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30 Songs About Suicide And Depression

Jerry Kaase by Jerry Kaase
February 28, 2024
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 Depression remains a leading cause of suicide across the globe. Music artists are not spared from this danger. Music is one of the strongest and most creative ways people use to express their feelings. People depend on music to uplift their spirits when they are down.

There are numerous songs written to talk about suicide and depression and there are those written to encourage people facing this life challenge. In no particular order, below are songs that speak about the topic people prefer to avoid.

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  • Songs About Suicide and Depression
    • 1.    Save Myself- Ed Sheeran
    • 2.    Nobody’s Home- Avril Lavigne
    • Lyrics
    • 3.    Lithium- Evanescence
    • Lyrics
    • 4.    Numb- Linkin Park
    • Lyrics
    • 5.    Summertime Sadness- Lana Del Rey
    • Lyrics
    • 6.    Chandelier- Sia
    • Lyrics
    • 7.    Lonely- Akon
    • Lyrics
    • 8.    I Feel Like Dying- Lil Wayne
    • Lyrics
    • 9.    Suicidal Thoughts- The Notorious B.I.G.
    • Lyrics
    • 10.  Listen Before I Go- Billie Eilish
    • Lyrics
    • 11.  Whiskey Lullaby- Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss
    • Lyrics
    • 12.  The Great Escape- PINK
    • Lyrics
    • 13.  Swim Good- Frank Ocean
    • Lyrics
    • 14.  Sober- Demi Lovato
    • Lyrics
    • 15.  People- Libianca
    • Lyrics
    • Lyrics
    • 17.  Suicide Solution- Ozzy Osbourne 
    • Lyrics
    • 18.  Lullaby- Nickelback
    • Lyrics
    • 19.  Don’t Try Suicide- Queen
    • 20.  I Need a Miracle- Third Day
    • Lyrics
    • 21.  Suicidal- YNW Melly
    • Lyrics
    • 22.  Fire and Rain- James Taylor
    • Lyrics
    • 23.  Stay Alive- Smile Empty Soul
    • Lyrics
    • 24.  Never Too Late- Three Days Grace
    • Lyrics
    • 25.  One Last Breath- Creed
    • Lyrics
    • 26.  Her Last Words- Courtney Parker
    • Lyrics
    • 27.  Big Quiet- The Dead Ships
    • Lyrics
    • 28.  I Know It’s Over- The Smiths
    • Lyrics
    • 29.  Give Me Novacaine- Green Day
    • Lyrics
    •  30.  Alone- Alan Walker
    • Lyrics

Songs About Suicide and Depression

1.    Save Myself- Ed Sheeran

  • Artist: Ed Sheeran
  • Year of Release: 2017
  • Songwriter(s): Ed Sheeran and Amy Wadge
  • Genre: Pop

Life can get you down so I just numb the way it feels
I drown it with a drink and out of date prescription pills
And all the ones that love me, they just left me on the shelf, no farewell
So before I save someone else, I’ve got to save myself

2.    Nobody’s Home- Avril Lavigne

  • Artist: Avril Lavigne
  • Year of Release: 2004
  • Songwriter(s): Avril Lavigne and Ben Moody
  • Genre: Pop Rock, Alternative Rock, Sombre, Melancholic

Lyrics

What’s wrong, what’s wrong now?
Too many, too many problems
Don’t know where she belongs
Where she belongs

She wants to go home
But nobody’s home
It’s where she lies
Broken inside
With no place to go
No place to go to dry her eyes
Broken inside

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3.    Lithium- Evanescence

  • Artist: Evanescence
  • Year of Release: 2006
  • Songwriter: Amy Lee
  • Genre: Rock, Classical

Lyrics

Lithium, don’t want to lock me up inside.
Lithium, don’t want to forget how it feels without…
Lithium, I want to stay in love with my sorrow.

Don’t want to let it lay me down this time.
Drown my will to fly.
Here in the darkness I know myself.
Can’t break free until I let it go.
Let me go.

