Once I'm Gone

"Once I'm Gone" is a song from the Every Ape and His Brother album Elefante Elegante Interesante Importante. It is a style parody of Nickelback and Daughtry, and the first true style parody ever from Every Ape and His Brother.

Overview
The song was written from the point of view of someone who is dying and is contemplating the uncertainty of fate in the afterlife. The individual, implicitly male but kept generic enough to be female if need be; tries to offer the best possible advice for surviving friends whilst dispelling of common poetic clichés that the living use to describe how they feel about the departed, particularly those clichés which the dying individual does not agree with.

History
The song was created around 3:00 PM EDT on April 5th 2008 from the FLT1000BCAS_13 Dell Optilex GX280 station of the FLITE library of Ferris State University, in commemoration of an inspirational (but cliché-ridden) poem that was recited at the funeral of a young woman named Rebecca Vogelsang. The poem was copied by a Forest Hills Eastern High School student to the Facebook group "RIP Rebecca Vogelsang, you are sorely missed." The poem, also the heading of a discussion thread in that Facebook group, reads: "Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep."