How about Bob Marley, Peter Tosh or Gregory Isaacs?
And then there is Warren Zevon’s “Keep me in your heart for a while”. Always brings me to tears.
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Duran Duran’s The Universe Alone
I am not religious - I have a scientific background and firmly believe in the stark beauty of reality - but this song speaks to me, to the extent that I want it played at my funeral.
The lyrics are below:
It’s beautiful, the dying sun
The end of everything and everyone
So shall we make a plan my friend
As if we have the chance to live it all again
I’ll see you in some other lifetime
On the other side of what we’ll never know
Together we have walked a fine line
Now we go to face the universe alone
In plain view, the mistakes we’ve made
But is there anything you’d really want to change
To win and lose then win again
To have it all then throw it all away
I’ll see you in some other lifetime
On the other side of what we’ll never know
Together we have walked a fine line
Now we go to face the universe alone
How beautiful the closing down
The fading out, it spins and goes around
With darkness and the heart of man
And here we are back where it all began
I’ll see you in some other lifetime
The universe alone
The universe alone
The universe alone
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Ah, death - the final frontier! Good that you posted first, @sunDOG !
Being an enlightened solipsist, I also do not believe in religious stuff…
I want this one:
Love, love, love
Love, love, love
Me and my friend were walking in the cold light of morning
Tears may blind the eyes but the soul is not deceived
In this world even winter ain’t what it seems
Here come the blue skies, here comes springtime
When the rivers run high and the tears run dry
When everything that dies shall rise
Love, love, love is stronger than death
Love, love, love is stronger than death
In our lives we hunger for those we cannot touch
All the thoughts unuttered and all the feelings unexpressed
Play upon our hearts like the mist upon our breath
But, awoken by grief, our spirits speak:
“How could you believe that the life within the seed
That grew arms that reached and a heart that beat
And lips that smiled, and eyes that cried
Could ever die?”
Here come the blue skies, here comes springtime
When the rivers run high and the tears run dry
When everything that dies shall rise
Love, love, love is stronger than death
Love, love, love; it is stronger than death
Love, love, love is stronger than death
Love, love, love is stronger than death
Shall rise, shall rise
Shall rise, shall rise
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The alternative would be:
But a) it reminds everybody of my red-headed best friend that died unfortunately much too young (and this song describes everything she was) and b) my friends would not expect anything sentimental from me…
But the lyrics describe a worthy way of remembering, saying goodbye and coping…
We are moments in the flow
Here to witness the seeds we sow
Then to fade into the beautiful unknown
Never to forget
Never completely alone
There’s a feeling in the ether
But I am none the wiser
There’s a feeling in the air
Move on into everlasting joy
Like the times we felt
Dancing in the sun
It never makes sense to say goodbye
So I’ll just close my eyes
I’ll see you
In the colour orange
Hear you in the laughter of a chile
The wind seems cruel sometimes
And some trees can’t take the strain
But life goes on
They fall down and grow again
There’s a feeling in the ether
But I am none the wiser
There’s a feeling in the air
Move on into everlasting joy
I’ll see you dancing in the sun
It never makes to say goodbye
So I’ll just close my eyes
And count to one
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I am stunned that this one isn’t here yet:
Time-Pink Floyd
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Or even “worse”:
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Another Brick was mentioned by the OP I think.
I think Time is pretty relevant tough, it really captures how most of us live, thinking that there is always more time to do things especially when we are young, waiting for the right time to start doing things and suddenly we are old.
It is also has a really great bass line 
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Yeah, almost every Pink Floyd track has a great bass line - “boooooooooooiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnnnnng!”
Love it!
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I think you are being serious but I am not sure.
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I’m really serious!
Always loved Pink Floyd, and now that I’m learning bass, I love them even more!
“Another brick in the wall” has this boing moment at the very beginning.
When I play that, I always get this YEAH feeling.
You know what I mean?
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Never liked Pink Floyd…
I went to see Roger Waters about 4 months ago, what a pretentious, obnoxious man he is!
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WTF? Really?
But you’re right about Waters.
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Really. I’ve always thought Pink Floyd were tedious…
It’s back to all my friends at school were into them and rock, while I was into Duran2, Gary Numan, Tears for Fears, ABC, Heaven 17 
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Even “shine on you crazy diamond” ?
What about the BOING in “Another brick in the wall”?
It’s THE archetypical single bass note!!
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Gosh, no. And I won’t be having a go at Money, either!
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Man, I haven’t felt this way since my girlfriend told me that “The big lebowski” is totally overrated.
Dude!!??
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I mean that’s just, like, her opinion man. 
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No worries,
Personally I am a big Floyd fan, and i find a lot in the music with every listen.
I am also used to hearing Roger Waters detractor, either in regard to his bass playing or his politics and usually people can’t separate the two.
In regard to his politics, he is entitled to his own opinion and I really don’t pay attention so don’t get involved in those discussions.
In regard to his playing he obviously holds in own in early Floyd recordings despite what Gilmour says later on after the split (where Waters later admitted he acted like a dick).
I like Pink Floyd as Pink Floyd regardless of who is playing fretless on Hey You.
Pink Floyd is driven by the drums and bass, enhanced by the keys, decorated by the guitar and defined by the lyrics.
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same, I tried and tried but just not dark enough.
Exactly the word I have used. To me they are like the soundtrack to trying to power through a day while on muscle relaxants.
I totally get why people like them though - and this is just my opinion. It’s just that the space they fill for people is filled for me by much darker and heavier bands.
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Ahh but Pink Floyd is dark in an existential, non-Euclidian Lovecraft kind of way. At least with Waters’ lyrics.
Shit happens and the Universe doesn’t care.
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