4.    Numb- Linkin Park

  • Artist: Linkin Park
  • Year of Release: 2003
  • Songwriter: Linkin Park
  • Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Nu-Metal, Emo

Lyrics

I’m tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
Don’t know what you’re expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow, just caught in the undertow)

5.    Summertime Sadness- Lana Del Rey

  • Artist: Lana Del Rey
  • Year of Release: 2012
  • Songwriter(s): Lana Del Rey and Rick Nowels
  • Genre: Trip-hop ballad, Baroque pop, Grandiose cinematic melodies

Lyrics

I got that summertime, summertime sadness
S-s-summertime, summertime sadness
Got that summertime, summertime sadness
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

I’m feeling electric tonight
Cruising down the coast going ’bout 99
Got my bad baby by my heavenly side
I know if I go, I’ll die happy tonight

6.    Chandelier- Sia

  • Artist: Sia
  • Year of Release: 2014
  • Songwriter(s): Sia and Jesse Shatkin
  • Genre: Electropop ballad, Alternative pop

Lyrics

But I’m holding on for dear life
Won’t look down, won’t open my eyes
Keep my glass full until morning light
‘Cause I’m just holding on for tonight
Help me, I’m holding on for dear life
Won’t look down, won’t open my eyes
Keep my glass full until morning light
‘Cause I’m just holding on for tonight
On for tonight

7.    Lonely- Akon

  • Artist: Akon
  • Year of Release: 2005
  • Songwriter(s): Akon, Bobby Vinton, Gene Allan
  • Genre: Pop, Contemporary R&B

Lyrics

Lonely (So lonely)
I’m Mr. Lonely (Mr. Lonely)
I have nobody (I have nobody)
For my own (To call my own, girl)
Oh, I’m so lonely (So lonely)
I’m Mr. Lonely (Mr. Lonely)
I have nobody (I have nobody)
For my own (To call my own, girl)
Oh, I’m so lonely

8.    I Feel Like Dying- Lil Wayne

  • Artist: Lil Wayne
  • Year of Release:
  • Songwriter: Lil Wayne
  • Genre: Hip-Hop, Rap, R&B

Lyrics

I can mingle with the stars
And throw a party on Mars
I am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars
I have just boarded a plane, without a pilot
And violets are blue, roses are red
Daisies are yellow, the flowers are dead
Wish I can give you this feeling, I feel like buying
And if my dealer don’t have no more, then
(I feel like dying)

Only once the drugs are done
That I feel like dying, I feel like dying
Only once the drugs are done
That I feel like dying, I feel like dying

9.    Suicidal Thoughts- The Notorious B.I.G.

  • Artist: The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Puff Daddy
  • Year of Release: 1994
  • Songwriter(s): The Notorious B.I.G., Lord Finesse
  • Genre: Hardcore Hip-Hop

Lyrics

Suicide’s on my fuckin’ mind, I wanna leave
I swear to God I feel like death is fuckin’ callin’ me
But nah, you wouldn’t understand
Nigga, talk to me please, man!
You see, it’s kinda like the crack did to Pookie in New Jack
Except when I cross over, there ain’t no comin’ back (Ayo, ayo, man, I’m out)
Should I die on the train track like Ramo in Beat Street? (I’ma call you when I get in the car)

10.  Listen Before I Go- Billie Eilish

  • Artist: Billie Eilish
  • Year of Release: 2019
  • Songwriter(s): Billie Eilish, Finneas O’Connell
  • Genre: Pop, Electropop, Avant-pop, Art pop

Lyrics

Taste me, the salty tears on my cheek
That’s what a year-long headache does to you
I’m not okay, I feel so scattered
Don’t say I’m all that matters
Leave me, déjà vu (Hmm)

11.  Whiskey Lullaby- Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss

  • Artist(s): Brad Paisley and Allison Krauss
  • Year of Release: 2004
  • Songwriter(s): Bill Anderson, Jon Randall
  • Genre: Contemporary Country

Lyrics

He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger
And finally drank away her memory
Life is short, but this time it was bigger
Than the strength he had to get up off his knees
We found him with his face down in the pillow
With a note that said, “I’ll love her ’til I die”
And when we buried him beneath the willow
The angels sang a whiskey lullaby

