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 -
53rd and 3rd
Ramones, The -
97' Bonnie And Clyde
Eminem -
A Day In The Life
Beatles -
Adam's Song
Blink 182 -
Afterlife
Avenged Sevenfold -
All Dead, All Dead
Queen -
All I Know
Art Garfunkel -
All Things Must Pass
George Harrison -
All Things Must Pass
Beatles -
Alligator Sky
Owl City -
Alone Again, Naturally
Gilbert O'Sullivan -
Always Be Together
Little Mix -
Amen Omen
Ben Harper -
American Pie
Don McLean -
And When I Die
Blood Sweat & Tears -
Angel
Sarah McLachlan -
Angel's Son
Sevendust -
Angels in Waiting
Tammy Cochran -
Arc of Time
Bright Eyes -
Band on the Run
Paul McCartney -
Barely Speaking a Word
Lori McKenna -
Beneath With Me
Kaskade -
Best Seat in the House
LoCash Cowboys -
Blasphemous Rumours
Depeche Mode -
Bleed (I Must Be Dreaming)
Evanescence -
Blind
Lifehouse -
Blowin' In the Wind
Bob Dylan -
Breathe
Taylor Swift -
Breathe No More
Evanescence -
Bright Eyes
Art Garfunkel -
Broken
Seether -
Brompton Cocktail
Avenged Sevenfold -
Burma Shave
Tom Waits -
Bye Bye
Mariah Carey -
Call Me
Shinedown -
Can't Hardly Wait
Replacements, The -
Cancer
My Chemical Romance -
Candle in the Wind
Elton John -
Carrying Cathy
Ben Folds -
Cassie
Flyleaf -
Castles Made of Sand
Jimi Hendrix -
Cemetery Drive
My Chemical Romance -
Cemetery Gates
Pantera -
Certain People I Could Name
They Might Be Giants -
Chop Suey
System of a Down -
Cleanin' Out My Closet
Eminem -
Clouds
Zach Sobiech -
Cocaine Blues
Johnny Cash -
Coffin
Black Veil Brides -
Could it be Any Harder
Calling, The -
Country Bumpkin
Cal Smith -
Dance with the Devil
Immortal Technique -
Dark Paradise
Lana Del Rey -
Dead
Buckcherry -
Dead 'n Gone
69 Eyes, The -
Dead and Bloated
Stone Temple Pilots -
Dead in Ditches
Hollywood Undead -
Dead Man's Curve
Jan & Dean -
Dead On Arrival
Fall Out Boy -
Dead!
My Chemical Romance -
Death
White Lies -
Death and Destruction
Weezer -
Death at the Chapel
Horrors, The -
Death Be Thy Name
Venom -
Death Blooms
Mudvayne -
Death Certificate for a Beauty Queen
I Killed The Prom Queen -
Death Day
Alien Ant Farm -
Death Is In Love With Us
H.I.M -
Death is Quick
Hey Rosetta! -
Death of an Interior Decorator
Death Cab For Cutie -
Death Whispered a Lullaby
Opeth -
Destination: Moon
They Might Be Giants -
Detroit Rock City
Kiss -
Die Young
Kesha -
Don't Fear the Reaper
Blue Oyster Cult -
Don't Take the Girl
Tim McGraw -
Don't Wake Me
Skillet -
Don't You Worry Child
Swedish House Mafia -
Doomsday
Atreyu -
Dragula
Rob Zombie -
Drink A Beer
Luke Bryan -
Drops of Jupiter
Train -
Dust in the Wind
Kansas -
Dying
Stone Sour -
Eleanor Rigby
Beatles -
Empty Garden (Hey Hey Johnny)
Elton John -
Eulogy
Tool -
Even in Death
Evanescence -
Fade To Black
Metallica -
Fiction
Avenged Sevenfold -
Field Of Innocence
Evanescence -
Fire and Rain
James Taylor -
Fix You
Coldplay -
Flirted With You All My Life
Vic Chesnutt -
Fly to the Angels
Slaughter -
For You I'll Die
Matchbox 20 -
Freebird
Lynyrd Skynyrd -
Funeral
Band of Horses -
Funeral For A Friend
Elton John -
Give Me a Sign
Breaking Benjamin -
Going Home
Leonard Cohen -
Gone Away
Offspring, The -
Goodnight
Evanescence -
Green, Green Grass of Home
Curly Putman -
Gunslinger
Avenged Sevenfold -
He Stopped Loving Her Today
George Jones -
Helena
My Chemical Romance -
Hello
Evanescence -
Here Without You
3 Doors Down -
Hide and Seek
Imogen Heap -
Hold On
Good Charlotte -
Homesick
MercyMe -
Honey
System of a Down -
Honey
Bobby Goldsboro -
How Can I Help You Say Goodbye
Patty Loveless -
Hurt
Johnny Cash -
Hurt
Christina Aguilera -
I Drive Your Truck
Lee Brice -
I Grieve
Peter Gabriel -
I Miss My Friend
Darryl Worley -
I Miss You
Miley Cyrus -
I Was Here
Beyonce -
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" -
If I Die Young
Band Perry, The -
If Tomorrow Never Comes
Ronan Keating -
If You Came Back From Heaven
Lorrie Morgan -
If you Ever Come Back
Script, The -
If You Say So
Lea Michele -
If You're Reading This
Tim McGraw -
In Loving Memory
Alter Bridge -
In My Time of Dying
Led Zeppelin -
In The End
Linkin Park -
Indiana Wants Me
R Dean Taylor -
Insane
Eminem -
Invincible
Jesse McCartney -
Issues
Escape The Fate -
It's Halloween in Heaven
Type O Negative -
Join Me
H.I.M -
Just Breathe
Pearl Jam -
Just Jones
Danny O'Keefe -
Kids Aren't Alright
Offspring, The -
Kill Me Quickly
Thrice -
Kill You
Korn -
Kill You
Eminem -
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Bob Dylan -
