Baby You Can Drive My Car
“Amazing”-Aerosmith
That’s how I interpreted it. It helped me.
“The Pass” by Rush.
One of my absolute favourite songs is the Britpop archetype Slight Return by the Bluetones.
If anyone has ever put a more sensible set of advice in to a great song, I’ve yet to hear it.
Just don’t listen to the other songs on that album, some are very heart-wrenching:
eg. Burning Our Bed / Might as Well Be on Mars
Keep on Moving - Soul II Soul
Keep on moving
Don’t stop like the hands of time
Click clock, find your own way to stay
The time will come one day
Why do people choose to live their lives this way?
Well, except for the last lines:
But if there’s nothin’ shakin’ for me in July
I’m gonna roll myself up in a big ball… aaaand… DIE!!!
Another oldie – “Keep On Smiling” by Wet Willie
Beat me to it. Neil Peart wrote it in response toa friend’s suicide.
*It’s not as if this barricade
Blocks the only road
It’s not as if you’re all alone
In wanting to explode
Someone set a bad example
Made surrender seem all right
The act of a noble warrior
Who lost the will to fight*
My favorite bit is the last part:
No hero in your tragedy
No daring in your escape
No salutes for your surrender
Nothing noble in your fate
Christ, what have you done?
+1. I’ve never been suicidal, but when I find myself in a dark place, this song goes on repeat.
Third Eye Blind’s Jumper:
“I wish you would step back
From that ledge my friend
You could cut ties with all the lies
That you’ve been living in…”
A cynical tune that discourages suicide attempts:
Frank Zappa’s “Suicide Chump.”
camille has already mentioned R.E.M.'s “Everybody Hurts”. I’ll add “Let Me In”, which was a reaction to Kurt Cobain’s suicide. I think it might fit.
I’m going to move this to Cafe Society since it’s about songs.
Not even their first one. “Keep Yourself Alive” the first song on side A of the first album is about how life can be hard but you’ve got to keep trying to get better and keep going.
A friend of mine decided not to commit suicide when he turned on the radio and heard “Hold On,” by Kansas.
“Hold on, baby, hold on, 'cause it’s closer than you think
And you’re standing on the brink
Hold on, baby, hold on, 'cause there’s something on the way
Your tomorrow’s not the same as today…”
“Rise Above This” by Seether.
I remember hearing LeAnn Rimes give a radio interview several years ago and she said that she once got to meet a guy who told her that her song named “The Light In Your Eyes” is the song that kept him from doing away with himself.
God bless you and her and that man always!!!
Holly