La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la

12.  The Great Escape- PINK

  • Artist: P!NK
  • Year of Release: 2012
  • Songwriter(s): P!nk, Dan Wilson
  • Genre: Pop, Acoustic

Lyrics

But everyone you know, is tryna smooth it over,
Find a way to make the hurt go away,
But everyone you know, is tryna smooth it over,
Like you’re trying to scream underwater,
But I won’t let you make the great escape,
I’m never gonna watch you checking out of this place
I’m not gonna lose you
‘Cause the passion and pain
Are gonna keep you alive someday
Gonna keep you alive someday

13.  Swim Good- Frank Ocean

  • Artist: Frank Ocean
  • Year of Release: 2011
  • Songwriter(s): Frank Ocean, Wayne Nugent, Kevi Risto, Charles Gambetta
  • Genre: Alternative R&B

Lyrics

I’m going off (Oh, my pretty love)
Don’t try stopping me
I’m going off (Throw me a line)
Don’t try saving (You broke my heart)
No flares (You broke my heart)
No vest (You drove my love)
And no fear
Waves are washing me out

14.  Sober- Demi Lovato

  • Artist: Demi Lovato
  • Year of Release: 2018
  • Songwriter(s): Demi Lovato, Mark Landon, Tushar Apte, Sam Roman
  • Genre: Ballad

Lyrics

I got no excuses
For all of these goodbyes
Call me when it’s over
‘Cause I’m dying inside
Wake me when the shakes are gone
And the cold sweats disappear
Call me when it’s over
And myself has reappeared

15.  People- Libianca

  • Artist: Libiance
  • Year of Release: 2022
  • Songwriter: Libianca
  • Genre: Afropop, Afrobeats

Lyrics

I’ve been drinking more alcohol for the past five days
Did you check on me?
Now, did you look for me?
I walked in the room, eyes are red and I don’t smoke banga
Did you check on me? (Did you check on me?)
Now, did you notice me?
Nobody wey know the paranoia oh
‘Cause I put a smile on my face, a façade you can never face (Ooh)
And if you don’t know me well, well, oh
You won’t see how buried I am inside my grave
Inside my grave 
16.  Everybody Hurts- R.E.M
  • Artist: R.E.M
  • Year of Release: 1992
  • Songwriter: Bill Berry
  • Genre: Alternative Rock 

Lyrics

Sometimes everything is wrong

Now it’s time to sing along

When your day is night alone (Hold on, hold on)

If you feel like letting go (Hold on)

If you think you’ve had too much

Of this life, well hang on

‘Cause everybody hurts

Take comfort in your friends

Everybody hurts

Don’t throw your hand, oh no

17.  Suicide Solution- Ozzy Osbourne 

  • Artist: Ozzy Osbourne 
  • Year of Release: 1980
  • Songwriter(s): Ozzy Osbourne, Randy Rhoads, Bob Daisley
  • Genre: Heavy Metal 

Lyrics

Evil thoughts and evil doings

Cold, alone you hang in ruins

Thought that you’d escape the reaper

You can’t escape the master keeper

Cos you feel life’s unreal, and you’re living a lie

Such a shame, who’s to blame, and you’re wondering why

18.  Lullaby- Nickelback

  • Artist: Nickelback
  • Year of Release: 2011
  • Songwriter(s): Chad Kroeger, Craig Wiseman, Chris Tompkins, Rodney Clawson
  • Genre: Alternative rock, Pop rock

Lyrics

Please let me take you

Out of the darkness and into the light

‘Cause I have faith in you

That you’re gonna make it through another night

Stop thinking about the easy way out

There’s no need to go and blow the candle out

Because you’re not done

You’re far too young

And the best is yet to come

19.  Don’t Try Suicide- Queen

  • Artist: Queen
  • Year of Release: 1980
  • Songwriter: Freddie Mercury 
  • Genre: Rock

Lyric

Don’t try suicide

Nobody’s worth it

Don’t try suicide

Nobody cares

Don’t try suicide

You’re just gonna hate it

Don’t try suicide

Nobody gives a damn

20.  I Need a Miracle- Third Day

  • Artist: Third Day
  • Year of Release: 2012
  • Genre: Christian rock, Contemporary Christian music

