: Songs that don't end with key chord? I'm quite new to music theory, I think the fact that I've just found out that songs most of the time end with the key chords would prove it :D. To be able to understand this better I'm

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Here are some pieces that don't end in the key they start in:

Every song that uses the "truck driver's gear change" at least once to push the key up at least one semitone (Livin' on a Prayer, That's the Way It Is, You Raise Me Up, etc.)
A lot of ragtime (Elite Syncopations, Reflection Rag, Frog Legs Rag, etc.--ragtime pieces commonly end in the subdominant key)
A lot of marches (The Stars and Stripes Forever, Manhattan Beach March, Entry of the Gladiators, etc.--marches commonly end in the subdominant key)
Chopin's Scherzo No. 2 in B Flat Minor (ends in D flat major)
Blue Rondo a la Turk (starts in F major, ends in A major/minor)
The 7th movement of Schumann's Kreisleriana (starts in C minor, ends in E flat major)

The second movement of Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata ends with a diminished 7th chord, but it goes to the third movement without a break, so I'm not sure how much that counts.