What Is Your Favorite Song About Dying?

Lush-When I Die

 

James-Moving On

 

My nominee for the greatest country song of all time. Sing it, Possum:

 

seconded the Lush track

 

Prefab Sprout - Doo Wop in Harlem from Jordan the Comeback LP:

 

Jim Carroll - People Who Died

 

Another one I forgot, Billy and Sue by B. J. Thomas:

 

I'll vote for the original French version, "Le Moribond" by Jacques Brel.

 

Geeshie Wiley - "Last Kind Words Blues"

 

"Breakdown Palace", by Grateful Dead.

 

From The Cardigans - LIFE:



Don't miss the album end-piece that starts at around 9' 05''

 

"Danny Deever" - poem by Rudyard Kipling, set to music by Walter Damrosch. Classic recording by the "Quaker Singer" David Bispham.

 

Liebestod (Isolde's Love-Death) from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) sung by Lotte Lehmann.

 

When the Roses Bloom Again - Wilco

 

Dying-XTC

 

Angel Band.

 

"Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails, though I like the Johnny Cash version better.

 

Fallen Angel by King Crimson

 

Spaceship Orion
Song by The Ozark Mountain Daredevils



When the man comes to you
Tells you what you always knew was comin'
You feel it came twice as fast
You always thought the world would last way past you

But now you find
There's nothin' left around you
Spaceship Orion's there
Waiting to part the air above you

Waiting to take you
Waiting to place you
In a world exactly different
From the one you leave behind

If you find it man you're lucky
But it still won't be the same
If can't be like home
It can't feel like home
To you there

It can't be like home
It can't feel like home
To you there
It can't be like home
It can't feel like home
To you there

 

Ding Dong! The Witch Is Dead