If you haven’t heard, the world is ending on Saturday… at least according to some senile 80+ year old preacher. Just in case the rapture does happen this weekend, you certainly don’t want to be unprepared. Below is my perfect playlist for the end of the world. If I’ve missed any songs, let me know.
1. Everclear — Santa Monica
Lyric: We can live beside the ocean, Leave the fire behind, Swim out past the breakers, Watch the world die
2. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers — Free Fallin’
Lyric: I wanna free fall out into nothin’, Gonna leave this world for awhile
3. Soundgarden — Black Hole Sun
Lyric: Hang my head, drown my fear, Till you all just disappear, Black hole sun, Won’t you come, And wash away the rain
4. The Rolling Stone — Sympathy for the Devil
Lyric: So if you meet me, Have some courtesy, Have some sympathy, have some taste, Use all your well-learned politesse, Or I’ll lay your soul to waste
5. REM –It’s the End of the World
Lyric: Save yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and the revered and the right – right.
6. The Smashing Pumpkins — The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
Lyric: Relive the pictures that have come to pass, For now we stand alone, The world is lost and blown, And we are flesh and blood disintegrate, With no more to hate
7. AC/DC — Highway to Hell
Lyric: Don’t need reason, don’t need rhyme, Ain’t nothing I would rather do, Going down, by the time, My friends are gonna be there too, I’m on a highway to hell
8. Oasis — Live Forever
Lyric: Maybe I just wanna fly, Wanna live, I don’t wanna die, Maybe I just wanna breathe, Maybe I just don’t believe
9. Foo Fighters — DOA
Lyric: It’s a shame we have to die my dear, No ones getting out of here, alive, This time
10. Don McLean — American Pie
Lyric: No angel born in hell, Could break that Satan’s spell, And as the flames climbed high into the night, To light the sacrificial rite, I saw Satan laughing with delight, The day the music died
