User:DanTD/songs/List of songs about death

Here is a list of songs about death:

Fear of death

• "Arc of Time (Time Code)" by Bright Eyes
• "Adam's Song" by Blink-182
• "American Pie" by Don McLean
• "Atlantic" by Keane
• "Black Desires" by Rusty Eye
• "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
• "Calling All Stations" by Genesis
• "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke
• "A Most Peculiar Place" by Machine Translations
• "Conversation with Death" by Peter Bellamy
• "Tha Crossroads" by Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony
• "Dance of Death" by Iron Maiden
• "Death and the Lady" by Shirley Collins
• "Death Don't Have No Mercy" by the Reverend Gary Davis
• "Death Have Mercy" by Vera Hall
• "Detroit Rock City" by Kiss
• "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult
• "Escape From Hellview" by CKY
• "The End" by The Doors
• "The End" by My Chemical Romance
• "Fear of Dying" by Jack Off Jill
• "Fear of Heaven" by Rusty Eye
• "Dalai Lama" by Rammstein
• "Feel" by Robbie Williams
• "Fixin' to Die" by Bukka White and Buffy Sainte-Marie
• "Fuck Dying" by Ice Cube feat. KoЯn
• "Funeral Tango" by Jacques Brel and Scott Walker
• "The Ghost of You" by My Chemical Romance
• "Gold Mine Gutted" by Bright Eyes
• "The Great Gig in the Sky" by Pink Floyd
• "Ha Ha You're Dead" by Green Day
• "Having A Blast" by Green Day
• "Hallowed Be Thy Name" by Iron Maiden
• "Heaven Can Wait" by Iron Maiden
• "Hope There's Someone" by Antony and the Johnsons
• "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails
• "I Don't Wanna Die" by The Unicorns
• "The I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin-to-Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish
• "I Hope You Die" by The Bloodhound Gang
• "I Know the Reaper" by Machinae Supremacy
• "It's Not My Time to Go" by Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks
• "In My Darkest Hour" by Megadeth
• "In This River" by Black Label Society
• "Janie's Got A Gun" by Aerosmith
• "Kindhearted Woman" by Robert Johnson
• "Knife Like a Needle (Victim of Misery)" by Gravity Bomb
• "Let There Be Morning" by The Perishers
• "Le Moribond" by Jacques Brel
• "Love Becomes a Ghost" by Scarling.
• "The Mercy Seat" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• "Murder" by Coldplay
• "My Death" by Jacques Brel and Scott Walker
• "My Name is Death" by The Incredible String Band
• "Necrophobic" by Slayer
• "Not Now" by Blink-182
• "O Death" by Camper Van Beethoven
• "O Death" by Ralph Stanley
• "On The Run" by OMC
• "Platypus (I Hate You)" by Green Day
• "Powerslave" by Iron Maiden
• "Reach For the Sky" by Social Distortion
• "Ride the Lightning" by Metallica
• "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks
• "See That My Grave is Kept Clean" by Blind Lemon Jefferson
• "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" by Radiohead
• "Them Bones" by Alice in Chains
• "A Therapy for Pain" by Fear Factory
• "Thoughts of a Dying Atheist" by Muse
• "Trapped Under Ice" by Metallica
• "What Happens When We Die" by Luke Haines
• "When I'm Dead and Gone" by Status Quo
• "Who Will Take My Place" by Dusty Springfield
• "Will You Miss Me" by The Carter Family
• "World Falls" by the Indigo Girls
• "World Overdose" by Jack Killed Jill

Death of a loved one

• "All The I've Got" by The Used
• "Buried A Lie" by Senses Fail
• "American Pie" by Don McLean
• "High and Low" by Greg Laswell
• "Now I run " by Shannon Noll
• "100%" by Sonic Youth
• "10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)" by Tool
• "A Change of Seasons" by Dream Theater
• "A Dark Congregation" by The Hush Sound
• "A Lifetime" by Better Than Ezra
• "A Little Bit Longer" by Jessica Folcker
• "A Place Nearby" by Lene Marlin
• "A Row of Small Trees" by Garnet Rogers
• "Afterglow" by INXS
• "Ainomieli" by CMX [1]
• "All Hallows Eve" by Type O Negative
• "All Dead, All Dead" by Queen (About guitarist Brian May's childhood cat)
• "All My Love" by Led Zeppelin
• "Alone Again (Naturally)" by Gilbert O'Sullivan (about the death of his mother and his father and how he got stood up at the altar. Dude was having a righteously bad day.)
