We offer this list of songs of lament, both traditional and contemporary, suitable for funerals, reflective services, services of remembering, or for inclusion in regular worship where bereaved people might find them helpful.
Our list is far from exhaustive, so if you have suggestions of other pieces of music that you have used, please email them to katy.tutt@ataloss.org for consideration.
| Title | Artist | Notes | Style |
| God who created both sunshine and rain | Words by Nick Ball 2011 | Tune Slane, Lord of all hopefulness | Contemporary |
| Lord of compassion | Words by Nick Ball 2012 | Tune Morning has broken | Contemporary |
| Christ the Lord is with me | Stephanie Gretzinger | Contemporary | |
| Where are you? | Chandler Moore | Contemporary | |
| I am not alone | Kari Jobe | Contemporary | |
| He Knows | Jeremy Camp | Contemporary | |
| Strong Enough | Matthew West | Contemporary | |
| Great is thy Faithfulness | Thomas O. Chisholm | Traditional | |
| Blessed Assurance | Fanny Crosby | Helpful theology at the funeral of a believer | Traditional |
| God is love, let heaven adore him | Timothy Rees | Traditional | |
| Blessed be your name | Matt Redmond | Omit last verse | Contemporary |
| I heard the voice of Jesus say | Horatius Bonar | Traditional | |
| Lord of all Hopefulness | Jan Struther | Traditional | |
| In heavenly love abiding | Anna Letitia Waring | Traditional | |
| God, hold us, enfold us, through desolate loss | Marjorie Dobson | Contemporary | |
| The day thou gavest | John Ellerton | Traditional | |
| Abide with me | Henry Francis Lyte | Traditional | |
| Come down o love divine | Bianco da Siena tr. Richard F. Littledale | Traditional | |
| Faithful one | Brian Doekerson | Contemporary | |
| Irish Blessing | Bob Chilcott | Contemporary Choral | |
| There’s a time for Tears | Sam Hargreaves | Contemporary | |
| Were you there when they crucified my Lord? | Spiritual | Spiritual | |
| Breathe | Pat Barrett, Jonathan McReynolds, Chandler Moore & Doe Jones | Contemporary | |
| Broken People | Israel & New Breed | Contemporary | |
| Can’t give up now | Mary Mary | Contemporary | |
| Footprints in the sand | Leona Lewis | Contemporary | |
| He won’t leave you | Richard Smallwood | Reflective | |
| Hear my cry | Fred Hammond & RFC | Contemporary | |
| Help me | Tamela Mann | Contemporary | |
| I am not alone | Kari Jobe | Contemporary | |
| I watch the sunrise | Colin James Murphy / John Michael Glynn | Particularly popular at funerals | Contemporary |
| Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen | Louis Armstrong | Gospel | |
| Oceans Deep | Matt Crocker, Joel Houston & Salomon Ligthelm | Contemporary |
