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Sufjan Stevens
A Good Man Is Hard to Find (psychosis:"I once was better / I put off all my grief"). |
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The Velvet Underground
After Hours (agoraphobia) |
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David Bowie
All the Madmen (from perspective of a mental patient) |
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Bauhaus
Antonin Artaud This song was about a french play writer named "Antonin Artaud" who was a tormented schizophrenic drug addict. |
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Alice Cooper
Ballad of Dwight Fry ("see my lonely mind explode, when I’ve gone insane") |
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Green Day
Basket Case Billie Joe Armstrong’s song about his struggle with anxiety |
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Eurythmics
Beethoven (I love to listen to) (about obsessive-compulsive disorder) |
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Keane
Black Burning Heart very bleak song relating to suicide |
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Bob Dylan
Black Crow Blues bipolar protagonist, sometimes "too high to fall", sometimes "so low, I don’t know if I can come up at all" |
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Pink Floyd
Brain Damage (hearing voices; mentions lobotomy) |
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Barenaked Ladies
Brian Wilson (narrator compares himself to Brian Wilson, founder of the Beach Boys, who suffered from bipolar disorder, psychosis and drug problems) |
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Ozzy Osbourne
Can You Hear Them (schizophrenic singing about "all the voices in my head") |
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David Bowie
China Girl China Girl’ is a street name for a powerful opioid drug used for anesthesia and analgesia. It is also related to antipsychotic drugs such as Compazine, Mellaril, Stelazine, and Thorazine, "Street names for fentanyl include apache, china girl, china white, dance fever, friend, goodfella, jackpot, murder 8, TNT, and Tango and Cash", source www. drugabusehelp. com, A strong link exists between drug abuse and mental illness. This song’s lyrics describe a man’s growing anxiety and his relationship with the drug ’china girl’. "I could escape this feeling with my China Girl", hints at the drug nature of China Girl (he’s looking for escape from a condition), and "It’s in the whites of my eyes", "And when I get excited..." are hints of the elevated anxiety he experiences (the condition he needs to escape). |
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Siouxsie & the Banshees
Christine (About a girl with multiple personality disorder) |
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Rush
Cinderella Man (about a man whose transition from poverty to wealth has made him manic depressive) |
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Adam Ant
Cool Zombie (about a period of time when he was on medication for bi-polar) |
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Adam Ant
Cradle Your Hatred (about how his mental illness has affected his relationships) |
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Ozzy Osbourne
Crazy train "Mental wounds still screaming, driving me insane, I’m goin’ off the rails on a crazy train’ |
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The Kinks
Destroyer (narrator has "paranoia, the destroyer") |
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Ozzy Osbourne
Diary of a madman (about Depersonalization: The mirror tells me lies/ Could I mistake myself for someone/ Who lives behind my eyes?) |
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Manic Street Preachers
Die in the Summertime (details depression and self mutilation) |
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Dio
Don't Talk to Strangers (about social anxiety disorder: "Don’t talk. Don’t let them inside your mind. Run away! Run away!") |
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Nine Inch Nails
Down in It (depression: "I was up above it, now I’m down in it") |
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Janis Joplin
Down On Me (persecution complex-- "everybody in this whole round world, they’re down on me") |
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Cheap Trick
Dream Police (paranoia in nightmares "they’re driving me insane, these men inside my brain") |
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26 |
The Corrs
Everybody Hurts (gyvai @ MTV Unplugged) (told from the point of view of someone comforting a friend who is suicidal) |
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Metallica
Fade To Black (depression and suicidal thoughts) |
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Porcupine Tree
Fear of a Blank Planet (bipolar disorder) |
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Soundgarden
Fell on Black Days The writer said that "Fell on Black Days" was like this ongoing fear I've had for years...It's a feeling that everyone gets. You're happy with your life, everything's going well, things are exciting—when all of a sudden you realize you're unhappy in the extreme, to the point of being really, really scared. There's no particular event you can pin the feeling down to, it's just that you realize one day that everything in your life is FUCKED!" which means the song could be about depression. |
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James Taylor
Fire and Rain (recovery from depression) |
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Blue Öyster Cult
Fire of Unknown Origin (deals with breeavement, anger and depression over loss) |
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32 |
Alice Cooper
From the Inside (The entire album was inspired by persons Cooper met while hospitalized for alcoholism) |
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The Avalanches
Frontier Psychiatrist (mentions insanity, therapy, psychosomatic illness etc.) |
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Sinead O'Connor
Gloomy Sunday (About the death of a loved one and wanting to die as well) |
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Third Eye Blind
Good for You (obsession and denial "Everything is fine, I’m lonely all the time" and "There’s nothing wrong, just don’t take too long.") |
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Siouxsie & the Banshees
Happy House (set in an asylum) |
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Korn
Hater (bullying and suicide) |
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38 |
Rise Against
Heaven Knows (about the suicide of a friend of the lead singer) |
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39 |
Green Day
Having a Blast Suicide |
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40 |
The Wombats
Here Comes The Anxiety (about the lead singers experiences with his own anxiety) |
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41 |
Van der Graaf Generator
Highly Strung (panic attacks) |
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42 |
The Fray
How to Save a Life (about a boy that is suffering from depression and being mistreated) |
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43 |
Nine Inch Nails
Hurt drug addiction and guilt |
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44 |
The Temptations
I Wish It Would Rain is about depression as the result of a breakup |
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45 |
Marillion
Incommunicado (social isolation, loneliness, inability to communicate meaningfully) |
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46 |
Bauhaus
In the Night song about someone's demise into darkness and depression, finally into drugs addiction and suicide |
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47 |
Daniel Johnston
I Had Lost My Mind |
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48 |
Nirvana
I Hate Myself And Want To Die |
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Alice Cooper
Inmates (We're All Crazy) |
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Suicidal Tendencies
Institutionalized https://depression.fandom.com/wiki/Songs_about_mental_illness |