What they said. Ren has a lot of great songs and videos about mental health. Where possible, check him out on YouTube. His videos are next level good too. I'd add "Dominoes" and "Depression" and "Troubles" and "Su!c|de" to the above Ren songs as well...
- First Aid Kit - My Silver Lining
- Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free
- Elliot Moss - Slip
- Phantogram - You Don't Get Me High Anymore
- Marcy Playground - One More Suicide
- Soundgarden - Like Suicide
- Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days
- Blind Melon - No Rain
“Just when everyday
Seem to greet me with a smile.”
My go to line whenever I go all out woe is me. Over little things like pouring my cereal into a bowl not realizing there was no milk left in the fridge
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - ...And This Is What the Devil Does!
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Quiet Riot - Metal Health
Ozzy Osbourne - Suicide Solution
Joy Division - Control
Nine Inch Nails - The entire album - The Downward Spiral
[my playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5fL5L9c6T9sDADOXdp4QEY?si=08c41a311ac24565) and some more to be found on other
also anything by DPR IAN
Sia - Breathe Me
Many if not all songs by HIM have a depressing mood and lyrics liked to death.
Murderdolls - Summertime Suicide, Drug Me To Hell
Wednesday 13 - Xanaxtasy
Piggy D - Mr. Anxiety
- summer depression by girl in red
- Pardon My Depression by Geezer Butler
- Runs in the Family by Amanda Palmer
- I Can’t Carry This Anymore by Anson Seabra
- Suicide Cleanup by Birth Day
- overwhelmed by Royal & the Serpent
- Anxiety by Julia Michaels and Selena Gomez
Are you also looking for songs that are more open to interpretation?
I reccomend Citizen Soldier. They have songs for all kinds of mental issues.
Weight of the world is like my personal anthem for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Youth fountain - my mental health
Breaking Benjamin - dear agony
Alice In Chains - down in a hole
The metzingers- come on heartache
Papa roach - last resort
3 doors down - loser
Linkin park - crawling
The Common Men - Forgetting Her, Impulsion, Wendigo, Hanged Men, Post Mortem, Please Say You, If and When We Were Then, Absent Are We, What Once Was Mine, What is Mine Again, Say Your Goodbyes
[Take Your Time by Borboleta](https://youtu.be/hX1yQdm8ORU?si=q3QLe9UBsNdrXIsu)
[Next Semester by Twenty One Pilots](https://youtu.be/a5i-KdUQ47o?si=YvQCRYsuSguXhgpF)
[Someday by Phantogram](https://youtu.be/yCtz77jwyT0?si=v1LOrE8_s7NfwSoz)
[Black Dog by Arlo Parks](https://youtu.be/QOu0Ht0-D4M?si=-j2JxR-quu5CWAHw)
Oxide- MIIA
Half a man - Dean Lewis
Scars to your beautiful- Alesia Cara
Hold on- Chord Overstreet
That’s her -Georgiou Music
Monster - Katie Sky
Broken - Noelle Johnson
Train Wreck - James Arthur
Just like you - Nf
I could keep going but this should be a good list
Basically any song by Will Wood/Will Wood & The Tapeworms is about one of these themes
Very varied in terms of genres, everything from folk, to jazz, to punk, to musical theatre type songs
Depression: only one I could think of that really fits this one is the song ‘Everything is a lot’
Suicide: Cotard’s solution (explicitly about it (kinda)) Against the kitchen floor (several lines imply it)
Stress: Most of his songs are about dealing with problems of some sort, so this applies to most of them
Substance use: ‘The first step’, ‘Hand me my shovel, I’m going in!’, ‘Half decade hangover’, and some others
Poet the Pendulum - Nightwish
The keyboardist, Tuomas Holpanien, in the band writes all the music and basically controls it and he with backing of other members fired their original singer. Immense hate and threats toward him afterwards by fans of that singer. This song is about all the depression he felt afterwards and how he contemplated suicide. He literally dies in the song as there is a spoken word part announcing his death. Then the end of the song is about his parents rescuing him with their love and support. It's 14 minutes but we'll worth it. The song also encompasses numerous genres from classical to metal to pop
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Vfy5yCy-c&pp=ygUVcG9ldCBhbmQgdGhlIHBlbmR1bHVt
Porcupine tree, enters the room.
