A memorial is an object which serves as a focus for memory of something, usually a person (who has died) or an event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or art objects such as sculptures, statues or fountains, and even entire parks.
The most common type of memorial is the gravestone or the memorial plaque. Also common are war memorials commemorating those who have died in wars. Memorials in the form of a cross are called intending crosses.
Online Memorials and tributes are becoming increasingly popular especially with the increase in natural burial where the laying of gravestones, or memorial plaques, is often not permitted. Online tributes and memorials create a way for family and friends from various countries to interact and share memories and photographs. This is becoming more and more popular as it provides a private space that can be easily reflected upon at any time.
When somebody has died, the family may request that a memorial gift (usually money) be given to a designated charity, or that a tree be planted in memory of the person.
Paul William Walker IV (born September 12, 1973) is an American actor with Albanian ancestry. He became well known in 1999 after his role in the hit film Varsity Blues. He is also known for starring in the surprise summer hit The Fast and the Furious. His other films include Joy Ride, Running Scared, Into the Blue and Eight Below. The films he has starred in have grossed more than $1.7 billion. He also appears in the National Geographic Channel series Expedition Great White..
Walker was born in Glendale, California and raised in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles County, the son of Cheryl, a fashion model, and Paul Walker III, a sewer contractor. His paternal grandfather was a professional boxer. He is the oldest of five, having two brothers and two sisters. Walker was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormon, church. He attended and graduated from Village Christian School. After high school, he attended several community colleges where he majored in marine biology.
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Is it ever too late for a second chance? Dante, a middle-aged man, believes he has lost everything: Estranged from his family for twenty years, he loses his job and finds out that his wife is dead. He goes to her wake and sees his two children Raffy and Kristine again. While Dante is eager to make amends with them, Raffy does not want him back into his life. When an accident forces Raffy to take Dante into his house, Dante learns how his own failure as a father has made an impact on how his son acts as the head of his family. In his effort to make things right between himself and Raffy, Dante develops a bond with Raffy's wife Gayle and his grandkids, Jake and Tinka. Dante also rediscovers his love for music that Raffy's son is also passionate about. With his growing relationship with Raffy's family, Dante begins to glimpse some hope for a second chance. For how long can Raffy harden his heart? Will Dante finally get his second chance at happiness?
Keywords: attorney, band, bus, bus-ride, cancer, car-accident, cell-phone, cemetery, chatting, church
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Is it ever too late for a second chance? Dante, a middle-aged man, believes he has lost everything: Estranged from his family for twenty years, he loses his job and finds out that his wife is dead. He goes to her wake and sees his two children Raffy and Kristine again. While Dante is eager to make amends with them, Raffy does not want him back into his life. When an accident forces Raffy to take Dante into his house, Dante learns how his own failure as a father has made an impact on how his son acts as the head of his family. In his effort to make things right between himself and Raffy, Dante develops a bond with Raffy's wife Gayle and his grandkids, Jake and Tinka. Dante also rediscovers his love for music that Raffy's son is also passionate about. With his growing relationship with Raffy's family, Dante begins to glimpse some hope for a second chance. For how long can Raffy harden his heart? Will Dante finally get his second chance at happiness?
Keywords: attorney, band, bus, bus-ride, cancer, car-accident, cell-phone, cemetery, chatting, church
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Is it ever too late for a second chance? Dante, a middle-aged man, believes he has lost everything: Estranged from his family for twenty years, he loses his job and finds out that his wife is dead. He goes to her wake and sees his two children Raffy and Kristine again. While Dante is eager to make amends with them, Raffy does not want him back into his life. When an accident forces Raffy to take Dante into his house, Dante learns how his own failure as a father has made an impact on how his son acts as the head of his family. In his effort to make things right between himself and Raffy, Dante develops a bond with Raffy's wife Gayle and his grandkids, Jake and Tinka. Dante also rediscovers his love for music that Raffy's son is also passionate about. With his growing relationship with Raffy's family, Dante begins to glimpse some hope for a second chance. For how long can Raffy harden his heart? Will Dante finally get his second chance at happiness?