• "Alone You Breathe" by Savatage
• "Angel" by Sarah McLachlan
• "Angel's Son" by Sevendust
• "Another Day" by Dream Theater (written by guitarist John Petrucci when his father was dying)
• "As Your Voice Fades" by Emery
• "Beautiful" by Jennifer Paige
• "Billy Don't Be a Hero" by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods
• "Black" by Pearl Jam
• "Black Balloon" by The Goo Goo Dolls
• "Block of Wood" by Carbon Leaf
• "Bye Bye" by Mariah Carey
• "(Northbound on) Cahuenga" by Scarling.
• "Camisado" by Panic! At the Disco
• "Candle in the Wind" by Elton John (first written as a tribute to Marilyn Monroe. Later adapted to mourn the loss of Princess Diana.)
• "Cemetery Gates" by Pantera
• "Coma White" by Marilyn Manson
• "Comfort in Sound" by Feeder
• "Country Death Song" by The Violent Femmes
• "Cremation" by Lou Reed
• "Cries of the Past" by Underoath
• "Dance" by Nas
• "Dance with My Father" by Luther Vandross
• "Danny Boy", a Celtic folk song
• "Darkness and Light" by Yonder Mountain String Band
• "David's Lamentation" by The Watersons
• "Days of Graduation" by Drive-By Truckers
• "Death Blooms" by Mudvayne(about Chad Gray's grandmother nearing death and being neglected by family members)
• "Death of a Martian" by The Red Hot Chili Peppers (about the death of Martian, Flea's dog)
• "Death Letter Blues" by Son House
• "Dick & Jane" by Bobby Vinton
• "Died" by Alice in Chains
• "Disappear" by Dream Theater
• "Down in a Hole" by Alice in Chains
• "Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor" by Eels
• "Empire of Light" by Tin Hat Trio
• "Empty Garden" by Elton John (about the death of John Lennon)
• "End of the Line" by The Offspring
• "Eulogy for Emma" by Nerissa and Katryna Nields
• "Even in Death" by Evanescence
• "Everyone I Love is Dead" by Type O Negative
• "Everything Dies" by Type O Negative
• "Experience" by Toyah Willcox
• "Fiction" by Avenged Sevenfold (about the death of former bandmate Jimmy Sullivan)
• "Fifteenth & T" by Swingin' Utters
• "Fond Farewell" by Elliott Smith
• "For a Friend" by Jimmy Somerville
• "For Justin" Dashboard Confessional (about the death of his cousin)
• "For My Fallen Angel" by My Dying Bride
• "Forever Free" by W.A.S.P.
• "Forsaken (Vocal Version)" by VNV Nation
• "God's Top Ten" by INXS
• "Goin' Out" by Sarah Harmer
• "Gone Away" by The Offspring
• "Gone Without Goodbye" by Brian Littrell
• "Good Die Young" by D12
• "Good Man" by India.Arie
• "Goodbye" by Patty Griffin
• "Green Spandex" by Xavier Rudd
• "Halloween Parade" by Lou Reed
• "Happy Birthday" by Flipsyde
• "Hear You Me" by Jimmy Eat World
• "Helena" by My Chemical Romance
• "Hello" by Evanescence
• "Hey God" by Vince Gill
• "Hi Flyer" by theSTART
• "Hold On" by Sarah McLachlan
• "Hollow" by Pantera
• "How Long Will They Mourn Me" by 2Pac
• "How to Save a Life" by The Fray
• "Hurt" by Christina Aguilera
• "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" by Dead Can Dance
• "I Believe" by Diamond Rio
• "I Can Never Go Home Anymore" by The Shangri-Las
• "I Don't Believe in Love" by Queensrÿche (deals with the death of the fictional Sister Mary in the concept album Operation: Mindcrime)
• I Had A Dream by Chamillionaire
• "I Miss You" by blink-182
• "I Miss You" by ...and Then I Turned Seven...
