Hello 🙂 This is actually a very exciting topic for me. I absolutely love songs about misery and sad topics and such. Sorry if this is way over what you wanted but here are a bunch of great songs with a common them of death or suicide or misery or just carry a heavy tone in the lyrics or the sound itself. I don’t know you’re favorite particular genre but this list will cover multiple kinds of music. I also realize that this list is quite extensive and will probably take a while to go through but each song was chosen for a reason (I actually skipped many favorites to limit only to the general topic of giving up) So here is my list:
The Used- All there music I absolutely love and am obsessed, I’ve even seen them live it was amazing, but a here’s a few great ones that have particularly dark themes. (They also have EPs and music you can only get digitally so I am unfortunately not familiar enough to name them but if you like the band you can dig deeper lol)
From their self titled debut album ‘The Used’ – Taste of Ink, Bulimic, Poetic Tragedy, Buried Myself Alive, On My Own, Pieces Mended
Album ‘In Love and Death’ – Take It Away, Let It Bleed, Cut Up Angels, Sound Effects and Overdramatics, Hard To Say, I’m a Fake
‘Lies For The Liars’ – The Bird and the Worm
‘Artwork’ – Blood on My Hands, Born to Quit, Sold My Soul, On The Cross, The Best of Me
Brand New- Jesus Christ, Seventy Times Seven, The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows, Play Crack The Sky, You Won’t Know, Mix Tape, Failure By Design, The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot, The No Seatbelt Song
Taproot- Fractured
Straylight Run- Existentialism on Prom Night
SlipKnot-Snuff
Simple Plan’- Welcome To My Life, Perfect
Silverstein-Worlds Apart, The End
Sense Fail- Landslide, Nero, Hair Of The Dog, Can’t Be Saved, Every Day Is a Struggle, Still Searching, The Priest and The Matador, Bite To Break Skin
Seether- Breakdown, FMLYHM, The Gift, Plastic Man
Saosin – You’re Not Alone
Saliva – Rest In Pieces
Relient K-Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been
Red – Let Go
Real Friends-I’ve Given Up On You
Puddle of Mudd – Blurry
A Perfect Circle – Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums
Nine Inch Nails- Every Day Is Exxactly The Same
My Chemical Romance~~again another absolute favorite artist, all albums revolve a lot around dark subjects..~~
MCR-(album: I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love)- Drowning Lessons, Headfirst for Halos, Early Sunsets Over Monroeville, This Is The Best Day Ever, Demolition Lovers
MCR-(album: Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge)-Helena, I’m Not Okay (I Promise), The Ghost of You, It’s Not a Fashion Statement It’s a Fucking Deathwish, Cemetery Drive, I Never Told You What I Do For a Living
MCR-(album: The Black Parade)- I Don’t Love You, Cancer, Disenchanted, Famous Last Words
MCR-(album: Danger Days)- The Only Hope For Me Is You, Summertime, The Kids From Yesterday
Mudvayne- Dull Boy
Motionless In White-Sinematic
Mayday Parade – If You Wanted A Song Written About You All You Had To Do Was Ask, You Be The Anchor That Keeps My Feet On The Ground, I’ll Be The Wings That Keep You’re Heart In The Clouds, Terrible Things
Matchbox Twenty-Unwell, (The Album ‘Yourself Or Someone Like You’ has some good songs too but I don’t know them by title at the moment)
Linkin Park- One Step Closer, Crawling, Pushing Me Away; Somewhere I belong, Breaking The Habit, Numb; Given Up, Leave Out All The Rest, Shadow of The Day, In Pieces
Limp Bizkit-Boiler, Break Stuff, Behind Blue Eyes
Lifehouse-Whatever It Takes
Korn- Alone I Break, Falling Away From Me
Killswitch Engage- This Is Goodbye, My Curse
Kill Hannah (big favorite) – They Can’t Save Us Now, Kennedy, New Heart For Christmas, Raining All The Time; Black Poison Blood, Love You To Death, Crazy Angel, The Songs That Saved My Life, Scream, (Sleep Tight); Vultures (Be There For Me), Escape Artistry, Promise Me
Just Surrender-I Can Barely Breathe, Forgotten Not Forgiven
In This Moment-Beautiful Tragedy, Whore, Blood
Hoobastank-The Reason
Hawthorne Heights- Ohio Is For Lovers, Blue Burns Orange, and there’s a few other good ones I can’t remember right now
Gary Jules- Mad World
Flyleaf- I’m So Sick, So I Thought, 1000 Broken Wings
Five Finger Death Punch.