Keywords: attorney, band, bus, bus-ride, cancer, car-accident, cell-phone, cemetery, chatting, church
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Is it ever too late for a second chance? Dante, a middle-aged man, believes he has lost everything: Estranged from his family for twenty years, he loses his job and finds out that his wife is dead. He goes to her wake and sees his two children Raffy and Kristine again. While Dante is eager to make amends with them, Raffy does not want him back into his life. When an accident forces Raffy to take Dante into his house, Dante learns how his own failure as a father has made an impact on how his son acts as the head of his family. In his effort to make things right between himself and Raffy, Dante develops a bond with Raffy's wife Gayle and his grandkids, Jake and Tinka. Dante also rediscovers his love for music that Raffy's son is also passionate about. With his growing relationship with Raffy's family, Dante begins to glimpse some hope for a second chance. For how long can Raffy harden his heart? Will Dante finally get his second chance at happiness?
Keywords: attorney, band, bus, bus-ride, cancer, car-accident, cell-phone, cemetery, chatting, church
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Is it ever too late for a second chance? Dante, a middle-aged man, believes he has lost everything: Estranged from his family for twenty years, he loses his job and finds out that his wife is dead. He goes to her wake and sees his two children Raffy and Kristine again. While Dante is eager to make amends with them, Raffy does not want him back into his life. When an accident forces Raffy to take Dante into his house, Dante learns how his own failure as a father has made an impact on how his son acts as the head of his family. In his effort to make things right between himself and Raffy, Dante develops a bond with Raffy's wife Gayle and his grandkids, Jake and Tinka. Dante also rediscovers his love for music that Raffy's son is also passionate about. With his growing relationship with Raffy's family, Dante begins to glimpse some hope for a second chance. For how long can Raffy harden his heart? Will Dante finally get his second chance at happiness?
Keywords: attorney, band, bus, bus-ride, cancer, car-accident, cell-phone, cemetery, chatting, church
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Is it ever too late for a second chance? Dante, a middle-aged man, believes he has lost everything: Estranged from his family for twenty years, he loses his job and finds out that his wife is dead. He goes to her wake and sees his two children Raffy and Kristine again. While Dante is eager to make amends with them, Raffy does not want him back into his life. When an accident forces Raffy to take Dante into his house, Dante learns how his own failure as a father has made an impact on how his son acts as the head of his family. In his effort to make things right between himself and Raffy, Dante develops a bond with Raffy's wife Gayle and his grandkids, Jake and Tinka. Dante also rediscovers his love for music that Raffy's son is also passionate about. With his growing relationship with Raffy's family, Dante begins to glimpse some hope for a second chance. For how long can Raffy harden his heart? Will Dante finally get his second chance at happiness?
Keywords: attorney, band, bus, bus-ride, cancer, car-accident, cell-phone, cemetery, chatting, church
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Is it ever too late for a second chance? Dante, a middle-aged man, believes he has lost everything: Estranged from his family for twenty years, he loses his job and finds out that his wife is dead. He goes to her wake and sees his two children Raffy and Kristine again. While Dante is eager to make amends with them, Raffy does not want him back into his life. When an accident forces Raffy to take Dante into his house, Dante learns how his own failure as a father has made an impact on how his son acts as the head of his family. In his effort to make things right between himself and Raffy, Dante develops a bond with Raffy's wife Gayle and his grandkids, Jake and Tinka. Dante also rediscovers his love for music that Raffy's son is also passionate about. With his growing relationship with Raffy's family, Dante begins to glimpse some hope for a second chance. For how long can Raffy harden his heart? Will Dante finally get his second chance at happiness?
