Songs From Beyond The Grave

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I was listening to an old CD by GA band Five-Eight and in their song "God Damn It Paul" the singer reveals he died in a car accident with the aforementioned Paul at the wheel.

Can anyone think of other songs where the singer is dead?

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc700/c797/c797561cy42.jpg

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

stan?

― Felcher (Felcher), Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Argh. There's at least one late '50's-early'60's teen tragedy song like this, but I can't remember which one it is. Not "Tell Laura I Love Her," but something like that.

― NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Does Biggy really sing about already being dead?

Jacques Brel/Scott Walker - "The Funeral Tango" possibly, but it's tough to tell if the narrator is observing the his funeral participants in real time, or describing some imagined future. Maybe it would help to know French, but I don't.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Johnny Ace "Pledging My Love" became a hit after he shot himself backstage.

― abeta, Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:40 (twenty-three years ago)

isn't the last song on "Ready to Die" with him dead, or does he just shoot himself at the end? Amazing song though...

― abeta, Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:41 (twenty-three years ago)

i won't share you

― mig, Thursday, 26 June 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

"Love Vigilantes" by New Order. I think the narrator is a soldier who has been killed in a war but didn't know it until he sees it in a letter his wife is holding.

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Thursday, 26 June 2003 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Sparks-"Here In Heaven" (The deceased Romeo gets pissed at Juliet because she didn't commit suicide too.)

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 26 June 2003 18:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Sonic Youth, "Tunic (Song for Karen)"..."you look so underfed..."

― Chris Clark (Chris Clark), Thursday, 26 June 2003 19:53 (twenty-three years ago)

"Long Black Veil" by Cash, The Band, et al.

― Andy, Thursday, 26 June 2003 20:58 (twenty-three years ago)

John Leyton - Johnny Remember Me - that chorus is haunting..

― jack battery-pack (Jack Battery-Pack), Friday, 27 June 2003 08:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Genaside II: "Waistline Firecracker". That track has some of the scariest vocal snippets ever; it begins with someone praying and then an eerie voice says: "I was only twenty-one when I died..."

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Friday, 27 June 2003 08:43 (twenty-three years ago)

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