• "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie
• "I Will Be There When You Die" by My Morning Jacket
• "If Heaven" by Andy Griggs
• "If I Die 2Nite" by 2Pac
• "If I Die Tomorrow" by Mötley Crüe
• "If You Were Here" by Poe
• "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy ft. Faith Evans
• "In Loving Memory" by Alter Bridge
• "In This Life" by Madonna
• "Into the West" from "The Return of the King"
• "Invincible" by Jesse McCartney
• "J.A.R.(Jason Andrew Relva)" by Green Day
• "Je moest waarschijnlijk gaan" by Brainpower
• "Jed The Humanoid" by Grandaddy
• "Jericho" by Hilary Duff (from the film Raise Your Voice)
• "Jumper" by Third Eye Blind
• "Klavier" by Rammstein
• "Lady D'Arbanville" by Cat Stevens
• "Lake Charles" by Lucinda Williams
• "Last Kiss" by Wayne Cochran Performed by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers and Pearl Jam
• "Late" by Ben Folds
• "Lazyboy" by the Indigo Girls
• "Leader of the Pack" by The Shangri-Las
• "Letter to Alan" by Cold Chisel
• "Life Goes On" by 2Pac
• "Life Without You" by Stevie Ray Vaughan
• "Like You" by Evanescence
• "Lightning Crashes" by Live (about death in childbirth)
• "Limousine (MS Rebridge)" by Brand New
• "Lisa" — 3rd Strike
• "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw (Mentions the death of his father, former Major League pitcher Tug McGraw)
• "Local Boy in the Photograph" by Stereophonics
• "Long, Long Before Your Time" (Irish folk song)
• "Long Ride Home" by Patty Griffin
• "Los malaventurados no lloran" by Panda
• "Love is Blind" by Eve
• "Love, Me" by Collin Raye (sometimes accredited as "If you get there before I do")
• "Leslie Ann Levine" by The Decemberists
• "Lucy" by The Hollies
• "Lullabye" by Billy Joel
• "Lydia" by Slaid Cleaves
• "Mama Said" by Metallica
• "Me and My Bitch" by Notorious B.I.G.
• "Missing You" by Diana Ross
• "Moonight Shadow" by Missing Heart (from Dance Dance Revolution)
• "Mourning Son" by Dave Navarro
• "Moving On" by Toya
• "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion (from Titanic)
• "My Immortal" by Evanescence
• "My Angel" by Kellie Pickler
• "Nebel" by Rammstein
• "Napalm in the Morning" by Sodom
• "Never Gone" by Backstreet Boys
• "Never Went to Church" by The Streets
• "Night Shift" by the Commodores (san Lionel Richie) (about the death of Marvin Gaye)
• "No-One But You (Only the Good Die Young) by Brian May and Roger Taylor
• "Nona" by Mötley Crüe
• "Not Even The Trees" by Hootie & The Blowfish
• "Not Now" by Blink-182
• "November Rain" by Guns N Roses
• "Nur Zu Besuch" by Die Toten Hosen
• "Once in a Lifetime" by Wolfsheim
• "Ohne Dich" by Rammstein
• "One Headlight" by The Wallflowers
• "One Last Goodbye" by Anathema
• "One More Arrow" by Elton John
• "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men
• "Only the Good Die Young" by Iron Maiden (last song on their concept album "Seventh Son of a Seventh Son" about the death of the seventh son of a seventh son)
• "Open Casket" by Death
• "Our Farewell" by Within Temptation
• "Pain of Tragedy" by Cold fusion
• "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones
• "People Who Died" by The Jim Carroll Band
• "Pictures of You" by The Cure
• "Pink Frost" by The Chills
• "Pints of Guinness Make You Strong" by Against Me!
• "Poison Oak" by Bright Eyes
• "Pretty" — Korn
• "Quick Fade" by Feeder
• "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)" by Type O Negative
• "Remember" by Josh Groban
• "Rest in Peace" by Brownside
• "Rocky" by Austin Roberts
• "Rose of Sharyn" by Killswitch Engage
• "Say Goodbye" by Girlyman
• "Say Hello 2 Heaven" by Temple of the Dog
• "Sei Ma Le Losa" by Te Vaka
• "Shannon" by Henry Gross (Shannon was his dog. This song is about the death of a pet.)
