Theme
Songs about endings
Interpretations from our editorial team that explore this theme.
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![Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) [Live at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan, March 18, 2001] by Green Day](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music221/v4/0a/a8/e2/0aa8e2b4-4f34-f01a-717e-ab424aaddfff/093624833260.jpg/600x600bb.jpg)
Green Day
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) [Live at Makuhari Messe, Tokyo, Japan, March 18, 2001]
A bittersweet farewell that reframes an ending as an experience worth having, delivered by a punk band trading distortion for an acoustic guitar
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![Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) [Live at the Electric Factory, Philadelphia 11/14/97] by Green Day](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music125/v4/a0/16/bf/a016bf34-4050-16d6-778b-9eb5af5e5d4c/093624915690.jpg/600x600bb.jpg)
Green Day
Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) [Live at the Electric Factory, Philadelphia 11/14/97]
A bittersweet farewell that frames endings as something to accept and even celebrate, no matter how reluctantly
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Rihanna
Goodnight Gotham
A 90-second outro built almost entirely from a single sampled phrase, using repetition to dissolve the album's emotional weight into ambient drift