Evans Blue- Cold (But I’m Still Here)
Evanescence-Going Under, Bring Me To Life, My Immortal,
Armor For Sleep-What To Do When You’re Dead I love this whole album. A few great ones though are: Car Underwater, The Truth About Heaven, Remember To Feel Real (which also has some cool remixes), Walking Alone at Night
Emmure-Goodbye To The Gallows~concept album story about a man that has problems and in the end commits suicide must listen to the whole album
Emmure-I Only Mean Half of What I Don’t Say, Chicago’s Finest, Snuff 2: The Ressurection, Dry Ice(awesome instrumental), You’re More Like A Friend Without The ‘R’
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows (D.R.U.G.S.)- Mr. Owl Ate My Metal Worm
Deftones- Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away), Change (In The House of Flies), Minerva
Creed- Six Feet From The Edge, Rain,
Cold- Suffocate
Coheed and Cambria-Dark Side Of Me
Close Your Eyes- Song For The Broken
Chevelle-The Red, Closure, Comfortable Liar, Send The Pain Below, One Lonely Visitor; I Get It
Bullet For My Valentine-Tears Don’t Fall, The End; Say Goodnight, Forever and Always; Bittersweet Memories, Pretty On The Outside; Curses, Hand of Blood
Brokencyde-I’m Sorry I Am, Disappearing Hearts, Alone In The Dark, Schizophrenia, Drop Dead
Bring Me The Horizon-It Never Ends, Can You Feel My Heart, Crucify Me
Breaking Benjamin- Breath, Until The End, Dear Agony
Boxcar Racer-Elevator, And I, There Is, Letters To God
Blue October-Into The Ocean, Hate Me
Blink 182- Adam’s Song, Stay Together For The Kids, Down, Not Now; Asthenia; Shut Up
Blaqk Audio-The Love Letter, ‘Wake Up, Open The Door and Escape To The Sea’
Bayside-Tortures Of The Damned
Baroness-Eula
Army Of Me-Going Through Changes
All That Remains- What If I Was Nothing
Aiden- We Sleep Forever; The Last Sunrise, Die Romantic, The City Is Far From Here; See You In Hell..
AFI- …But Home Is Nowhere(love the midway poem thing); Prelude 12/21, The Interview, The Missing Frame, Kiss and Control, The Killing Lights; End Transmission, Darling I Want To Destroy You
30 Seconds To Mars- Attack, A Beautiful Lie, From Yesterday
3 Doors Down- Be Like That
10 Years- Wasteland
Sixx: A.M. – The Heroin Diaries now I’m not exactly too fond of this one but it is in my personal library and is mentioned as the album pretty much revolves around giving up and drugs and fighting through addiction withdrawals and such.
Smile Empty Soul – For You, With This Knife
And that is all I got making a quick (turned out to be 3 hours..hahaha) run through my songs and noting ones off the top of my head that are sad or depressing or have a subject of giving up or whatever.. (:
I love music…lol your welcome. I can’t believe, looking back through the list, that I forgot to mention Taking Back Sunday. They definitely deserve a mention. Here’sa few of my favorites off the top of my head
Your Own Disaster ’04
Number Five with a Bullet
Slowdance on the Inside
You’re So Last Summer
Cute Without The E (Cut From The Team)
This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)
OK, you made a statement that you feel like you dont mean anything to the people in your life
and how that makes you feel pain. Well for one that might just be an impression you get and not really the truth. I am sure there are people in your life that love you, you just might not know it or those people don’t know how to tell you how much you mean to them or they don’t know how to show it. A lot of people have trouble dealing with emotional issues. So forgive the people in your life if they don’t know how to tell or show you that they care. For me I lived like that for 27 years.
