Death
The song engages directly or metaphorically with mortality, dying, loss, or the afterlife
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Songs(22)
And I Love Her
Baby's in Black
Mourning implied by black dress; 'he'll never come back'
Every Little Thing
Die
Run for Your Life
'I'd rather see you dead'
Girl
Dead
In My Life
'Some are dead and some are living'
What Goes On
Die
Rain
Dead
Eleanor Rigby
Eleanor buried; Father at the grave
Love You To
'Before I'm a dead old man'
Taxman
Final verse: 'advice for those who die / Declare the pennies on your eyes'
She Said She Said
'Like to be dead' refrain
For No One
'Her love is dead'
Tomorrow Never Knows
'It is not dying' - ego death
Within You Without You
'When they pass away'
A Day in the Life
Tara Browne car crash
I Am the Walrus
Dead, bury, death
Yer Blues
Repeated "want to die"; "if I ain't dead already"
Julia
Elegy for deceased mother
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
'What did you kill'
The Ballad of John and Yoko
Dead
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Three killings, victim 'must go free'
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