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![]() Meds |
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![]() Pills (Live) (su The Perishers) |
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![]() 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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![]() Wrong Side of Heaven (a soldier returning back from war, suffering from PTSD but is left abandoned) |
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![]() World Coming Down (Depression, Regret, Self-hatred) |
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![]() Where Is The Edge overcoming inner demons |
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![]() Where Is My Mind? |
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![]() Welcome to My Life Welcome To My Life by Simple Plan is about what it's like to be depressed |
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![]() Waste (about a fan who comitted suicide) |
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![]() 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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![]() Valentine's "I know you think it's tragic to heal it with black magic" |
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![]() Unknown Tongue (self-harm, schizophrenia, religious mania) |
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![]() 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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![]() Waiting for the night |
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![]() Sweetest Perfection |
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![]() The Poet and the Pendulum (about Tuomas Holopainen when he suffered from deep depression and suicidal thoughts) |
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![]() The Frayed Ends Of Sanity (Schizophrenia) |
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![]() The Blackest Day is about a bout of depression brought on by a break-up |
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![]() Summertime Sadness (depression, suicide) |
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![]() Suicide solution (Alcoholism) |
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![]() 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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![]() St. Anger (alcohol abuse) |
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![]() Sorrow (About feeling attached to depression, "I don't wanna get over you...".) |
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![]() 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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![]() Solitude (Depression, Suicide) |
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![]() Solitary Shell (Asperger's Syndrome) |
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![]() Sole Survivor PTSD, survivor guilt |
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![]() Shine On You Crazy Diamond (about former bandmate Syd Barrett, who suffered from schizophrenia) |
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![]() 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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![]() The Revenge of Vera Gemini (schizophrenia, personality disintegration, multiple personality disorder). |
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![]() Pissing in a River (despair, inadequacy, a sensation of one's best not being enough, helplessness.) |
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![]() Paranoid Android (paranoia and hearing voices) |
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![]() Paranoid |
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![]() Nutshell |
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![]() Nobody Home |
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![]() Nobody's Listening |
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![]() 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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![]() 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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![]() 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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![]() 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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![]() Make It Stop (September's Children) Suicide caused by homophobia |
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![]() Baby Lemonade the former front-man of Pink Floyd who fell into mental illness and never got out of it |
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![]() Lullaby (a song for people who feel like they can't go on. Suicide, cutting etc.) |
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![]() Lithium Bipolar |
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![]() I Wanna Be Sedated |
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![]() Join Me In Death |
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![]() Jump They Say |
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![]() The Last Straw (We're clutching at straws - and still drowning!) |
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![]() Just You and Me (Drugs, Schizophrenia) |
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![]() Like Suicide https://depression.fandom.com/wiki/Songs_about_mental_illness |