I never heard anybody in my family tell me the loved me until I was about 27 years old. They just didn’t know how too. But I forgive them. And now things are different
Now on the other hand sometimes there are people in our lives that really don’t care about us.
and if that is true then I recommend that you change your position in life. Get away from people who do not care about you and find some people that do. And remember that if you want people to like you and care about you you have to learn how to be a likeable person and care about others too. If you want to make friends you have to learn to be a friend. If you want a lover in your life you have to learn to love yourself. If you want people to spend quality time with you and help you out > you have to learn to be respectful and positive and help them out too.
One hand washed the other. So if you try to be good and respectful to others they will do the same in return. Reach out to people in a positive way. Be a cheerful person and people will want to be around you and help you.
Start today. Start making choices to bette your circumstances and to make friends with positive people.
There are more good people in the world then there are bad people its just the bad people are the ones who make the news. Forget about the negative news stories and make friends in your own personal life.
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this song i don’t know if u will like this… but is mystery… sad…
but… it has a curse for me can’t stop listening…
here: Birdy – Not About Angels
here: Birdy – Not About Angels OST
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umm… you can find many music… ask “google” thing
he will answer your questions… i think….
Hello 🙂 This is actually a very exciting topic for me. I absolutely love songs about misery and sad topics and such. Sorry if this is way over what you wanted but here are a bunch of great songs with a common them of death or suicide or misery or just carry a heavy tone in the lyrics or the sound itself. I don’t know you’re favorite particular genre but this list will cover multiple kinds of music. I also realize that this list is quite extensive and will probably take a while to go through but each song was chosen for a reason (I actually skipped many favorites to limit only to the general topic of giving up) So here is my list:
The Used- All there music I absolutely love and am obsessed, I’ve even seen them live it was amazing, but a here’s a few great ones that have particularly dark themes. (They also have EPs and music you can only get digitally so I am unfortunately not familiar enough to name them but if you like the band you can dig deeper lol)
From their self titled debut album ‘The Used’ – Taste of Ink, Bulimic, Poetic Tragedy, Buried Myself Alive, On My Own, Pieces Mended
Album ‘In Love and Death’ – Take It Away, Let It Bleed, Cut Up Angels, Sound Effects and Overdramatics, Hard To Say, I’m a Fake
‘Lies For The Liars’ – The Bird and the Worm
‘Artwork’ – Blood on My Hands, Born to Quit, Sold My Soul, On The Cross, The Best of Me
Brand New- Jesus Christ, Seventy Times Seven, The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows, Play Crack The Sky, You Won’t Know, Mix Tape, Failure By Design, The Boy Who Blocked His Own Shot, The No Seatbelt Song
Taproot- Fractured
Straylight Run- Existentialism on Prom Night
SlipKnot-Snuff
Simple Plan’- Welcome To My Life, Perfect
Silverstein-Worlds Apart, The End
Sense Fail- Landslide, Nero, Hair Of The Dog, Can’t Be Saved, Every Day Is a Struggle, Still Searching, The Priest and The Matador, Bite To Break Skin
Seether- Breakdown, FMLYHM, The Gift, Plastic Man
Saosin – You’re Not Alone
Saliva – Rest In Pieces
Relient K-Who I Am Hates Who I’ve Been
Red – Let Go
Real Friends-I’ve Given Up On You
Puddle of Mudd – Blurry
A Perfect Circle – Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums
Nine Inch Nails- Every Day Is Exxactly The Same
