Try Not to Breathe - R.E.M.
Man on the Moon - R.E.M. (a contemplation on the afterlife from an atheist perspective)
Sweetness Follows - R.E.M.
It Was a Very Good Year - Frank Sinatra
Night Moves - Bob Seger (the last verse anyway)
Worms - The Pogues
DOA by Bloodrock
New York Mining Disaster 1941 – the Bee Gees
People Who Died – Jim Carroll Band
Paint It Black - Rolling Stones (about the death of a sweetheart)
There Is a Time - The Dillards
Through the Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics
The answer is “Time” by Floyd.
Rocky Mountain Tragedy----Crowbar
Stagger Mountain Tragedy----Kris Kristofferson
Several by Pink Floyd from Obscured By Clouds: Wots…uh the Deal,* Free Four*, and Childhood’s End.
And When I Die- Blood Sweat and Tears.
Billy Austin----Steve Earle
“We Will All Go When We Go” by Tom Lehrer
John Mellencamp:
All from the great album Life, Death, Love and Freedom
“Just a Gigolo” by Louis Prima
Hazy Shade of Winter - Simon & Garfunkel (or The Bangles if you’re one of those people)
I Don’t Want to Grow Up - Tom Waits (Or Ramones or Holly Cole)
‘‘Gone’’ - Madonna.
Another vote for Time by Pink Floyd.
The Grim Parade, by Uncle Bonsai, a humorous song about the endless succession of dying pets.
Days (the Kinks)
Eric Clapton, Tears in Heaven. Particularly these two lines:
Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees
Time can break your heart, have you begging please, begging please.
Pink Floyd, Shine on You Crazy Diamond.
Two Aussie war songs that are much darker than they seem at first: And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda and Two Little Boys. They’re not only about war, but comparison between old and young.
Cats in the Cradle would definitely count for the ‘time passing in a blink’ idea.
One last drink-Enter the Haggis
Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall - Simon & Garfunkel (you’re closer to death than you think)
Streets of Laredo - traditional (As I am you shall soon be)
Do You Realize? - The Flaming Lips (everyone you know dies)
Keep the Car Running - The Arcade Fire (fearing death)
Song For Dennis Brown - The Mountain Goats (the world keeps going when you die)