Death

They Might Be Death

A list of songs about or mentioning death and/or dying.

• 120 Minutes Song - "Then we die"
• 2082 - "How can you still be living?" The subject impossibly doesn't ever die, until "you suffocate him with your pillow".
• 9 Secret Steps - "You'll find out when you're no longer alive"; "Inhume your gloom within a tomb"
• Answer - "Your dream was killed"
• Authenticity Trip - "Dead as a dog"
• Bangs (McSweeney's) -"Can you murder with your style..."
• Become A Robot - "Harbor a deathwish (help help)"
• Birdhouse In Your Soul - "After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts"
• The Bloodboat - "The Bloodboat flounders: Down they spin, forks and knives, precious lives..."
• By The Time You Get This - "...we'll no longer be alive"
• Cabbagetown - "I talked to my old granddad as he fell into the sea"
• Caroline, No - "So sad to watch a sweet thing die"
• Certain People I Could Name - references murder continually
• Chip The CHiP - Chip kills everyone he pulls over: also,"Lethal injection would be a welcome relief / From the CHiP"
• Countdown Intro - "Scientists standing by to assure us that nothing is wrong have already been found murdered in their laboratories!", "Professor Psychofuckup, arrested and convicted of gate-crashing the show tonight, has hung himself by his watchband in his prison cell."
• Creepy - "Six million ways to die"
• Crushed By Dust - "We are dead"
• Cupid - "I'd kill myself if I was somebody else"
• Dark And Metric - "Just because you're floating doesn't mean you haven't drowned"
• Darlin' Allison - "Sometime I will die / From this world I will fly"
• The Darlings Of Lumberland - "Mausoleums turn to sand"; "Hold my cold dead hand for a bit"
• Dead
• Dear Dead Congressman
• Didn't Kill Me
• Dig My Grave
• Don't Break The Heart - "Don't make the fatal error"
• Don't Let's Start - "Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful"
• Dr. Sy Fly - "A buzzer sounds as he tries to take out Cavity Sam's wrenched ankle and he accidentally kills him"
• Erase - "When darlings must be murdered"
• The End Of The Tour
• Exquisite Dead Guy
• The Everlasting Vibe - "If this night ends, we'll die"
• Flansy Stays In The Picture - "You wanna carve my tombstone, maybe you should kill me first."
• For Science - "Flowers die and so will I", "You will be killed right away"
• Four Of Two (Demo) - "At four of two I successfully expired"
• Graveyard
• Haunted Floating Eye - "'Til I killed someone"
• Hide Away Folk Family - "And sadly the cross-eyed bear's been put to sleep behind the stairs"
• Hopeless Bleak Despair - "Until I died and went to hell"
• I Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
• I Palindrome I - "Someday mother will die and I'll get the money"
• I'll Sink Manhattan - presumably everyone in Manhattan would die in the process of it sinking
• I'm Sick (Of This American Life) - "And I've learned the value of human sacrifice"
• It Could Be Worse - "Gallows Hill and Andersonville"
• I've Got A Fang - "Her head exploded like a atom bomb"
• I've Got A Match - "I'm gonna die if you touch me one more time"
• Jackie The Clipper
• The Lady And The Tiger - "I'm turning off life support, I'm putting an end to this joke", "Go right ahead and starve me dead"
• Last Wave - "We die alone, we die afraid", "And the grave is the loneliest place"
• Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine - "Lee Harvey got gunned down", "Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey"
• Lesson 16 - "I killed your father"
• Lullabye To Nightmares - "When the elephants die"
• Mammal - "Dead uncle Allotheria"
• Meet James Ensor - "Dig him up and shake his hand"
• Memphis - "I died and went to heaven"
• The Mesopotamians - "Hey man, I thought that you were dead"
• The Mexican Drill - "In a catacomb"
• Microphone - "His master's turned to sand"
• Mink Car - "When you're 24-karat dead"
• Montana - "And then haul off and die"
• Mrs. Bluebeard - "Alas my murdered remains...", "Most people wouldn't hang the corpses up for review"
• No Answer - "...the Duke of Something's wife drowned"