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
Guns N' Roses -
Last Day Alive
Chainsmokers, The -
Last Kiss
Pearl Jam -
Leader of the Band
Dan Fogelberg -
Leader of the Pack
Shangri-Las, The -
Leave Out All The Rest
Linkin Park -
Let It Be
Beatles -
Let It Die
Foo Fighters -
Life in Technicolor II
Coldplay -
Lightning Crashes
Live"lightning crashes, an old mother dies
her intentions fall to the floor
the angel closes her eyes" -
Like You
Evanescence -
Live Like We're Dying
Kris Allen -
Live Like You Were Dying
Tim McGraw -
Living is a Problem Because Everything Dies
Biffy Clyro -
Long Black Train
Josh Turner -
Love, Me
Collin Raye -
Lucy
Skillet -
Lullaby
Nickelback -
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Tom Petty -
Memories
Within Temptation -
Miss Murder
AFI -
My Blue Heaven
Taking Back Sunday -
My Immortal
Evanescence -
My Last Breath
Evanescence -
My Way
Elvis Presley -
Never Forget You
Lupe Fiasco -
Not Now
Blink 182 -
November Rain
Guns N' Roses -
Objects in the Rear View Mirror May Appear Closer than They Are
Meat Loaf -
Ocean Breathes Salty
Modest Mouse -
Ode to Billie Joe
Bobbie Gentry -
Ohio
Neil Young -
Old Rivers
Walter Brennan -
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" -
One Hell Of An Amen
Brantley Gilbert -
One More Suicide
Marcy Playground -
One Sweet Day
Mariah Carey -
Otherside
Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Otherside
Macklemore -
Our Farewell
Within Temptation -
Over You
Miranda Lambert -
Paint It Black
Rolling Stones, The -
Pray For Plagues
Bring Me the Horizon -
Prayer for the Dying
Seal -
Push th' Little Daisies
Ween -
Real Life
Jeff Carson -
Remember
Josh Groban -
Ronan
Taylor Swift -
Roses for Mama
Red Sovine -
Save a Place for Me
Matthew West -
Saviour
Black Veil Brides -
Scar Tissue
Red Hot Chili Peppers -
Seasons in the Sun
Terry Jacks -
Secret Door
Evanescence -
See You On The Other Side
Ozzy Osbourne -
Shadow of the Day
Linkin Park -
Shake Me Down
Cage the Elephant -
Side Of A Bullet
Nickelback -
Slipped Away
Avril Lavigne -
So Far Away
Avenged Sevenfold -
So Long, GoodBye
Sum 41 -
So Long, So Long
Dashboard Confessional -
Some Gave All
Billy Ray Cyrus -
Stan
Eminem -
Straw Hat And Old Dirty Hank
Barenaked Ladies -
Street Hassle
Lou Reed -
Surrender
Evanescence -
Suzy and Jeffrey
Blondie -
Tears In Heaven
Eric Clapton -
Tha Crossroads
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony -
That's My Job
Conway Twitty -
The Art of Dying
George Harrison -
The Beekeeper
Tori Amos -
The Class of '57 Had Its Dreams
Statler Brothers, The -
The End
Doors, The -
The Ghost of You
My Chemical Romance -
The Greatest
Sia -
The Ground Folds
Senses Fail -
The Last Song
Elton John -
The Ledge
Replacements, The -
The Living Years
Mike + The Mechanics -
The Man Who Sold The World
Nirvana -
The Man Who Sold the World
David Bowie -
The Other Side
Evanescence -
The Reason
Hoobastank -
The Show Must Go On
Queen -
The Sun is Burning
Simon & Garfunkel -
The Unforgiven II
Metallica -
Them Bones
Alice In Chains -
There is a Light that Never Goes Out
Smiths, The -
This Is How I Disappear
My Chemical Romance -
Thoughts of a Dying Atheist
Muse -
Three Wooden Crosses
Randy Travis -
Time
Alan Parsons Project -
Time of Dying
Three Days Grace -
Together Again
Evanescence -
Tonight
Iggy Pop -
Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel
Barenaked Ladies -
Torn To Pieces
Pop Evil -
Travelin' Soldier
Dixie Chicks -
Unbound (The Wild Ride)
Avenged Sevenfold -
Until It Sleeps
Metallica -
Untitled
Simple Plan -
Vanilla Twilight
Owl City -
Wake me Up When September Ends
Green Day -
Welcome To Dying
Blind Guardian -
Welcome to the Black Parade
My Chemical Romance -
What Sarah Said
Death Cab For Cutie -
When I Die Young
Perry Como -
When I Get Where I'm Going
Brad Paisley -
When I Look to the Sky
Train -
When We Die
Bowling for Soup -
When You're Gone
Avril Lavigne -
Who Knew
Pink -
Who Wants Flowers When You're Dead? Nobody
Bring Me the Horizon -
Who Wants To Live Forever
Queen -
Who You'd Be Today
Kenny Chesney -
Why
Rascal Flatts -
Why
Annie Lennox -
Why I Am
Dave Matthews Band -
Without the Bitter the Sweet isn't as Sweet
Mayday Parade -
World Spins Madly On
Weepies, The -
Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
Decemberists, The -
You Found Me
Fray, The -
You Owe Me
Chainsmokers, The -
Youth of the Nation
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