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This week's Top Five On Friday isn't a happy subject, but it's one that we all have to deal with sometime:

Top 5 songs about death

1) "The Lighthouse's Tale" by Nickel Creek. This is a bad one, folks. The lighthouse keeper's girlfriend dies in a storm, and then he kills himself over the grief. However, if you don't pay attention to the lyrics, it seems like a happy little tune, or at least not a morbid one.

2) "O Death" by Ralph Stanley. Very self-explanatory. It's good partly because Ralph is old enough to have seen plenty of death in his time.

3) "Wait Until Tomorrow" by Jimi Hendrix. It starts out well enough. A bouncy, riff-filled tune about a guy wanting to run off with his girlfriend. She tells him to wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow comes, and her father shoots him dead! You never saw that coming, did you?

4) "I Shot The Sherriff" by Bob Marley. This could have been much worse, but he spared the deputy.

5) "Gravedigger" by Dave Matthews. This is such an odd song for Dave, because he usually sings about love and happy, hippie-type stuff. This song finds him reading gravestones and thinking about the lives of those buried under them.