User:DanTD/songs/List of songs about death

Here is a list of songs about death:

This is a dynamic list of songs and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

Fear of death

"Bitch Ass Niggaz" by Goon Squad
"Death Have Mercy" by Vera Hall
"Conversation with Death" by Peter Bellamy
"Death and the Lady" by Shirley Collins
"Death Don't Have no Mercy" by the Rev Gary Davis
"Escape From Hellview" by CKY
"The End" by The Doors
"Fixin' to Die" by Bukka White and Buffy Sainte-Marie
"Fuck Dying" by Ice Cube feat. KoRn
"Funeral Tango" by Jacques Brel and Scott Walker
"I Hope You Die" by The Bloodhound Gang
"It's Not my Time to Go" by Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
"In This River" by Black Label Society
"Janie's Got A Gun" by Aerosmith
"Let's Get It Poppin' by Bishop feat. Bookey Loc and Trek Life
"The Mercy Seat" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
"Murder" by Coldplay
"My Death" by Jacques Brel and Scott Walker
"My Name is Death" by The Incredible String Band
"O Death" by Camper Van Beethoven
"On The Run" by OMC
"Reach for the Sky" by Social Distortion
"See that my Grave is Kept Clean" by Blind Lemon Jefferson
"Someday" by Ce Ce Rogers
"The Great Gig in the Sky" by Pink Floyd
"The I Feel Like I'm Fixin to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish (Note: this song is sarcastic)
"Who will take my place" by Dusty Springfield
"Will You Miss Me" by The Carter Family
"Ghost Of You*" by My Chemical Romance
"Hurt" byJohnny Cash

Death of a loved one

"All Hallows Eve" by Type O Negative
"A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton (supposedly about breakup or living far from your lover, but lyrics such as "And I need you/And I miss you" or "And now I wonder/If I could fall into the sky" suggest death)
"The Beekeeper" by Tori Amos
"Broadway" by Dice
"Broken White Line" by Kris Delmhorst
"Buried A Lie" by Senses Fail
"Cemetery Gates" by Pantera
"Coma White" by Marilyn Manson
"Comfort In Sound" by Feeder
"Country Death Song" by The Violent Femmes
"Cremation" by Lou Reed
"Dance With My Father" by Luther Vandross
"David's Lamentation" by The Watersons
"Death Letter Blues" by Son House
"Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor" by Eels
"Fifteenth & T" by Swingin' Utters
"The First Fall of Snow" by Hank Williams
"The Funeral" by Hank Williams
"The Way You Lived" by CKY
"Gone Away" by The Offspring
"Halloween Parade" by Lou Reed
"Hear You Me" by Jimmy Eat World
"Helena" by My Chemical Romance
"Hell's Bells" by AC/DC (eulogy for their original lead singer, Bon Scott)
"Hollow" by Pantera
"I Am Stretched on Your Grave" by Dead Can Dance
"I Can Never Go Home Anymore" by The Shangri-Las
"In This Life" By Madonnna
"Jed The Humanoid" by Grandaddy
"Je moest waarschijnlijk gaan" by Brainpower
"Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam
"Leader of the Pack" by The Shangri-Las
"Lightning Crashes" by Live
"Local Boy in the Photograph" by Stereophonics
"Love, me" by Colin Raye (sometimes accredited as "If you get there before I do")
"Leslie Ann Levine" by The Decemberists
"Lucy" by The Hollies
"Lydia" by Slaid Cleaves
"My Immortal" by Evanescence
"Moonight Shadow" by Missing Heart (from Dance Dance Revolution)
"No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young) by Brian May and Roger Taylor
"One Headlight" by The Wallflowers
"One More Arrow" by Elton John
"One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men
"Pints of Guinness Make You Strong" by Against Me!
"Rocky" by Austin Roberts
"A Row of Small Trees" by Garnet Rogers
"Slipped Away" by Avril Lavigne
"Some Mother's Son" by The Kinks
"Suicide Child" by The Nuns
"Steps Ascending" by Thursday*"The Rocket" by Fred Eaglesmith
"St. James Infirmary" (many versions)
"Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton
"Those Gambler's Blues" by Jimmie Rodgers
"Travelling Soldier" by Dixie Chicks
"The Real Folk Blues" by The Seatbelts (from Cowboy Bebop)
"Two Twenty Nine" by Brave Saint Saturn (deals with the death of Reese Ropers grandmother)
"Red Water (Christmas Mourning)" by Type O Negative
"When The Great Man Falls" by Jim Infantino
"Where the Wild Roses Grow" by Nick Cave
"World of Our Own Making" by Merrie Amsterburg
"Hello" by Evanescence
"Ill Be Missing You (remix)*" Diddy ft. Faith Evans
"Ill Be Missing You*" The Police
"Your Kid Committed Suicide Because You Suck" by Anal Cunt

