Sebelum ane bahas tentang bubarnya band ini, mungkin simak dulu lirik dari salah satu lagu yang paling ane suka : Great Wide Open.

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND
Spitting from the bridges, like a bird perched on a branch,
I’m wilting like a tree that will never let me breathe.

Soul soldier with your gun held high, where does the crow fly,
soul soldier with your gun held high, will you follow it home.

For the road that we walk has more miles left to talk,
stories on and on we go, into the great wide open.

No it never came back to break me, the way it broke it down,
spitting from the bridges, while the trees give a soft sigh to the ground.

Soul sailor with your flag held high, where does the crow fly,
soul sailor with your flag held high, will you follow it home.

For the road that we walk has more miles left to talk,
stories on and on we go, into the great wide open.
For the road that we walk has more miles left to talk,
stories on and on we go, into the great wide open, into the great wide open.

The rush of the flood, sends the blood, to my head,
the rush of the flood, sends the blood, to my head,

Soul soldier with your gun held high, where does the crow fly
soul soldier with your gun held high, will you follow it home.

The rush of the flood, sends the blood, to my head,
the rush of the flood, sends the blood, to my head.

Climb out, climb out (woah), climb out, climb out (woah),
Climb out, climb out (woah), over me.
Climb out, climb out (woah), climb out, climb out (woah),
Climb out, climb out (woah), over me.

Into the great wide open.

 

Setahun yang lalu, Funeral for a friend memulai debut album ‘Chapter and Verse’ 2014 melalui sebuah single berudul “You’ve got a Bad Case of the Religions” dalam Rock Show di BBC Radio 1. Kemudian merilis  album tersebut pada tanggal 19 Januari 2015. Hanya perlu waktu dua pekan untuk menggarap album ini di Southampton yang diproduseri oleh Lewis Johns.

Dan pada 14 September 2015, Funeral For A Friend mengumumkan bahwa mereka ‘break up’ alias bubar setelah menyelesaikan tour mereka di Australia, Jerman, dan akan berakhir di Inggris pada bulan Februari sampai april 2016.

they will play two subsequent nights on each stop of the tour, performing Hours and Casually Dressed & Deep in Conversation in their entirety (alongside other songs) on the first and second night respectively

Sayang sekali, band keren seperti ini harus bubar, padahal banyak sekali karya mereka yang selalu membuat lagu dengan genre Alternative-rock, hard-rock, melodic-rock yang sangat memberikan spirit seperti pada lagu Streetcar,

Rose for the Dead

dan Escape Artist Never Die.

Good bye… Funeral for A Friend, now you’ll make funeral for yourself.