# Songs to Commit Suicide To... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2003, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522 "2003-12-22T21:05:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SeekingTruth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@SeekingTruth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeekingTruth)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/61 "2003-12-23T11:56:21Z")
Anything by Justin Timberlake. Oh, wait, that would INDUCE suicide. OK, second Fade to Black. Comfortably Numb has to be in there. Cats in the Cradle needs an honorable mention (personal reasons) If I ever put the barrel in my mouth, I’m listening to Suicidal Tendencies’ “How Will I laugh Tommorrow?” Hope this helps 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/62 "2003-12-23T14:52:13Z")
I Want To Be Sedated - The Ramones. ---
**Author:** ![Lenny\_Carl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9dc877/32.png) [@Lenny\_Carl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lenny_Carl)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/63 "2003-12-23T17:29:49Z")
This one is waaaaaaay too easy… **Hurt** by **Nine Inch Nails** That song might be the darkest and most depressing song of all-time. I mean, nothing else even comes close. By the way, the Johnn Cash version doesn’t compare to the original. ---
**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/64 "2003-12-23T17:45:29Z")
Lenny & Carl, Johnny Cash adds a whole new aspect to the song. It lives up to the original, definately. IMO of course. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/65 "2003-12-23T19:23:47Z")
“I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” - Hank Williams, Sr. “Only the Lonely” or “Blue Bayou” - Roy Orbison ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/66 "2003-12-23T19:26:21Z")
“Still Crazy After All These Years” - Paul Simon ---
**Author:** ![Baby\_Fish\_Mouth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a8b319/32.png) [@Baby\_Fish\_Mouth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baby_Fish_Mouth)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/67 "2003-12-23T21:46:28Z")
It’s a toss-up between Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” and AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell.” Depends on how optimistic I feel that day. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/68 "2003-12-23T21:54:06Z")
_Take the Long Way Home_ by **Supertramp** seems appropriate. “So, when the day comes to settle down, Who’s to blame if you’re not around? You took the long way home…” ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/69 "2003-12-23T23:54:40Z")
Pfff, it’s not going to matter a rat’s ass what you’re listening to if/when you bump yourself off. It’s not like you’re going to remember the music when you’re dead. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/70 "2003-12-23T23:57:30Z")
You don’t know that. Can you imagine offing yourself to Englebert Humperdinck and have one of his songs reverberating through your mind for all eternity? ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/71 "2003-12-24T00:09:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by t-keela \* > \*\*How about something like… Amazing Grace or Rock of Ages? > > No, not Def Leppard. You know, just in case. 😉 \*\* I once heard a Christian song that went- “I’m lonely for Heaven I’m heartsick for Home I"m sick & tired of this old world and I just want to go Home. I hear the Father calling and I know He feels it too. He’s lonely for His little girl and He wants her home real soon.” (Lyrics inexact- no idea who wrote or sang it) anyway, my first thought was that I could just see that playing while a poor unhinged believer offs it. ---
**Author:** ![sundog66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@sundog66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sundog66)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/72 "2003-12-24T00:58:56Z")
The most sadistically upbeat way to go out would be with Bloodhound Gang’s _Lift Your Head Up High (And Blow Your Brains Out)_ ---
**Author:** ![Fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bc8723/32.png) [@Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/73 "2003-12-24T02:02:07Z")
Oh, no no no no no. If you’re going to go out to Pink Floyd it has to be to “The Great Gig In The Sky.” Still, I prefer Queen’s “Don’t Try Suicide,” or maybe Elton John’s “Think I’m Gonna Kill Myself.” 🙂 FISH ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/74 "2003-12-24T02:25:19Z")
**Everybody Hurts** or **Nightswimming** by REM, or the Smashing Pumpkins’ cover of **Landslide**. Radiohead’s **Exit Music (for a film)**. **Moerkertia** by Hoven Droven or **Fear of the South** by Tin Hat Trio, if you’re in the mood for something with no lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/75 "2003-12-24T02:40:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by UnwrittenNocturne \* > \*\*Has nobody mentioned “Gloomy Sunday” - any version \*\* Earlier on this song was referred to as “Blue Monday”-- so I guess in a way it’s been mentioned. I’m sort of perverse. Songs that should make me feel really sad make me happy to be alive, and songs like the following nearly push me over the edge, or at least have me cry in my beer : _Halleluiah_, by Jeff Buckley _I’ve got my love to keep me warm_, by Billie Holiday ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/76 "2003-12-24T11:06:42Z")
“Gloomy Sunday Lyrics” "Sunday is gloomy, the hours are slumberless Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless little white flowers will never awaken you not where the dark coach of sorrow has taken you angels have no thought of ever returing you would they be angry if I thought of joining you? Gloomy Sunday Gloomy Sunday, with shadows I spend it all My heart and I have decided to end it all Soon there’ll be prayers and candles will be lit, I know Let them not weep, let them know,that I’m glad to go Death is a dream, for in death I’m caressing you With the last breath of my soul, I’ll be blessing you …gloomy sunday" ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/77 "2003-12-24T16:22:20Z")
Almost nobody knows of this band, but Smithereens by _Amorphis_ would be perfect. _This fire hunts the soulless and the weak Bursting through the madness in me And through all the fear I have to keep I still pretend to be real…_ ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/78 "2003-12-24T16:46:37Z")
_Kiss Off_ by the Violent Femmes I take one, one, one cuz you left me and two, two, two for my family and three, three, three for my heartache and four, four, four for my headaches and five, five, five for my lonely and six, six, six for my sorrow, and seven, seven, seven-n-n-no tomorrow and eight, eight, eight I forget what eight was for and nine, nine, nine for a lost God and ten, ten, ten is for everything everything everything everything ---
**Author:** ![VivaEuropa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ed655f/32.png) [@VivaEuropa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VivaEuropa)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/79 "2003-12-28T08:33:15Z")
A few more: Theme from Black Orpheus (probably the Paul Desmond version) Nirvana’s live in New York version of Something in the Way Anything by the Gin Blossoms (I heard the lead singer killed himself. Anyone know about this?) ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2003, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522/80 "2003-12-28T09:18:49Z")
There was a documentry on suicide, I think, or it might have just been this one particular case a couple years back. The guy had AIDS and he checked out to “ **Wonderful World** ” by Louis Armstrong. I totally can not listen to it now. (Any Vancouver Doper’s know what I’m talking about? I think he was local.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-to-commit-suicide-to/220522.md?page=5)