Gwen Stefani wrote Don't Speak as a response to her bandmate boyfriend of seven years ending their relationship. The first verse is incredibly poignant, I think. http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/nodoubt/dontspeak.html
My Love Is Your Love by Whitney has an eerie lyric that goes "If I should die this very day, don't cry 'cause on earth we wasn't meant to stay", like she was predicting her own death amongst the heavy drug use.
A few by John Lennon:
"Mother, you left me but I never left you"
"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you Julia"
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
A lyric from The Winner takes it All: I remember watching a documentary about Abba, and they described this as musical sadism - Bjorn wrote it for Agnetha to sing while they were splitting up in real life:
"But tell me does she kiss
Like I used to kiss you?
Does it feel the same
When she calls your name?"
How to Disappear Completely by Radiohead summed up how Thom Yorke felt with fame encroaching into his life. Thankfully, for his own sanity, he found a way around it.
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"Mother, you left me but I never left you"
"Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you Julia"
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
A lyric from The Winner takes it All: I remember watching a documentary about Abba, and they described this as musical sadism - Bjorn wrote it for Agnetha to sing while they were splitting up in real life:
"But tell me does she kiss
Like I used to kiss you?
Does it feel the same
When she calls your name?"
http://radio.com/2014/10/10/glen-campbell-im-not-gonna-miss-you-final-song-video/
He recorded it when he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s He is now at the later stages.
Listen to the words.
'it's my time coming, I'm not afraid to die'
and others in the song about feeling them drown his name..
not the meaning of him drowning in real life though