What Will Death Be Like?
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Death will be unlike the night-times when we lie awake thinking of deathDeath will be unlike the Spanish maracas that rattle inside your last breathDeath will be unlike the Mexican festivals, skeletons wearing top hatsDeath will be unlike the brownstone apartments that dynamite or dereliction collapseDeath will be unlike the mandolin that the hangman relaxes by playingDeath will be unlike the hound of the Baskervilles, chilling the world with its bayingDeath will be unlike the British museum, its bodies from peat bogs & bonesDeath will be unlike the curse of the mummy that turns the explorers to stoneDeath will be unlike a great roller coaster, a plunge from a boast to a screamDeath will be unlike mahogany coffins great pianists play in their wildest strangest dreamsDeath will be unlike a garden in autumn where poets can sit & composeDeath will be unlike the granite memorials where memories wither in rowsDeath will be unlike the charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Lord Tennyson rhymedDeath will be unlike the thin piece of paper that Reagan & Gorbachov signDeath will be unlike the hospital bedside with Novocain needles & cardsDeath will be unlike the great Day of judgement when God the headmaster presents the awardsDeath will be unlike the marriage that vicars till death us do partDeath will be unlike the dreams of the young man who sang Love will tear us apartDeath will be unlike TV documentaries showing us life from outsideDeath will be unlike the Buddhist nirvana the moth seems to seek in the lightDeath will be unlike the cities of crystal they build in a few grains of smackDeath will be unlike the long picture window the coffin looks through to a widow in blackDeath will be unlike a room full of spiders all clinging together & cryingDeath will be unlike the wedding guest's story, the ship drifting lost & the dead sailor sighingDeath will be unlike the din in the steeple when cholera poisons the villageDeath will be unlike the illumination that Tolstoy provided for poor Ivan IllychDeath will be unlike the wriggling sea children glimpse through the chinks in the boardwalkDeath will be unlike the magical land of The Lion, The Witch & The WardrobeDeath will be unlike the treacherous virus that murders the lovers with AIDSDeath will be unlike the phantoms of freedom that lead the crowd over the barricadesDeath will be unlike the night thoughts of Late Call when ministers stop being cosyDeath will be unlike The Pit and the Pendulum co-starring Bela LugosiDeath will be unlike the bulge of the mouse inside the boa constrictorDeath will be unlike that drunkard the phoenix, so tight on the moonshine of golden elixirsDeath will be unlike that violent pornography dear to the Marquis de SadeDeath will be unlike the last stitch of clothing the stripper discards as her nipples grow hardDeath will be unlike the bankrupt handing over the keys to his houseDeath will be unlike the last day of summer, when insects grow stupid & swallows fly southDeath will be unlike the skull of a merchant that slants through the portrait by HolbeinDeath will be unlike that strange proposition on silence, the Tractatus of WittgensteinDeath will be unlike your holiday snaps when the camera lets in the lightDeath will be unlike the honest but cold blooded bank clerk whose hobby is homicideDeath will be unlike the hands of the clock coming together at midnightDeath will be unlike the grim amputations of medical students larking on rag nightDeath will be unlike the hijacker's voice in the heads of air traffic controllersDeath will be unlike the sea as it thunders on Liv Ullman vanishing under the rollersDeath will be unlike the abbey the pilgrims all saw when they prayedDeath will be unlike the unholy land at the end of the Children's CrusadeDeath will be unlike the hell in Huis Clos Mr Sartre informs is just other peopleDeath will be unlike the travelling salesman who woke up one morning transformed to a beetleDeath will be unlike 2001, the room at the end of the rideDeath will be unlike the wrath that Charles Bronson let loose on the Lower East SideDeath will be unlike the house of the shades the dog Cerberus guarded for Hades his master& death will be unlike that lesson on Infallibility, the Chernobyl disaster& death will be unlike the empty career of the temp's vacillations gone permanentDeath will be unlike the unlikely omens the clairvoyant reads in the meaningless firmamentIn the meaningless firmamentWhat will death be like?What will death be like?Death will be like
