What's the most desperatley depressing song you've ever heard?

Question

I want something sickenly, desperatley depressing not some rock song! I hope you understand what I mean. I want a song in which the main subject is depression, hopelessness, uselessness, maybe even suicide.
I want something to make you feel like killing yourself, something intended to depress.

Answer 1

"Alone Again, Naturally" Gilbert O'Sullivan
http://www.dbsalliance.org
1-800-SUICIDE
911 if things are super bad.

Answer 2

Please tell me you're not going to do something stupid and that by giving you these songs, ??? This song is 100 years by the Cure, and I pretty much die when I hear it...I have some more at the bottom:

100 YEARS - THE CURE
It doesn't matter if we all die
Ambition in the back of a black car
In a high building there is so much to do
Going home time
A story on the radio
Something small falls out of your mouth
And we laugh
A prayer for something better
A prayer
For something better

Please love me
Meet my mother
But the fear takes hold
Creeping up the stairs in the dark

Waiting for the death blow
Waiting for the death blow
Waiting for the death blow
Stroking your hair as the patriots are shot
Fighting for freedom on the television
Sharing the world with slaughtered pigs
Have we got everything?
She struggles to get away . . .

The pain
And the creeping feeling
A little black haired girl
Waiting for Saturday
The death of her father pushing her
Pushing her white face into the mirror
Aching inside me
And turn me round
Just like the old days
Just like the old days
Just like the old days
Just like the old days

Caressing an old man
And painting a lifeless face
Just a piece of new meat in a clean room
The soldiers close in under a yellow moon
All shadows and deliverance
Under a black flag
A hundred years of blood
Crimson
The ribbon tightens round my throat
I open my mouth
And my head bursts open
A sound like a tiger thrashing in the water
Thrashing in the water
Over and over
We die one after the other
Over and over
We die one after the other
One after the other
One after the other
One after the other
One after the other

It feels like a hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
A hundred years
One hundred years


Then there's "Cat's in the cradle" by Harry Chapin
another "100 years" by 5 for fighting - (you know this one)
"Is that all there is?" by Peggy Lee
"Daniel" Elton John
UGH I'm going to bed.....Sweetie don't stay up and listen for depressing songs!!!! Think of "I'm Walking on Sunshine!" or something!

Answer 3

It's a song from "the jar of flies" EP, Alice in Chains...

and another "Something In the Way" cello version of Nirvana

Well, this is entirely a personal matter, and one depressing tune may not be for another...

Answer 4

Here's a good start:

"D.O.A" - Bloodrock

Laying here looking at the ceiling
Someone lays a sheet across my chest
Something warm is flowing down my fingers
Pain is flowing all through my back

I try to move my arms and there's no feeling
And when I look I see there's nothing there
The face beside me stopped it totally bleeding
The girl I knew has such a distant stare

I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air

Then I looked straight at the attendant
His face is pale as it can be
He bends and whispers something softly
He says there's no chance for me

I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air

Life is flowing out my body
Pain is flowing out with my blood
The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying
God in Heaven, teach me how to die

I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air
I remember
We were flying along and hit something in the air


If that doesn't work, try J. Frank Wilson's "Last Kiss" (redone by Pearl Jam)
Last Kiss Lyrics

[Chorus]
Oh where oh where can my baby be
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven soI got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world

We were out on a date in my daddy's car
We hadn't driven very far
There in the road straight up ahead
A car was stalled the engine was dead
I couldn't stop so I swerved to the right
I'll never forget the sound that night
The screaming tires the busting glass
The painful scream that I heard last

[Chorus]

WHen I woke up the rain was pouring down
There were people standing all around
Somethign warm flowing through my eyes
But somehow I found my baby that night
I lifted her head she looked at me and said
Hold me darling just a little while
I held her close I kissed her our last kiss
I found the love that I knew i have missed
Well now she's gone even though I hold her tight
I lost my love my life that night

[Chorus]

Woh (x4)
Ohh (x4)

And if you're really going down for the count...

A.F.I. - "The Last Kiss"

Hung in your room, swaying, hoping only that you'll see.
All by myself, I'm alone in such poor company.
The deeper I think, the deeper I seem to sink,
I can't stop the insects that are feeding,
pull the needles from beneath my skin.
I broke myself, shattered, tied a bow around every piece.
You'll lovely the eyes.
Have they always shown so vacantly?
The more I show the less you'll want to know.
I can't stop the insects that are feeding,
pull the needles from beneath my skin.
Now I'm on display.
I am becoming.
Hurt myself today.
It's all for you.
Do you like, do you like, what I'm becoming?
Cut myself today.
It's all for you.
I part the night, flashing, approaching as I watch you flee.
Pushed through your panes.
Seems I've landed quite uncomfortably.
But as I pass through souls of broken glass
I can't stop the insects that are feeding.
Pull the needles from beneath my skin.
Please don't ask me just what I think, trust me,
you don't want to know.
Please don't ask me to open up, trust me, trust me,
'cause I can't.

Answer 5

Anything Radio head when the lead singer got off heroin...wait do you want to kill yourself? Also Check out Bright Eyes and Elliot Smith

Answer 6

Whiskey Lullaby, by Brad Paisly and Allison Krauss, its about a guy and a girl and the guy gos to war and when he gets back shes with another man so he drinks whiskey until he dies and then she blames herself and does the same thing and they are buried together. I love this song but it is very sad.

Answer 7

Old Shep by Elvis always makes me depressed. i can't listen to 5 seconds of it without bawling like a baby, then i'm "down" for hours.

Answer 8

That song from the original movie Mash...
"Suicide is Painless""
Man that is a depressing song.

Answer 9

Disintegration by The Cure or anything by Mariah Carey

Answer 10

Akon-mr lonley
james blunt-good bye my lover, youre beautiful
Amiel-love song
Notiourios BIG Suicidial thouths

Answer 11

Have you listened to "Last Night The DJ Saved My Life"? Its depressing and stupid.