Keywords: attorney, band, bus, bus-ride, cancer, car-accident, cell-phone, cemetery, chatting, church
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Is it ever too late for a second chance? Dante, a middle-aged man, believes he has lost everything: Estranged from his family for twenty years, he loses his job and finds out that his wife is dead. He goes to her wake and sees his two children Raffy and Kristine again. While Dante is eager to make amends with them, Raffy does not want him back into his life. When an accident forces Raffy to take Dante into his house, Dante learns how his own failure as a father has made an impact on how his son acts as the head of his family. In his effort to make things right between himself and Raffy, Dante develops a bond with Raffy's wife Gayle and his grandkids, Jake and Tinka. Dante also rediscovers his love for music that Raffy's son is also passionate about. With his growing relationship with Raffy's family, Dante begins to glimpse some hope for a second chance. For how long can Raffy harden his heart? Will Dante finally get his second chance at happiness?
Keywords: attorney, band, bus, bus-ride, cancer, car-accident, cell-phone, cemetery, chatting, church
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Is it ever too late for a second chance? Dante, a middle-aged man, believes he has lost everything: Estranged from his family for twenty years, he loses his job and finds out that his wife is dead. He goes to her wake and sees his two children Raffy and Kristine again. While Dante is eager to make amends with them, Raffy does not want him back into his life. When an accident forces Raffy to take Dante into his house, Dante learns how his own failure as a father has made an impact on how his son acts as the head of his family. In his effort to make things right between himself and Raffy, Dante develops a bond with Raffy's wife Gayle and his grandkids, Jake and Tinka. Dante also rediscovers his love for music that Raffy's son is also passionate about. With his growing relationship with Raffy's family, Dante begins to glimpse some hope for a second chance. For how long can Raffy harden his heart? Will Dante finally get his second chance at happiness?
Keywords: attorney, band, bus, bus-ride, cancer, car-accident, cell-phone, cemetery, chatting, church
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Is it ever too late for a second chance? Dante, a middle-aged man, believes he has lost everything: Estranged from his family for twenty years, he loses his job and finds out that his wife is dead. He goes to her wake and sees his two children Raffy and Kristine again. While Dante is eager to make amends with them, Raffy does not want him back into his life. When an accident forces Raffy to take Dante into his house, Dante learns how his own failure as a father has made an impact on how his son acts as the head of his family. In his effort to make things right between himself and Raffy, Dante develops a bond with Raffy's wife Gayle and his grandkids, Jake and Tinka. Dante also rediscovers his love for music that Raffy's son is also passionate about. With his growing relationship with Raffy's family, Dante begins to glimpse some hope for a second chance. For how long can Raffy harden his heart? Will Dante finally get his second chance at happiness?
Keywords: attorney, band, bus, bus-ride, cancer, car-accident, cell-phone, cemetery, chatting, church
When there's nothing left maybe I can live with regret, but not with the disparity breathing down my neck. How many times have we tried to let go, when love is hell and we both should have known.
Too young to know. Where do our hearts go, when they've got nothing left to show? Too young to know. For all the years we couldn't let go, just fucking let it go. I'm not trying to change the world, I'm just looking for the words to say, and it's so fucking hard to say.
Childs/Paris
Too much forgotten
And for much too long
You stole my song
It's gone
Where did all the time go?
Where did all my friends go?
No day can pass without a thought
Of you inside me
It's as though you're still alive here with me
Where did all the time go?
Where did all my friends go?
I won't forget you...
Our fate has been sealed for life
To pace among our haters
To constantly defend our every move
To watch our back from danger
Desperation and frustration
Blurred our sight
We twine our hands with violence
We corrupt our minds with hate
Longing for guidance
That will bring us to the light...
And what is left for us but suffering?
