About death - Part I
This song was written after one of Laura Pausini's friends died. She even planted a tree in her home, alluding to the lyrics.
This song was written after two of Laura Pausini's childhood friends died. The music video shows three little girls interacting, showing Laura and her late friends.
This song was written after Laura Pausini's grandmother died. She was very attached to this grandma and misses her a lot.
In 'The Lion King' Broadway musical, this eulogy is performed after the death of King Mufasa and the alleged death of Simba in the wildebeest stampede. The characters mourn the death of their leader.
Suggested by Loot.
Suggested by Loot.
Suggested by Viola Ortes.
Suggested by Viola Ortes. It talks about a man who suicides to not to live his life on a wheelchair.
Suggested by petit élève. Song pictures the anguish of death and ending with the day of reckoning.
Suggested by petit élève. Song deals with his own fear of death in a symbolic way.
In May 1993, Dion lost her 16-year-old daughter Karine to cystic fibrosis. This song is a direct reference to death as it mentions flying to find a light. This is the English version of the song 'Vole' (#36 on this list).
Suggested by Diazepan Medina. John Leyton cover.
Suggested by Sarasvati.
Suggested by phantasmagoria. Title translates as "Wedding Celebration" - a song about a son behind bars as he explains that his little brother is getting married and he has no way of reaching him. In the end, the man dies in prison and asks his siblings to love each other and love his mother on his behalf.
Suggested by phantasmagoria. Title translates as "Grandmother" - a song about a man remembering his grandmother (after she has passed away), growing older and then understanding as an old man why his grandmother used to cry when she looked up at the sky.
Suggested by phantasmagoria. Title is the name of the woman in the song - a man tries to see his beloved who is bedridden and ill but her mother keeps him away, his beloved dies without having seen him for the last time. The man promises her that he will soon join her because nothing is keeping him from going.
Suggested by phantasmagoria. A man is unable to bury his grandson and is hassled for documentation and money by a gravedigger, so he goes and buries him in a box he's made under a milpa, then proceeds to warn others that "no matter if you're rich or poor, even in death (in a cemetery) you will find inequality".
Song remembers one of vocalist Amy Lee's sisters, who died of an illness in 1987 at age three.
Song is performed from the perspective of someone who has just committed suicide
Suggested by Diazepan Medina. This song was specifically written for a certain scene in a Manolo Escobar movie (Entre Dos Amores). His daughter had a fatal accident while horseriding and she doesn't survive. This song is played in the background while she's at the hospital.
Suggested by Diazepan Medina. Song is about the suicide of the argentinian poetess Alfonsina Storni who in real life jumped from a bridge to the sea, but the song says she moved slowly deep into the sea.
The song doesn't directly talk about death, but it has been heavily used in videos made by people who lost their loved ones (most often, a child).
Suggested by Zarina01. Song title translates to Lady Death in English.
Suggested by Karaula. This song is about the tuberculosis that the artist suffered from. It is so sad that many people attempted suicide after hearing it, so much that Josip Broz Tito had to legally prohibit playing it.
Lingue: Serbo → Inglese
Creata da Karaula il Lunedì, febbraio 26, 2018
Suggested by Karaula. In his words, this is 'The saddest song that I know, maybe not the same in English, but whenever I hear the original I (he) almost sheds a tear'. The song talks about a mother's death.
Lingue: Bosniaco → Inglese
Creata da MayGoLoco il Venerdì, luglio 8, 2011
Suggested by Zarina01. Song is about the vocalist Amy Lee's younger sister, who tragically died when she was only three, it's about how Amy is grieving her sister's death and how she's contemplating suicide to be with her deceased sister.
Suggested by makis17.
Suggested by solo.
Suggested by solo.
Suggested by Marica Nicolska.
Suggested by BreezyDay.
Suggested by Stefano8. Song tells the story of an old woman who is serene while thinking about her death. She had a full life, but now she’s ready to depart; also, she will get to see her loved ones again.
