30 Songs About Suicide And Depression

 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.

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I drown it with a drink and out of date prescription pills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