Do you have a favourite song about death/suicide?

[Groundhog_Day]

I don't know if the below song is meant to be about death/suicide, but it really has helped me recently. I love the final lines 'I want you to let go, and I want you to come home'.



Anyone else have a song where the lyrics help you with facing death/suicide?

 

[ma0]

Not entirely sure if it is actually about suicide (I think it is) but I really like Rolling Girl by wowaka.

 

[ImNotReal]

A crow looked at me is an album about Phil Elverums wife dying and like all the feelings that come with that, I find it very, cathartic?? Here's the link

 

[Jadeith]

Maybe not exactly "favorite" but...

Kelly Family - Flip A Coin

 

[idelttoilfsadness21]

(New Fav) Wasteland - Royal & the Serpent (Featured in Arcane)

Still Here - Digital Daggers

Battle Scars - Guy Sebastian

Try - Colbie Caillat

Falk Wünsch - One Life

Houseki no kuni OST - Cinnabar

Death Parade's OST - Composed by Yuuki Hayashi

Fountain of Consciousness - Automachine

Another Soundtrack 7

Listen to Your Heart - Mustafa Avşaroğlu

Mustafa Avşaroğlu - Follow Me to the Stars

 

[paleyellowleaves]

John Allyn Smith Sails by Okkervil River

It's about the suicide of poet John Berryman, who jumped off the Washington Ave Bridge in Minneapolis.

I love how it transitions into Sloop John B and "I wanna go home" at the end.

 

[Groundhog_Day]

A crow looked at me is an album about Phil Elverums wife dying and like all the feelings that come with that, I find it very, cathartic?? Here's the link

Thanks for sharing. Losing his wife to cancer, a year and a half after their daughter was born, is heartbreaking. I like the last lines on the first song - 'It's dumb, and I don't want to learn anything from this. I love you.'

 

[human909]

4th of july, i don't know the artist but it's popular in some way

 

[billie]

Spoiler: my favorite song about suicide

 

[ImNotReal]

Thanks for sharing. Losing his wife to cancer, a year and a half after their daughter was born, is heartbreaking. I like the last lines on the first song - 'It's dumb, and I don't want to learn anything from this. I love you.'

NO CUZ THAT PART FUCKS ME UP I KNOW

 

[Giovannino224]

It may sound a little stupid cuz is vocaloid song, but my fav song about suicide is Gehenna by Wotaku.
I'd like to say why but then my reply would look like a poem :D

 

[TheHolySword]

Anchor Song by Bjork

 

[L'absent]

Gloomy Sunday," composed in 1933 by Rezső Seress, is more than a song: it is an eternal lament, a whisper that seeps into the soul of anyone who has known the deepest sorrow. Nicknamed 'the suicide song,' it carries the weight of human tragedies and a sense of despair that transcends words or notes, becoming a tangible presence. In its original Hungarian lyrics, the pain of losing a loved one flows like relentless rain, turning every breath into an echo of absence. It is a melody that isn't just heard but worn, like a heavy and dark veil, a shroud of emotions wrapping around the heart. I feel it as my own because it speaks to that part of me that has known loss and wandered through the void. I feel it upon me, like a cold embrace that cradles and consumes, leaving behind only the purest and most devastating melancholy.

 

[sunbleachedfliess]

last words of a shooting star by mitski

 

[TheHolySword]

last words of a shooting star by mitski

god i love this song so much but i can't listen to it without breaking down crying, it's so heavy

 

[cursedlife]

friend , please twenty one pilots
One more light Linkin park
I also love like a stone by audioslave

 

[SNastablesalt]

last words of a shooting star by mitski.

It'll be the final song I listen to when I ctb, I genuinely love it so much and have soooo many emotions and memories attached to it, mainly negative ones but some positive too. The audiotree live version is AMAZING too!! I love mitski

 

[suicide-anon]

I don't know if the below song is meant to be about death/suicide, but it really has helped me recently. I love the final lines 'I want you to let go, and I want you to come home'.



Anyone else have a song where the lyrics help you with facing death/suicide?

not certain if it's 100% about suicide, but i think "pyramid song" by radiohead kind of sounds like it's about committing. i think i want it to be one of the last songs i hear.

 

[lilichka]

maybe a bit too on the nose, but ive always felt like this is the rawest barrett song about suicide.

 

[areyousafe??]

One More Light by Linkin Park

 

[OTanerd]

It's a bit embarrassing for me, but it's "komm, susser tod" from the anime Evangelion

 

[trapdoor]

My playlist is:

Last Words of a Shooting Star - Mitski
You Gotta Die Sometime - Falsettos Soundtrack (from a musical about a man dying from AIDs, not specifically suicide)
Friend, Please - Twenty One Pilots
listen before I go - Billie Eilish
Suicide - Isaac Dunbar
Bulls in the Bronx - Pierce the Veil (Specifically for the one line in the bridge- "Cause I would rather end it all tonight, and if I mean anything to you, I'm sorry but I've made up my mind.")

Twenty One Pilot's self titled album has a lot of good songs for when you want to feel sad/worse, my favorites being Trapdoor (what I named my username after), Taxi Cab (the end verse describes a man thinking of suicide and the last line in the last verse says "We're driving toward the morning sun where all your blood is washed away and all your did will be undone." It's meant to be religious, i.e finding Jesus and being saved/forgiven, but I view it as going into the light at the end of life), and a few others that imply suicide or heavy depression. TOP, as made fun of as they are, have good, heavy songs for when you need to feel worse, especially in their earlier albums.

 

[dweams]

It's a bit embarrassing for me, but it's "komm, susser tod" from the anime Evangelion

DON'T BE EMBARRASSED. THIS IS A GREAT SONG.


Here's another great song from a great movie. :)

 

[bananaolympus]

I like knocking on heavens door by bob dylan but i like the guns n roses cover, not a suicide song but a death song yes

 

[lastch]

Not about suicide but the two songs I listen to for comfort when I think of death is
Tears in heaven-Eric Clapton
Forever young- Alphaville

 

[ShatteredSerenity]

Jumpers by Sleater-Kinney
It's about someone who commits suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.
The last lines are haunting:

My falling shape will draw a line
Between the blue of sea and sky
I'm not a bird, I'm not a plane

I took a taxi to the gate
I will not go to school again
Four seconds was the longest wait
Four seconds was the longest wait
Four seconds was the longest wait
Four seconds was the longest wait
Four seconds was the longest

 

[JesiBel]

Spiritus Mortis - Holiday in the cemetery

 

[WhiteRaven]

Wasteland by Royal & the Serpent, from Arcane: the song playing when jinks tries to kill herself.

 

[other_name]

 

[heartinparadise]

easy-peasy euthanasia, for it's the easy-peasy way out, for a natural-born coward

and,
gehenna, especially the part where the lyrics are:
"wireless, I can't even hang myself."
ahah, I've failed with the same method, feels like being at home.

The song's theme mentions how there is the 'bible whose title is DNA', which is to say the natural instinct to survive is involuntary. I like it