Death

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A list of songs about death and/or dying.

120 Minutes Song - "Then we die"
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"
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
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"
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"
Dead
Dig My Grave
Don't Let's Start - "Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful."
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"
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"
Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
Hopeless Bleak Despair - "Until I died and went to hell"
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"
Meet James Ensor - "Dig him up and shake his hand"
Memphis - "I died and went to heaven"
Mink Car - "When you're 24-karat dead"
Montana - "And then haul off and die"
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"
Pencil Rain - "...lives that are claimed ... perishing in the pencil rain"
People Died Today
Philadelphia - "First we take art that is dead"
Purple Toupee - refers to the assassinations of John Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and Malcolm X - also 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
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 visitor friend accidentally was killed"
Spider - "I promise not to kill you"
The Statue Got Me High - "The statue made me die", "It killed me"
Stomp Box - "Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill me now"
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."
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"
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

[edit] Honorable mention

Experimental Film - In the H*R video, Strong Sad dressed up as the Grim Reaper. Also the Tentacle Skull.
Older - Not about death per se, but the concept is that you are constantly getting closer to death.

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