• "Shores of the Swilly" Irish folk song
• "Since I Lost You" by Genesis
• "Six Feet Deep Geto Boys
• "Sleep:Less" by Icon of Coil
• "Slipped Away" by Avril Lavigne
• "Sodom South Georgia" by Iron & Wine
• "Soil" by System of a Down
• "Some Fantastic Place" by Squeeze
• "Some Mother's Son" by The Kinks
• "Someone's Watching Over Me" by Hilary Duff (from the film Raise Your Voice)
• "Sonny" by New Found Glory
• "Steps Ascending" by Thursday
• "Steven" by Senses Fail
• "St. James Infirmary" (many versions)
• "Suicide Child" by The Nuns
• "Take Away My Pain" by Dream Theater - written by guitarist John Petrucci about the death of his father
• "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton
• "Teardrops And Closed Caskets" by 2Pac
• "Teen Angel" by Mark Dinning
• "Tha Crossroads" by Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
• "The Beekeeper" by Tori Amos
• "The Dance" by Garth Brooks
• "The First Fall of Snow" by Hank Williams
• "The Funeral" by Hank Williams
• "The Good Die Young" by 2Pac
• "The Last Day on Earth" by Kate Miller-Heidke
• "The Rocket" by Fred Eaglesmith
• "The Way You Lived" by CKY
• "Those Gambler's Blues" by Jimmie Rodgers
• "The Real Folk Blues" by The Seatbelts (from Cowboy Bebop)
• "The Underwater Song" by theSTART
• "This is Not Goodbye" by Melissa Etheridge
• "This Time" by Wolfsheim
• "Toby" by The Chi-lites
• "To Live and Die in L.A." by 2Pac
• "To Live is To Die" by Metallica (an instrumental inspired by the death of bassist Cliff Burton, contains many riffs and finally a poem, all written by Burton before his death)
• "Travelling Soldier" by Dixie Chicks
• "Two Twenty Nine" by Brave Saint Saturn (deals with the death of Reese Ropers grandmother)
• "Understanding in a Car Crash" by Thursday
• "Unmarked Grave" by David Thomas Broughton
• "Until it Sleeps" by Metallica (about the loss of James Hetfield's mother to cancer)
• "Untitled" by Simple Plan
• "Vermillion Part 2" by Slipknot
• "Vertebrae" by Christine Fellows
• "View From Heaven" by Yellowcard
• "Vivica" By Jack Off Jill
• "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day
• "Watching Over Me" by Iced Earth
• "Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance
• "We'll Burn the Sky" by Scorpions
• "What Sarah Said" by Death Cab for Cutie
• "When the Great Man Falls" by Jim Infantino
• "When the Rain Falls" by Zetta Bytes (from the film Pixel Perfect)
• "When You Come Back to Me Again" by Garth Brooks
• "Where I'm Bound Patty Loveless
• "White Lightning" by Def Leppard
• "Who You'd Be Today" by Kenny Chesney
• "Who Knew" by Pink
• "Will the Circle Be Unbroken" by The Staple Singers
• "Winter" by Bayside (band)
• "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from The Phantom of the Opera
• "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd
• "With You in Your Dreams" by Hanson
• "World of Our Own Making" by Merrie Amsterburg
• "Yearbook" by Hanson
• "Yesterdays" by Switchfoot
• "You Can Still Be Free" by Savage Garden
• "You Never Know" by Immortal Technique
• "You Were Here" by Sarah Harmer (about the death of her friend and former bandmate Joe Chithalen)
• "You'll Be There" by George Strait
• "Missing You" by 1st Lady
• "Gone Too Soon" by Simple Plan

Philosophising about death

• "100 Years" by Five for Fighting
• "A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit" by Burzum
• "A Most Peculiar Man" by Simon and Garfunkel
• "A Perfect Sonnet" by Bright Eyes
• "Abschied nehmen" by Xavier Naidoo
• "Alles Ist Eins" by Die Toten Hosen
