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Great song. My Dad was a GOS fan and I grew up on his stuff. Haven’t heard any of it in a while now mind you.
I’m surprised we’ve gotten this far into the thread without anyone mentioning James Taylor’s “Fire and Rain.”
Paul Westerberg - Crackle & Drag (about Sylvia Plath)
She made a good go for a weeping willow, she stuffed some rags on the floor
She closed the window, she made a pillow on the oven door
and took a long deep breath, while her baby slept
Now they’re zippin her up in a bag, can you hear the blacks crackle and drag
And the Cadillac’s waiting to take her away, can you hear the blacks crackle and drag
Gene - Her Fifteen Years
Goodbye kind world, oh I’m so sad to leave
for I’ve been haunting you for fifteen years
And all I’ve done, to improve your lives
and yet you still dared to let me go…
Ok, one more from Westerberg and I’ll quit.
No Place For You (About friend Katie O’Brien.)
just add water
someone’s done for
i’m getting nervious there goes one more
no day is safe from thoughts of you leaving
marriage license
can’t help thinking
it’s all for nothing
she’s so unholy
up in the skies now
she’s getting lonely
How about a semi-hijack into songs about when suicides become extroverted? Like I Don’t Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats:
Or Jeremy by Pearl Jam:
Suicide Is Painless: Theme From MASH
(J. Mandel - written by: M. Altman)
Through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see…
[Refrain]:
That suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
[Refrain]
The game of life is hard to play
I’m gonna lose it anyway
The losing card I’ll someday lay
so this is all I have to say.
[Refrain]
The sword of time will pierce our skins
It doesn’t hurt when it begins
But as it works its way on in
The pain grows stronger, watch it grin, but…
[Refrain]
A brave man once requested me
to answer questions that are key
“is it to be or not to be”
and I replied “oh why ask me?”
'Cause suicide is painless
it brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
…and you can do the same thing if you choose.
Band: Queen
Song: Dont Try Suicide
1, 2, 3, 4, 1… …YEAH.
OK, Dont do it, dont try it baby, dont do that dont dont dont dont do that
we got a good thing going baby dont do it
dont do it. DONT!
Dont try suicide nobody’s worth it,
don’t try suicide nobody cares,
don’t try suicide ya just gonna hate it,
dont try suicide, nobody gives a damn.
So you think it’s the easy way out?
Think you’re gonna slash your wrists this time?
Baby when you do it all you do is get on my tits.
Dont do that try try try baby,
dont do that we got a good thing going now
Dont do it, Dont do it, DONT!
Dont try suicide nobody’s worth it,
dont try suicide nobody cares,
dont try suicide ya just gonna hate it,
dont try suicide nobody gives a damn…
http://www.lyricsdot.com/search.html?band=queen&album=&song=don't+try+suicide&match=soundex
Tighter and tighter; Burden in my hand; Bootcamp (all off the same album, Down on the upside - Soundgarden
Suicide note Pt 1 - Pantera
Nobody hears - Suicidal Tendencies
The final cut - Pink Floyd (of all their stuff, probably the most morbid)
A tout le monde - Megadeth
You can pick any song from R.E.M’s “Automatic For The People”.
They’re ALL about death, pain, depression, lost dreams, hopelessness. . .
–Oddly, it’s my favorite album!!!
“Three Peaches” by Neutral Milk Hotel is about a failed suicide.
Well, of course everything on Suicidal Tendencies first album. But my favorite suicide song, and one of the my favorite songs in general is Foetus’ “A Prayer for my Death”.
“… no wonder you write escape clauses on the heads of needles,
and dig 500 foot tunnels with a spoon.
I don’t find it necessary
To take responsibility
For sinners of military
Daily life is dynsentary
Escape this earthbound Alcatraz
Get out of this penitentiary
Crawl out! Of this century
Crawl out! Of this cavity
Well I can see eternity,
I can see infinity
I don’t believe in ecstacy
And I need RELEASE!”
“Yer Blues.” The Beatles
And then on a lighter note, there’s “I Think I’m Going To Kill Myself” by Elton John
“Jump, Jump, Jump” by Rick Derringer:
About half the song catalog of The Smiths and Morrissey fit the bill as songs springing from depression. As for songs dealing specifically with suicide, try “Asleep” by The Smiths:
*Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
And then leave me alone
Don’t try to wake me in the morning
For I will be gone.*
Several other suicide-themed songs:
"(Don’t Fear) The Reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult
"Still Crazy After All These Years" - Paul Simon (arguably)
"Can’t You See?" - Marshall Tucker Band
"Shotgun Blues" - Blues Brothers (cover-not sure of original artist)
Hurt NIN
I…hurt myself today.
To see if I still felt.
focus on the pain.
The only thing that’s real.
The needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting.
Try to kill it all away
but I remember everything…
Paint it Black Rolling Stones.
I see a red door and I want it painted black
no colors anymore I want htem to turn black
I see the girls go by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes.
Loser 3 Doors Down.
Breathing life away.
nothing seems to fill this place
I need this every time
so take lies get off my case.
Someday I will find a love
that’s supposed to be like this
This will fall away this will fall away
you’re getting close to pushing me off
of lifes little ledge
cause I’m a loser
and sooner or later you know I’ll be dead.
Don’t Fear the Reaper Blue oyster cult
All our times have come
here but now their gone
seasons don’t fear the reaper
nor do the wind the sun and the rain
we can be like they are
comon baby. Don’t fear the reaper
Everybody Hurts REM.
No need for lyrics is there?
There’s always the glaringly obvious Suicide Solution by Ozzy Osbourne.
And the blues classic Trouble in mind, whose lyrics(which I’m not 100% on) go something like:
I’m gonna lay down my head
On a lonesome railway line
And let the 5:15
Come and ease my troubled mind
megdeth A Tout Le Monde
Don’t remember where I was I realized life was a game
More seriously I took things. The harder the rules became
I had no idea what it costs. My life had passed before my eyes.
So as you read this know my friends
I’d love to stay with you all
smile when you think of me
my body’s gone…that’s all…
A tout Le monde
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these are the last words I’ll ever speak. They’ll set me free.
I’d second that. Ian Curtis (lead singer) was so depressed he actually did kill himself.
While listening to David Bowies “Low” which I find anything but depressing.
What about “Heroin,” by Velvet Underground:
I don’t know just where I’m going
But I’m gonna try for the kingdom, if I can
’cause it makes me feel like I’m a man
When I put a spike into my vein
And I’ll tell ya, things aren’t quite the same…
I have made the big decision
I’m gonna try to nullify my life
’cause when the blood begins to flow
When it shoots up the dropper’s neck
When I’m closing in on death
And you can’t help me not, you guys
And all you sweet girls with all your sweet silly talk
You can all go take a walk