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Beyond feeling distressing, depression can leave a person feeling hopeless, apathetic, worthless. Some people deal with major clinical depression all of their lives; some suffer with situational low after a major loss, such as the decease of a loved or or the end of an important relationship. Some cope past self-medicating with substances that lead to habit. It's i of the virtually common mental heath bug in the land, so it'southward non surprising to notice it reflected in the songs we listen to, no thing what blazon of music: Pop, metal, stone, rap or country.
If you're dealing with low, it's always important to seek the wellness of a trained mental health professional sooner rather than later. Simply in the meantime, Nosotros've collected this list of 101 songs that delve into every attribute of living with low—from feeling isolated to coping with addiction to request for assistance and fighting one's way out—based on explanations by the artists themselves, critics' interpretations and, perhaps about importantly, discussions among those who live with depression and find solace in the lyrics.
101 Songs About Depression
1. "Breathe Me" — Sia
Ouch I have lost myself again/Lost myself and I am nowhere to be institute/Yeah I think that I might interruption/Lost myself once again and I feel dangerous
ii. "Twenty-four hours 'N' Nite" — Kid Cudi
At present wait at this/ Madness to magnet keeps attracting me/I try to run merely run across I'm not that fast
3. "Fade to Blackness" — Metallica
Life it seems to fade away/Drifting further everyday/Getting lost within myself/Cypher matters no one else
4. "Nix" — Imagine Dragons
Let me tell you what it's like to exist a zero, zip/Let me show you what it's like to always feel/Like I'm empty and there's nothing really real
5. "Be OK" — Ingrid Michaelson
Open me up and you volition see/I'm a gallery of broken hearts/I'k across repair, let me be?/And give me back my broken parts
6. "Runaway Railroad train" — Soul Asylum
It seems no one can assist me now/I'one thousand in also deep/There's no style out/This time I have really led myself astray
7. "Lithium" — Evanescence
I can't agree on to me/Wonder what'southward wrong with me
8. "Savage on Black Days" — Soundgarden
Whatsoever I've feared has come to life/Whatever I've fought off became my life/Just when everyday seemed to greet me with a smile/Sunspots have faded and now I'm doing fourth dimension/Now I'yard doing time?'Cause I fell on black days
9. "Lovely" — Billie Eilish and Khalid
Isn't it lovely, all alone?/Eye made of drinking glass, my mind of stone/Tear me to pieces, peel to bone/Hullo, welcome dwelling
ten. "Auto Radio" — Twenty One Pilots
My pare volition scream reminding me of/Who I killed within my dream
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eleven. "Mad Earth" — Tears for Fears
And I discover kinda funny, I find it kinda deplorable/That the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had
12. "I Should Have Known Better" — Sufjan Stevens
I should have known better/To run across what I could run into/My black shroud/Holding down my feelings/A pillar for my enemies
13. "Danko/Manuel" — Jason Isbell
I ain't living similar I should/A niggling residuum might do me practiced/Got to sinking in the place where I one time stood
14. "I'k So Lonesome I Could Cry" — Hank Williams
Hear that lonesome whipporwhill/He sounds to bluish to fly/The midnight train is whining low/I'm so lonesome I could weep
15. "Telescope" — Cage the Elephant
I don't call back you lot empathise/There's nowhere left to turn
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16. "u" — Kendrick Lamar
And if those mirrors could talk it would say 'yous gotta go'
17. "Paint Information technology Blackness" — Rolling Stones
I see a carmine door and I want to paint it blackness/No colors anymore I want them to turn black
18. "Dark Times" — The Wknd
In my dark times I've nevertheless got some problems I know/Driving likewise fast but just moving likewise slow/And I've got something I've been trying to let get/Pulling me dorsum every fourth dimension
19. "No Rain" — Bullheaded Melon
And I don't sympathise why I sleep all day/And I outset to complain that at that place's no rain/And all I tin can do is read a book to stay awake/And it rips my life away but information technology'due south a cracking escape
20. "A Better Son/Amend Daughter" — Rilo Kiley
But the lows are then extreme/That the good seems ****** cheap/And it teases you for weeks in its absence
21. "This Depression" — Bruce Springsteen
Babe I've been down/But never this downwardly/I've been lost/But never this lost
22. "Hurt" — Johnny Greenbacks (originally by 9 Inch Nails)
Anybody I know/Goes away in the terminate
23. "Away From The Sun" — 3 Doors Down
I'grand and then tired of living in the dark/Can anyone see me down here
24. "Pelting" — Patty Griffin
Strange how difficult information technology rains now/Rows and rows of big dark clouds
25. "Gravity" — John Mayer
I'll never know what makes this man/With all twelve that his heart can stand/Dream of ways to throw all away
26. "You Don't Know" — from the Broadway show Next to Normal,performed by Alice Ripley
Do you wake upwards in the morning and need help to elevator your head?/Do y'all read obituaries and feel jealous of the expressionless?