• "And the Hero Will Drown" by Story of the Year
• "And When I Die" by Laura Nyro
• "Annabelle" by Gillian Welch
• "Anthem of Our Dying Day" by Story of the Year
• "At My Funeral" by The Crash Test Dummies
• "A Tout le Monde" by Megadeth
• "Boo" by Pinback
• "Can You Dig It?" by The Monkees
• "Cancer" by My Chemical Romance
• "Certain Death" by Rusty Eye
• "Cold Cold Ground" by Tom Waits
• "Cold Wind" by Arcade Fire
• "Crazy" by Gnarls Barkley
• "Creeping Death" by Metallica
• "Dead" by They Might Be Giants
• "Dead!" by My Chemical Romance
• "Dear Old Battlefield" by The Incredible String Band
• "Death Comes Calling" by Everlast
• "Death Comes Ripping" by The Misfits
• "Death in Fire" by Amon Amarth
• "Death is Not the End" by Bob Dylan
• "Declaration of Freedom" by Laibach
• "Descend the Shades of Night" — Machine Head
• "Die for My Sins" by Sanctuary
• "Die With me" by Type O Negative
• "Die With Your Boots On" by Iron Maiden
• "Do You Realize??" by The Flaming Lips
• "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult
• "Dust in the Wind" by Kansas
• "Easy/Lucky/Free" by Bright Eyes
• "Eclipse" by Pink Floyd
• "Emo Screamo" by Joshua Visbal
• "Eulogy by Five Iron Frenzy
• "Eulogy" by Tool
• "Eye of the Hurricane" by David Wilcox
• "Fallen Angels" by Aerosmith
• "Famous Last Words" by My Chemical Romance
• "Fates Warning" by Iron Maiden
• "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" by The Flaming Lips
• "Fight Fire With Fire" by Metallica
• "Forgive Me" by Proof of D12 f/ 50 Cent
• "For Those Who Died" by Cradle of Filth
• "Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd
• "Funeral Song" by Crash Test Dummies
• "Going Down to Die" by Danzig
• "Grave Digger" by Dave Matthews
• "Green Man" by Type O Negative
• "Ha Ha You're Dead" by Green Day
• "Haltet die Welt an" by Glashaus
• "Heaven Can Wait" by Iron Maiden
• "High Hopes by Pink Floyd
• "Hold On" by Good Charlotte
• "I Am Going to Hell For This One" by NOFX
• "I Remember You" by Slim Whitman
• "I Seen A Man Die" by Scarface
• "I Will Follow You Into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie
• "Idumea" by The Young Tradition
• "In My Time of Dying" by Led Zeppelin
• "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel
• "Infinite Dreams" by Iron Maiden
• "Join Me In Death" by HIM
• "Lady in Green" by Mary Coughlan
• "Life'll Kill Ya" by Warren Zevon
• "Life's So Hard" by Tupac Shakur
• "Like a Stone" by Audioslave
• "Live Like You Were Dying" by Tim McGraw
• "Long Hard Road Out of Hell" by Marilyn Manson
• "Lost in a Contraption" by CKY
• "Pretty Suicide" by Space
• "Primary" by The Cure
• "Meet You There" by Simple Plan
• "Mensch" by Herbert Grönemeyer
• "Morte O Merce" by Unto Ashes
• "Mother Love" by Queen
• "Musta Sulhanen" by Jani & The Jetsetters
• "No More Lies" by Iron Maiden
• "No Prayer For the Dying" by Iron Maiden
• "Nothing is Not" by Morbid Angel
• "One Last Breath" by Creed
• "One of These Days" by Spacehog
• "Pity the Dead" by Bad Religion
• "Pull Me Under" by Dream Theater
• "Pull the Plug" by Death
• "Question" by System of a Down
• "Redemption Song" by Bob Marley
• "Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On" by Dream Theater
• "Second Skin" by The Chameleons
• "Shadow Lover" by Mercedes Lackey
• "Silent Lucidity" by Queensrÿche
• "Slipped Away" by Avril Lavigne
• "Soil" by System of a Down
• "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum
• "Streets of Heaven" by Sherrie Austin
• "Suicidal Thoughts" by Notorious B.I.G.
