41 Touching Songs For A Funeral Slideshow

“Your Song” by Elton John

Song Year: 2009

“Your Song” is personable and gentle in its way of loving. It’s an ode to our loved ones as we watch their life in pictures.

The lyrics state how beautiful life can be when you have someone so special by your side, and even though we say goodbye, we were lucky to have them for as long as we did.

“marjorie” by Taylor Swift

Song Year: 2020

Taylor Swift wrote “marjorie” about her grandmother, who passed away when Swift was thirteen. It’s a beautiful song about life and death and how although our loved ones move on, they linger in our heads and our hearts.

Viewing a slideshow with the idea of our loved ones always being with us is a bittersweet feeling, one we can sit in and look back on.

“Never Enough” by Loren Allred

Song Year: 2017

“Never Enough” was used in the movie, The Greatest Showman. It’s a song about how even the most beautiful, expensive items in life will never compare to love and happiness.

As a funeral slideshow song, it can be a tribute to our loved ones where we accept life will never be the same and a world without them will never be enough.

“Sweet Creature” by Harry Styles

Song Year: 2017

“Sweet Creature” refers to our loved ones or significant others and how important they are to us. We find every part of them beautiful, and Harry Styles’s voice soothes our pain with a gentle melody.

For a funeral slideshow, this makes a beautiful song because it highlights our loved one’s personalities and how amazing they were to us. They pull us back to earth and act as a home for us, even after they’ve passed.

“There You’ll Be” by Faith Hill

Song Year: 2001

“There You’ll Be” is a funeral classic. It’s a song about being grateful for the life we shared with our loved ones, and although they have passed away, we keep them alive by keeping them with us. They were someone who was always there for us, and we can take solace in knowing that, in the end, we were there for them.

“Rivers and Roads” by The Head and The Heart

Song Year: 2010

The Head and The Heart create a touching farewell in “Rivers and Roads,” but it does not signify the end. The beauty of the song is the promise of reuniting somewhere down the line. It will be a long and difficult path until we reach our loved ones again, but it will happen.

“Repeat Until Death” by Novo Amor

Song Year: 2018

Novo Amor pairs sorrowful instrumentals and touching lyrics in his song “Repeat Until Death.” The song’s message is that our loved one is a part of us, and losing them is losing half of ourselves.

It’s heartbreaking and not for everyone, but alongside a funeral slideshow, this song gives the message of how important our loved one was and how we will never be the same.

“cardigan” by Taylor Swift

Song Year: 2020

“Cardigan” is lovely in its lyrics, Taylor Swift’s voice is stunning, and the overall message makes for an amazing funeral slideshow song. With the theme of young love, loss, and all the details that make someone themselves, this song perfectly describes what it means to love someone. 

Feeling the pain for a significant other whose passed is genuine and raw, the same way loving them was. We know they’ll be with us the rest of our lives, and we know they’ll come back to us in the end.

“How Long Will I Love You” by Ellie Goulding

Song Year: 2013

“How Long Will I Love You” is a love song, but with its sorrowful quality, it can be about loving someone even when they’re gone. Death doesn’t stop love; it just makes it painful. Ellie Goulding states in her song that she will love them as long as she possibly can.

That’s all we can ever really promise in the end.

“Valentine” by Jim Brickman, Martina McBride

Song Year: 1997

“Valentine” is a stunning Martina McBride song about love. Funerals all come down to a similar notion of love, and how much someone who has passed was loved in their lives and will continue to be loved in their death.