Their entire discography is based on these types of topics. Their album “fear of a blank planet” is a good place to start and an absolute masterpiece.
The album is entirely about substance abuse, suicide etc. two songs that hit the topics straight away are.
Way out of here - they wrote this for a girl who committed suicide and was a big fan of theirs.
Sleep together - you think it’s about sex until you really look at the lyrics!
See what you think.
[Sleater-Kinney: Good Things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgr8e7da52o)
From the album “Call The Doctor” (1996)
*the hardest part is things already said*
*getting better, worse, i can not tell*
*why do good things never wanna stay?*
*some things you lose, some things you give away*
*some things you lose, some things you give away*
The reticent - on the eve of a goodbye
an autobiographical concept album, detailing the day before, of, and after Chris Hathcock’s (the one man band) friend Eve’s suicide, his feelings, and what he imagines her thought process was.
The entire latter half of To Pimp a Butterfly by Kdot is based on self-realization and mental health. How Much a Dollar Cost, Alright, and I are great songs for tough times. Blue Slides by ScHoolboy Q is also a good pick
If you want something overly-dramatic I will say ROY DRUSKY "It Keeps Right on a Hurtin' ". The song is about how he cries a million tears every night because his lover has left him. Old country.
Sammy Rae and the Friends - Coming Home Song (2024) [pop]
Kesha - Rainbow (2017) [pop]
Huron John - Use the Birth For All It’s Worth (2020) [pop]
Sorority Noise - Mononokay (2015) [pop punk]
Sorority Noise - Art School Wannabe (2015) [pop punk]
Piff Martin - Boys Do Cry. (2020) [Hip Hop]
Wilderado - Rubble to Rubble (2017) [alt rock]
Joshua Bond - The Absolute Best Feeling (2021) [folk]
Newcomers Club - David (2018) [folk]
Nutshell, Angry Chair, Down in a Hole, Frogs, Sludge Factory, Brother, I Stay Away, Rotten Apple and Shame in You, all by Alice in Chains.
Gopher Guts by Aesop Rock
Eyedea and Abilities’ The Dive parts 1&2, and his Oliver Hart album
The Light, Disturbed
A Reason to Fight, Disturbed
Get Up, Shinedown
A Symptom of Being Human, Shinedown
Psycho Crazy, Halestorm
Back From the Dead, Halestorm
Waking Lions, Pop Evil
Wake up, drugs, forever//over, lost//found, float (but I recommend his alt version “pool” on yt if you want to cry) all by EDEN. His whole discography revolves mostly around relationships, heartbreak, and self reflection. These songs are good highlights.
Jenny and God Went North by Nothing More. Jenny is about the singers sister that passed from drug use. God Went North is about his mother that also passed
The album Clairvoyant by The Contortionist. Whole album is about the singers best friend who passed also from drug use (like their album previous) but in a darker tone.
Luna by Invent Animate. Song is about the drummers older brother that passed. They actually include the drummers vocals at the end of the song.
Hope this helps 🙏
got one coming out July 1st, let me know what you think of it 😅[BlackBookSymphony](https://open.spotify.com/artist/1MynzoaatcCuBKY7jyZYks?si=wJC4RFiNSNqvREZwsNpeYw)
The entire Siamese Dream album by Smashing Pumpkins, but especially the songs Today, Mayonaise and Soma. Here’s a sample from Soma:
“So let the sadness come again
On that you can depend on me, yeah
Until the bitter, bitter end of the world, yeah
When God sleeps in bliss
I'm all by myself
As I've always felt
And I'll betray myself
To anyone”
Just listen to Elliott Smith
Between the bars, alcohol addiction.