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What Will the World Be Like - Don McLean
Death as a fetish - Starfucker
Down the Slopes of Death - Amon Amarth
Death Will Be My Bride - Brendan Perry
What there will Be - Chain
What Will Baby Be - Dolly Parton
WHAT WILL IT BE? - Deeyah
And What Will Be - Beyond Our Eyes
What Will Be Left - Endtime Prophecy
Death Defied By Will - Eagle Eye Cherry
Gray Death - Xiu Xiu
The "City" Song - The New & Very Welcome
Inception - The Unguided
Death Defied - Eagle Eye Cherry
We'll Fall Together - Austin Jones
What It Be Like - Delinquent Habits
What It Be Like - Freddie Gibbs
What It Be Like - Stalley
Specimen Eruption - Zyklon
Death Threat - Insolence
Death Of Me - Branded With Fear
Lures - Love Like Blood
Sanity - Metalium
Until the End - The Coffinshakers
There Will Be One Day - Cheri Keaggy
Herod's Violent Death - Vengeance Rising
Billy In 4-C Never Saw It Coming...
Love You to Death - Kamelot
Electric Showdown - Channel Zero
My Morphine - Hurray for the Riff Raff
Another Me - Jeff Hardy
Death Is Righteous - Shredhead
The Trial - Warhead
Winds Of Death - Conejo
Catching the Sky - End Of You
When Death Embrace Me - Panzer Ag
A Violent Death - FFS
Death Will Reign - Impending Doom
Death Will Entertain - Debauchery
Will To Death - John Frusciante
My Eternal Journey - Armagedda
Point Blank From Pen Range - This Awkward Silence
Getting Into You - Too Sorry for Apologies
Breaking Benjamin's Neck - Deception Of A Ghost
Sun Is On My Side - Gogol Bordello
Kill or Be Killed - Biohazard
I Only Smile When Your Bleeding - The Red Shore
Amoricide - Amoricide
Breathing Blood - Oh, Sleeper
The Years Without Light - Gwar
When Death Closes Your Eyes - 108
Out to Sea - Lera Lynn
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Speed Me Towards Death - Rob Dougan
What's Victoria's Secret? - Rick Springfield
Eclipse - Black Tongue
Che Sarà [What Will Be?] - Patrizio Buanne
What Will Your Anthem Be - Bleach
What Death Leaves Behind - Los Campesinos!
Till Death Do Us Part - Deicide
What Will - Jose Gonzalez
Destined To Be Dead - 8 Foot Sativa
Freezing - Andrew Cedermark
Gooseknuckle - Arsonists Get All The Girls
Vultures - I Am Nation
Whatever Will Be, Will Be - Doris Day
Whatever Will Be Will Be - En Vogue
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Que Sera, Sera (What Ever Will Be, Will Be)...
By My Side - Erben Der Schopfung
Sugar Rush - Blood On The Dance Floor
Beyond Belief - Epica
Mors - Voluntaria - Christian Death
The Sign - Alastis
Ratify the New - The Hidden Cameras
Narcissistic Victim Train - Commercial Friendly
Drain Me - The Grouch
Scared To Death - KZ Tandingan
Fallen One - Elvenstorm
S My D - Blood On The Dance Floor
Eternal - Colossus
Awaking The Centuries - Haggard
Grave Robber - Petra
Dead Girl 2000 - Agents of Oblivion
Dead Girl 2000 - Agents Of Oblivion
Miss Strarving Skeleton - Here Comes The Kraken
Slaves Of Pain - Sepultura
South American Death - Aura Noir
Death Row - Pentagram
Fight Till Death - Slayer
Death Metal - Exhumed
Terminal Liberation - Mors Principium Est
Death List - Cataclysmic
How I Feel - Morphia
New Faith - Slayer
Apocalyptic Hybrid - Hypocrisy
Disburden - Lack
Dear Old Battlefield - Incredible String Band
Before You Fight This Battle... - Conditions
Young Wild Girls - Bruno Mars
Death Squad - Sacred Reich
Morally Justified - Allegiance
In Death's Sleep - Dismember
Poisoned By Ignorance - Violator
Soulcrusher - The Crimson Armada
Retribution - Black Label Society
Death of Me - Andy Mineo
Opeb Casket - Death
Crossing the Boundaries (of Life and Death)...
