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Moved these ZC Es from the main page here. Please don't restore them without providing context. Look at the remaining examples to see what "context" means in this case. — at the very least, identify who or what is being grieved over.

• "In Loving Memory", "Blackbird" and "Wonderful Life" by Alter Bridge.
• "Summergirl" by The Mayfield Four (the lead singer, Myles Kennedy, is also the front man for Alter Bridge.)
• "Paperthin Hymn" by Anberlin.
• "Emily" by Mary and the Black Lamb
  • "Straight From My Heart", also by Richard Marx,
• Hitomi Yaida's "Over the Distance"
• "One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men.
• "Dance with my Father" by Luther Vandross
• "How to Save a Life" by The Fray
• Hello Project and its related artists do this quite a bit. They also subvert it, too.
• "Hurt" by Christina Aguilera.
• If the song is not about heroin, chances are any given Alice in Chains song is this. Special mention to "Would?" "Died" and "Get Born Again."
• Sarah McLachlan, unsurprisingly, has at least three of these - "I Will Remember You", "Angel" and (one for the Buffy fans) "Full of Grace".
• "Hallelujah" by Leonard Cohen (but more often its cover versions).
• "Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day from American Idiot.
  • "J.A.R." (written to a friend of Mike Dirnt who had died) as well, even though that's more upbeat.
• "Breakfast Table" by Chris Rice.
• "4am Forever" by Lostprophets
• "He Was My Brother" by Simon & Garfunkel
• "My Best Friend" by Tyrese Gibson and Ludacris, for exactly the same reason as above.
• "My Lover's Gone" by Dido.
• "Think of Laura" by Christopher Cross.
• "Aubrey" by Bread.
• "Gone Away" by The Offspring.
• "Come Back" by Lesley Roy
• "Why" by Rascal Flatts. "What Hurts The Most" also qualifies.
• "You're Gone" by Diamond Rio.
• "The Thing About Grief" by Clare Bowditch and the Feeding Set.
• "Elle G." by the Newsboys
• "When You Go", "Summer's Over", "I Hate California", and a number of others by Jonathan Coulton
• Many Type O Negative songs, including "Everyone I Love Is Dead", "Everything Dies", and "Red Water (Christmas Mourning)".
• "The Duel" and "Is Heaven Good Enough for You" by Allison Moorer.
• "Night Comes Down" by Judas Priest. Even metalheads grieve.
  • Which brings us to "Watching Over Me" by Iced Earth.
• Pretty much the entirety of Eels' Electro Shock Blues album.
• Kamelot's "Don't You Cry" and "The Mourning After".
• "KKK Took My Baby Away" by The Ramones.
• "Harvest of Sorrow" by Blind Guardian.
• "He hasn't returned from the battle" by Vladimir Vysotsky.
• "Moonlight Shadow" by Mike Oldfield (and later Missing Heart and Groove Coverage, especially the piano version of the latter).
• 'In My Darkest Hour', 'Foreclosure Of A Dream', 'A Tout La Monde' and 'Promises' by Megadeth.
• "He Was A Friend Of Mine", which was covered by Bob Dylan and The Byrds (on Turn Turn Turn), among others.
• Space have 'Bad Days' and 'Avenging Angels' (no, really).
  • "Speechless"
• "May" by James Durbin.
• "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday", as made famous by Boyz II Men.
• "Last Kiss" by Wayne Cochran, but Covered Up (to the younger crowd, anyway) by Pearl Jam.
• "Another Loss" by Decoded Feedback.
• VNV Nation's lonely piano ballad "From My Hands".
• Florence + the Machine: "Never Let Me Go" and "Heavy In Your Arms".
• "From Where You Are" by Lifehouse.
• The Smashing Pumpkins had a number, particularly on Adore. Notable examples include "For Martha", "Tear", and "Once Upon a Time".
• "You Can Still Be Free" by Savage Garden.
• "Ghost" by Indigo Girls
• "Yellow Butterfly" by Meg & Dia.

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