In House M.D., what song plays during the original series finale montage?

In House M.D., “Keep Me in Your Heart” plays during the original series finale montage.

The song, written and recorded by Warren Zevon, accompanies the closing montage of “Everybody Dies,” the two-part finale that concludes House’s story. The music underscores the emotional farewell to the hospital, the supporting characters, and the apparent death that allows House to abandon his former life.

Zevon’s song carries additional resonance because he recorded it while dying of mesothelioma. Its themes of memory, separation, and continuing emotional connection fit the finale’s focus on friendship and mortality.

The finale does not simply show House’s funeral as a literal ending. House secretly survives and rides away with James Wilson, who has terminal cancer, so the two can spend Wilson’s remaining months together. The song is therefore tied to a farewell and a new, hidden beginning rather than an unambiguous death scene.