Your favorite lyrics from a song about suicide or death?

[puppyboy]

Might not be the right forum to post this in but I'm curious. Do you guys have any favorite lyrics from songs, whether it be a theme of sadness, suicide, death? Or however you'd like to interpret your song. I will start first :)

Goodbye, Michelle, my precious one
You gave me love and helped me find the sun
Every time that I was down
You would always come around
Get my feet back on the ground
Goodbye, Michelle, it's hard to die
When all the birds are singing in the sky
Now that the spring is in the air
With the flowers everywhere
Wish that we could both be there

We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons out of time
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun
But the stars we could reach were just starfish on the beach

 

[NitrogenNightmare]

I'd die to be where you are
I tried to be where you are
-Digital Daggers, "Still Here"

 

[RustedandWeathered]

"Now that the love has gone away
Too blind to see my way to live
I'll waste away from all the pain
For you I'd kill myself again
I hope you get to play your games
I hope you get to see your friends
I hope the guilt mixes the pain
I hope you never love again"

Strip Her Down - Cold

 

[spacefreightergirl]

Coincidentally I mentioned in a post I made earlier today asking for a similar question and I interpret Bel Air by Lana as a song about meeting God/going to heaven after suicide so I guess that still applies here :P now that I think about it I'd also add Second Sleep by Magdalena Bay:

"I'm suffering, do you feel this cold?
I'll warm you up when we get to Hell
Second sleep is callin' out to me
If I don't wake up, I'll see you in my dreams
It's not natural, yeah, and I really need some help
Oh, take it back
Tear the city down, don't build it up anymore
Second sleep is callin' out to me"

The song also feels very cathartic which adds to the idea that it might be about suicide, like finally letting all everything out until it suddenly drops into silence at the end.

 

[ToothFairy]

There was an angel at the entrance, checking off a guest list
Charlie wasn't on it, and was ushered to the exit
His heart sank
He was breathless
Excuse me, sir, there must be someone you've confused me for
If I could see someone who knew me or someone in uniform
I go to church on Sunday, truly, usually more
Screaming at the angels while they pushed him through the door

Charlie's Inferno - That Handsome Devil

 

[ShackledSoul]

Half light appears shading in the weary days
Darkness draws near spreading chills in endless ways
Death holds no fear for those who see clear
Is it today, Lord, that I'll reach you?
Is it today, Lord, that I'll reach you?

Old minds gain will strengthened by their silent prayer
New seekers still searching for you everywhere
Some find the way to reach you and say
Is it today, Lord, that I'll see you?
Is it today, Lord, that I'll reach you?

The Strawbs - Is It Today, Lord?

 

[dust-in-the-wind]

All our times have come
Here, but now they're gone
Seasons don't fear the Reaper
Nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain
Come on, baby
(Don't fear the Reaper) Baby, take my hand
(Don't fear the Reaper) We'll be able to fly
(Don't fear the Reaper) Baby, I'm your man

Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper

 

[DeathSweetDeath]

Picture yourself
There, in the snow turning blue
Get used to that being you…
Motive is key
Count off the friends who would care
If there are none, then you're there
Motive's a must
Shame & self loathing a plus
Tickets for under the bus…
Picture yourself
What sums up all of your ills?
Is it drowning or bullets or pills?
And try to detach
You're throwing the pills down the hatch
Or falling where no one can catch

Aimee Mann - Suicide is Murder


Life is unfair
Kill yourself or get over it

Black Box Recorder - Child Psychology


And if a double decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten ton truck kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine

The Smiths - There Is a Light That Never Goes Out


And if I die today I'll be the happy phantom
And I'll go chasin' the nuns out in the yard
And I'll run naked through the streets without my mask on
And I will never need umbrellas in the rain
I'll wake up in strawberry fields every day

Tori Amos - Happy Phantom


All of this turbulence wasn't forecasted
Apologies from the intercom
And I am relieved that I left my room tidy
They'll think of me kindly
When they come for my things…
I always wanted to die clean & pretty
But I'd be too busy on working days
So I am relieved that the turbulence wasn't forecasted
I couldn't have changed anyways
I am relieved that I left my room tidy
Goodbye

Mitski - Last Words of a Shooting Star


If there's no one beside you when your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You Into the Dark

 

[autisticmessiah]

Like dust
I'm lost in the world
I thought that I had
A particular place
Between the heavens
And the earth
Between the scarred sky

