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Kill Em All was renamed Everybody Dies Ending due to misuse. Dewicking


* In the light of [[KillEmAll the events of 2016]], the last lines from their take on ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition'' have become something combination of this and a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.

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* In the light of [[KillEmAll the events of 2016]], 2016, the last lines from their take on ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition'' have become something combination of this and a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.


* Keith Emerson's tragic death in 2016, by a [[DrivenToSuicide self-inflicted gunshot wound]].
* Made even worse by the fact that Greg Lake died later that same year, leaving Carl Palmer the last surviving band member.
** Greg Lake hiding his illness so he wouldn't have to face the sadness and pity from the public and 'die a facebook death'.
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* In the light of [[KillEmAll the events of 2016]], the last lines from their take on ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition'' have become something combination of this and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

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* In the light of [[KillEmAll the events of 2016]], the last lines from their take on ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition'' have become something combination of this and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.
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removing misplaced The Alan Parsons Project example


* ''Time'' not only has a hauntingly dissonant melody, but addresses the difficulty of having to move on from people and places you loved.
-->Goodbye my love\\
Maybe for forever\\
Goodbye my love\\
The tide waits for me\\
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* ''Time'' not only has a hauntingly dissonant melody, but addresses the difficulty of having to move on from people and places you loved.
-->Goodbye my love\\
Maybe for forever\\
Goodbye my love\\
The tide waits for me\\
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* In the light of [[KillEmAll the events of 2016]], the last lines from their take on Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition have become something combination of this and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

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* In the light of [[KillEmAll the events of 2016]], the last lines from their take on Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition'' have become something combination of this and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.



* The song "Oh, My Father", recorded during the sessions for Tarkus but for whatever reason not released until nearly thirty years later. It's poignant and painful, especially for anyone who's lost a loved one, and features some of Lake's most heartbreaking lyrics.

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* The song "Oh, My Father", recorded during the sessions for Tarkus ''Tarkus'' but for whatever reason not released until nearly thirty years later. It's poignant and painful, especially for anyone who's lost a loved one, and features some of Lake's most heartbreaking lyrics.
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* Regardless of your feelings towards ''Love Beach'', it's hard to deny "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" is a pretty sad song. It's about a captain who falls in love and goes to war... only to return home and find his loved one had died a (most likely) accidental death from being caught in crossfire. The sudden MoodWhiplash when the music shifts to a sinister, dark tone to represent the death doesn't help matters either.
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**Greg Lake hiding his illness so he wouldn't have to face the sadness and pity from the public and 'die a facebook death'.
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** Worse still when you realize he wrote it for his own father, who died around that time.
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* The song "Oh, My Father", recorded during the sessions for Tarkus but for whatever reason not released until nearly thirty years later. It's poignant and painful, especially for anyone who's lost a loved one, and features some of Lake's most heartbreaking lyrics.
-->I'm crying for the things that I never said
-->And all the love that I never showed...
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* The ballads ("From the Beginning", "Lucky Man", etc.) are the most obvious choices, but knowing the concepts and contexts behind their lengthier songs can turn some of them into these as well ("Tarkus", "Karn Evil 9"). And of course, others, such as "Trilogy" and "Take a Pebble", can qualify even if you don't pay attention to the words.
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* In the light of [[KillEmAll the events of 2016]], the last lines from their take on Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition have become something combination of this and a CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.
-->There's no end to my life,
-->No beginning to my death
-->Death is life!
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* Made even worse by the fact that Greg Lake died later that same year.

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* Made even worse by the fact that Greg Lake died later that same year.year, leaving Carl Palmer the last surviving band member.
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* Keith Emerson's tragic death in 2016, by a [[DrivenToSuicide self-inflicted gunshot wound]].

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* Keith Emerson's tragic death in 2016, by a [[DrivenToSuicide self-inflicted gunshot wound]].wound]].
* Made even worse by the fact that Greg Lake died later that same year.
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* Keith Emerson's tragic death in 2016, by a [[DrivenBySuicide self-inflicted gunshot wound]].

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* Keith Emerson's tragic death in 2016, by a [[DrivenBySuicide [[DrivenToSuicide self-inflicted gunshot wound]].
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* "Lucky Man." Starts off as a song about a man with riches who goes on to fight in a war [[spoiler: and gets killed by a bullet.]]

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* "Lucky Man." Starts off as a song about a man with riches who goes on to fight in a war [[spoiler: and gets killed by a bullet.]]]]
* Keith Emerson's tragic death in 2016, by a [[DrivenBySuicide self-inflicted gunshot wound]].
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* "Lucky Man." Starts off as a song about a man with riches who goes on to fight in a war [[:spoiler: and gets killed by a bullet.]]

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* "Lucky Man." Starts off as a song about a man with riches who goes on to fight in a war [[:spoiler: [[spoiler: and gets killed by a bullet.]]
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-->Someone get me a ladder

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-->Someone get me a ladderladder
* "Lucky Man." Starts off as a song about a man with riches who goes on to fight in a war [[:spoiler: and gets killed by a bullet.]]
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-->Every day a little sadder//
A little madder//
Someone get me a ladder

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-->Every day a little sadder//
A
sadder
-->A
little madder//
Someone
madder
-->Someone
get me a ladder
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* "Still, You Turn Me On" definitely qualifies.
-->Every day a little sadder//
A little madder//
Someone get me a ladder

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