# Songs that discourage suicide.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2013, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064 "2013-02-22T07:31:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Private\_Bin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@Private\_Bin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Private_Bin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/41 "2013-02-23T10:33:41Z")
Theme from Shaft. ---
**Author:** ![PookahMacPhellimey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pookahmacphellimey/32/3175_2.png) [@PookahMacPhellimey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PookahMacPhellimey)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/42 "2013-02-23T11:05:23Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > +1. I’ve never been suicidal, but when I find myself in a dark place, this song goes on repeat. +2. Amazing song. Adding [Tony](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77iCqRuOdTc) by Patty Griffin, which is more of a song _about_ suicide, but it is actually discouraging of suicide and, moreover, I think it discourages sitting back complacently and not reaching out when you see someone in trouble. Heartbreaking song. ---
**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/43 "2013-02-23T12:09:35Z")
It’s been 28 hours since I created this thread. In that time I’ve listened to the radio for about an hour or less, while in my wife’s car. Earlier today I hear REM’s “Everybody Hurts”. BTW when I hear that song I just notice the “Everybody Hurts” lyrics - I don’t pick up on the other lyrics that are supposed to be comforting. Anyway when I was riding in the car home, “You Get What You Give” started playing! I told my wife that that song was special to me because I heard it while attempting suicide and that song plus “Gamble Everything For Love” made me change my mind. When listening to the song on the radio I realized that the song had more lyrics than were in the youtube link: [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/cPAEFnVZVOs/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGEogWChlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDNmhBEUhnqo-h-_10FXDCumnUH0Q "New Radicals - You Get What You Give (Original)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPAEFnVZVOs) There is a longer version of the song: (40 seconds longer) [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/uc6jd9P1X6w/hqdefault.jpg "LYRICS New Radicals - You Get What You") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uc6jd9P1X6w) The lyrics there aren’t complete. The complete lyrics are here: > **[You Get What You Give lyrics by New Radicals, 3 meanings. You Get What You...](https://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/n/new_radicals/you_get_what_you_give.html)** > > Original lyrics of You Get What You Give song by New Radicals. Explore 3 meanings and explanations or write yours. Find more of New Radicals lyrics. Watch official video, print or download text in PDF. Comment and share your favourite lyrics. When I just heard it on the radio I realized that the following lyrics > [@](#): > > This world is gonna pull through > Don’t give up > **You’ve got a reason to live** > Can’t forget > You only get what you give were repeated THREE times… (in the shorter Youtube video it was repeated twice) It’s weird - usually shorter “radio edit” versions play on the radio. Also I noticed: > [@](#): > > This whole damn world can fall apart > You’ll be ok follow your heart > You’re in harms way I’m right behind > Now say you’re mine I’m not sure what the last lyric was meant to mean. We arrived home before the song ended. ---
**Author:** ![Meatros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Meatros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatros)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/44 "2013-02-23T12:58:24Z")
I think “move along” by the all American rejects qualifies: [lyrics here](http://www.metrolyrics.com/move-along-lyrics-all-american-rejects.html) ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/45 "2013-02-23T17:06:12Z")
Lucinda Williams’s **Sweet Old World,** about the simple good things one could have had. I take to also cover the pain of those left behind. ---
**Author:** ![Paranoid\_Randroid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paranoid_randroid/32/18_2.png) [@Paranoid\_Randroid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paranoid_Randroid)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2013, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/46 "2013-02-23T20:00:20Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Streetlight Manifesto’s “A Better Place, A Better Time” is a giant anti-suicide song. I’m unsure how much it counts, since to some degree the lyrics seem to use “suicide” in a metaphorical sense, but I’d include “Here’s to Life” from the same album: > [@Streetlight Manifesto](#): > > Hemingway never seemed to mind > The banalities of a normal life > And I find, it gets harder every time > So he aimed the shotgun into the blue > Placed his face in between the two > And sighed “here’s to life” > > […] > > It makes me sick when I think of it > All my heroes could not live with this > And I hope you rest in peace > Because with us, you never did > K.D.C., you were much too young > You changed my life, but I draw the line > At suicide — here’s to life ---
**Author:** ![Yes\_I\_Know\_That\_Color](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/dc4da7/32.png) [@Yes\_I\_Know\_That\_Color](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yes_I_Know_That_Color)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/47 "2013-02-24T02:00:56Z")
“Don’t Kick the Chair” by Dia Frampton ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/48 "2013-02-24T02:15:22Z")
Evanescence, [“Tourniquet”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO_3nArjlOU): girl cuts her wrists, then decides that was a really bad idea. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/49 "2013-02-24T02:37:34Z")
Three days grace - never too late Marilyn Manson - the fight song. I don’t know if that was the intent, but that is what I got out of it. Fight back, don’t give in to suicide. Fireflight - so help me god ---
**Author:** ![CatherineZeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e95f7d/32.png) [@CatherineZeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CatherineZeta)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/50 "2013-02-24T15:54:21Z")
Morrissey- Angel, Angel Down We Go Together > [@](#): > > Angel, don’t take your life > Some people have got no pride > They do not understand > The urgency of life > But I love you more than life > I love you more than life > I love you more than life > I love you more than life ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/51 "2013-02-24T20:43:35Z")
[_Anew Day_](http://youtu.be/N3Q4wWViCUg) from Mary Margaret O’Hara’s sole full album, 1988’s _Miss America_ (an album that can truly be described as “a heartbreaking work of staggering genius”): > [@](#): > > Though they’re tears round your heart > And your eyes are of stone > Every bright star > Will pale when you come home > Though the ground is wet with sorrow > It will always look that way > Everyone walk in brightness > Cause it’s anew day ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/52 "2013-02-25T02:00:14Z")
Suede, [“Sleeping Pills”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e5N0tn1-7s): > [@](#): > > Angel, don’t take those sleeping pills, you don’t need them > Though it’s just time they kill > Angel, give me your sleeping pills, you don’t need them > Give me the time they kill I always hear this as a admonition to a lover not to OD. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/53 "2013-02-25T02:25:45Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A3yCcXgbKrE/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGUgZShlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLDnx0wEj8ysBT7gVuOGT9qOCNlcFw "Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World (Lyrics)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3yCcXgbKrE) ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/54 "2013-02-25T02:33:28Z")
I doubt it was intended to have anything to do with discouraging suicide rather than just getting over a breakup, but this topic made this Monkees tune go running through my head _I’m gonna pack up all the pain I’ve been keepin’ in my heart I’m gonna catch me the fastest train I’m gonna make me a brand new start But that’s okay Tomorrow’s gonna be another day Hey, hey, hey, hey And I don’t care what you say Tomorrow’s gonna be, tomorrow’s gonna be Tomorrow’s gonna be another day_ ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/55 "2013-02-25T13:30:29Z")
[Bright Eyes – No Lies, Just Love](http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/brighteyes/noliesjustlove.html) ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064/56 "2013-02-25T19:53:15Z")
Phil Collins - Billy Don’t Lose My Number Billy Joel - Second Wind [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-discourage-suicide/651064.md?page=2)