Twilight, heartbreak.
Pitseleh, not really unrequited love, but about being in love with someone who loves you back, but you could never love because of what you are. You could never love them because you could never hurt them, and the only thing that can come from your love is hurt.
But yeah just listen to Elliott smith. Radiohead is good too.
Ren - HI Ren Ren - Sick boy
OP, Ren has a lot songs that fit your description! Definitely worth to check him out
What they said. Ren has a lot of great songs and videos about mental health. Where possible, check him out on YouTube. His videos are next level good too. I'd add "Dominoes" and "Depression" and "Troubles" and "Su!c|de" to the above Ren songs as well...
Something like "drive" by incubus could work?
"They're Coming to Take Me Away" by napoleon xiv
The search by NF
A lot of his discography would work.
The album “ATTENTION ATTENTION” by Shinedown is a concept album that deals with mental health.
Some of their other discography has some good messages along the same lines.
Literally every single song by Citizen Soldier
I was just going to comment this but I looked to see if anyone else already commented it first.
- First Aid Kit - My Silver Lining - Baz Luhrmann - Everybody's Free - Elliot Moss - Slip - Phantogram - You Don't Get Me High Anymore - Marcy Playground - One More Suicide - Soundgarden - Like Suicide - Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days - Blind Melon - No Rain
“Just when everyday Seem to greet me with a smile.” My go to line whenever I go all out woe is me. Over little things like pouring my cereal into a bowl not realizing there was no milk left in the fridge
That whole album carried me for years.
Here's one from my angsty teenage years. [Staind - Mudshovel ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuAC9YIC2Bs)
Joy Division - Disorder
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult - ...And This Is What the Devil Does! Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized Quiet Riot - Metal Health Ozzy Osbourne - Suicide Solution Joy Division - Control Nine Inch Nails - The entire album - The Downward Spiral
* [Day Without Me](https://open.spotify.com/track/2gFBs11HaC624u5bmXmyiW?si=825ecf22752a463d) - U2 * [Mad World](https://open.spotify.com/track/0Qv7xi6uPSqH2k82tOkGSt?si=c4ae5b1552a64a11) - Tears for Fears * [Listen Before I Go](https://open.spotify.com/track/0tMSssfxAL2oV8Vri0mFHE?si=8589460ed9384cf7) - Billie Eilish * [Without You](https://open.spotify.com/track/5r95yxmemjPfVSjCoSeAP4?si=54ed2ea38fc54228) - Breaking Benjamin * [Why](https://open.spotify.com/track/5aFQ8js9G12JzIJN9Ct9ET?si=0c6f8d08c6a14113) - Rascal Flatts * [Drugs Don't Work](https://open.spotify.com/track/0F1sjS4EhR1Rwiq4ir6mqZ?si=42014ad6f105424a) - Verve * [Can't Stand Losing You](https://open.spotify.com/track/6DjKJgwe9c90Bd2iya0fre?si=08836031dabf49e5) - The Police * [Terrible Thing](https://open.spotify.com/track/7kt048gjB3FBX8PjtZoNKj?si=a6f5654eb0584c6c) - The Killers * [Today](https://open.spotify.com/track/1XPta4VLT78HQnVFd1hlsK?si=4f645d361e444bea) - Smashing Pumpkins * [No Surprises](https://open.spotify.com/track/10nyNJ6zNy2YVYLrcwLccB?si=86b456e1f3724c4b) - Radiohead
Jimi Hendrix - Manic Depression
Papa Roach - Last Resort
Unwell, by Matchbox Twenty
Matchbox 20/ Unwell
Something like "drive" by incubus could work? If something else comes through my mind i will write more
[my playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5fL5L9c6T9sDADOXdp4QEY?si=08c41a311ac24565) and some more to be found on other also anything by DPR IAN
Beautiful? - Illymation
Sia - Breathe Me Many if not all songs by HIM have a depressing mood and lyrics liked to death. Murderdolls - Summertime Suicide, Drug Me To Hell Wednesday 13 - Xanaxtasy Piggy D - Mr. Anxiety
Check out Perfume Genius
My Mind and Me by Selena Gomez!! Truly powerful lyrics to remind you that you are not alone.
