Top 10 Songs with Fake / False Endings

Fake / false ending is when you think a song is finished (because it does sound like finished), only to hear it starts again... It's an element of surprise in songs.
The Top Ten
1 Helter Skelter - The Beatles

Well it has like four fake endings so it has to be number 1.

"I've got blisters on my Fingers! "

2 November Rain - Guns N' Roses
3 (Everything I Do) I Do It for You - Bryan Adams

A pity you get a false hope that this song is over and then Bryan Adams continues with this dribble. (Sorry to anyone who likes this song).

The original album version is 6:30 minutes long and the false ending became the real ending of the single/video edit of the song.

4 White Room - Cream
5 Master of Puppets - Metallica
6 The Look - Roxette
7 Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
8 Fire - Kasabian

I was honestly about to click off when I first heard the fake ending

9 Bad Guy - Billie Eilish
10 Black Widow - Iggy Azalea
The Contenders
11 Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley

Probably the best-known use of the "false fade." And a great song overall.

12 You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, but I Feel Like a Millionaire - Queens of the Stone Age
13 Need You Tonight - INXS
14 The Blackest Day - Annihilator

At 4:10 the singer even says "This is the end" but after 3-4 seconds of silence music comes back for 1 more minute. I love this song - great riffing. The sample is from a live verstion.

15 TV Eye - The Stooges
16 Bang and Blame - R.E.M.

Here music even comes back after 15 seconds of silence!

17 The Resistance - Skillet

As this is the last song on the album you'd want it to go out with a bang. After the third chorus it seems to play the tune to close off the song, but just when you think it ends it then starts rocking up again with Seth Morrison blasting out a truly awesome solo.
What a song to end the album on.

18 I Am - Savatage

After the long instrumental part that sounded like an outro to me, the music came back. It's amazing.

19 A Day in the Life - The Beatles
20 Miss Jackson - Panic! at the Disco
21 Problem Child - AC/DC

On the Dirty Deeds Version there's a false climax

22 Tribute - Tenacious D

At the end it goes silent which then goes into about 15 seconds of more acoustic guitar riff

23 Get Back - The Beatles
24 Marquee Moon - Television
25 Tired of Sex - Weezer
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