Top 5 songs about death...

[ZERO THEORY]

Metallica "Fade to Black"
The Smiths "Asleep"
Jedi Mind Tricks "Before the Great Collapse"
Immortal Technique "Dance with the Devil"
How to Destroy Angels "A Drowning"

If you don't make it songs purely about death, I can think of some songs that will really fuck you up. Trent and Kurt both have some songs that make strong allusions to suicide that probably shouldn't be listened to if you're feeling depressed or reckless. Maynard has some stuff that's pretty heavy as well, if you don't need explicit material and allegory will work.

[Irving]

I Googled the top ten saddest songs once. After 10 minutes on Youtube I was thinking, "Why in the world did I want to know this again?"
I never would have heard of the song Concrete Angel had I not been bored online that day.

[th3w01f]

I Googled the top ten saddest songs once. After 10 minutes on Youtube I was thinking, "Why in the world did I want to know this again?"
I never would have heard of the song Concrete Angel had I not been bored online that day.

Hey, I'm only here to help. It's going to take me a few min to listen and respond appropriately. Any post like this deserves a real response, like it, love it or hate it, it will be from the heart.

[Great-Kazoo]

Bloodrock - D.O.A

Aphrodite's Child - 666

Jim Carroll - People who Died

[blacklabel]

Here's one of my top 5.

They tell me that in time everything will be okay
Life goes back to normal
Like before you flew away
They tell me you can see me
So I'm trying not to cry
But sometimes I can't help it since Daddy learned to fly

[th3w01f]

Here's one of my top 5.

Never heard it before, and having some trouble relating to the lyrics. What does the song mean to you?

[th3w01f]

If I ever get a tag I want it to read "demented and sat, yet social"

[blacklabel]

Never heard it before, and having some trouble relating to the lyrics. What does the song mean to you?

It's about a kid struggling with his dad's suicide.

[Irving]

I guess here is one of mine. I think it is more about loss, as only one verse is really about death.

[th3w01f]

Ok, I kind of get this one, but not completely. My grandpa died after my grandparents had been married for 50 years and when we visited my grandma, she could only hold on to her kids; It was impossibly sad to try and show something beyond her vision of life. We were all just extra players at that point.