Our Beautiful Funeral Music Series: Sheltering Sky

Ryuichi Sakamoto's music for the film speaks volumes on the vast desert landscape of life and death

The film, Sheltering Sky evokes the most exotic and memorable moments of life through a musical score perfectly suited as beautiful funeral music. We provide a brief narration from the film to accompany the main musical score:

The best Funeral Songs sheltering sky

Narrator: Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.

  • Hear a Hymn “God Will” by Johnny Cash.
  • Read the Lyrics of James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain.”
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Our Beautiful Funeral Music Series: Sheltering Sky

  1. Sorry the video dropped out. I loved this film and the score. I hope you are moved by it as much as I am.

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  2. avatar family says:

    Very good information. Lucky me I ran across your blog
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