Lyrics

He turned on the radio
To hear a song for the last time
He didn’t know what he was looking for
Or even what he’d find
And the song he heard it gave him hope
And strength to carry on
And on that night
They found a miracle
They found a miracle

21.  Suicidal- YNW Melly

  • Artist: YNW Melly
  • Year of Release: 2019
  • Songwriter(s): Jamell Demons, Juan Guerrieri-Maril, Jarad Higgins
  • Genre: Hip-Hop/Rap

Lyrics

Suicidal
Your love is suicidal
Lately I’ve been feeling suicidal
Your love is suicidal
I thought that we were meant to be
You took my heart and made it bleed
I gave you all my ecstasy
I know you’ll be the death of me

22.  Fire and Rain- James Taylor

  • Artist: James Taylor
  • Year of Release: 1970
  • Songwriter: James Taylor
  • Genre: Soft rock, Folk-pop

Lyrics

Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.
Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you.
I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song,
I just can’t remember who to send it to.
I’ve seen fire and I’ve seen rain. I’ve seen sunny days that I thought would never end.

23.  Stay Alive- Smile Empty Soul

  • Artist: Smile Empty Soul
  • Year of Release: 2009
  • Genre: Rock Alternative

Lyrics

When nothing is right in your head
And all of your tears are shed
I know how it seems, you’re in this too deep
But take it from me, it’s not the end

24.  Never Too Late- Three Days Grace

  • Artist: Three Days Grace
  • Year of Release: 2007
  • Songwriter: Adam Gontier
  • Genre: Post-grunge

Lyrics

Even if I say
It’ll be alright.
Still I hear you say
You want to end your life.
Now and again we try
To just stay alive
Maybe we’ll turn it around
‘Cause it’s not too late
It’s never too late

25.  One Last Breath- Creed

  • Artist: Creed
  • Year of Release: 2001
  • Songwriter(s): Scott Stapp, Mark Tremonti
  • Genre: AHard rock, Post-grunge

Lyrics

I’m looking down now that it’s over
Reflecting on all of my mistakes
I thought I found the road to somewhere
Somewhere in His grace
I cried out heaven save me
But I’m down to one last breath
And with it let me say
Let me say

26.  Her Last Words- Courtney Parker

  • Artist: Courtney Parker
  • Year of Release: 2013
  • Songwriter: Courtney Parker

Lyrics

She told you she was down, you let it slip by
So from then on, she kept it on the inside
She told herself she was alright
But she was telling white lies
Can’t you tell?
Look at her dull eyes

27.  Big Quiet- The Dead Ships

  • Artist: The Ships
  • Year of Release: 2015
  • Songwriter: Devlin McCluskey
  • Genre: Alternative/Indie

Lyrics

If things get too loud
and you’re over it
you can come back to life
and return to the big quiet
We took the same shift
shoveling dirt
just to see which one of us
could get the other fired first

28.  I Know It’s Over- The Smiths

  • Artist: The Smiths
  • Year of Release: 1986
  • Songwriter(s): Morrissey and John Marr
  • Genre: Alternative rock, Alternative/Indie

Lyrics

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
See, the sea wants to take me
The knife wants to slit me
Do you think you can help me?

Sad veiled bride, please be happy
Handsome groom, give her room
Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
(Though she needs you
More than she loves you)

29.  Give Me Novacaine- Green Day

  • Artist: Green Day
  • Year of Release: 2004
  • Songwriter(s): Billie Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool
  • Genre: Alternative/Indie

Lyrics

Out of body and out of mind
Kiss the demons out of my dreams
I get the funny feeling that’s alright
Jimmy says it’s better than here
I’ll tell you why
Drain the pressure from the swelling
This sensation’s overwhelming

 30.  Alone- Alan Walker

  • Artist: Alan Walker and Noonie Bao (uncredited)
  • Year of Release: 2022
  • Songwriter: Alan Walker
  • Genre: Electropop

Lyrics

Unconscious mind

I’m wide awake

Wanna feel one last time

Take my pain away

If this night is not forever

At least we are together

I know I’m not alone

I know I’m not alone

Anywhere, whenever

Apart, but still together

I know I’m not alone

I know I’m not alone

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