My Chemical Romance~~again another absolute favorite artist, all albums revolve a lot around dark subjects..~~
MCR-(album: I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love)- Drowning Lessons, Headfirst for Halos, Early Sunsets Over Monroeville, This Is The Best Day Ever, Demolition Lovers
MCR-(album: Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge)-Helena, I’m Not Okay (I Promise), The Ghost of You, It’s Not a Fashion Statement It’s a Fucking Deathwish, Cemetery Drive, I Never Told You What I Do For a Living
MCR-(album: The Black Parade)- I Don’t Love You, Cancer, Disenchanted, Famous Last Words
MCR-(album: Danger Days)- The Only Hope For Me Is You, Summertime, The Kids From Yesterday
Mudvayne- Dull Boy
Motionless In White-Sinematic
Mayday Parade – If You Wanted A Song Written About You All You Had To Do Was Ask, You Be The Anchor That Keeps My Feet On The Ground, I’ll Be The Wings That Keep You’re Heart In The Clouds, Terrible Things
Matchbox Twenty-Unwell, (The Album ‘Yourself Or Someone Like You’ has some good songs too but I don’t know them by title at the moment)
Linkin Park- One Step Closer, Crawling, Pushing Me Away; Somewhere I belong, Breaking The Habit, Numb; Given Up, Leave Out All The Rest, Shadow of The Day, In Pieces
Limp Bizkit-Boiler, Break Stuff, Behind Blue Eyes
Lifehouse-Whatever It Takes
Korn- Alone I Break, Falling Away From Me
Killswitch Engage- This Is Goodbye, My Curse
Kill Hannah (big favorite) – They Can’t Save Us Now, Kennedy, New Heart For Christmas, Raining All The Time; Black Poison Blood, Love You To Death, Crazy Angel, The Songs That Saved My Life, Scream, (Sleep Tight); Vultures (Be There For Me), Escape Artistry, Promise Me
Just Surrender-I Can Barely Breathe, Forgotten Not Forgiven
In This Moment-Beautiful Tragedy, Whore, Blood
Hoobastank-The Reason
Hawthorne Heights- Ohio Is For Lovers, Blue Burns Orange, and there’s a few other good ones I can’t remember right now
Gary Jules- Mad World
Flyleaf- I’m So Sick, So I Thought, 1000 Broken Wings
Five Finger Death Punch.
Evans Blue- Cold (But I’m Still Here)
Evanescence-Going Under, Bring Me To Life, My Immortal,
Armor For Sleep-What To Do When You’re Dead I love this whole album. A few great ones though are: Car Underwater, The Truth About Heaven, Remember To Feel Real (which also has some cool remixes), Walking Alone at Night
Emmure-Goodbye To The Gallows~concept album story about a man that has problems and in the end commits suicide must listen to the whole album
Emmure-I Only Mean Half of What I Don’t Say, Chicago’s Finest, Snuff 2: The Ressurection, Dry Ice(awesome instrumental), You’re More Like A Friend Without The ‘R’
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows (D.R.U.G.S.)- Mr. Owl Ate My Metal Worm
Deftones- Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away), Change (In The House of Flies), Minerva
Creed- Six Feet From The Edge, Rain,
Cold- Suffocate
Coheed and Cambria-Dark Side Of Me
Close Your Eyes- Song For The Broken
Chevelle-The Red, Closure, Comfortable Liar, Send The Pain Below, One Lonely Visitor; I Get It
Bullet For My Valentine-Tears Don’t Fall, The End; Say Goodnight, Forever and Always; Bittersweet Memories, Pretty On The Outside; Curses, Hand of Blood
Brokencyde-I’m Sorry I Am, Disappearing Hearts, Alone In The Dark, Schizophrenia, Drop Dead
Bring Me The Horizon-It Never Ends, Can You Feel My Heart, Crucify Me
Breaking Benjamin- Breath, Until The End, Dear Agony
Boxcar Racer-Elevator, And I, There Is, Letters To God
Blue October-Into The Ocean, Hate Me
Blink 182- Adam’s Song, Stay Together For The Kids, Down, Not Now; Asthenia; Shut Up
Blaqk Audio-The Love Letter, ‘Wake Up, Open The Door and Escape To The Sea’
Bayside-Tortures Of The Damned
Baroness-Eula
Army Of Me-Going Through Changes
All That Remains- What If I Was Nothing
Aiden- We Sleep Forever; The Last Sunrise, Die Romantic, The City Is Far From Here; See You In Hell..