I feel the crunch of dirt
I smell the scent of flowers
My aimless feet
To be in the world
And not of it
That's the aim of the pain
I'm sorry that there seems
No happiness in life
I'm sorry that there seems
No one
Passing streams
Dying dreams
There seems to be no joy

You cannot see the ships sailing
You cannot see the sails sailing
Amassing as Christ on the horizon
Outstretched
Outstretched

Current 93 - Riverdeadbank

 

[spinelessparasite]

Come help me die, my daughter
Walk me beside the river to the beach

Take a branch with your knife
Take my left with your right
Don't be afraid, my girl
Take me into the shore

I'm not cold, I'm not cold
Take my hand, take a hold
Let me lie on your arms

I'm weightless in the sea
Up to my ears the salt sits
In a circle around me

Come — Adrianne Lenker

 

[DoomedDarkCircles]

A hound's tooth coat pockets are bulging
With nembutal bought from some doctor
Who also was bought to keep those pockets full
The face was lost but partly recovered
So half asleep and half in a frenzy
One side tries to smile enough for two
Pictures remain split at the image
Cupboards well-stocked with things to diminish
The pain that comes with clarity and mirrors in well-lit rooms

Jets to Brazil - Conrad

 

[puppyboy]

Feel free to make more than one reply to this thread, by the way. I think I might try to make a Twitter bot with all these lyrics you guys have provided. They're lovely.

Hold on to me love
You know I can't stay long
All I wanted to say was
I love you and I'm not afraid
Can you hear me?
Can you feel me in your arms?

Holding my last breath
Safe inside myself
Are all my thoughts of you
Sweet raptured light?
It ends here tonight

Evanescence - My Last Breath

 

[The Eternal One]

It's a Russian rap-song (unusual for me, I don't listen to rap, but lyrics in this one are wonderful) about a 19-year old girl Maya CTBing by drowning in May. I'll translate one of my favorite passages, but it won't rhyme, unfortunately.

Одни теряли дочь, другие подругу,
Но не пытались помочь, протянуть руку.
"Во всём виновата весна", - говорили стены.
Грусть ожила и принялась грызть небо.
Не было были и не было вымысла вовсе -
Вы все сами знаете, как её бросили,
Как её просьбы сестра отпускала к морю.
Она рыдала и захлебнулась горем.

"ST1M - Мая".

-----

Some were losing a daughter, others a friend
But they didn't try to help, lending a hand.
"Spring is at fault", - said the walls.
Sadness came to life and started gnawing at the skies.
There was no facts and there was no fiction -
You all know how she was abandoned,
How her sister released her requests to the sea.
She cried and drowned in sorrow.

"ST1M - Maya".

 

[coolcow1289]

The Smiths win with this topic. I see that There Is A Light that Never Goes Out was already posted.

"Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I really want to go
There is another world
There is a better world
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Well, there must be
Bye"
The Smiths - Asleep

"Love is natural and real
But not for you, my love
Not tonight, my love
Love is natural and real
But not for such as you and I, my love
… Oh, mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head"
The Smiths - I Know It's Over

 

[jackisdead]

Im no hero, you remember how i was, you know
All i ever did was worry, feeling out of control
To the point where everything was spinning end over end
Im spinning around in circles again
This is where you come in
All of this to explain to you why i gad to separate my self away from yesterday's life
Please remember, this isnt how i hoped it would be
But i had to protect you from me.

Peace y'all. See you in the next life.

 

[Dandelion's]

Teen idol by marina resonates a bit with me:

I wanna drink until I ache.
I wanna make a big mistake.
I want blood, guts and angel cake
I am gonna puke it anyway.
Yeah, I wish I'd been a, wish I'd been a teen,
teen idle
Wish I'd been a prom queen,
fighting for the title
Instead of being sixteen and burning up a bible
Feeling super, super (super!) suicidal

 

[tooafraidtodiez]

Sui*ide is painless
It brings on many changes
And i can take it or leave it if i please
The game of life is hard to play
I'm gonna lose it anyway
The losing card i someday lay
So this is all i have to say
The sword of time will pierce our skin
It doesn't hurt when it begins

MASH Original Soundtrack (Sui*ide is painless)

 

[DoomedDarkCircles]

A hound's tooth coat pockets are bulging
With nembutal bought from some doctor
Who also was bought to keep those pockets full
The face was lost but partly recovered
So half asleep and half in a frenzy
One side tries to smile enough for two
Pictures remain split at the image
Cupboards well-stocked with things to diminish
The pain that comes with clarity and mirrors in well-lit rooms

