I’m not talking about the full lyrics, but just a phrase or a sentence that you feel is right up your alley.
One of my personal favourites is from Barmy by The Fall: I got everything I want except for money.
"Sometimes I feel, oh yes, I could do
Almost everything I wanted
And it makes me cry"
– Yoko Kanno, Flying Teapot, Cowboy Bebop soundtrack
“Your death it won’t happen to you, it happens to your family and your friends, I pretend.”
From the song “I Always Wanna Die Sometimes” by the 1975.
Got me out of a very dark place and made me realize how much it would hurt my friends and family if I went through with it.
We all have suicidal thoughts at some point. It’s when you actively think about how and when you’ll do it that you need help.
I was in a similar spot a long time ago. Even though in such a situation it’s incredibly hard to see it from outside your black bubble of depression, from your family’s and friends’ POV, it really does help to try.
This line from Uncle John’s Band by Grateful Dead is really simple and maybe kinda cheesy but it’s given me motivation and kept me in check a few times:
Well the first days are the hardest days, don’t you worry anymore. 'Cause when life looks like easy street there is danger at your door
Paul Simon, Crazy Love. The line is “sad as a lonely, little wrinkled balloon.” Even as a kid, I always found that image so evocative.
Paul Simon has so many hard-hitting lyrics across his entire catalog. I’m sure I could find something from just about any album, but for me, what comes instantly to mind is this line from “The Cool, Cool River”: “And sometimes, even music/ Cannot substitute for tears”.
From the same album…
“Losing love is like a window in your heart,
Everybody sees you’re blown apart”Such a devastating lyric.
And you are young and life is long
And there is time to kill today
And then one day you find
Ten years have got behind you
No one told you when to run
You missed the starting gun
Pink Floyd, Time
The deadly, yellow snow from right there where the huskies go.
Frank Zappa - Nanook Rubs ItAlways makes me smile :)
As she abused a sausage patty
And said why don’t you treat me mean?
“I’m not suicidal I don’t wanna fuckin die. I just wanna be able to close my eyes and feel alright, but everyday I feel like dyin.”
Suicidal Thoughts - Josh A
“I’ve been on fire, and yet I’ve still stayed frozen”
CAKE No Phone
“Music of rebellion makes you wanna rage;
But it’s made by millionaires who are nearly twice your age”
-The Sound of Muzak by Porcupine Tree
Also, People=Shit by Slipknot. lmao
On an evening such as this It’s hard to tell if I exist. Pack the car and leave this town. Who’ll notice that I’m not around?
I can hide out under there… I just made you say underwear! I can leave but I’ll just stay. All my stuff’s here anyway.
Pinch me - Barenaked ladies
Pretty much any Joanna Newsom lyric could qualify but this line,
“Scrape your knee it is only skin.”
Goosebumps every time. It’s such a cathartic lyric that the song has been building to for almost 12 minutes.
“Do You Believe In Shame” by Duran Duran
I heard you speak my name
Heard you singing The Stones
Maybe heard you laughing in a line of static
On my telephoneSo why your eyelids are closed
Inside a case of rust
And did you have to change
All your poet’s fire into frozen dust?I try to justify it
To learn from your mistake
But where’s the stupid lie that has to make its point
With such a pointless waste?”Simon wrote the lyric for the song about his friend Dave Miles, who tragically died of a drug overdose.
I think that the truth is I’m scared
I think I’m just scared to live
I think that that the truth is I’m scared
I think that the truth is I’m everything that I hate
- Angela Baker and my obsession with fire
“Any waste of effort isn’t part of my design.”
Human League - Tell Me When
