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Songs About Death

Discussion in 'Tilted Art, Photography, Music & Literature' started by Baraka_Guru, Jul 5, 2013.

  1. CinnamonGirl

    CinnamonGirl The Cheat is GROUNDED!

    A surprisingly upbeat and dance-able song about killin' your woman.

     
  2. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359






    One of my favourites out of all of genres.


    I am a huge fan of the Sons of the Pioneers. "Cool Water" is a timeless classic as well but did not seem fit here with this theme as they are just dying of thirst and still around to talk about it.
     
  3. mixedmedia

    mixedmedia ...

    Location:
    Florida
  4. Charlatan

    Charlatan sous les pavés, la plage

    Location:
    Temasek
    Nick Cave - Stagger Lee (one of many versions of this legend)

     
  5. Japchae

    Japchae Very Tilted




    Not the best quality, but this song rips my heart out every time I hear it.
    He wrote this song and Whazzzisface from Limp Bizkit helped him record it. Wes someone.
    Kid was the definition of bad ass.


     
  6. warrrreagl

    warrrreagl Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Land of cotton.
    In what may be the ultimate death song of Western culture, I present "Dido's Lament," from Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas. For this aria, Aeneas has dumped Dido and is sailing back home. Dido's big plan to show him what a huge mistake he's making is to impale herself on the beach and set herself on fire so that he can see the horrible spectacle from his ship. This is the song she sings right before doing it, properly titled, "When I Am Laid In Earth."

     
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  7. CinnamonGirl

    CinnamonGirl The Cheat is GROUNDED!

    I might have posted this one in Love Songs, but it fits here, too. One of my very favorite songs.



    I've shed all my tears, and I've said my goodbyes
    Now I'll lay myself down where my pretty girl lies
    And when I awake, I'll be on Earth no more
    I'll be dancing a jig with the girl I adore...
     
  8. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359
    I was just listening to the vinyl transfer I did a while back on my computer and was thinking how much this fits in here -
     
  9. warrrreagl

    warrrreagl Slightly Tilted

    Location:
    Land of cotton.
    Franz Schubert's Erlkonig, published in 1815 when he was only 18 years old. It tells a horror story of a man racing home by horseback through the dark woods with his sick child in his arms. The child can see a ghostly specter called the Erlkonig floating along beside him, enticing the little boy to talk and come and play. The father races faster, begging the son not to look at the spirit, or talk to it, or (most definitely) NOT touch it. Unfortunately, by the time the father finally arrives at home, he is holding a dead child in his arms.

     
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  10. mixedmedia

    mixedmedia ...

    Location:
    Florida
  11. Plan9

    Plan9 Rock 'n Roll

    Location:
    Earth
    I said: Hell no.



    As the night grows cold we crack our shovels in the ground; when we reach the bottom please don't tell me what we've found!



    And they'll say you always were friends, but they're lying to survive.



    When you constrict you suck my soul into eternity.



    SWEET, SWEET TUCKJOB BONUS:

     
    Last edited: Jul 23, 2013
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  12. Baraka_Guru

    Baraka_Guru Möderätor Staff Member

    Location:
    Toronto
  13. Speed_Gibson

    Speed_Gibson Hacking the Gibson

    Location:
    Wolf 359


  14. And this one...hee hee


    And I kept thinking of the opera...


     
  15. mixedmedia

    mixedmedia ...

    Location:
    Florida
  16. Borla

    Borla Moderator Staff Member

  17. mixedmedia

    mixedmedia ...

    Location:
    Florida
  18. ASU2003

    ASU2003 Very Tilted

    Location:
    Where ever I roam
  19. evaderum

    evaderum Getting Tilted

    Location:
    California
  20. So depresssinnnggg