Suggested by v1kos. This song is about a man waking up after dreaming about his own death.
Just in case, she even wrote a song about friendship :P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLFjdrwunVM
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*dash1* *WALL*
Juan, you may want to add this song
Miley Cyrus had written it for her grandfather.
Jacques Brel wrote also this classic about dying:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/jacques-brel-le-moribond-lyrics.html
A song that speaks of the despair, sadness, death.... The voice is the most unearthly I have ever heard... *diablo*
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q0SvTMmJ9LM&fulldescription=1&hl=el&client...
Dead friends, you said? https://lyricstranslate.com/en/jim-caroll-band-people-who-died-lyrics.html (and soon it has a video attached too)
And a little more humorous take on the subject at hand: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/addams-family-just-around-corner-lyrics.html
Here a song about a suicide:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/bobbie-gentry-ode-billie-joe-lyrics.html
and another:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/bert-sommer-note-read-lyrics.html
Could this song be added at your collection?
It's a cover of "The house of the rising sun" by The Animals and talks about a man who's sentenced to death and worries about if his mother knew it, she would suffer.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/riki-maiocchi-non-dite-mia-madre-lyrics.html
Please add this: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/alberto-fortis-la-sedia-di-lillà-lyrics.h... it talks about a man who suicides to not to live his life on a wheelchair.
And this: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/marco-masini-frankenstein-lyrics.html it talks about a man who's on the bed of death of a friend and begs him to not to die.
This one too: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/marco-masini-caro-babbo-lyrics.html
It talks about a man who describes his life of when he was a child and begs his dead father to come back.
How to forget those two songs by Charles Aznavour?
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/charles-aznavour-la-mamma-lyrics.html
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/charles-aznavour-la-mamma-versione-italia...
It is the same song in french and in italian.
It talks about an italian family by their mamma's bed, accompanying her through the way...
Yes, he sung many songs in italian. He's 94 years old and he's gonna be in Italy the next 23rd of june for a unique concert after the one in Verona on september 2016. I hope I'm gonna be able to be at that concert.
Un classique de jacques Prevers: https://youtu.be/ks7BfmIFk00
Algo se muere en el Alma Amigos de Gines https://youtu.be/haUACSQnw7c
Lila down: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/lila-downs-viene-la-muerte-echando-rasero...
I suggest this one
https://lyricstranslate.com/es/spell-johnny-remember-me-lyrics.html
Of course this song is a cover, the original is from John Leyton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrj1RcM2SYc
I would suggest Soap&Skin's "Vater"
https://lyricstranslate.com/it/vater-father.html-0
And Fabrizio De André's "Preghiera in Gennaio";
https://lyricstranslate.com/it/preghiera-gennaio-prayer-january.html
"La ballata dell'eroe";
https://lyricstranslate.com/it/Fabrizio-De-Andre-La-ballata-delleroe-lyr...
"La ballata dell'amore cieco";
https://lyricstranslate.com/it/la-ballata-dell039amore-cieco-ballad-blin...
and "La morte"
https://lyricstranslate.com/it/la-morte-death.html-0#songtranslation
(Actually many of his songs revolve around the theme of death but these are my favourite ones)
Okay, after some thought I'd like to present the following:
Zapotec:
1. Guenda nabáani: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/tonana-guendanabani-lyrics.html
Title translates as "Life", a pretty simply explanation about how everyone will meet the same fate, no one is an exception to the rule.
2. Saa Guendaxheela': https://lyricstranslate.com/en/tlalok-guerrero-saa-guendaxheela-lyrics.html
Title translates as "Wedding Celebration" - a song about a son behind bars as he explains that his little brother is getting married and he has no way of reaching him. In the end, the man dies in prison and asks his siblings to love each other and love his mother on his behalf.
3. Xahuéla': https://lyricstranslate.com/en/mi-abuela-xahu%C3%A9la-my-grandma.html
Title translates as "Grandmother" - a song about a man remembering his grandmother (after she has passed away), growing older and then understanding as an old man why his grandmother used to cry when she looked up at the sky.