AFI- …But Home Is Nowhere(love the midway poem thing); Prelude 12/21, The Interview, The Missing Frame, Kiss and Control, The Killing Lights; End Transmission, Darling I Want To Destroy You
30 Seconds To Mars- Attack, A Beautiful Lie, From Yesterday
3 Doors Down- Be Like That
10 Years- Wasteland
Sixx: A.M. – The Heroin Diaries now I’m not exactly too fond of this one but it is in my personal library and is mentioned as the album pretty much revolves around giving up and drugs and fighting through addiction withdrawals and such.
Smile Empty Soul – For You, With This Knife
And that is all I got making a quick (turned out to be 3 hours..hahaha) run through my songs and noting ones off the top of my head that are sad or depressing or have a subject of giving up or whatever.. (:
Thank you that’s a lot of songs don’t know if I will get through them all but thanks
I love music…lol your welcome. I can’t believe, looking back through the list, that I forgot to mention Taking Back Sunday. They definitely deserve a mention. Here’sa few of my favorites off the top of my head
Your Own Disaster ’04
Number Five with a Bullet
Slowdance on the Inside
You’re So Last Summer
Cute Without The E (Cut From The Team)
This Photograph Is Proof (I Know You Know)
“Stop Crying Your Heart Out” by Oasis
“Wake Up” by Arcade Fire
You can do it.
Thanks I really like wake up
I like songs that are written by people who committed suicide.
The Doors (Jim Morrison, “accidental overdose” but who are we kidding)
Nirvana (Kurt Cobain, blew his head off with a shotgun)
Early INXS (Michael Hutchence, hung himself in a hotel)
Big Country (Stuart Adamson, hanging)
The Temptations (Paul Williams, got drunk & shot himself in an alley) Sorta makes “My Girl” not such a happy song anymore, huh?
Youth-Daughter
It has meaning.
OK, you made a statement that you feel like you dont mean anything to the people in your life
and how that makes you feel pain. Well for one that might just be an impression you get and not really the truth. I am sure there are people in your life that love you, you just might not know it or those people don’t know how to tell you how much you mean to them or they don’t know how to show it. A lot of people have trouble dealing with emotional issues. So forgive the people in your life if they don’t know how to tell or show you that they care. For me I lived like that for 27 years.
I never heard anybody in my family tell me the loved me until I was about 27 years old. They just didn’t know how too. But I forgive them. And now things are different
Now on the other hand sometimes there are people in our lives that really don’t care about us.
and if that is true then I recommend that you change your position in life. Get away from people who do not care about you and find some people that do. And remember that if you want people to like you and care about you you have to learn how to be a likeable person and care about others too. If you want to make friends you have to learn to be a friend. If you want a lover in your life you have to learn to love yourself. If you want people to spend quality time with you and help you out > you have to learn to be respectful and positive and help them out too.
One hand washed the other. So if you try to be good and respectful to others they will do the same in return. Reach out to people in a positive way. Be a cheerful person and people will want to be around you and help you.
Start today. Start making choices to bette your circumstances and to make friends with positive people.
There are more good people in the world then there are bad people its just the bad people are the ones who make the news. Forget about the negative news stories and make friends in your own personal life.
Why do the people who mean most hurt you the most??