I began working on the lyrics and it’s coming along nicely. I plan on having the story go back and forward between what goes on at my funeral service and the journey my soul takes on its way to Judgement. I’m drawing inspiration from my book of prayers as well as from memories of the many funerals I attended. Amongst the traditional elements that cannot go unmentioned are the wailers and the gravediggers. The wailers in Romanian tradition, essentially professional mourners, are women who are hired to attend funerals to cry and, well, to wail. Having more than a few present at one’s funeral, say 6 of them, is seen (in some corners of Romania) as a status symbol of the deceased. It is imperative that incorporate this theme into my funeral song.