• Ondine - "I couldn't bear to kill you again"
• One More Parade - "So willing to go and die upon a foreign shore"
• On The Drag - "'I won't die until I'm dead'"
• Our Cannibal Friends - "We invited our friends, our cannibal friends / And they'll think they're home when your conciousness ends"
• Pencil Rain - "...lives that are claimed ... perishing in the pencil rain"
• People Died Today
• Philadelphia - "First we take art that is dead"
• Pictures Of Matchstick Men - Dream Medley - "I need you so that I could die"
• Poison Flowers - "Who's going to build my death ray?"
• Purple Toupee - refers to the assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X - also, the lyric "The purple brigade is marching from the grave"
• Road Movie To Berlin - "We were once so close to heaven / Peter came out and gave us medals / Declaring us the nicest of the damned"
• Save Your Life
• Scott Bower - "My lifestyle determines my deathstyle", "My lifeboat determines my deathboat", "My lightsaber determines my Death Star"
• She's An Angel - "Does it mean you have to throw your body off a building?"
• She Was A Hotel Detective - "Will she shoot you? She won't have to, you're already dead"
• Shoehorn With Teeth - "What's the sense in ever thinking 'bout the tomb"
• Sleeping In The Flowers - "You declare that I have drowned"
• Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - "Where your visiting friend accidentally was killed"
• Spider - "I promise not to kill you"
• The Statue Got Me High - "The statue made me die", "It killed me"
• Stalk Of Wheat - "And I'll have it 'til the day I die", "I was all out of luck like a duck that died"
• Stomp Box - "Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill me now"
• Stone Cold Coup D'État - "The words assassinated the book"; "The kitchen cooked and ate the cook"; "The orchestra conductor has been captured and tried and killed"
• The Summer Breeze - "And killed a number of couples"
• Swing Is A Word - "Six feet down"
• Tavern In Pinsk - "It takes the sting off dying; alive or dead, it's all the same."
• Tesla - "He's dead on the floor", "The plan for the death-ray's design"
• This Land Is Your Land - "it's a dead-thing body"
• Tick Tick Tick Tick - "Buried under the house"
• Tom Landry, Existentialist, Dead At 75
• Turn Around - murdered men, open graves, human skulls
• Twisting - "Slowly twisting / In the wind"
• Upside Down Frown- "You say I'm going to die when you tell me"
• Wearing A Raincoat - references to the undead
• When Tornadoes Take Over The World - "Your friends will be swirling / Right above your disembodied head"
• When Will You Die
• Who's Gonna Guess The Dead Guy?
• Why Did You Grow A Beard? - "Would it kill you?"
• Wreck It Apart - "Don't make me kill you again"
• XTC vs. Adam Ant - "Only one will survive"
• You'll Miss Me - "You'll eulogize my big ol' body"
• Youth Culture Killed My Dog

Honorable mention

• Circular Karate Chop - "short sharp shock" refers to a beheading in its original context (Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado)
• ECNALUBMA - Lines like "Injury, blood and grieving" imply death, though it is never actually mentioned
• Experimental Film - In the H*R video, Strong Sad dressed up as the Grim Reaper. Also the Tentacle Skull appears.
• I Like Fun - The music video features the narrator hallucinating after dying after waiting in line for prescription medicine.
• Join Us - The album cover and some of the associated artwork features a monster hearse. Additionally, one of the known working titles for the album was Necropolis.
• Let Your Hair Hang Down - The chord progression for a good duration of this song spells out the word "dead". Considering the track was composed by John Linnell, the concept was probably lingering in his subconscious during its creation.
• Older - Not about death per se, but the concept is that you are constantly getting closer to death.
• Why Must I Be Sad? - Among the Alice Cooper songs mentioned are "I Love the Dead" and "Dead Babies."

See also

• Skulls
• Zombies Or The Undead