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Songs about Death

Songs about death is a very pervasive category and one of the largest and most popular on our site. It seems virtually everyone has been touched by death in some way. Many artists have chosen to put their pain into pen by writing these songs about death.

Whether you're here to satisfy your morbid side or to help come to terms with a death of a loved one, collected below are our songs about death and dying.

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  1967 Don McLean
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  53rd and 3rd Ramones, The
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  97' Bonnie And Clyde Eminem
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  A Day In The Life Beatles
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  Adam's Song Blink 182
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  Afterlife Avenged Sevenfold
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  Afterlife Illenium
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  All Dead, All Dead Queen
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  All I Know Art Garfunkel
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  All Things Must Pass George Harrison
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  All Things Must Pass Beatles
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  Alligator Sky Owl City
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  Alone Again, Naturally Gilbert O'Sullivan
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  Always Be Together Little Mix
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  Amen Omen Ben Harper
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  American Pie Don McLean
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  And When I Die Blood Sweat & Tears
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  Angel Sarah McLachlan
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  Angel's Son Sevendust
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  Angels in Waiting Tammy Cochran
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  Arc of Time Bright Eyes
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  Band on the Run Paul McCartney
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  Barely Speaking a Word Lori McKenna
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  Beneath With Me Kaskade
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  Best Seat in the House LoCash Cowboys
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  Blasphemous Rumours Depeche Mode
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  Bleed (I Must Be Dreaming) Evanescence
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  Blind Lifehouse
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  Blowin' In the Wind Bob Dylan
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  Brave Soul Illenium
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  Breathe Taylor Swift
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  Breathe No More Evanescence
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  Bright Eyes Art Garfunkel
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  Broken Seether
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  Brompton Cocktail Avenged Sevenfold
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  Burma Shave Tom Waits
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  Bye Bye Mariah Carey
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  Call Me Shinedown
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  Can't Hardly Wait Replacements, The
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  Cancer My Chemical Romance
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  Candle in the Wind Elton John
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  Carrying Cathy Ben Folds
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  Cassie Flyleaf
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  Castles Made of Sand Jimi Hendrix
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  Cemetery Drive My Chemical Romance
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  Cemetery Gates Pantera
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  Certain People I Could Name They Might Be Giants
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  Chop Suey System of a Down
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  Cleanin' Out My Closet Eminem
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  Clouds Zach Sobiech
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  Cocaine Blues Johnny Cash
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  Coffin Black Veil Brides
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  Could it be Any Harder Calling, The
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  Country Bumpkin Cal Smith
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  Dance with the Devil Immortal Technique
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  Dark Paradise Lana Del Rey
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  Dead Buckcherry
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  Dead 'n Gone 69 Eyes, The
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  Dead and Bloated Stone Temple Pilots
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  Dead in Ditches Hollywood Undead
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  Dead Man's Curve Jan & Dean
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  Dead On Arrival Fall Out Boy
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  Dead! My Chemical Romance
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  Death White Lies
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  Death and Destruction Weezer
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  Death at the Chapel Horrors, The
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  Death Be Thy Name Venom
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  Death Blooms Mudvayne
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  Death Certificate for a Beauty Queen I Killed The Prom Queen
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  Death Day Alien Ant Farm
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  Death Is In Love With Us H.I.M
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  Death is Quick Hey Rosetta!
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  Death of an Interior Decorator Death Cab For Cutie
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  Death Whispered a Lullaby Opeth
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  Destination: Moon They Might Be Giants
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  Detroit Rock City Kiss
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  Die Young Kesha
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  Don't Fear the Reaper Blue Oyster Cult
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  Don't Take the Girl Tim McGraw
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  Don't Wake Me Skillet
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  Don't You Worry Child Swedish House Mafia
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  Doomsday Atreyu
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  Dragula Rob Zombie
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  Drink A Beer Luke Bryan
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  Drops of Jupiter Train
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  Dust in the Wind Kansas
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  Dying Stone Sour
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  Eleanor Rigby Beatles
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  Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny) Elton John
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  Eulogy Tool
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  Even in Death Evanescence
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  Fade To Black Metallica
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  Fiction Avenged Sevenfold
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  Field Of Innocence Evanescence
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  Fire and Rain James Taylor
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  Fix You Coldplay
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  Flirted With You All My Life Vic Chesnutt
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  Fly to the Angels Slaughter
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  For You I'll Die Matchbox 20
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  Freebird Lynyrd Skynyrd
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  Funeral Band of Horses
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  Funeral For A Friend Elton John
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  Give Me a Sign Breaking Benjamin
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  Going Home Leonard Cohen
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  Gone Away Offspring, The
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  Goodnight Evanescence
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  Green, Green Grass of Home Curly Putman
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  Gunslinger Avenged Sevenfold
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  He Stopped Loving Her Today George Jones
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  Helena My Chemical Romance
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  Hello Evanescence
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  Here Without You 3 Doors Down
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  Hide and Seek Imogen Heap
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  Hold On Good Charlotte
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  Homesick MercyMe
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  Honey System of a Down
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  Honey Bobby Goldsboro
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  How Can I Help You Say Goodbye Patty Loveless
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  Hurt Johnny Cash
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  Hurt Christina Aguilera
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  I Drive Your Truck Lee Brice
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  I Grieve Peter Gabriel
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  I Miss My Friend Darryl Worley
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  I Miss You Miley Cyrus
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  I Remember You Skid Row
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  I Was Here Beyonce
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  I Will Follow You Into The Dark Death Cab For Cutie

