These guys knew a little too much about their future deaths.

Jimi Hendrix, for instance, predicted that he would die in five years and even wrote the prescient lyrics in his song, 'The Ballad of Jimi’, according to ultimateclassicrock.com.

The cut never showed up on an album, but fans are aware of it, especially since the song is “dedicated to the memory of . . . Jimi.”

Lines like ”Many things he would try / For he knew soon he’d die,” ”Now Jimi’s gone, he’s not alone / His memory still lives on” and ”Five years, this he said / He’s not gone, he’s just dead” chillingly predict his own death and legacy five years later.

Then there's Warren Zevon. 

Sixteen years before he died of lung cancer in 2003, Warren Zevon recorded a song about a blue-collar worker that foreshadowed his own death.

‘The Factory’ on his 1987 comeback album ‘Sentimental Hygiene,’ tells of the life of a man who grows up to be a factory worker just like his dad.

”Kickin’ asbestos in the factory / Punchin’ out Chryslers in the factory / Breathin’ that plastic in the factory.”

Zevon died of advanced malignant mesothelioma, which is often caused by exposure to asbestos, even though he never worked in a factory, so his odds of developing that particular kind of cancer were very rare.

And consider Marc Bolan of T.Rex, who wrote ‘Solid Gold Easy Action,’ a single-only release that opens with these lyrics:

”Life is the same and it always will be / Easy as picking foxes from a tree".

Five years on it turns out that the license plate on the car that Bolan was killed in on Sept. 16, 1977, was “FOX 661L.” And it was wrapped around a tree.

Of course one of the most famous and eerie predictions of death involves Lynyrd Skynyrd.

The cover of Lynyrd Skynyrd‘s 1977 ‘Street Survivors‘ album features the band engulfed in flames.

Three days after the album’s release, the band’s plane went down, killing frontman Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, vocalist Cassie Gaines, assistant road manager Dean Kilpatrick, pilot Walter McCreary and co-pilot William Gray.

And then there’s the lyrics to ‘That Smell’:

Say you’ll be alright come tomorrow, but tomorrow might not be here for you,” “Angel of darkness upon you,” ”The smell of death surrounds you.”

Skeptics say, "coincidence", believers say, "precognition" and I say, "don't write dark song lyrics." :-D

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