Philosophising about death

"100 Years" by Five For Fighting
"A Most Peculiar Man" by Simon and Garfunkel
"And The Hero Will Drown" by Story of the Year
"And When I Die" by Laura Nyro
"Annabelle" by Gillian Welch
"Anthem of Our Dying Day" by Story of the Year
"Boo" by Pinback
"Cold Cold Ground" by Tom Waits
"Dead" by They Might Be Giants
"Dear Old Battlefield" by The Incredible String Band
"Death of the Latvian Nation" by Armands Leimanis
"Death Comes Ripping" by The Misfits
"Death is not the End" by Bob Dylan
"Death is only a Dream" by Edward Clayborn
"Die For My Sins" by Sanctuary
"Die With me" by Type O Negative
"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult
"Lost in A Contraption" by CKY
"Eye of the Hurricane" by David Wilcox
"Going Down to Die" by Danzig (band)
"Green Man" by Type O Negative
"I Am Going To Hell For This One" by NOFX
"I Will Follow You Into The Dark" by Death Cab For Cutie
"Idumea" by The Young Tradition
"In the Aeroplane over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel
"Lady in Green" by Mary Coughlan
"Like A Stone" by Audioslave
"Long And Hard Road Out Of Hell" by Marilyn Manson
"Primary" by The Cure
"Soil" by System Of A Down
"Sunrise, Sunset" by Bright Eyes
"The Lyke Wake Dirge" by Pentangle
"Morte O Merce" by Unto Ashes
"Mother Love" by Queen
"Pull Me Under" by Dream Theater
"The Show Must Go On" by Queen
"The Old Folks" by Jacques Brel
"Thoughts of a Dying Atheist" by Muse
"Silent Lucidity" by Queensrÿche
"Slipped Away" by Avril Lavigne
"The Truth About Heaven" by Armor For Sleep
"Voice of the Soul" by Death
"Wake Up" by The Arcade Fire
"Was It All Worth It ?" by Queen
"We're Only Going To Die" by Bad Religion
"When God Comes and Gathers his Jewels" by Hank Williams
"When The Angels Sing" by Social Distortion
"Who by Fire" by Leonard Cohen
"Who Wants To Live Forever?" by Queen
"Why Must we Die?" by Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Joel Zifkin
"Worms" by The Pogues

Murder

"18 & Life" by Skid Row
"Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen
"Black Friday" by Megadeth
"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
"Dancin' With Manson" by Therapy?
"Excitable Boy" by Warren Zevon
"Cop Killer" by Ice-T
"Fantasy Bag" by Therapy?
"Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash
"How I Could Just Kill A Man" by Cypress Hill
"Hey Joe" by Billy Roberts, later recorded by Jimi Hendrix
"House of 1000 Corpses" by Rob Zombie
"I Will Kill You" by Cannibal Corpse
"I'll Sink Manhattan" by They Might Be Giants
"Kill You" by Eminem
"Mack the Knife" by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, later recorded by Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin
"Me and Jesus the Pimp in the '79 Grenada Last Night" by The Coup
"The Mariner's Revenge Song" by The Decemberists
"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by The Beatles
"Midnight Creeper" by Eagles of Death Metal
"Midnight Rambler" by The Rolling Stones
"Rio Bravo" by CKY
"Sniped" by CKY
"Psycho Killer" by The Talking Heads
"Valley of Chrome" by Cypress Hill
"Welcome To Jamrock" by Damian Marley
"Where is She?" by The Killers
"Omie Wise" by Doc Watson
"Tom Dooley" by Doc Watson
"Little Sir Hugh" by Steeleye Span
"Long Lankin" by Steeleye Span
"Little Musgrave" Christy Moore