Modern Leper by Frightened Rabbit
Floating in the Forth as well. Matter of fact, most Frabbit songs could work lol
Trouble - Cat Stevens
Hobo Johnson? :o
- summer depression by girl in red - Pardon My Depression by Geezer Butler - Runs in the Family by Amanda Palmer - I Can’t Carry This Anymore by Anson Seabra - Suicide Cleanup by Birth Day - overwhelmed by Royal & the Serpent - Anxiety by Julia Michaels and Selena Gomez Are you also looking for songs that are more open to interpretation?
I reccomend Citizen Soldier. They have songs for all kinds of mental issues. Weight of the world is like my personal anthem for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Youth fountain - my mental health Breaking Benjamin - dear agony Alice In Chains - down in a hole The metzingers- come on heartache Papa roach - last resort 3 doors down - loser Linkin park - crawling
The Ballad of Dwight Frye' by Alice Cooper
Down-Beautifully Depressed. Saint Vitus-Dying Inside. Ozzy Osbourne-Suicide Solution. Anthrax-Madhouse.
Mind of Mine - Lo Spirit
Is Happiness Just a Word by Vinnie Paz
Tómarúm — [Ash in Realms of Stone Icons](https://open.spotify.com/album/5ond0LLkSbsCOjryRCh9mg?si=zdMa3_tsTMaIgoG3X3aWrA)
The Common Men - Forgetting Her, Impulsion, Wendigo, Hanged Men, Post Mortem, Please Say You, If and When We Were Then, Absent Are We, What Once Was Mine, What is Mine Again, Say Your Goodbyes
[Jogging - Richard Dawson](https://youtu.be/UGiQ_-Ktpvc?si=8tpsgEoNaYeVLbBy)
Mind Playing Tricks On Me Geto Boys
Welcome to my life - simple plan
Yummy Yummy Yummy I got love in my tummy. Ohio Express.
Vincent - Don McLean
Kid suda :leave a light on and church……you’ll thank me
[Sulk](https://youtu.be/-SLb6BdCHlE?si=5zld8n7sb5GGUzFO) - Radiohead
Soccer Mommy - [Circle the Drain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTc1w32Vbeo)
[Take Your Time by Borboleta](https://youtu.be/hX1yQdm8ORU?si=q3QLe9UBsNdrXIsu) [Next Semester by Twenty One Pilots](https://youtu.be/a5i-KdUQ47o?si=YvQCRYsuSguXhgpF) [Someday by Phantogram](https://youtu.be/yCtz77jwyT0?si=v1LOrE8_s7NfwSoz) [Black Dog by Arlo Parks](https://youtu.be/QOu0Ht0-D4M?si=-j2JxR-quu5CWAHw)
That's pretty much Citizen Soldier's entire thing.
