# Songs About Mortality **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2012, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462 "2012-02-10T21:58:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Viridiana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ebca7d/32.png) [@Viridiana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Viridiana)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/61 "2012-02-13T08:31:31Z")
Time Won’t Wait - Jamiroquai ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/62 "2012-02-13T09:03:22Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > If all the songs you mention in a “Songs About…” thread are country songs, you just might be a redneck. [/Jeff Foxworthy] > > 🙂 Do us Spanish rednecks get a waiver for a) not wanting to repeat songs others have already mentioned and b) not wanting to mention songs most people in these boards wouldn’t understand anyway? No? Oh well. Here, let’s make it redder… You’re Gonna Miss This (Trace Adkins) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/63 "2012-02-13T11:45:16Z")
Joy Division: _The Eternal, Decades, A Means To An End_ ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/64 "2012-02-13T13:49:45Z")
Cats in the cradle - Chapin So young - Coors Forever Young - alpha idle 100 years - ? Free four - Floyd (“you shuffle in the gloom of a sick room, and talk to yourself as you die”, or the more happy part " Life is a short warm moment. Death is a long cold rest") Jack and Diane - JCM Time - APP Reelin in the years - Doobies ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/65 "2012-02-13T16:15:21Z")
These aren’t exactly about mortality but about how life passes quickly: “Sunrise, Sunset” (from _Fiddler on the Roof)_ “Turn Around” (Malvina Reynolds) “When I Grow Up to Be a Man” (Beach Boys) “Nothing to Say” (Kinks) “The Circle Game” (Joni Mitchell) [“Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think”)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjoy_Yourself_%28It%27s_Later_than_You_Think%29) ---
**Author:** ![markm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@markm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markm)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/66 "2012-02-13T17:29:36Z")
End of The Walking Dead last night reminded me of another: “The Regulator” by Clutch ( was gobsmacked when I heard it start playing. “Oh, wow, it’s a Clutch song, on television!” ---
**Author:** ![Empire\_State](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Empire\_State](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Empire_State)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/67 "2012-02-13T20:43:46Z")
[Makers](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qkDobBLNzk) by Rocky Votolato [Body in a Box](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8HPk26gdW0) by City and Colour ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/68 "2012-02-13T21:18:49Z")
D.O.A. by Bloodrock. > [@](#): > > Life is flowing out my body. > Pain is flowing out with my blood. > The sheets are warm and moist where I’m lying. > God in Heaven teach me how to die. That was pretty grim back in 1971. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/69 "2012-02-13T22:34:27Z")
Kate Bush’s song suite _The Ninth Wave_ is about a person lost at sea, who either drowns and is reborn, or experiences a nightmare about drowning and is rescued. Kate is very coy about which one is correct, and has never said one way or the other definitively. > [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > [Lay Me Low](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt-I6zDx7cU)–Nick Cave > [@Johnny\_Q](#): > > [Faraway, So Close](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmgZp8OZUZU)–Nick Cave …and pretty much anything else by Nick Cave. ---
**Author:** ![Bakhesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Bakhesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bakhesh)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/70 "2012-02-14T13:45:13Z")
Do you realise? - the Flaming lips “Do you realise that everyone you know some day will die?” ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/71 "2012-02-14T23:22:36Z")
[Stand to Your Glasses Steady](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRkQIxwE5lk) (trad military) [The Oxford Girl](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJLOdrIqEKg) and [We Could Leave Right Now](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnPVqLd-L9g) by Oysterband [Not Dark Yet](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZgBhyU4IvQ&ob=av2e) by His Bobness of Dylan. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/72 "2012-02-15T02:16:31Z")
I’ve been listening to this song (and album) a lot lately: Kathleen Edwards - [Alicia Ross](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2jrTrV8YGo). Based on a true story, etc. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/73 "2012-02-15T02:26:13Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > “The Circle Game” (Joni Mitchell) I came here to recommend The Circle Game by Joni Mitchell as well. _Sixteen springs, sixteen summers gone now Cartwheels turn to car wheels 'round the town And they tell him take your time it won’t be long now Until you drag your feet to slow the circles down_ [Full Lyrics](http://jonimitchell.com/music/song.cfm?id=39) ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/74 "2012-02-15T02:48:07Z")
Done Too Soon - Neil Diamond Song for Adam - Jackson Browne Where Have All The Flowers Gone - Pete Seeger (?) Turn Around - Malvina Reynolds (I admit I had to look that one up) ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/75 "2012-02-15T03:31:13Z")
The End - The Doors In My Hour Of Darkness-Gram Parsons The Angels Rejoiced Last Night - Gram Parsons Tower of Song - Leonard Cohen A whole lotta Misfits and Alkaline Trio songs ---
**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:** [February 15, 2012, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/76 "2012-02-15T19:08:28Z")
[The Commander Thinks Aloud](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEnHMj67FCs)–The Long Winters ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Sunshine\_and\_Smiles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine_and_Smiles)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/77 "2012-02-15T19:16:36Z")
[My Shit’s Fucked Up](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ig-RShZ6m4) - Warren Zevon Opening line: “Well, I went to the doctor. Said I’m feeling kinda rough. _Let me break it to you, son: your shit’s fucked up._” ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/78 "2012-02-15T19:40:31Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Forever Young - alpha idle The group’s name is Alphaville. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/79 "2012-02-15T20:06:58Z")
Fleet Foxes have several, including: [Blue Spotted Tail](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMvPiSLtZaM) [Tiger Mountain Peasant Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRfBqoGVFXc) [Oliver James](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpq1kw3MXcE) ---
**Author:** ![Bumbershoot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbershoot/32/3428_2.png) [@Bumbershoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbershoot)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/80 "2012-02-15T20:10:06Z")
[Time Waits For No One](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14OkJYDJduM) the Rolling Stones [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462.md?page=5)