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* "Unmarked and Uncovered with Sand" by J. Frank Wilson (1965) is about the singer learning his love was in a plane that crashed in the desert. So he pledges he'll comb the entire desert looking for her body until eventually giving up and accepting that he'll never find find her.

** This song is also a [[MoralityBallad cautionary tale]]. The young trooper does everything right ''except'' he forgets to attach his static line (the line which automatically deploys his main parachute) on the cable inside the aircraft. He then opens his reserve parachute on bad falling position, resulting in getting tangled with the canopy lines and risers and plummeting to ground on unsurvivable speed. The moral of the story is to always check ''everything'' when you jump.

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* "Blasphemous Rumours" by Music/DepecheMode (1984) is about a 16-year-old girl who fails a suicide attempt only to [[RedemptionEqualsDeath die a sickly ironic death in an automobile accident at 18]].

This is a DeathTrope, so expect '''UNMARKED SPOILERS'''!!!

* "Flight 505" by Music/TheRollingStones (1966) ends with the titular flight going down into the sea.

* Music/{{Rockabilly}} singer Jody Reynolds liked this trope a lot:

* Rockabilly singer Jody Reynolds wrote a lot of songs like this:
** His most famous song is without a doubt "Endless Sleep" (1957). Reynolds based this partly on Music/ElvisPresley's "Heartbreak Hotel". A girl tries to drown herself in the ocean after a fight with her lover, but he rescues her. Technically nobody dies, but because the chorus says "Come join me, baby, in my endless sleep" many people think this is the original Death Rock song. It was banned in England because it seemed to invite kids to commit suicide.

* Parodied on ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' with the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xvhn122ygc "Where, Oh Werewolf,"]] inspired by a sequence in ''Film/{{Werewolf}}'' where a security guard in mid-transformation crashes his car and dies.

->''She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good''
->''So I can see my baby when I leave this world"''
-->-- '''Wayne Cochran''', "Last Kiss"

** Then averted in the AnswerSong. British Girl Group, The Beverley Sisters (rhyming name just a coincidence) sang "Flight 1203", a sort of musical FixFic in which she walks in to comfort him as he's grieving for her in the chapel. It turned out she had been running late, missed the plane, and came in safely on a later flight.
* "Unmarked & Uncovered With Sand" by "J. Frank Wilson" is about the singer learning his love was in a plane that crashed in the desert. So he pledges he'll comb the entire desert looking for her body until eventually giving up and accepting that he'll never find find her.

* "Come Out And Play" by Music/TheOffspring. And the killer is under eighteen and won't be [[KarmaHoudini doing time.]]

* "Janie's Got A Gun" by Music/{{Aerosmith}} (1989). Girl gets violent revenge after years of ParentalIncest. Technically averted, as the song ends with Janie alive and on the run.

* "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" by Julie Brown (1984) which anticipates a UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}}-style massacre at the HighSchoolDance. This song is specifically a BlackComedy [[PlayedForLaughs parody of the genre]], complete with the intro being done in a {{retraux}} '50s pop style.

* "I Don't Like Mondays" by the Boomtown Rats (1982). Bob Geldof was being interviewed at WRAS-FM in UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} when news came in about a shooting at an elementary school. The title of the song comes for the suspect's reason for the shooting.
* "The Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun" by Julie Brown (1984) which anticipates a UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}}-style massacre. This song, however, was an example of BlackComedy.

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*** On "Kill You" he takes credit for it:

::: In "Rap God" from ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' (2013), he repeats the lyric, lamenting that he can now get away with it because he's "not as big now" as he once was.

*** On "Kill You" he takes credit for it:

:::: In "Rap God" from ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' (2013), he repeats the lyric, lamenting that he can now get away with it because he's "not as big now" as he once was.

*** On "Kill You" he takes credit for it:

::::: In "Rap God" from ''The Marshall Mathers LP 2'' (2013), he repeats the lyric, lamenting that he can now get away with it because he's "not as big now" as he once was.

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*** On "Kill You" he takes credit for it:

** Music/{{Eminem}} references Columbine multiple times throughout his 2000 album ''The Marshall Mathers LP'':
*** "Kill You":

