone
Can't be singing louder than the guns when I'm gone
So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here

All my days won't be dances of delight when I'm gone
And the sands will be shifting from my sight when I'm gone
Can't add my name into the fight while I'm gone
So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here

And I won't be laughing at the lies when I'm gone
And I can't question how or when or why when I'm gone
Can't live proud enough to die when I'm gone
So I guess I'll have to do it while I'm here

Edited to provide lyrics

[tech3149]

21. Truly Sorry to hear this

It shouldn't have to be.
As far as music, if you know Nickle Creek two choices come to mind. The Lighthouse's Tale or When You Come Back Down.

God Speed

[Bossy Monkey]

28. All condolences on the loss of your friend and of your daughter's eye

For a song, consider the second verse of "Broken Arrow" by Buffalo Springfield:

Eighteen years of American dream,
He saw that his brother had sworn on the wall.
He hung up his eyelids and ran down the hall,
His mother had told him a trip was a fall,
And don't mention babies at all.
Did you see him, did you see him?
Did you see him in the river?
He was there to wave to you.
Could you tell that the empty quivered,
Brown skinned Indian on the banks
That were crowded and narrow,
Held a broken arrow?


Eighteen years of American dream indeed.