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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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  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 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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  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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