# Songs about immortals - like The Highwayman... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 12, 2020, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678 "2020-05-12T23:19:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/21 "2020-05-13T05:18:29Z")
[The Devil In Me](http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOxa_fbpZrA)– John Wesley Harding ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/22 "2020-05-13T06:39:04Z")
[Moon Over Bourbon Street](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_0PkOqLKA) - Sting. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/23 "2020-05-13T08:19:47Z")
[Possum Kingdom](https://youtu.be/EkwD5rQ-_d4) by the Toadies is about a guy wanting to turn a girl into a vampire ---
**Author:** ![ZonexandScout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zonexandscout/32/544_2.png) [@ZonexandScout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZonexandScout)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/24 "2020-05-13T11:36:23Z")
I’m the first with “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner?” I certainly assume that Zevon meant him to be immortal. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/25 "2020-05-13T12:23:29Z")
There are many supernatural elements and figures in Genesis’ “[Supper’s Ready](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szJq1lwnkNw)”, but the best fit of course is the Guaranteed Eternal Sanctuary Man. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/26 "2020-05-13T12:28:38Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Long Black Veil > > _She walks these hills in a long black veil > She visits my grave when the night winds wail > Nobody knows, nobody sees > Nobody knows but me_ Just like “Long Black Veil”, Neil Young’s “[Powderfinger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdPs5YXQTSw)” is told from the POV of a dead man. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/27 "2020-05-13T13:57:41Z")
IIRC, the lyrics in Total Eclipse Of The Heart sound poetic but got written for a literal story about vampires: _“I’m always in the dark”_ isn’t a metaphor, it’s someone saying that, see, forever _is_ gonna start tonight — in that, if a shadow really _does_ happen to be on me all of the time, then my lover and I can have fangs and not age and, if you will, keep holding on forever; no, seriously, I mean that. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/28 "2020-05-13T14:54:34Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > Queen songs from the Highlander soundtrack: > _Who Wants to Live Forever_ A surprisingly haunting song from an otherwise cheesy movie. And it points out one (THE?) of the drawbacks of being immortal- everyone else is sort of ephemeral, even if you fall in love with one. ---
**Author:** ![Grim\_Render](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a87d85/32.png) [@Grim\_Render](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grim_Render)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/29 "2020-05-13T19:48:30Z")
Heather Alexander - Creature of the Woods \* I’ve been alive since time began, Not beast, not god, and yet not man I am the music and the dance, I am the piper who enchants So loose all ties to mortal kind, My pipes shall play within thy mind\* ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/30 "2020-05-13T20:45:38Z")
Lord Huron, “The World Ender” _I’ll never bleed and I won’t ever age I’ll never feel the embrace of the grave The fair and the brave and the good must die I seen the other side of living; I know Heaven’s a lie_ ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2020, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/31 "2020-05-13T20:55:57Z")
Tell Laura I Love Her. The era of that song featured a lot of dead teenager songs. They didn’t necessarily have the person who got dead communicate with the living, though. It was a period of the macabre in pop music. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/32 "2020-05-14T01:55:53Z")
Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac [Tam Lin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy3ihk205ew) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/33 "2020-05-14T05:49:05Z")
In _The Streets of El Paso_, a cowboy narrates the story of how he came to be killed by the friends of another cowboy he killed in a dispute over a woman. The sequel, _Feleena (from El Paso)_ tells the story of his lover, who shot herself upon his death. The last verse concludes: > [@](#): > > Out in El Paso, whenever the wind blows > If you listen closely at night, you’ll hear in the wind > A woman is cryin’, it’s not the wind sighin’ > Old timer’s tell you, Feleena is callin’ for him; > You’ll hear them talkin’ and you’ll hear them walkin’ > You’ll hear them laugh and you’ll look, but there’s no one around > Don’t be alarmed - there is really no harm there > It’s only the young cowboy, showin’ Feleena the town ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/34 "2020-05-14T06:20:00Z")
Tonio K How come I can’t see you in my mirror "\*For instance how come i can’t see you in my mirror? how come you never come around here 'cept at night? how come you won’t say where your family lives and you always look so pale? how come you’ve got that crazy look there in your eyes? Now lately babe, you smell just like a basement and your wardrobe’s down to strictly black and red sometimes at night i can see you down on the pavement sneakin’ around come to think of it, when do you go to bed?\*…" ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/35 "2020-05-14T07:56:02Z")
_And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong, you’ll come a- **Waltzing Matilda** , with me_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/36 "2020-05-14T08:16:14Z")
Xanadu - Rush ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/37 "2020-05-14T10:38:28Z")
“I Don’t Know a Thing About Love” by Conway Twitty, a conversation with the Man in the Moon, who doesn’t understand women any more than we do. “Venus” by Frankie Avalon “God of Thunder” by Kiss “Stay With Me” by Shakespear’s Sister. “You better hope and pray that you make it okay back in your own world…” The personification of Death with Dave McKean visuals, minus the Neil Gaiman charm. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/38 "2020-05-14T10:39:30Z")
“Elvis is Everywhere” by Mojo Nixon. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/39 "2020-05-14T10:52:55Z")
_It’s All Been Done_, by the Barenaked Ladies: he was around before the fall of Rome, and figures on still being around in the 30th century. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678/40 "2020-05-18T21:51:51Z")
Rather implied, though not explicitly stated… Chris de Burgh’s _Don’t Pay the Ferryman_ …who just might be Charron, the boatman of the river\* Styx. :eek: [Plus the ghosts of former passengers providing the title advice.] –G! \*This, of course, would imply the river being crossed is probably not the one the narrator was planning to encounter. :smack: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-immortals-like-the-highwayman/853678.md?page=3)