Depress Me With Song Lyrics

Well, I’m in that kinda mood again. The one where I’ll be listening to my Cure and Smashing Pumpkins albums, and taking each word deep inside my heart. So, if you’d please, I’d like you to post the most depressing song lyrics you can find. Some examples are from the Handsome Family’s Drunk By Noon:

Sometimes I flap my arms like a hummingbird
just to remind myself I’ll never fly
And sometimes I burn my arms with cigarettes
just to pretend I won’t scream when I die

Ah, sweet sorrow… So, whatcha got to share?

“I’m gettin’ sick of this universe,
Ain’t gonna get better, it’s gonna get worse,
And the world’s gonna sink with the weight of the human race.”

The Who, “Had Enough”

“The church bell chimed til it rang 29 times
for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

Even though I’m not a religious person, this evokes a very depressing image.

Did you know Sk8er Boi was being made into a movie?

Hey, I thought that was pretty sad.

You cry out in your sleep - all my failings exposed
There’s a taste in my mouth, as desperation takes hold
Just that something so good just can’t function no more
When love, love will tear us apart again –

‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ - Joy Division

In my head, everything is perfect
And every note resounds in harmony
But all I seem to offer up are dischords
And every note I sing sounds out of key
And every time I play with passion
I start breaking strings …
This melody is tearing me apart.

‘T&C’ - Thrice

Depress you with song lyrics? Can they be vogon?

*Can you see your eyes blighted by darkness?
Is it true you beat your fists on the floor?
Stuck in a world of isolation
While ivy grows over the door

So I open my door to my enemies
And I ask could we wipe the slate clean
But they tell me to please go fuck myself
You know you just can’t win*

Pink Floyd | Lost for Words

These are perfect… I especially like Tanaqui’s because I’m such a perfectionist, I can relate fully. Here’s a few short ones from Neutral Milk Hotel:

In my dreams, you’re alive, and you’re crying

~Two Headed Boy pt. 2~

The only girl I’ve ever loved
was born with roses in her eyes
but then they buried her alive
one evening 1945

~Holland 1945~

Tindersticks, Dying Slowly
I’ve got memories
I keep them away from me
They won’t behave
Won’t be what I want them to be

I’ve seen it all and it´s all done
I’ve been with everyone and no one

So many squandered moments
So much wasted time
So busy chasing dreams
I left myself behind

I’ve seen it all and it?s all done
I’ve been with everyone and no one

So this dying slowly
It seemed better than shooting myself
This dying slowly
It seemed better than shooting myself

These worms, darling
They’re nibbling away at me
They go at it when I?m sleeping
Won’t let me get to my feet

I’ve seen it all and it’s all done
I’ve been with everyone and no one

So this dying slowly
It seemed better than shooting myself
This dying slowly
It seemed better than shooting -
If I could find the words to explain this feeling
I would shout them out
If I could find out all this, what’s inside me
I would shout it out

So this dying slowly
It seemed better than shooting myself
This dying slowly
It seemed better than shouting it out

I make some coffee
Pull on that new pair of pants
I can get so far
The feeling just falls away

I’ve seen it all and it?s all done
I’ve been with everyone and no one

I’m just tired, baby
I just need to lay down
I’m just tired, darling
I just need to lay down
I’m just tired, baby
I just need to lay down
I’m just tired, darling
I just need to lay down
I’m just tired, darling

If I keep my self-control,
I’ll be safe in my soul.
And this childhood’s belief
Brings a moment’s relief,

But my cynic soon returns
as the lifeboat burns.
My spirit just never learns

“In the Cage” by Genesis

To those who have wandered
these drugstore aisles
under the glow of these phosphorescent lights

The jump ropes…
razor blades
garden hose
sleeping aids

How many ways can you say that you’ve been broken?
How many angels do you see?

Lullabye for the Working Class
Man vs. the Tide.

*So in the end / I’ll be what I will be
No loyal friend / Was ever there for me

Now we say goodbye / We say you didn’t try

These tears you cry / Have come too late / Take back the lies / The hurt, the blame!

And you will weep / When you face the end alone / You are lost / You can never go home / You are lost / You can never go home* ~Gollum’s Song, LOTR:TTT

“Prayers for Rain”

(first verse)

You shatter me
Your grip on me
A hold on me
So dull it kills
You stifle me
Infectious sense
Of hopelessness and
Prayers for rain
I suffocate
I breathe in dirt
And nowhere shines
But desolate
And drab the hours all spent
On killing time again
All waiting for
The rain

The Cure- off their album “Disentegration” from:this site on this page years 1988 to 1990.

