# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![phungi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/phungi/32/395_2.png) [@phungi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phungi)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2012, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/81 "2012-02-15T21:13:10Z")
[No Language in Our Lungs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tju13IUmxIM) by XTC ---
**Author:** ![HoboStew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f17d59/32.png) [@HoboStew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoboStew)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/82 "2012-02-16T00:37:24Z")
Modest Mouse has a bunch, [Lives](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OP1IVNVS5bI) is one of the best. ---
**Author:** ![tomcar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tomcar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomcar)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/83 "2012-02-16T02:03:48Z")
Hope there’s someone who will care for me- Antony and the Johnsons ---
**Author:** ![breezman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@breezman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/breezman)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/84 "2012-02-16T03:02:42Z")
“I’ll never get out of this world alive” - hank williams “Time”, and pretty much the whole album Dark Side of the Moon. ---
**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 16, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/85 "2012-02-16T04:16:30Z")
Ah, I see CJepson beat me to “Turn Around”… ---
**Author:** ![Mixolydian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/da6949/32.png) [@Mixolydian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mixolydian)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/86 "2012-02-16T04:40:35Z")
“Mother Earth” - Memphis Slim ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/87 "2012-02-16T18:16:14Z")
Seems like we haven’t mentioned much blues yet… how about [“Goin’ Down Slow”.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goin%27_Down_Slow) I’m kind of avoiding recommending songs that just include people dying, because there are so many of them – murder ballads (“Tom Dooley”, “Cruel Sister”), border tragedies (“Seven Spanish Angels”, “Pancho & Lefty”), teen death songs (“Patches”, “Teen Angel”), protest songs (“The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll”), etc. etc. Also lots of songs about condemned criminals waiting to die… these probably are of more interest… how about Spooky Tooth’s [“Hangman Hang My Shell on a Tree”.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud61jAOS3ZI) (And I seem to vaguely remember some obscure ditty called something like “Bavarian Fantasy”… :D) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2012, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/88 "2012-02-16T18:34:12Z")
Old and Wise - Alan Parsons ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2012, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/89 "2012-02-17T00:23:19Z")
A Tout le Monde (Set Me Free) - Megadeth there’s also an earlier version also by Megadeth just called A Tout le Monde, but while it’s not bad, the 2nd version w/ a female singer taking part of the song, it sooooo much better. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2012, 10:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-mortality/612462/90 "2012-02-18T10:10:33Z")
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