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  2. List of songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    An Appointment with Mr Yeats" by The Waterboys is an album of Yeats poems set to song. The poem "Down by the Salley Gardens" was based by Yeats on a fragment of a song he heard an old woman singing. Yeats' words have been recorded as a song by many performers. The song "A Bad Dream" by Keane is based on the poem "An Irish Airman Foresees His ...

  3. Swan song - Wikipedia

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    The swan song (Ancient Greek: κύκνειον ᾆσμα; Latin: carmen cygni) is a metaphorical phrase for a final gesture, effort, or performance given just before death or retirement. The phrase refers to an ancient belief that swans sing a beautiful song just before their death while they have been silent (or alternatively not so musical ...

  4. Category:Songs inspired by deaths - Wikipedia

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  5. Category:Songs based on poems - Wikipedia

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    Take This Waltz (song) Tales of Brave Ulysses; Temporary Like Achilles; Tetris (Doctor Spin song) This Love (Taylor Swift song) Tourniquet (Marilyn Manson song) Traum durch die Dämmerung; Trees (poem) Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Two Songs for Voice, Viola and Piano; Two Songs, 1916; Two Songs, 1917–18; Two Songs, 1920; Two Songs, 1928

  6. Songs and Dances of Death - Wikipedia

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    Mussorgsky in 1874. Songs and Dances of Death (Russian: Песни и пляски смерти, Pesni i plyaski smerti) is a song cycle for voice (usually bass or bass-baritone) and piano by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, written in the mid-1870s, to poems by Arseny Golenishchev-Kutuzov, a relative of the composer.

  7. The Cure singer and emo icon Robert Smith says he ... - AOL

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    Robert Smith's macabre sensibilities helped launch the Cure to massive success — but nowadays the musician is finding it harder to write about songs about death. The "Just Like Heaven" singer ...

  8. List of songs based on literary works - Wikipedia

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    Song is mainly inspired by the novella's ending, when protagonist Japi jumps off the Waalbrug. In the song, however, Japi does not drown but is implied to have ended up in Italy. [154] "Nice, Nice, Very Nice" Ambrosia: Ambrosia: Cat's Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut: Lyrics taken almost verbatim from the poem in chapter 2 (and the bridge from the one on ...

  9. Category:Songs about death - Wikipedia

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    Hazard (song) He Stopped Loving Her Today (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River; The Hearse Song; Heather's Wall; Heaven (Bryan Adams song) Heaven Can Wait (Michael Jackson song) Heaven Is a Halfpipe; Helena (My Chemical Romance song) Hello Central, Give Me Heaven; Here to Forever; Homura (song) Honey (Bobby Goldsboro song) How Can I Help You Say ...