He spoke with tears of fifteen years
How his dog and he
They would travel about.
But his dog up and died
He up and died
And after twenty years he still grieved

Mr. Bojangles
His dog died, dammit.
:: slinks away sobbing ::

John says I look at the moon and the stars
these days more often than I look into his eyes
and I can’t disagree so I don’t say nothing.
I just stare on past his face at Venus rising,
like a shining speck of hope hanging over the horizon.

With each passing year that I sit here
that horizon seems to inch just that much nearer
and all that appears on it seems as clear as spit.
But if there’s one thing in my life
that these years have taught it’s
that you can always see it coming
but you can never stop it.
Bea’s Song Cowboy Junkies

What a beautiful piece of heartache this has all turned out to be.
Lord knows we’ve learned the hard way all about healthy apathy…

And I’m dyin’ inside to leave you with more than just cliches…

They’ve taken their toll, these latter days.

Latter Days Over the Rhine

I think The Good Life by Weezer is awfully depressing.

*I don’t wanna be an old man anymore.
It’s been a year or two since I was out on the floor,
shakin’ botty makin’ sweet love all the night.
It’s time I got back to the good life. *

It just reminds me of how everybody grows old and weary, and all you have are memories of the fun you used to have.
Another sad one is Friend is a Four Letter Word by Cake.

To me, coming from you, friend is a four letter word.
End is the only part of the word that I heard.
Call me morbid or absurd;
but to me, coming from you, friend is a four letter word.

It puts a depressing image of a falling out between two friends. Makes me wanna cry…

See the stars come falling down from the sky.
Gently passing they kiss your tears when you cry.
See the wind come gently blow your hair from your face.
See the rain hide away in disgrace.

Still I’m sad.
How I’m sad

For myself my tears just fall in the dust.
Day will die and night will find they are lost.
Now I find the wind is blowing time into my heart.
Let the rains fall now that we are apart.

Still I’m sad.
How I’m sad

and the backup vocals to this are similar to a Gregorian chant.

Handsome Family again
The Woman Downstairs
*Chicago is where
the woman downstairs
starved herself to death last summer.

Her boyfriend Ted
ate hot dogs and wept
with the gray rats out on the fire escape…*

Joe Jackson
One More Time
Tell me one more time as I hold your hand, that you don’t love me
Tell me one more time as teardrops start to fall
Shout it to me and I’ll shout it to the skies above me
That there was nothing after all…

So I’m moving on
I’ll never forget
As you lay there and watched me
Accepting the end
I knew you were scared
You were strong I was trying
I gave you my hand
I said it’s okay letting go time to leave here
And I’ll carry on
The best that I can without you here beside me
Let him come and take you home
Dream Theater - Disappear

“My sister would hold her head high, though. She said she was in love. They were together for five years until one day he lost his temper. He hit over the back of the neck with his bullworker. She lost the use of the right side of her body. He got three years and was out in fifteen months.”

“We buried her when she was 32. Me and my Aunt, the vicar, and the man who dug the hole. She said she didn’t want to be cremated and wanted a cheap coffin so the worms could get to her quickly. She said she liked the idea of it, though I thought it was because of what happened to the cat, and our mum.”

Tindersticks, My Sister

“All this talk of getting old
It’s getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I’m comin’ down”

Verve, The Drugs Don’t Work

“There wasn’t even time to say
Goodbye to Wendell Gee
So whistle as the wind blows
Whistle as the wind blows, with me”

REM, Wendell Gee

“And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine”

Smiths, There Is A Light That Never Goes Out

“There’s a club, if you like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go, and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home, and you cry and you want to die
When you say it’s gonna happen “now”
Well, when exactly do you mean?
See I’ve already waited too long
And all my hope is gone
I am human and I need to be loved
Just like everybody else does”

Smiths, How Soon Is Now

“She can walk out anytime, anytime she wants to walk out, that’s fine,
She can walk out anytime, anytime she feels that life has passed her by,
And when I start my new life I won’t touch the ground,
I’m gonna try hard this time not to touch the ground.”

Suede, By The Sea