• "Sunrise, Sunset" by Bright Eyes
• "The Big Sleep" by Streetlight Manifesto
• "The Call of Ktulu" by Metallica
• "The Great Gig in the Sky" by Pink Floyd
• "The Lyke Wake Dirge" by Pentangle
• "The Old Folks" by Jacques Brel
• "The Remembrance Ballad" by Atreyu
• "The Show Must Go On" by Queen
• "The Truth About Heaven" by Armor for Sleep
• "Thoughts of a Dying Atheist" by Muse
• "Together Again" by Janet Jackson
• "Top of the World" by The Dixie Chicks
• "Trapped Under Ice" by Metallica
• "Videotape" by Radiohead
• "Voice of the Soul" by Death
• "Wake Up" by Arcade Fire
• "Was It All Worth It?" by Queen
• "Weathered" by Creed
• "Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance
• "We're Only Going To Die" by Bad Religion
• "When God Comes and Gathers His Jewels" by Hank Williams
• "When I Go" by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
• "When The Angels Sing" by Social Distortion
• "What Happens When We Die?" by Luke Haines
• "Who By Fire" by Leonard Cohen
• "Who Wants to Live Forever?" by Queen
• "Why Must We Die?" by Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Joel Zifkin
• "Wings For Marie" by Tool
• "World Without End" by Five Iron Frenzy
• "Worms" by The Pogues
• "Searching for a Former Clarity" by Against Me!
• "Jesus Christ" by Brand New

Murder

• "18 and Life" by Skid Row
• "1963" by New Order
• "99 to Life" by Social Distortion
• "Almas de Venta" by Brujeria
• "American Psycho II" by D12 f/ B-Real of Cypress Hill
• "Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen
• "Anything" by Macarbe
• "Battery" by Metallica
• "Beheaded" by The Offspring
• "Black Friday" by Megadeth
• "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
• "Body Snatchers Forever" by Leathermouth
• "Bullets" by Creed
• "Cassie" by Flyleaf
• "Cat-Eye Willie Claims His Lover" by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
• "Chainsaw" by GGFH
• "Chapter Four" by Avenged Sevenfold
• "Cocaine Blues" by Johnny Cash
• "Cop Killer" by Body Count
• "Dancin' With Manson" by Therapy?
• "The Death of Sarah Lucas" by Luke Haines
• "Delia's Gone" by Johnny Cash
• "Delilah" by Tom Jones
• "Deliverance" by Opeth
• "Die, Die, My Darling" by The Misfits
• "Drop Dead" by Space
• "England Made Me" by Black Box Recorder
• "Excitable Boy" by Warren Zevon
• "Fantasy Bag" by Therapy?
• "Fish Fry" by Big Black
• "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash
• "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Metallica (5 Guys get murdered on a hill)
• "Frankie" by Mississippi John Hurt (Frankie murders Albert for unfaithfulness)
• "Getting Away With Murder" by Papa Roach
• "Go to Sleep" DMX f/ Eminem and Obie Trice (Cradle 2 the Grave Soundtrack)
• "Goodbye Earl" by The Dixie Chicks
• "Grinder" by Big Black
• "Harvester of Sorrow" by Metallica
• "Heaven Sent" by Esthero
• "Hey Joe" by Billy Roberts, later recorded by Jimi Hendrix
• "How I Could Just Kill a Man" by Cypress Hill
• "House of 1000 Corpses" by Rob Zombie
• "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats
• "I Never Told You What I Do for a Living" by My Chemical Romance
• "I Shot the Sheriff" by Bob Marley & the Wailers
• "I Used to Love Her" by Guns N' Roses
• "ICU" by Hatestar
• "I'll Kill You" by X Japan
• "I'll Sink Manhattan" by They Might Be Giants
• "It Snows in Hell" by Lordi
• "It's Not a Fashion Statement, It's a Fucking Deathwish" by My Chemical Romance
• "Janie's Got a Gun" by Aerosmith
• "Jungle Telegraph" by Eels
• "Killers" by Iron Maiden
• "Kill All Your Friends" by My Chemical Romance
• "Kill Me" by Space
• "Kill Ramierez" by Baader Meinhof
• "Kill You" by Eminem
• "Kill You" by Korn
• "Killing an Arab" by The Cure
• "Killing is My Business" by Megadeth
• "Kim" by Eminem
• "Klavier" by Rammstein
• "Life I Left Behind" by Aiden