  "If there's no one beside you
  When your soul embarks
  Then I'll follow you into the dark"

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  If I Die Young Band Perry, The
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  If Tomorrow Never Comes Ronan Keating
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  If You Came Back From Heaven Lorrie Morgan
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  If you Ever Come Back Script, The
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  If You Say So Lea Michele
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  If You're Reading This Tim McGraw
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  In Loving Memory Alter Bridge
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  In My Time of Dying Led Zeppelin
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  In The End Linkin Park
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  Indiana Wants Me R Dean Taylor
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  Insane Eminem
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  Invincible Jesse McCartney
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  Issues Escape The Fate
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  It's Halloween in Heaven Type O Negative
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  Join Me H.I.M
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  Just Breathe Pearl Jam
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  Just Jones Danny O'Keefe
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  Kids Aren't Alright Offspring, The
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  Kill Me Quickly Thrice
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  Kill You Korn
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  Kill You Eminem
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  Knockin' On Heaven's Door Bob Dylan
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  Knockin' on Heaven's Door Guns N' Roses
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  Last Day Alive Chainsmokers, The
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  Last Kiss Pearl Jam
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  Leader of the Band Dan Fogelberg
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  Leader of the Pack Shangri-Las, The
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  Leave Out All The Rest Linkin Park
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  Let It Be Beatles
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  Let It Die Foo Fighters
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  Life in Technicolor II Coldplay
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  Lightning Crashes Live

  "lightning crashes, an old mother dies
  her intentions fall to the floor
  the angel closes her eyes"

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  Like You Evanescence
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  Live Like We're Dying Kris Allen
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  Live Like You Were Dying Tim McGraw
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  Living is a Problem Because Everything Dies Biffy Clyro
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  Long Black Train Josh Turner
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  Love, Me Collin Raye
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  Lucy Skillet
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  Lullaby Nickelback
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  Mary Jane's Last Dance Tom Petty
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  Memories Within Temptation
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  Miss Murder AFI
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  My Blue Heaven Taking Back Sunday
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  My Immortal Evanescence
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  My Last Breath Evanescence
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  My Way Elvis Presley
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  Never Forget You Lupe Fiasco
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  Not Now Blink 182
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  November Rain Guns N' Roses
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  Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are Meat Loaf
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  Ocean Breathes Salty Modest Mouse
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  Ode to Billie Joe Bobbie Gentry
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  Ohio Neil Young
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  Old Rivers Walter Brennan
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  One Headlight Wallflowers, The

