Top 10 Saddest Songs About Death

The Top Ten
1 Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton
2 The Show Must Go On - Queen

And Freddie was dying when sang this song.

3 Hurt - Johnny Cash
4 Fade to Black - Metallica
5 Knockin' on Heaven's Door - Bob Dylan
6 Dream On - Aerosmith
7 Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Music to this song actually sounds pretty happy.

8 Beyond the Realms of Death - Judas Priest
9 I'll Be Missing You - Puff Daddy
10 Fiddler on the Green - Demons & Wizards
The Contenders
11 Candle in the Wind - Elton John
12 A Question of Heaven - Iced Earth
13 My Last Sunrise - Demons & Wizards
14 Hurt - Nine Inch Nails

This is the original Johnny Cash covered.

15 The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd
16 Where the Wild Roses Grow - Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue
17 Sternenträumer - Andrea Berg

She wrote the song about her dead father. Sounds extremely honest.
Schlager usually is a light hearted and easy digestible genre, but Berg often adds much depth to it. It's also not common that schlager singers write their own songs but she does.

18 Lass Los - Tic Tac Toe

Ballad about a friend's suicide by all female German hip hop trio Tic Tac Toe.
In the second verse Lee breaks out in tears halfway through.
I personally assume this was not planned. Lee's husband commited suicide, and I am sure she was reminded of that while recording her verse. And they left that take in because what is more gripping than actual and authentic tears?

19 Stan - Eminem
20 Say Something - A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera
21 Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men
22 When You're Gone - Avril Lavigne
23 The Harold Song - Kesha
24 If Rain is What You Want - Slipknot

It's about Paul Gray's death.

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