27. "Mercy Street" — Peter Gabriel
She pictures the cleaved glass, she pictures the steam/She pictures a soul/With no leak at the seam
28. "Burn and Rain" — James Taylor
I've seen fire and I've seen pelting/I've seen sunny days that I thought would never cease/I've seen solitary times when I could not find a friend
29. "Is That All There Is?" — Peggy Lee
Is that all at that place is, is that all there is?/ If that's all there is my friends, then let's proceed dancing
30. "Both Sides At present" — Joni Mitchell
I've looked at life from both sides at present/From win and lose and yet somehow/ It's life's illusions I recall/ I really don't know life at all
31. "A Day Without Me" — U2
Started a landslide in my ego/Looked from the outside to the world I left behind
32. "Downwards in a Hole" — Alice in Chains
Down in a hole feelin' and then small/Down in a hole, losin' my soul/ I'd like to fly, but my wings have been and then denied
33. "Anxiety" — Julia Michaels and Selena Gomez
All my friends, they don't know what it'due south like/They don't empathise why I can't sleep through the nighttime/I've been told that I could have something to fix it/Damn, I wish information technology was that simple
34. "Diary of a Madman" — Ozzy Osbourne
Screaming at the window/Lookout me die another day/Hopeless situation/Endless cost I have to pay
35. "The Dark Side" — Muse
You'd be scared living with my despair/ And if you could experience the things I am able to feel
36. "Adam's Vocal" — Blink 182
I never thought I'd die lonely/Another six months I'll be unknown
37. "Delinquent" — Kanye West
And I always find, yeah I always find something wrong/You been putting up with my *** just mode too long/I'm and then gifted at finding what I don't like almost
38. "Million Years Ago" — Adele
Sometimes I just experience it's only me/Who can't stand the reflection that they see
39. "She's Falling Autonomously" — Lisa Loeb
She gets home from school also early/And closes the door to her room/There's nothing inside her/She weak and she'south tired of feeling like this
40. "Rainy Days and Mondays" — The Carpenters
Hangin' around/Nothing to do but frown/Rainy days and Mondays always get me downwards
41. "Swim Skilful" — Frank Ocean
I'chiliad about to drive in the ocean/I'ma try to swim from something bigger than me
42. "Under the Span" — Scarlet Hot Chili Peppers
It's hard to believe/That there's nobody out there/It's hard to believe/That I'm all lonely
43. "Cough Syrup" — Young the Giant
Life'due south too short to fifty-fifty care at all/I'm losing my mind losing control
44. "Lithium" — Nirvana
I'yard so lonely but that's OK I shaved my head/And I'yard not sad
45. "Heavy" — Linkin Park
I keep dragging around what's bringing me downward
46. "Anything Worth Property Onto" — Chrissy Metz and Matt Bloyd
It takes endeavor to fight/I don't accept the forcefulness/I'm property on to what'southward still left of me
47. "Breaking Downward" — Florence and the Machine
All alone on the edge of sleep/My old familiar friend/Comes and lies down adjacent to me/And I tin see it coming from the border of the room/Grinning in the streetlight even with my eyes close tight/I withal see it coming now/ Ah I retrieve I'chiliad breaking down once more
48. "Please Be Patient With Me" — Wilco
It doesn't mean that I don't care/It ways I'm partially there
49. "New Dawn Fades" — Joy Division
Directionless then apparently to see/A loaded gun won't set up yous free/And then you say
50. "Rainbow in the Nighttime" — Dio
When I see lightning/Yous know it ever brings me down/'Crusade it'due south costless and I run across that it's me?Who's lost and never found
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51. "I'yard Only Happy When It Rains" — Garbage
Pour your misery downwards on me
52. "I Just Wasn't Made For These Times" — Embankment Boys
Sometimes I feel very lamentable (Can't observe nothin' I can put my heart and soul into)
53. "Promise Is A Dangerous Matter For a Woman Like Me To Have" — Lana Del Rey
Don't ask if I'one thousand happy, you know that I'm non/ Only at best I can say I'm not sad/'Crusade hope is a unsafe thing for a woman like me to accept
