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Here is a list of songs about death:
Fear of death
[edit]- "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
[edit]- "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
[edit]- "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
[edit]- "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
[edit]- "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
[edit]- "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