• "Last Caress" by The Misfits
• "Like Suicide" by Soundgarden(lyrics suggest it is about a murder which is covered up as a suicide)
• "Little Musgrave" by Christy Moore
• "Little Sir Hugh" by Steeleye Span
• "Long Lankin" by Steeleye Span
• "Loved to Death" by Megadeth
• "Mack the Knife" by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, later recorded by Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin
• "Mama's Gotta Die Tonight" by Body Count
• "Masters of War" by Bob Dylan
• "Me and Jesus the Pimp in the '79 Grenada Last Night" by The Coup
• "Me and the Moon" by Something Corporate
• "Mein Teil" by Rammstein
• "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by The Beatles
• "Melody Motel" by Squeeze
• "Midnight Creeper" by Eagles of Death Metal
• "Midnight Rambler" by The Rolling Stones
• "Mr. E. Leon Rauis" by Rasputina
• Most songs by Cannibal Corpse
• "Murder" by David Gilmour
• "Murder in the Rue Morgue" by Iron Maiden
• "Murder Was the Case They Gave Me" by Leathermouth
• "My Bloody Valentine" by Good Charlotte
• "Nine Bullets" by Drive-By Truckers
• "Nothing to Gein" by Mudvayne
• "Ode" by Creed
• "Ol'Evil Eye" by ICP
• "Omie Wise" by Doc Watson
• "Possum Kingdom" by Toadies {about a murder in Texas}
• "Preston Miller" by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer
• "Psycho Killer" by Talking Heads
• "Rapture" - Hurt
• "Rastus Russell" by Adrienne Young
• "Ride the Wings of Pestilence" by From First to Last
• "Rio Bravo" by CKY
• "Run Rabbit Run" by Rob Zombie
• "Sadie" by Alkaline Trio - about the Charles Manson murders
• "Saturday Night" by The Misfits
• "Seasons in the Abyss" by Slayer
• "Seek and Destroy" by Metallica
• "Sniped" by CKY
• "Stagger Lee" by Lloyd Price
• "Steelworker" by Big Black
• "Subway Song" by The Cure
• "The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-34)" by Elton John
• "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" by Bob Dylan
• "The Mariner's Revenge Song" by The Decemberists
• "The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence
• "Timothy" by The Buoys
• "Tom Dooley" by Doc Watson
• "Trephination" by Machine Head
• "Two Weeks From Twenty" by Yellowcard
• "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Warrant
• "Unsolved Child Murder" by The Auteurs
• "Valley of Chrome" by Cypress Hill
• "Victoria" by Saigon Kick
• "Washington Bullets" by The Clash
• "The Wedding List" by Kate Bush
• "Welcome to Jamrock" by Damian Marley
• "Wet Job" by Fingerprintz
• "What Sarah Said" by Death Cab for Cutie
• "Where the Wild Roses Grow" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds & Kylie Minogue
• "Where is She?" by The Killers
• "Who Killed Davey Moore?" by Bob Dylan
• "With God on Our Side" by Bob Dylan
• "You're All I Need" by Mötley Crüe
• "Youth of the Nation" by P.O.D.

Suicide

• "2112" by Rush
• "A Better Place, A Better Time" by Streetlight Manifesto
• "A Message for Adrienne" by Underoath
• "Adam's Song" by blink-182
• "Adios" by Rammstein
• "À tout le Monde" by Megadeth
• "Asleep" by The Smiths
• "Beyond the Gray Sky" by 311
• "Beyond the Realms of Death" by Judas Priest
• "Blasphemous Rumours" by Depeche Mode
• "Can't Stand Losing You" by The Police
• "Car Underwater" by Armor for Sleep
• "Cemetery Drive" by My Chemical Romance
• "Change Your Mind" by The All-American Rejects
• "Chop Suey!" by System of a Down
• "Cryonic Suspension" by Rusty Eye
• "Death, Come Near Me" by Draconian
• "Death in Paris" by Vennaskond
• "Diamond Smiles" by The Boomtown Rats
• "Disappoint" by Assemblage 23
• "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult
• "Don't Hold Your Breath" by CKY
• "Drastic Actions" by Bad Religion
• "Elevator" by Box Car Racer
• "Everything Ends" by Slipknot
• "Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M.