54. "Here Comes The Pelting Once more" — Eurythmics
Here comes the rain again/Raining in my head like a tragedy/Tearing me apart like a new emotion
55. "I Get To Extremes" — Billy Joel
Sometimes I'k tired, sometimes I'one thousand shot/Sometimes I don't know how much more than I've got
56. "Gasoline" — Halsey
I remember in that location's a flaw in my code/These voices won't leave me alone
57. "You Don't Know" — Katelyn Tarver
Let me just stop trying/Allow me simply stop fighting/I don't desire your good advice/Or reasons why I'm alright
58. "Something Vague" — Brilliant Eyes
Now and again it seems worse than information technology is/Only more often than not the view is accurate
59. "Irvine" — Kelly Clarkson
I don't accept much to go/Before I fade completely
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60. "Behind Blue Eyes" — The Who
No one bites back as hard/On their anger/None of of my hurting and woe/Tin can show through
61. "Pretty Hurts" — Beyoncé
But you lot can't fix what you don't come across/It'southward the should that needs the surgery
62. "How Soon Is At present" — The Smiths
I am the son and heir/Of nothing in particular
63. "Nobody Knows" — Pink
It's win or lose non how you play the game/And the route to darkness has a way/Of always knowing my proper name/But I call back nobody knows
64. "Lucky" — Britney Spears
She'south then lucky, she's a star/But she weep, cry, cries in her lonely middle, thinking/If in that location's nada missing in my life/So why do these tears come at night?
65. "I Am a Rock" — Simon & Garfunkel
I take no need of friendship, friendship causes hurting/It's laughter and it's loving I disdain
66. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" — Light-green Day
I walk a lonely road/The only 1 that I have ever known/Don't know where it goes/Simply information technology'due south only me and I walk alone
67. "Man of Abiding Sorrow" — Dan Tyminski with Alison Krauss and Matrimony Station
For vi long years I've been in trouble/No pleasures hither on earth I found/For in this world I'm bout to ramble/I have no friends to assistance me now
68. "Weep Pretty" — Carrie Underwood
You tin pretty lie and say it's OK/ Y'all can pretty smile and just walk away/Pretty much faux your way through anything/But yous can't cry pretty
69. "Everybody Hates Me" — The Chainsmokers
I'm so defeated, I can't get outside my head
70. "I Am I Said" — Neil Diamond
I am, I said/To no ane there/And no ane heard at all/Not even the chair
71. "People Are Strange" — The Doors
People are strange when you lot're a stranger/Faces look ugly when you're solitary
72. "Woke Upwards Hurting" — Frightened Rabbit
I woke up hurting/Though I can't quite say why
73. "Sober" — Demi Lovato
Sometimes I only wanna cave/And I don't wanna fight
74. "Purpose for Pain" — Scott Stapp
I shut every door simply the right one/I fought the devil and he won
75. "Whiskey Lullaby" — Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss
He put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger/And finally drank abroad her retentiveness/Life is brusque, but this information technology was bigger/Than the strength he had to get up off his knees
76. "The A Team" — Ed Sheeran
She's stuck in her daydream/Been this mode since xviii/Merely lately her face up seems/Slowly sinking, wasting/Aging like pastries
77. "Sound and Vision" — David Bowie
Stake blinds fatigued all day/Null to do, nothing to say/Bluish bluish
78. "Waiting 'Round to Die" — Townes Van Zandt
I got me a friend at last/He don't drink or steal or cheat or prevarication/His proper name'southward codeine/He'southward the dainty thing I've seen/Together we're gonna wait effectually and dice
79. "It's Been Awhile" — Staind
Why must I feel this way?/But make this go away/Simply one more peaceful day
fourscore. "Torn" — Natalie Imbruglia
I'm all out of faith/This is how I feel/I'thousand common cold and I am shamed/Lying naked on the floor
81. "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart" — BeeGees
How can you mend a broken heart?/ How tin y'all stop the rain from falling down? How can you finish the sun from shining?