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A Fate Worse Than Death - Creature Feature
Winter Like Death - Her Horses
Death-Like Silence - Nightrage
I Like Death - Ozzy Osbourne
Feels Like Death - Crucified Barbara
War Within - Arkaea
Beautiful Agony - Tank
Confined By Evil - Descend
Jerry - Mustard Plug
I Promise You (With Everything I Am)...
I Promise You - Backstreet Boys
Between the Eyes - Twin-a
At The End - Crown
Death Dealers - Adept
Death Dealers - Adept
TEAMxDEADx - Dr. Living Dead!
Miniture Disasters - KT Tunstall
Crossfire - Pillar
Fight Till The Death We Must - Vainglory
Distance - Ikon
Death Of Love - Cradle Of Filth
Don t Say A Word - Chuck Ragan
Leprosy - Death
Leprosy - Akercocke
Death Box - Awful Logic
Delete Yourself - Atari Teenage Riot
Matter To Matter - This Is Me Smiling
Dethrone The Master, Eternally - Cerber
Nothing Immortal - Void Of Silence
Reasons - Trash Talk
Meat For The Beast - Origin
Still Remember - Destinity
To The Grave - The Pierces
The Devil - Motörhead
Death Is Saviour - Barathrum
Search & Destroy - K.M.F.D.M.
The Magnetic Sky - Becoming the Archetype
Fight Till Death [Rehearsal] - Slayer
Fight Till Death [Rehearsal] - Slayer
And I wonder - Pamela Means
Wit's All Been Done Before - Relient K
Death Be Not Proud - Audrey Assad
Death, Be Not Proud - Audrey Assad
Phoenix Down - The Unguided
I Wish You Death - Aeon
Marry Me (St. Vincent cover) - Amanda Palmer
House of Death - Hobbs Angel Of Death
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What Would It Be Like - 3rd Storee
What Life Would Be Like - Big Daddy Weave
What Would Christmas Be Like - Mia Rose
What It Must Be Like - Sixteen Cities
Death Metal - Vader
Doctor Monroe - Casey Dienel
Leviathan - Cancerslug
War Hog - Face Down
Thrillseeker - Divine Comedy, The
Thrillseeker - Divine Comedy
Thing Called Love - Above & Beyond
Horse Doctor Man - The Jesus Lizard
We Know What's Right - Whitecross
We Know What's Right - Whitecross
Danse Macabre - Purson
Death in the Family - Sparta
Bottom of the Sunrise - A Perfect Kiss
Inner Contrarieties - Invocator
And Weep - A Plea For Purging
Before You Fight This Battle - Conditions
Sick To Death - Atari Teenage Riot
Shoes For Running - Big Boi
Death By Drought - ENNEAD
Life And Death - Carolyn Arends
Never To Be Seen Again - Deicide
Pars[english Translation] - Grace Jones
Rags (Second Amendment) - The Waterboys
King Of Sodom And Gomorrah - W.A.S.P.
I Love You To Death - Village People
Faith of Our Fathers [*] - Bing Crosby
Call It Like I See it - Hellyeah
Call It Like I See It - Hell Yeah
Through the Gates of Time - Artaius
Young Girls (demo) - Bruno Mars
Son Of Evil - Kreator
The Death Of Love - Cradle Of Filth
Death Sentence (Of the Innocent) - Unseen Terror
Reborn - Hypocrisy
New False Prophet - Mütiilation
Vita Es Morte - Mezarkabul