• "Fade to Black" by Metallica
• "Forgiven" by Within Temptation
• "Goodbye, We're Falling Fast" by Aiden
• "Goodbye, I'm Sorry" by ...And Then I Turned Seven
• "Hold On" by Good Charlotte
• "Holy Enthusia" by Hatestar
• "Homecoming/ The Death Of Saint Jimmy" by Green Day
• "I Won't See You Tonight" by Avenged Sevenfold
• "In My Darkest Hour" by Megadeth
• "Jeremy" by Pearl Jam
• "Killing Machine" by Judas Priest
• "Kurt Kobain" by Proof of D12
• "Last Resort" by Papa Roach
• "Like You" by Evanescence
• "Lookout Mountain" by Drive-By Truckers
• "Miss Murder" by AFI
• "Music to Commit Suicide By" by Roy Wood
• "Nice Shot" by Filter
• "Nine Bullets" by Drive-By Truckers
• "No Lies, Just Love" by Bright Eyes
• "Ode to Billie Joe" by Bobbie Gentry
• "One" by Metallica
• "Otherside" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Pepper" by Butthole Surfers
• "Reva Thereafter" by Girlyman
• "Revelation" by D12
• "Richard Cory" by Simon & Garfunkel
• "Richard Hung Himself" by D.I.
• "Roses for the Dead" by Funeral for a Friend
• "Say Goodbye" by Girlyman (other interpretations may exist
• "Self-Destruction" by Hatestar
• "Schneller Leben" by Die Ärzte
• "Silent Waters" by Rusty Eye
• "Skin 'O My Teeth" by Megadeth
• "Slit Wrist Theory" by 36 Crazyfists
• "So Sick of Living This Ridiculous, Faker's Life" by Wristy & The Sunken Glass
• "Soil" by System of a Down
• "Speed Me Towards Death" by Rob Dougan
• "SRXT" by Bloc Party
• "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of" by U2 – dedicated specifically to the 1997 suicide of INXS singer Michael Hutchence
• "Stan" by Eminem
• "Suicidal Jet" by Unlucky Helldrivers
• "Suicidal Thoughts" by The Notorious B.I.G.
• "Suicide" by Motörhead
• "Suicide" by Thin Lizzy
• "Suicide Chump" by Frank Zappa
• "Suicide's an Alternative/You'll Be Sorry" by Suicidal Tendencies
• "Suicide Hotline" by Insane Clown Posse
• "Suicide Letters" by Tech N9ne
• "Suicide Note" by Pantera
• "Suicide Note" by Kyle Spratt
• "Suicide is Painless" by Johnny Mandel (with vocals theme from the Movie MASH 1970, instrumental version theme of TV show MASH 1972-83)
• "Suicide Solution" by Ozzy Osbourne
• "Surm Pariisis" by Vennaskond
• "The Final" by Dir en grey
• "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" by The Smiths
• "Till My Head Falls Off" by They Might Be Giants
• "Today" by The Smashing Pumpkins
• "Tomorrow is Today" by Billy Joel
• "Tourniquet" by Evanescence
• "Try Not to Breathe" by R.E.M.
• "Under the Bridge" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Uptight" by Green Day
• "What's This Life For" by Creed
• "When I'm Dead" by Stabbing Westward
• "When It Rains" by Paramore
• "Why" by Rascal Flatts
• "Waltzing Matilda", Australian folk song, involves a swagman killing himself in a billabong
• "Yes, the River Knows" by The Doors

Combat

• "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits
• "Civil War" by Guns N' Roses
• "Disposable Heroes" by Metallica
• "Hero of War" by Rise Against
• "I Want You to Live" by George Canyon
• "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" by Bob Dylan
• "Love Vigilantes" by New Order
• "Manditory Suicide" by Slayer
• "One" by Metallica
• "Rooster" by Alice in Chains
• "The Trooper" by Iron Maiden
• "The Last Letter From Home" by Dropkick Murphys
• "Trading War Stories" by 2Pac
• "Two Weeks from Twenty" by Yellowcard
• "Zombie" by The Cranberries
• "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" by Pete Seeger
• "Mama" by My Chemical Romance