*** "I'm Back" had a Columbine joke that had the offending words deleted, even in the 'uncensored' version.

* The [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} Columbine High School massacre]], as one of the most famous examples of the kind of tragedy described by this trope happening for real, proved to be a major font of such songs, especially in the late '90s and '00s when the shooting was still fresh in popular memory.
** Jonathan and Stephen Cohen, two students at Columbine, wrote a song called "Friend of Mine (Columbine)" in 1999 as a tribute to their classmates that got radio airplay at the time.
** Cassie Bernall, one of the victims, was the subject of a number of songs by [[ChristianRock Christian musicians]], most notably "This Is Your Time" by Michael W. Smith (1999) and "Cassie" by Music/{{Flyleaf}} (2005), based on an {{urban legend|s}} surrounding her death. It was claimed that her killer, before shooting her, asked her if she believed in God, to which she replied "yes" and [[DoomedMoralVictor died for her faith]].[[note]]This incident actually happened to [[https://columbine.wikia.org/wiki/Valeen_Schnurr Valeen Schnurr,]] who was wounded in the shooting but survived. By her account, after Dylan Klebold shot her, she cried out "oh my God, help me!", prompting Klebold to ask "do you believe in God?". After she said "yes", Klebold asked her why while calling God gay, and then walked away after she said it was because her family was Christian. Reportedly, Klebold and Eric Harris asked several students the same question, and their answers had little bearing on whether or not they got shot.[[/note]]
** Music/MarilynManson's ''Music/HolyWoodInTheShadowOfTheValleyOfDeath'' (2000) was a ConceptAlbum heavily inspired by the shooting and what Manson saw as the forces that produced it. Manson had been widely MisBlamed for the shooting, and so ''Holy Wood'' was his response to those claiming that [[MurderSimulators his music had turned Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold into murderers]]. A key theme of the album is that modern (circa 1999-2000) society was too degraded by celebrity worship, gun culture, [[IfItBleedsItLeads media sensationalism]], and hypocritical MoralGuardians to allow for the kind of idealism that powered [[NewAgeRetroHippie the hippie and protest movements]] of TheSixties, hence why the "youth rebellion" of the time was teenage outcasts shooting up their schools because [[DespairEventHorizon they thought they had no future]].
** "Anatomy of a School Shooting" by Ill Bill (2004), a {{horrorcore}} song from Eric Harris' perspective as he and Dylan Klebold take their revenge on the kids who bullied them and become famous in the process.
** Music/AmandaPalmer's "Strength Through Music" (2007) was inspired by the shooting.
** "Pumped Up Kicks" by Music/FosterThePeople (2010) is about a teenage boy who finds his father's revolver and fantasizes about shooting up his school, though it's left ambiguous if he actually goes through with it. The band has a personal connection to Columbine, their bassist Cubbie Fink's cousin having survived the shooting.
** "Pigs" by Music/TylerTheCreator (2013), a song from the perspective of the killers as they get revenge on the bullies who tormented them.
** Music/NicoleDollanganger's ''Columbine'' EP (2013), featuring covers of "Pumped Up Kicks" and two Music/MarilynManson songs ("The Nobodies" and "The Reflecting God"). Her song "Rampage" off of her 2014 album ''Observatory Mansions'' also samples Eric Harris' home movies and the documentary ''Zero Hour: Massacre at Columbine High'' while telling a story about a girl whose boyfriend is shooting up their school, and uses Harris and Dylan Klebold's {{Monster Fangirl}}s as a metaphor for people trapped in [[DomesticAbuse abusive relationships]], thinking that their abusers can be redeemed through ThePowerOfLove.
** The 2014 mixtape ''[=TeenWitch=]'' by Bones, a ConceptAlbum about the shooting.
** Most of Music/{{SKYND}}'s songs are based on TrueCrime, and their 2020 song "Columbine" is no different. It's about the shooting from the killers' point of view, portraying them as [[AttentionWhore fame-seeking glory hounds]] who see their murder spree as a game, while the music video follows a student at Columbine surviving the shooting.

* "[[https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm19509983 Revenge Syndrome]]" by [=MafuMafu=] is about a teenage girl who leaps out of her classroom window after an unknown amount of time being bullied by everyone else. This also mixes in the Homicide category, as the root of her mental illness prior to jumping was her vivid revenge fantasies (hence the title), where a SuperpoweredEvilSide would emerge and slaughter her tormentors. [[spoiler:However, it turns out to have been AllJustADream]].

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9_QQIWNovc Revenge Syndrome]]" by [=MafuMafu=] is about a teenage girl who leaps out of her classroom window after an unknown amount of time being bullied by everyone else. This also mixes in the Homicide category, as the root of her mental illness prior to jumping was her vivid revenge fantasies (hence the title), where a SuperpoweredEvilSide would emerge and slaughter her tormentors. [[spoiler:However, it turns out to have been AllJustADream]].

* "Cancer" by Music/MyChemicalRomance.

* "Dead Man's Curve" by Music/JanAndDean (1964) ends in yet another car crash.
** Averted, in that no one actually dies in that song. The singer is explaining how he got his injuries to the ER doctor throughout the song.
*** Yes, but in the final verse he tells the doctor that he "watched the Jag (which was the car racing him) slide into the curve". The listener could easily infer that the other driver wasn't so lucky.

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