Only names engraved
On cold stones forever
No one to follow the name
No one to hear them
Memories of the days
When we once felt no fear
The sound of laughter
We used to hear
No true joy would ever find
A place in our hearts
Nothing could bring our souls
It's warmth back
What are we asking for
To end this worthless war
For you to reach out for us
When we are calling your name
For you to comfort us
When we are losing this game
For how long we'll keep on living
In the dark
What more have you
Designed for us
We are falling one by one
Together we are dying
Instrumental
Lookin out my window hypnotized by the rain
In a trance reminicing bout the soldiers slain
Fighting wars in the brain trying to maintain
Hoping mama won't have to feel the pain
Looking at a closed casket or a picture frame
Even shorties that you banged won't forget your name
Still feel strange how times do change
We doing our thing and in our minds you remain
As I uncap a 5th of Henny for my soldiers that's a memory
Thinking 'bout the fun times we had together
Blazin' 'till the sunshine
Drinkin' the cheap wine
I know I never find a ? of the same kind
But at the same time, I'm constantly writin' eulogies
For my big homey locs and my loco g's
Since '73 it seems death followed me to my man ?Tyshan Wells?
Rest in Peace
Chorus
Oh why oh why oh why
It's always the good ones that have to die
Oh why oh why oh why
Bob Marley die, ?Jacob Miller? die
(repeat)
Another day another burial
Got you wondering 'bout the day when he bury you
Tear drops stain the wally's that you rockin'
On the block candles burn guns popin'
I just came from the cemetery where my dog was buried
Drop some buds in the earth to grow in they memory
Thinkin' 'bout the fun times we had as fam
Remembering the beef we got into but never ran
I seen a kid get ate up by his own man one time
Hid behind a car now look and duck and bust a ?
On some Harlem Nights script
But this some real life shit
Heard his scull split when you seen the slug hit
I watched the vultures swarmin'
Prayin' on his garments
They stay robbin' dead men cuz they don't give 'em problems
Heard the good die young be it by God or gun
Paint my mural on the wall sayin' my job was done
I shed tears when I hear news from my peers
That my nigga Shawn Crady was no longer here
Had me mad at my girl ready to take it to the world
Drinkin' liquor 'till I'm damn near 'bout to 'url
Got a jewel from my dog locked up in jail
Told me son is in the essence resting
All is well
While you still here: accomplish your deads
Cuz you never know when it's your time to leave
Mothers would awake to feed their children
our brothers would awake to mend their nets and sails
mothers would awake to feed their children
our brothers would awake to mend their nets and sails
they had the boundless light of a new day dawning
and a burning living driving will
they had the light of a boundless new day dawning
they had a burning living driving will
meanwhile the old men sit on the top of a hill
waiting through your legislation
wading trudging through your debate
about whether or not to send
another hundred thousand young men and women
into the hurricane
no taxation without representation
we will not pay a toll in blood
the old men were sitting on top of the hill
while the younger
ushered a place for both down by the creek
singing they are following
cold and fishing to their marked graves
the old men sit on top of the hill
of 58, 000
walking
walking across the plain i am descending
six feet underground
you send me here
every name
every name
upon this wall
you send me here
six feet under
why don't you take a short walk
walk out of your oval office
walk out of the state house
take a short walk across the lawn
and descend to six feet under and read those names
you're debating still debating whether or not to send me here
you're debating you're debating whether or not to send more over there
six feet under
you really do carry my weight
bats grazing
in the lighted sky above our houses
lightning bugs rising higher and higher
bats grazing in the sky
in the night sky above our houses
lightning bugs rising higher and higher
as the sun leaves behind
as the sun leaves behind
this valley
this waking valley song
a memorial
oh six feet to be under you really did
carry my weight
the earth i confess is not made to our unhappy state
and you're still debating
debate
debate
what is this?
a voice in his head
a voice comes quick and it fades on
it is this waking valley song
archaic and bent with time
it is this memory
Ever since this began, I was blessed with a curse.
And for better or for worse I was born into a hearse.
I know I said my heart beats for you. I was lying girl,
it beats for two.
Because I got your love and I got these vices.
Take back every word I've said, ever said to you.
