Morbid Songs. (I know, I shouldn't go here)

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I heard a piece of a song:

  • Honey, you’ll know that
    You’d been loved
    For I’ll go, I’ll go to my grave,
    To my grave, to my grave
    Lovin’ you
    Lovin’ you
    Lovin’ you *

Morbid love songs fascinate me.

I need to know more of them.

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Does “Killing Me Softly With His Song” count?

That song really creeped me out when I was a kid, because I took it literally.

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I Want My Baby Back - Jimmy Cross

It’s not about Chili’s ribs.

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Nice!

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This classic

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If You Leave Me Tonight I’ll Cry - Jerry Wallace

The song itself isn’t that morbid, but the story behind it leans that way: The first verse and change was written for the Night Gallery episode, “The Tune In Dan’s Cafe.” Wallace took his check and went home and the epi aired some months later. The day after airing, radio stations started getting calls about the song. Lots of calls. Wallace made a mad dash back to the studio to record a full version which went to #1 on the country charts.

You’ll have to catch the episode to see how it’s used. Don’t want to give it all away.

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Long Black Veil - Johnny Cash

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Nm

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Listening to that song made me want to slit my wrists. Very morbid.

(:))
Nice backstory, tho’

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Norah Jones’s Miriam

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I saw that NG episode. Creeped me out when I heard that song coming from a record store some time later.

All By Myself - Eric Clapton

Morbid in that kind of self pitying way.

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^ Eric Carmen

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Take your pick from Nick Cave’s Murder Ballards.
“Where the Wild Roses Grow,” being the most well known.

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Last Kiss

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Can get much morbider(?) than DOA by Bloodrock

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Harry Chapin had several:

  • “The Shortest Story”, about a baby that starves to death at age 3 weeks.
  • “Dogtown”, about a nineteenth century whaling town where the men keep dying at sea, and the women are left only with their dogs for comfort. One woman takes this a bit far.
  • “Sniper”, about a disaffected loner who climbs the clock tower in the middle of town and begins shooting to prove that he exists.
  • “Burning Herself”, about a woman who practices self-harm.
  • “Dance Band on the Tiranic”, about, well, pretty much what it says.
  • “Bummer”, about an abused kid who grows into a life of crime, goes off to Viet Nam, becomes a war hero, then comes home and gets killed robbing a grocery store.

Probably more I can’t remember off the top of my head.

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How the hell am I first in with that ode to cannibalism, Timothy by The Bouys?

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I think that Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” would fit this list, as well.

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Current 93: The Blue Gates of Death

Everyone reaches
the Blue Gates of Death…

Every road has its end.

Your love is with me always
I shall remember you
in the darkness
That’s to come.

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The 50s and 60s had all those dead teenager songs like Tell Laura I Love Her and Teen Angel.