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In mid 2009 a friend shared the video below, produced by Inspired Bicycles, starring Danny MacAskill. The footage is unreal and the music fits so well, the whole thing is just epic. This was my first encounter with Band of Horses and their music got me hooked.

So today while exploring new music I came across a song by Kid Cudi called The Prayer which had a familiar beat. Turns out the background music is sampled from The Funeral, that same song by Band of Horses being used in the BMX video. I just wanted to call it out in case anyone else is trying to figure out where that song is from and who it is by.

Great lyrics and structure in both songs, I’ve listed a few lines from each below to help match it up. I really like the way Kid Cudi’s lyrics take in actual lines from prayer and twist them around to fit his song. You can listen to Kid Cudi’s version here and watch the original song, The Funeral, from Band of Horses on their MySpace here.

Kid Cudi – The Prayer:
if I die before I wake
I pray to Lord my soul to take
but please don’t cry
just know that I have made these songs for you

and if I die before I wake
I pray to Lord my soul to take
cuz I’m ready for the funeral

Band of Horses – The Funeral:
I’m coming up only to hold you under
I’m coming up only to show you wrong
and to know you is hard and we wonder
to know you all wrong, we were

really too late to call, so we wait for
morning to wake you; it’s all we got
to know me as hardly golden
is to know me all wrong, they were

at every occasion I’ll be ready for a funeral
at every occasion once more is called a funeral
every occasion I’m ready for the funeral
at every occasion one brilliant day funeral