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Placebo
Meds |
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Sarah McLachlan
Pills (Live) (su The Perishers) |
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The Beatles
Yer Blues John Lennon’s dark song is explicitly suicidal: "Black clouds cross my mind/Blue mist round my soul/Feel so suicidal/Even hate my rock ’n’ roll". |
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Five Finger Death Punch
Wrong Side of Heaven (a soldier returning back from war, suffering from PTSD but is left abandoned) |
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Type O Negative
World Coming Down (Depression, Regret, Self-hatred) |
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Within Temptation
Where Is The Edge overcoming inner demons |
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Pixies
Where Is My Mind? |
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Simple Plan
Welcome to My Life Welcome To My Life by Simple Plan is about what it's like to be depressed |
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Staind
Waste (about a fan who comitted suicide) |
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Adam Ant
Vince Taylor (The lyric "I nearly done a Vince Taylor" refers to how Ant almost followed in the footsteps of another singer with mental illness, Vince Taylor) |
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Adam Ant
Valentine's "I know you think it's tragic to heal it with black magic" |
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Blue Öyster Cult
Unknown Tongue (self-harm, schizophrenia, religious mania) |
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Cyndi Lauper
True Colours (the song writer didn't explicitly say it was about mental illness but there are many lines that could be interpreted to be about someone who is depressed) |
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Depeche Mode
Waiting for the night |
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Depeche Mode
Sweetest Perfection |
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Nightwish
The Poet and the Pendulum (about Tuomas Holopainen when he suffered from deep depression and suicidal thoughts) |
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Metallica
The Frayed Ends Of Sanity (Schizophrenia) |
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Lana Del Rey
The Blackest Day is about a bout of depression brought on by a break-up |
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Lana Del Rey
Summertime Sadness (depression, suicide) |
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Ozzy Osbourne
Suicide solution (Alcoholism) |
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Dio
Strange Highways - This song is about being unfairly locked up in a psychiatric hospital. "Don’t even wonder, we do things our way here. Questions? These are forbidden. We got no answers. Believe us anyway." |
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Metallica
St. Anger (alcohol abuse) |
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23 |
The National
Sorrow (About feeling attached to depression, "I don't wanna get over you...".) |
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Elton John
Someone Saved My Life Tonight Elton John later explained that the song really was about a friend saving him from trying to commit suicide following the breakup of a relationship with a woman, when John was trying to convince himself and his fans that he was no, in fact, a homosexual. |
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Candlemass
Solitude (Depression, Suicide) |
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Dream Theater
Solitary Shell (Asperger's Syndrome) |
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Blue Öyster Cult
Sole Survivor PTSD, survivor guilt |
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Pink Floyd
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (about former bandmate Syd Barrett, who suffered from schizophrenia) |
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Rae Morris
Rose Garden It is believed that the song was inspired by the popular semi-autobiographical novel about mental illness, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg. |
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Blue Öyster Cult
The Revenge of Vera Gemini (schizophrenia, personality disintegration, multiple personality disorder). |
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Patti Smith
Pissing in a River (despair, inadequacy, a sensation of one's best not being enough, helplessness.) |
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Radiohead
Paranoid Android (paranoia and hearing voices) |
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Black Sabbath
Paranoid |
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Alice In Chains
Nutshell |
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Pink Floyd
Nobody Home |
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Linkin Park
Nobody's Listening |
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Kate Bush
Mother Stands for Comfort The song is about a madman finding comfort in his mother. The lyrics "Make me do this, make me do that..." are about the voices in his head. |
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Maroon 5
Misery has the lyrics "I am in misery/There ain't nobody/Who can comfort me " which aptly describes depression. The song sounds happy but it is about being inconsolable |
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Sepultura
Mind War "Mind War" could generally describe mental illness, but the following lyrics seem to be especially true of those who suffer from bipolar illness: "Is there ever focus/When you plan things out/Gods hands Gods fault/Just drunk with power". |
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Jimi Hendrix
Manic Depression This song describes both the euphoric highs associated with creating music ("Music, sweet music/I wish I could caress") as well as the desperation and suicidal tendencies perhaps associated with mixed states ("Really ain’t no use in me hanging around"). |
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Rise Against
Make It Stop (September's Children) Suicide caused by homophobia |
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Syd Barrett
Baby Lemonade the former front-man of Pink Floyd who fell into mental illness and never got out of it |
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Nickelback
Lullaby (a song for people who feel like they can't go on. Suicide, cutting etc.) |
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Nirvana
Lithium Bipolar |
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Ramones
I Wanna Be Sedated |
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HIM
Join Me In Death |
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David Bowie
Jump They Say |
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Marillion
The Last Straw (We're clutching at straws - and still drowning!) |
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The Birthday Party
Just You and Me (Drugs, Schizophrenia) |
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Seether
Like Suicide https://depression.fandom.com/wiki/Songs_about_mental_illness |