Best Rock or Metal Songs That Are Dedicated to Someone Who Died

The Top Ten
1 Blackbird - Alter Bridge

Written about Mark Morse

2 To Live Is to Die - Metallica

Dedicated to Cliff Burton

3 Eulogy - Tool

Dedicated to L. Ron Hubbard. Not a very nice dedication but it makes sense.

4 In Loving Memory - Alter Bridge

Dedicated to Mark Tremonti's mother

5 Vahle - Volumes

Dedicated to James Vahle. Seriously just listen to this song it is awesome.

6 Hey Man Nice Shot - Filter

I wouldn't call it a dedication, but this song is about the suicide of Budd Dwyer.

7 Layne - Staind

Obviously dedicated to Layne Staley.

8 Death Blooms - Mudvayne

Dedicated to Chad Gray's grandmother

9 Lightning Crashes - Live

Dedicated to Barbara Lewis

10 We'll Burn the Sky - Scorpions
The Contenders
11 Boulder to Birmingham - Emmylou Harris
12 Goodbye - Slipknot
13 So Far Away - Avenged Sevenfold

Dedicated to The Rev.

14 Empty Garden (Hey, Hey Johnny) - Elton John

Beautifully written and performed, to John Lennon.
"Who lived here, must've been a gardener who cared a lot
Who weeded out the fears and grew a good crop..."

15 All Those Years Ago - George Harrison

Under appreciated tribute to John

16 Soil - System of a Down
17 No One but You (Only the Good Die the Young) - Queen
18 American Pie - Don McLean
19 Candle In the Wind - Elton John
20 In This River - Black Label Society
21 Lazarus - David Bowie
22 Helena - My Chemical Romance
23 My Man - Eagles
24 Tears of a Clown - Iron Maiden
25 Sail On Soothsayer - Buckethead
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