  "That's when they say I lost my only friend
  Well they said she died easy of a broken heart disease
  As I listened through the cemetery trees"

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  One Hell Of An Amen Brantley Gilbert
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  One More Suicide Marcy Playground
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  One Sweet Day Mariah Carey
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  Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  Otherside Macklemore
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  Our Farewell Within Temptation
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  Our Solemn Hour Within Temptation
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  Over You Miranda Lambert
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  Paint It Black Rolling Stones, The
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  Pray For Plagues Bring Me the Horizon
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  Prayer for the Dying Seal
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  Push th' Little Daisies Ween
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  Real Life Jeff Carson
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  Remember Josh Groban
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  Ronan Taylor Swift
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  Roses for Mama Red Sovine
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  Save a Place for Me Matthew West
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  Saviour Black Veil Brides
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  Scar Tissue Red Hot Chili Peppers
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  Seasons in the Sun Terry Jacks
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  Secret Door Evanescence
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  See You On The Other Side Ozzy Osbourne
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  Shadow of the Day Linkin Park
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  Shake Me Down Cage the Elephant
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  Side Of A Bullet Nickelback
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  Slipped Away Avril Lavigne
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  So Far Away Avenged Sevenfold
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  So Long, GoodBye Sum 41
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  So Long, So Long Dashboard Confessional
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  Some Gave All Billy Ray Cyrus
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  Stairway To Heaven Led Zeppelin
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  Stan Eminem
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  Straw Hat And Old Dirty Hank Barenaked Ladies
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  Street Hassle Lou Reed
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  Surrender Evanescence
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  Suzy and Jeffrey Blondie
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  Tears In Heaven Eric Clapton
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  Tha Crossroads Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
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  That's My Job Conway Twitty
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  The Art of Dying George Harrison
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  The Beekeeper Tori Amos
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  The Class of '57 Had Its Dreams Statler Brothers, The
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  The End Doors, The
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  The Ghost of You My Chemical Romance
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  The Greatest Sia
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  The Ground Folds Senses Fail
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  The Last Song Elton John
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  The Ledge Replacements, The
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  The Living Years Mike + The Mechanics
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  The Man Who Sold The World Nirvana
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  The Man Who Sold the World David Bowie
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  The Other Side Evanescence
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  The Reason Hoobastank
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  The Show Must Go On Queen
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  The Sun is Burning Simon & Garfunkel
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  The Unforgiven II Metallica
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  Them Bones Alice In Chains
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  There is a Light that Never Goes Out Smiths, The
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  This Is How I Disappear My Chemical Romance
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  Thoughts of a Dying Atheist Muse
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  Three Wooden Crosses Randy Travis
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  Time Alan Parsons Project
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  Time of Dying Three Days Grace
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  Together Again Evanescence
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  Tonight Iggy Pop
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  Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel Barenaked Ladies
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  Torn To Pieces Pop Evil
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  Travelin' Soldier Chicks, The
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  Unbound (The Wild Ride) Avenged Sevenfold
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  Until It Sleeps Metallica
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  Untitled Simple Plan
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  Vanilla Twilight Owl City
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  Wake me Up When September Ends Green Day
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  Welcome To Dying Blind Guardian
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  Welcome to the Black Parade My Chemical Romance
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  What Sarah Said Death Cab For Cutie
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  When I Die Young Perry Como
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  When I Get Where I'm Going Brad Paisley
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  When I Look to the Sky Train
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  When We Die Bowling for Soup
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  When You're Gone Avril Lavigne
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  Who Knew Pink
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  Who Wants Flowers When You're Dead? Nobody Bring Me the Horizon
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  Who Wants To Live Forever Queen
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  Who You'd Be Today Kenny Chesney
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  Why Rascal Flatts
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  Why Annie Lennox
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  Why I Am Dave Matthews Band
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  Without the Bitter the Sweet isn't as Sweet Mayday Parade
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  World Spins Madly On Weepies, The
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  Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then) Decemberists, The
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  You Found Me Fray, The
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  You Owe Me Chainsmokers, The
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  Youth of the Nation P.O.D.

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