82. "When Information technology Rains" — Eli Young Band
When it rains, some people get down/They're sporting a frown then I fit right in
83. "The Lonely" — Christina Perri
I'thousand a ghost of a daughter/That I desire to be most/I'yard the shell of a girl/That I used to know well
84. "Sorrow" — The National
I live in a city sorrow built/Information technology'due south in my honey, it'southward in my milk
85. "It Makes No Difference" — The Band
And information technology makes no difference how far I go/Like a scar the hurting will e'er show
86. "Everybody Hurts" — REM
If you're on your own/In this life/The days and nights are long/When you lot think you've had likewise much/Of this life/To hang on
87. "Motility Along" — All America Rejects
So a mean solar day when you lot've lost yourself completely/Could be a night when your life ends/ Such a heart that will atomic number 82 yous to deceiving/All the pain held in your/Easily are shaking cold/Your hands are min to hold
88. "Rise Upwardly" — Andra Day
When the silence isn't quiet/And it feels similar it'south getting difficult to exhale/And I know you feel like dying/But I hope we'll take the globe to its feet
89. "1-800-273-8255" — Logic ft. Alessia Cara, Khalid
It's property on, though the road's long/And seeing light in the darkest things/And when you lot stare at your reflection/Finally knowing who it is/I know that you'll give thanks God you lot did
90. "How To Salvage a Life" — The Fray
Where did I go incorrect?/I lost a fried/Somewhere along in the bitterness/And I would have stayed up with y'all all nit/Had I known how to save a life
91. "Lullaby" — Nickelback
Please let me take y'all/Out of the darkness and into the calorie-free
92. "Final Hope" — Paramore
Every night I endeavor my best to dream tomorrow makes information technology better/And wake up to the cold reality and non a thing is changed
93. "Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)" — Gary Allan
Every storm runs out of rain/Just like every nighttime nighttime turns into day
94. "Creep" — Radiohead
I'm a creep, I'thousand a weirdo/What the hell am I doing here?/I don't belong here
95. "Get Upwards" — Shinedown
If you were ever in doubt/Don't sell yourself short, yous might be bulletproof/Difficult to move mountains when you're paralyzed/But you gotta endeavor
96. "Help" — The Beatles
Assistance me if you can I'thousand feeling down/And I practice appreciate y'all existence 'round/Assist me get my feet back on the footing
97. "Reason to Fight" — Disturbed
When the demon that'due south inside you is set to begin/And it feels like it's a battle that you will never win/When you're aching for the fire and begging for your sin/When there'due south zippo left inside, there's still a reason to fight
98. "Waving Through a Window" — from the musical Dear Evan Hansen, performed past Ben Platt
Nosotros start with stars in our eyes/We start believing that nosotros vest/But every sun doesn't rise/And no one tells you where y'all went wrong
99. "Manhattan" — Sara Bareilles
And so it goes/I foot later on the other/Till black and white begin to color in
100. "By The Grace of God" — Katy Perry
Thought I wasn't plenty and I wasn't then tough/Laying on the bath floor
101. "I'thousand Movin' On" — Rascal Flatts
I've dealt with my ghosts and faced all my demons/Finally content with a past I regret/I've found you find you find strength in your moments of weakness/For once I'm at peace with myself
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