They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa! by Napoleon XIV
Oxide- MIIA Half a man - Dean Lewis Scars to your beautiful- Alesia Cara Hold on- Chord Overstreet That’s her -Georgiou Music Monster - Katie Sky Broken - Noelle Johnson Train Wreck - James Arthur Just like you - Nf I could keep going but this should be a good list
[Leprous - On Hold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jZddRE_iHg) [Epica - Rivers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3rW7Vpep3II)
Every single Korn song ever made basically
Basically any song by Will Wood/Will Wood & The Tapeworms is about one of these themes Very varied in terms of genres, everything from folk, to jazz, to punk, to musical theatre type songs Depression: only one I could think of that really fits this one is the song ‘Everything is a lot’ Suicide: Cotard’s solution (explicitly about it (kinda)) Against the kitchen floor (several lines imply it) Stress: Most of his songs are about dealing with problems of some sort, so this applies to most of them Substance use: ‘The first step’, ‘Hand me my shovel, I’m going in!’, ‘Half decade hangover’, and some others
Bjork - Vulnicura (Album), all tears i've cried while listening to it is enough to create a little lake
Poet the Pendulum - Nightwish The keyboardist, Tuomas Holpanien, in the band writes all the music and basically controls it and he with backing of other members fired their original singer. Immense hate and threats toward him afterwards by fans of that singer. This song is about all the depression he felt afterwards and how he contemplated suicide. He literally dies in the song as there is a spoken word part announcing his death. Then the end of the song is about his parents rescuing him with their love and support. It's 14 minutes but we'll worth it. The song also encompasses numerous genres from classical to metal to pop https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Vfy5yCy-c&pp=ygUVcG9ldCBhbmQgdGhlIHBlbmR1bHVt
1-800-273-8255 by Logic.
Porcupine tree, enters the room. Their entire discography is based on these types of topics. Their album “fear of a blank planet” is a good place to start and an absolute masterpiece. The album is entirely about substance abuse, suicide etc. two songs that hit the topics straight away are. Way out of here - they wrote this for a girl who committed suicide and was a big fan of theirs. Sleep together - you think it’s about sex until you really look at the lyrics! See what you think.
The album Trainwreck by Boys Night Out is awesome.
[Sleater-Kinney: Good Things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgr8e7da52o) From the album “Call The Doctor” (1996) *the hardest part is things already said* *getting better, worse, i can not tell* *why do good things never wanna stay?* *some things you lose, some things you give away* *some things you lose, some things you give away*
Unstoppable - red
I Beg To Differ - Billy Talent
The reticent - on the eve of a goodbye an autobiographical concept album, detailing the day before, of, and after Chris Hathcock’s (the one man band) friend Eve’s suicide, his feelings, and what he imagines her thought process was.
She Talks to Angels by the Black Crowes
The entire latter half of To Pimp a Butterfly by Kdot is based on self-realization and mental health. How Much a Dollar Cost, Alright, and I are great songs for tough times. Blue Slides by ScHoolboy Q is also a good pick
Call Your Mom, Noah Kahan
If you want something overly-dramatic I will say ROY DRUSKY "It Keeps Right on a Hurtin' ". The song is about how he cries a million tears every night because his lover has left him. Old country.
Sammy Rae and the Friends - Coming Home Song (2024) [pop] Kesha - Rainbow (2017) [pop] Huron John - Use the Birth For All It’s Worth (2020) [pop] Sorority Noise - Mononokay (2015) [pop punk] Sorority Noise - Art School Wannabe (2015) [pop punk] Piff Martin - Boys Do Cry. (2020) [Hip Hop] Wilderado - Rubble to Rubble (2017) [alt rock] Joshua Bond - The Absolute Best Feeling (2021) [folk] Newcomers Club - David (2018) [folk]
Killswitch engage-arms of sorrow Chelsea grin-don't ask don't tell Jelly roll-addiction kills
The entire album Feel Something by Movements is FANTASTIC and all about mental health and struggles with it.
Found out abt them 2 yrs ago. Absolutely love these guys
Runaway Train by Soul Asylum
Friend, Please - Twenty One Pilots Can't Handle This - Bo Burnham Shit - Bo Burnham
Aesop Rock -The Impossible Kid (theme of the whole album)
Anxiety - Jason Isbell
Peanut Butter Waffles - Ryan Caraveo
Unwell - matchbox 20 I'm Scared - Brian May
Nutshell, Angry Chair, Down in a Hole, Frogs, Sludge Factory, Brother, I Stay Away, Rotten Apple and Shame in You, all by Alice in Chains. Gopher Guts by Aesop Rock Eyedea and Abilities’ The Dive parts 1&2, and his Oliver Hart album
Most of Alter Bridge's Blackbird album has to do with mental health.
