Memento mori songs - list them before you die

A friend pointed out on Facebook that Depeche Mode's "Fly On The Windscreen" is a memento mori. Another friend pointed out that The Veronicas' "4 Eva" is too, sorta. Both in fact suggest that the shadow of impending death is a good excuse to have sex immediately. I suspect that, to the extent that there are non-death-metal memento mori songs, the importance of filling in the remaining time with sex would be an recurrent theme. Only, I can't think of any other memento mori songs off the top of my head. Help me.

Warmmm!!!!!

(dweep)

Leatherette..

(dwoop)

Of course!

and we're all gonna die
by the end of the night
we've got nothing to save
our precarious lives
it's a question of time
they've got blood in their eyes
and they're all drunk as lords
and we're all gonna die
yeah we're all gonna die

Scout Niblett - Your Beat Kicks Back Like Death?

("We're all gonna die, we're all gonna die/We don't know when/And we don't know how/But we're all gonna die")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzOIw-NsG9M

TV on the Radio - staring at the sun

is both about dying by drowning and having an orgasm.

prince - 1999

i find memento mori signifiers and art and their use in particular places to be strangely comforting, in a non-morbid way. something like Capela dos Ossos (never been tbh) sounds almost reassuring?

The Capela dos Ossos (English: Chapel of Bones) is one of the best known monuments in Évora, Portugal. It is a small interior chapel located next to the entrance of the Church of St. Francis. The Chapel gets its name because the interior walls are covered and decorated with human skulls and bones.

The Capela dos Ossos was built in the 16th century by a Franciscan monk who, in the Counter-Reformation spirit of that era, wanted to prod his fellow brothers into contemplation and transmit the message of life being transitory. This is clearly shown in the famous warning at the entrance Nós ossos que aqui estamos pelos vossos esperamos (“We bones, lying here bare, are awaiting yours).

maybe that chapel is comforting because dry, anonymous bones are a somewhat sanitized vision of death, allowing us to gloss over the messy process of decay that we all have to go through before we're reduced to neat-looking jolly rogers. I'd be awed but not really terrified walking into that chapel, but I think I'd be seriously unsettled if I visited (for instance) the Palermo catacombs, where mummified bodies are fastened to the wall in standing positions, dressed in the clothes they wore in life and labeled with their names and death dates. the presence of rotting soft tissue and identifying features is what separates seriously unsettling images of death from ones that are merely solemn.

what this has to do with songs, I don't know.

the lyrics to Stina Nordenstam's "Common Miracle" really stick with me though. I think it's the lack of sentimentality and the flatly descriptive ("200 pounds or so", "skin and bones are altered") imagery. because I haven't (yet) had to mourn the death of a loved one, that kind of thing haunts me a lot more than weepy "Tears in Heaven"-type stuff.

there will be a sudden silence
where before there was a voice
there'll be just enough of absence
200 pounds or so

but her skin and bones are altered
all is different now
it is such a common miracle, it
happens all the time

it was not at all magnetic
and you had no special skills
except for fingertips and eyelids
pressed with life and living

but her skin and bones are altered
all is different now
it is such a common miracle, it
happens all the time

it reflected light like all things
and it was a lot like love
but its absence seems so small, it
barely flickers on my skin

but her skin and bones are altered
all is different now
it is such a common miracle, it
happens all the time

("had occasion to mourn", I should say)

Schubert "Der Tod und das Mädchen"

Patti Smith: "Memento Mori"