4. Simuna: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/zapotec-folk-simuna-lyrics.html
Title is the name of the woman in the song - a man tries to see his beloved who is bedridden and ill but her mother keeps him away, his beloved dies without having seen him for the last time. The man promises her that he will soon join her because nothing is keeping him from going.
Spanish:
1. Cuando la tehuana muere: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/jes%C3%BAs-ram%C3%ADrez-hern%C3%A1ndez-cu...
Title translates as "When a Tehuana1 dies" - a "spoken word" song about the rituals and procession after a woman of Tehuantepec dies.
2. Guigu Bi'cu: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/luis-mart%C3%ADnez-hinojosa-guigu-bicu-ly...
Luis Martínez Hinojosa wrote and composed the song depicting a man's desire to say farewell to his fatherland (and state), along with the traditions that come from there and asks for forgiveness that he's leaving his home (through death).
3. Miguel y el panteonero: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/luis-mart%C3%ADnez-hinojosa-miguel-y-el-p...
A man is unable to bury his grandson and is hassled for documentation and money by a gravedigger, so he goes and buries him in a box he's made under a milpa, then proceeds to warn others that "no matter if you're rich or poor, even in death (in a cemetery) you will find inequality".
- 1. a woman from Tehuantepec
It's not John Lennon. It's John Leyton
Is it possible to add this two songs?
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/pascal-danel-les-neiges-du-kilimanjaro-ly...
It talks about a man who's gonna die in a snow storm on the mount Kilimanjaro
And this one:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/francesco-de-gregori-pablo-lyrics.html
It talks about a man who dies while working.
New suggestions:
https://lyricstranslate.com/es/antonio-molina-la-hija-de-juan-sim%C3%B3n...
A prisioner is set free, just to find out his loved one died of sorrow and was buried by her father
https://lyricstranslate.com/es/manolo-escobar-sabor-zorongo-lyrics.html
This song was specifically written for a certain scene in a Manolo Escobar movie (Entre Dos Amores). His daughter had a fatal accident while horseriding and she doesn't survive. This song is played in the background while she's at the hospital.
https://lyricstranslate.com/es/mercedes-sosa-alfonsina-y-el-mar-lyrics.html
It's about the suicide of the argentinian poetess Alfonsina Storni who in real life jumped from a bridge to the sea, but the song says she moved slowly deep into the sea.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/rona-nishliu-zonja-vdekje-lyrics.html
Song title translates to Lady Death in english
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/sopor-aeternus-dead-souls-lyrics.html
I really love this song. Anna has a unique way to talk about death.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/plu%C4%87a-su-mi-bolna-my-lungs-are-achin...
This song is about the tuberculosis that the artist suffered from. It is so sad that many people attempted suicide after hearing it, so much that Josip Broz Tito had to legally prohibit playing it.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/johnny-cash-when-man-comes-around-lyrics....
This one speaks for itself.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/ne-klepeci-nanulama-dont-rattle-your-wood...
The saddest song that I know, maybe not the same in English, but whenever I hear the original I almost shed a tear. It's about a mother's death.
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Evanescence-You-lyrics.html
Song is about the vocalist Amy Lee's younger sister, who tragically died when she was only three, it's about how Amy is grieving her sister's death and how she's contemplating suicide to be with her deceased sister.
https://lyricstranslate.com/uk/scorpions-good-die-young-lyrics.html
https://lyricstranslate.com/uk/Scorpions-Living-ad-dying-lyrics.html
https://lyricstranslate.com/uk/led-zeppelin-my-time-dying-lyrics.html
https://lyricstranslate.com/uk/jerry-cantrell-dying-inside-lyrics.html
https://lyricstranslate.com/uk/mad-season-lifeless-dead-lyrics.html
https://lyricstranslate.com/uk/alice-chains-died-lyrics.html
https://lyricstranslate.com/uk/alice-chains-rain-when-i-die-lyrics.html-0
https://lyricstranslate.com/uk/queen-all-dead-all-dead-lyrics.html
https://lyricstranslate.com/uk/queen-teo-torriate-let-us-cling-together-...
