As it continues, the song asserts that life goes on until you don’t belong. The chorus bleakly commences “so ends another life.” It takes the Gibb brothers’s most maudlin moments to the Nth degree.

Next up on the album featuring “So Ends Another Life” is “Poor Old Man.” Its first words are “he is in his room, men will be there soon, they come to smash the heaven he has known. Now he’s sure to ...