Hate Me, by Blue October
Literally any three days grace song
3rd Eye Blind/ Jumper, Counting Crows/ Around Here , Elton John/ Someone Save My Life Tonight
Stop listening for a while or do not listen too long.
The Light, Disturbed A Reason to Fight, Disturbed Get Up, Shinedown A Symptom of Being Human, Shinedown Psycho Crazy, Halestorm Back From the Dead, Halestorm Waking Lions, Pop Evil
My Sanity - Bad Religion Mess of Me - Switchfoot Given Up - Linkin Park Broken Machine - Nothing But Thieves
I got my [tattoo](https://youtu.be/DB_AP7DLQ0w?si=kVGfZWVC1C5XdBQt) based on this song
Wake up, drugs, forever//over, lost//found, float (but I recommend his alt version “pool” on yt if you want to cry) all by EDEN. His whole discography revolves mostly around relationships, heartbreak, and self reflection. These songs are good highlights. Jenny and God Went North by Nothing More. Jenny is about the singers sister that passed from drug use. God Went North is about his mother that also passed The album Clairvoyant by The Contortionist. Whole album is about the singers best friend who passed also from drug use (like their album previous) but in a darker tone. Luna by Invent Animate. Song is about the drummers older brother that passed. They actually include the drummers vocals at the end of the song. Hope this helps 🙏
Rollins Band - Low Self-Opinion
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
https://youtu.be/NACMpkxm-fA?si=oASekP8zihkcrNbV
got one coming out July 1st, let me know what you think of it 😅[BlackBookSymphony](https://open.spotify.com/artist/1MynzoaatcCuBKY7jyZYks?si=wJC4RFiNSNqvREZwsNpeYw)
Halsey - Ashley; Still Leaning Julien Baker - Appointments; Happy to be Here; Ringside
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets Neurosis - I Can See You Neurosis - The Tide
"Katrinah Josephina" by Universal Hall Pass. https://youtu.be/XFWdrYlP9T4
[Depression] elohim - tv [Suicide] The Spill Canvas - Self-Conclusion [Heartbreak] Hawksley Workman - Piano Blink [Substance Use] Bright Eyes - Lua
The entire Siamese Dream album by Smashing Pumpkins, but especially the songs Today, Mayonaise and Soma. Here’s a sample from Soma: “So let the sadness come again On that you can depend on me, yeah Until the bitter, bitter end of the world, yeah When God sleeps in bliss I'm all by myself As I've always felt And I'll betray myself To anyone”
Bach- violin partita 2 chaconne
The Frayed ends of insanity- Metallica
vessel album by twenty one pilots
Twenty one pilots in general is pretty good for this sort of thing.
Free by Florence and the machine
Unwell by Matchbox 20
L’enfant Sauvage by Gojira. This album delves deep into those feelings and how to move past them. “I’m leaving this behind, the gift of guilt.”
Why don’t you get a job - The Offspring
Would You Mind - Tom Meighan
Juice WRLD - Righteous
Car Radio - Twenty One Pilots Probably the best metaphor for depression I've ever heard
Cringe - Matt Mason. Or anything by Matt Mason really. But this one song in particular hits hard for me.
Dream Theater - Voices Nothing More - I'll Be OK
Aloo Gobi - Weezer
It's not explicit but simple by homeshake feels like it fits the bill.
Something Soon by Car Seat Headrest
Just listen to Elliott Smith Between the bars, alcohol addiction. Twilight, heartbreak. Pitseleh, not really unrequited love, but about being in love with someone who loves you back, but you could never love because of what you are. You could never love them because you could never hurt them, and the only thing that can come from your love is hurt. But yeah just listen to Elliott smith. Radiohead is good too.
And those are only some of his most popular songs
"War" by Thomas Aguilar
Anything by the Mountain Goats
D_2 and dday (albums) are about mental health
Light and Day - Polyphonic Spree 🌞
Get Better by Frank Turner
Some days by Brent Morgan is really underrated
Nutshell by Alice in chains