https://lyricstranslate.com/uk/bulbous-creation-end-page-lyrics.html
Legião Urbana's Dezesseis is about a young student who dies in a car crash:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/legi%C3%A3o-urbana-dezesseis-lyrics.html
Could you please add this one? It talks about Stefania, a girl who dies in childbirth at the age of twenty.
https://lyricstranslate.com/it/francesco-guccini-venezia-lyrics.html
Yes, Sinead's version does not have an entry yet, though it is older than the versions of Dead Can Dance or Abney Park or Kate Rusby.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Stretched_on_Your_Grave
Where did you add a version of this song, @Alma Barroca ?
I entered this entry > https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Dead-Can-Dance-I-am-stretched-your-grave-...
What I meant is that, as the Sinead version doesn't exist here, I added a song with the same name, not knowing if they were covers or the original song. After we add Sinead's rendition, I'll come and change it ;)
Hmmm 🤔
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Dropkick Murphys - The Green Fields Of France
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/dropkick-murphys-green-fields-france-lyri...
This is an anti-war song. It is about all of the young soldiers who gave their lives in the first World War.
"And I can't help but wonder, no, Willie McBride
Do all those who lie here know why they died?
Did you really believe them when they told you "The Cause"?
Did you really believe that this war would end wars?".
Evanescence - Even in Death
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Evanescence-Even-Death-lyrics.html
This song is about a woman mourning for the death of her loved one.
"Some say I'm crazy for my love, [...]
They don't know you can't leave me
They don't hear you singing to me".
Linkin Park - Leave Out All the Rest
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Linkin-Park-Leave-out-all-rest-lyrics.html
This song is about a man waking up after dreaming about his own death.
"When my time comes, forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some reasons to be missed".
Muse - Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/Muse-Thoughts-Dying-Atheist-lyrics.html
This song is about an atheist man who is about to die.
"Look through a faithless eye
Are you afraid to die?
It scares the hell out of me
And the end is all I can see".
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Death of a martian
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/red-hot-chili-peppers-death-martian-lyric...
This song is about the death of Martian (The bassist’s dog ).
"Bear paws and rascal power
Watching us in your garage
Big girl you ate the neighbor
The nova is over"
Eminem - Like Toy Soldiers
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Eminem - Difficult A rare song Eminem wrote after his best friend's death. He actually never officialy released it and you can hear how bad he was feeling.
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Eminem - Stan
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Eminem - Bad Guy
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Orelsan - Elle viendra quand même A song about death
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Orelsan - Peur de l'echec This song is self-critical, as the song progresses, Orelsan expresses his disgust with his life and the different ways he would like to end it.
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Craig Grey - Fade Away Created for Grand Theft Auto III. Fun fact: The song mostly play when it's raining.
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Barbara - L'Aigle Noir Barbara never really explained what was the sense of this song. But many thoeries says the Black Eagle is just a metaphor for her dad, who abused her when she was young.
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Vox Angeli - L'Oiseau This song also use a metaphor, the bird being a real person, for sure. BUT, I still don't know if it's about someone's death, or someone who left forever. In any case, it's still a loss...
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Joan Baez - Here's To You
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Louane - Maman A song about her mother
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The Hanging Tree
No problem Juan, don't worry! ;)
You can create a part II if you want :D
I know you ran out of room but could I suggest some more songs?
If you make a part 2 you should put this song on it https://lyricstranslate.com/en/funkist-%E3%82%B5%E3%83%A8%E3%83%8A%E3%83...
Will you make a second list? I have a song i'd like to share but there are already 100 in this collection.
I'm going to love this collection, I wonder why I didn't think about it earlier. Check this song out, it's about a child who's lost their mother and wish to die in order to be together with her.