Jets to Brazil - Conrad

She checks in at dwindling daylight
A week up front asks not to be bothered
The registry will show her mother's name
Locks the door sits on the bed just a minute before
She picks her purse up off the floor
Pulling out what she needs
Warming her wrists in promising water
Somebody's love another one's daughter
Readies herself apologizing to the motel maids

Double-edged and super blue
Vertically letting the life from you
Casting a new darkness through the room
Angels lay their odds on you
Know not quite what they should do
Only that they can't quite tear themselves from the view

the rest of the song

 

[endboss]

Spiritualized - Death Take Your Fiddle

I think I'll drink myself into a coma
And I'll take every way out I can find
But morphine, codeine, whisky, they won't alter
The way I feel now, death is not around

So death take your fiddle
And play a song for me
Play a song we used to sing
The one that brought you close to me
Play a song and I will sing along

I think I'd like to take myself to Heaven
'Cause I ain't been there many times before
And Jesus Christ, if I don't know if I like it
Sadness struck a thousand times or more

So death take your fiddle
And play a song for me
Play a song we used to sing
The one that brought you close to me
Play a song and I will sing along

I think I'll drink myself into a coma
And I'll take every pill that I can find
But morphine, codeine, whisky, they won't alter
The way I feel now, death is not around
The way I feel now, death is not around
The way I feel now, death is not around

 

[flowerbomb]

Evanescence

Tourniquet

I tried to kill the pain
But only brought more (so much more)
I lay dying
And I'm pouring crimson regret and betrayal
I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming
Am I too lost to be saved?
Am I too lost?
My God, my Tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My God, my Tourniquet
Return to me salvation
Do you remember me?
Lost for so long
Will you be on the other side?
Or will you forget me?
I'm dying, praying, bleeding and screaming
Am I too lost to be saved?
Am I too lost?
My God, my Tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My God, my Tourniquet
Return to me salvation
I want to die
My God, my Tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My God, my Tourniquet
Return to me salvation
My wounds cry for the grave
My soul cries for deliverance
Will I be denied Christ?
Tourniquet
My suicide
Return to me salvation
Return to me salvation

 

[GodzillasBiggestFan]

maybe something from call your mom by noah kahan

i like "oh you're spiraling again, the moment right before it ends
you're most afraid of"

or from suicide is painful by onsind

"or is it that you've got nowhere else to go?
i can see you, lonely behind the eyes
i can see you; and in a sense, i used to fucking be you
and one day you'll be me, and maybe then you'll see
some boats weren't built to float"

 

[dyingisanart]

I think it's a song by a Brazilian band, I'll put the original and the translation below:

Pois não quero ver mais um dia que nasceu
Por isso eu peço pra esse inverno acabar
Vai que as chuvas levam embora esse pesar
Vai me tirar do peito o que há muito estava lá
Eu quis fazer história
Eu quis virar memória
Se já chegou minha hora
Eu tô pronto como eu nunca estive antes
Eu tô pronto como eu não queria estar
Eu queria poder me desesperar
Com a ideia de deixar de respirar

For I no longer want to see another day dawn
That's why I ask for this winter to end
Maybe the rains will wash this sorrow away
Will take from my chest what had long been there
I wanted to make history
I wanted to become a memory
If my time has already come
I'm ready as I've never been before
I'm ready in a way I never wanted to be
I wish I could feel despair
At the thought of no longer breathing

(Fresno - O cantor e o taxista)

 

[Tomorrow Is Today]

I need to find somebody who can tear me away
From the car crying babies and switchblade days
The bark of the unemployment hounds
And the thought of the thick, white skull on the ground
I won't die in the bony arms of the state
To be laid to rest in the wake of the faded town

Frightened Rabbit - Die Like a Rich Boy

-

It's not like the movies
They fed us on little white lies

Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack

-

Here's the army that you mowed to the ground
And the bodies you left lying around
Talking it out the last hour
I'm through trying now, it's a big relief
I'll be staying down
Where no one else gonna give me grief
Mess me around
Just make it over

Elliot Smith - The Last Hour

 

[NaiveRealist]

"Cut my wrists, slit my throat, take this body and string it up
And I'll never know what you said, because I'll be fucking dead by then"

Have A Nice Life - Burial Society

 

[LonelyCauseAutistic]

Evanescence

 

[Redacted24]

(Yes I'm an old person but...)