Take back every word I've said, ever said to you.
Ever since this began, I was blessed with a curse.
And for better or for worse I was born into a hearse.
I know I said my heart beats for you. I was lying girl.
I've been lying to you...
Everything I touch turns to stone.
So wrap your arms around me, and leave me on my own.
Everything I touch turns to stone.
So wrap your arms around me, and leave me on my own.
Take back every word I've said, ever said to you.
Take back every word I've said, ever said to you.
Take back every word I've said, ever said to you.
Take back every word I've said, ever said to you.
Because everything I touch turns to stone.
So wrap your arms around me, and leave me, I can't hold on.
Take back every word I've said, ever said to you.
Take back every word I've said, every word I've said.
I am the moment, the soul
The moment that ends it all
I am the second, the will
The serpent, the one you last recall
The living pulse of nightmares
Is on my side
With the shadows I fade into you
A secret promise of leaving
Blanking your eyes
When you look for me try for once inside
In the sleep of cruelty
The old sounds of you and me
I am the moment, the soul
The moment that ends it all
I am the second, the will
The serpent, the one you last recall (You are lost)
The ones so long forgotten
Now at your side
Their spirits travel from me into you
A rush of waters then afterlife
The wind in the trees
Yours is the fight in this minute dark
I am the moment, the soul
The moment that ends it all
I am the second, the will
The serpent, the one you last...
In the sleep of cruelty
The old sounds of you and me
And for a moment it's gone
The beauty of it all
I am the second, the fall
The logic of it all
I am the moment, the soul
The moment that ends it all
I am the second, the will
The serpent, the one you last recall
Autumn leaves and winter brings
Back dead things that I've tried to hide
All alone, Oh how do I feel?
Only regret, guilt and shame
Nobody's fault but my own
So I have to face it
Try as I may, the pain stays
And I can't erase it
Hold me, In your arms now
Save me, this time around
Hold me, In your arms now
As in my dreams, I hear you scream
These things, they pick away
At my mind that brings the pain
Times since passe, I've tried to erase
Such tragedy torments my weak mind
Nobody's fault but my own
So I have to face it
Try as I may, the pain remains
And I can't take it
A child of your embrace
An empty trail of tears
Upon fallen leaves
Will tomorrow bring
And In my dreams
I hear you laughing
Laughing at me
What we dream and what we see
Forgotten and what used to be
Two indifferent things but never promising
And to you I do confide
I beg of you please
Forgive me
This child of your embrace
An empty trail of tears
Beyond Broken dreams
So much for you.
I can't take this life.
To be with you
Only pushes me, deeper down.
Guilt pain and sorrow.
Are what haunt me still
Waking tomorrow
Will I feel the same?
Memories breaking me.
Kill what I used to be.
Wandering on,
I know misery
Alone in silence.
All I had before, gone from me.
Look to the past
For any comforting.
Happiness lasts
Only when your dead.
Memories breaking me.
Kill what I used to be.
Can I feel again...
Emotions that have brought me here.
Lost somewhere in time.
Never to return again.
Memories breaking me.
Kill what I used to be.
Falling back on myself.
This is a memorial – to honor the long gone
This is a burial – my heaven has gone wrong
Those times we had – so long ago. Like yesterday – I miss ‘em so much – I
can’t let go!!!
My heart is full of hate – its bleeding love
Father – I have to say goodbye to keep my self alive
I can still see you – you’re fading away – but… I can still feel you –
though you’re drifting away from me.
This is a memorial – to honor the long gone
This is a burial – my heaven has gone wrong
Are you still here – still in this place? What’s left behind, where is
god’s grace?
You broke my faith
My heart is full of hate – it’s bleeding love Father – I have to say
goodbye to keep my self alive
I can still see you – you’re fading away – but
I can still feel you – though you’re drifting away from me.
My heart is aching – that’s all I know
Hope is fading – I’ll let you go…