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

Hold me now
I'm six feet from the edge and I'm thinking
Maybe six feet ain't so far down

-- Creed, One Last Breath

 

[INYGTRMTFMO]

"This voice in my head, it wants me to choose
Die selfish or live with my head in a noose
Does it ever get better, is this worth the fight?
Everyone has a breaking point, guess we'll find mine
Kill the body, not the memory
Wouldn't blame 'em, they'd resent me
Kind of scares me what it takes to just save myself
My personal hell, I'll bury it, bury it
Weight of the world, I'll carry it, carry it
Pile it all on, I've gotta be strong
For somebody, for somebody
Put my pain in a pill, I'll swallow it, swallow it
Too numb to feel, I'm hollow, I'm hollow
I have to hold on, I've gotta be strong
For somebody, for somebody
Somebody else
Somebody else"

- Strong for Somebody Else by Citizen Solider

 

[Passenger4224]

Saracen - Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(song about death, not suicide)

"But mother, wipe away your tears
We'll live again, life so dear
New World, you won't wait too long
Only ten thousand years"

 

[luke1978qqq]

Breathe no more - Evanescence

I've been looking in the mirror for so long
That I've come to believe my soul's on the other side
All the little pieces falling, shatter shards of me
Too sharp to put back together
Too small to matter
But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces
If I try to touch her
And I bleed
I bleed
And I breathe
I breathe no more
Take a breath and I try to draw from my spirit's well
Yet again you refuse to drink like a stubborn child
Lie to me, convince me that I've been sick forever
And all of this will make sense when I get better
But I know the difference
Between myself and my reflection
I just can't help but to wonder
Which of us do you love?
So I bleed
I bleed
And I breathe
I breathe, no
Bleed, I bleed
And I breathe
I breathe, I breathe
I breathe no more

 

[CarbonBased]

I like bike riding
It's oh so exciting
Much better than fighting with all who come near me
Rope's getting tighter, my hand's on the lighter
I'm playing with fire, you'd better come save me

That there's my sister
Yeah, you couldn't miss her
That big facial blister, her pity getting scheme
I think I hate her, those green alligators
I wish they'd had ate her
If that happened you'd see

​

That there's a part of me that's appealingly sweet
I'm sure you'd agree if you got to know me
And admittedly, I'm not that interesting
But I'll let you have what's mine
If you just give me your time

If there's a party today, it's not coming my way
Should be needless to say that I need things to change
Remember yesterday?
I bought you flowers, you threw them away
Coffee and peppermint tea

Brewing instructions engraved on leaves
Symbols that I can't read
Seems it's all written in Chinese
I could use some help translating these

​

I'm an unknown breed, un-sprouted seed
A hot spring with its waters frozen over by your cold mentality
If it's grief you need, here, take my spleen
I'm gonna bleed all over the floor
And more until you remember me

I like bike riding
It can be exciting
But I'm through with hiding
You're gonna think I'm crazy
Swallowing swords now, too bad I don't know how
I'm juggling knives, ow!
Three fingers that cost me

Oh, what have I done?
A green luscious island
It's covered in diamonds
Far as the eye can see
Lower the bar 'cause I'm choking on stardust
Becoming a carcass, though pain's rather tasty

There's a part of me that's appealingly sweet
I'm sure you'd agree, if you got to know me
And admittedly, I'm not that interesting
But I'll let you have what's mine if you just give me your time

With myself I must play in this game of charades
Cause there's no one to speak to of the things I've got in my brain
There's nothing particular I need you to say
At least care to see if I'm okay

Watch me now play with pointy things
Look, see, isn't it interesting?
No, you're not even listening
Is that not brave enough for you?
As flies are drawn to the rotting cheese

Are sadists attracted to misery
In this case, that's another word for me
So, I'll boost the danger times two
(Or maybe three)

Just red paint? Babe, this ain't pretend
How I long for your arms again
I might lose me a leg or head
Maybe you would believe me then
Autumn leaves failed to break my fall
Sticks and stones didn't care at all
Skin and bones decorate the walls
Think that's everything I can recall

Finally, a party just for me
In contrast with those attending, I'm quite happy
Like your brain's hard drives just installed sympathy
Judging by how much you cry, it's like you're draining your eyes
Got in candy land, I paid the entrance fee
Good thing no one tried to stop me through my self-injury spree

People, please, you should be smiling
If ya cared that much, should've showed love 'fore I became a piece of meat
Hey, come on, let's up the vibrancy
I want some sort of balloons and your tears can be the confetti
Gone from living feces to your priority
Funny how much more you notice something that you can't see

A whole garden on flowers and my name etched on a rock
All this could've been avoided, all I wanted was to talk
Now I've been appointed, as your new king, I decree
That it's too late to start caring about me

Hansel - Sodikken