I’m not talking about the full lyrics, but just a phrase or a sentence that you feel is right up your alley.

One of my personal favourites is from Barmy by The Fall: I got everything I want except for money.

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    "Sometimes I feel, oh yes, I could do

    Almost everything I wanted

    And it makes me cry"

    – Yoko Kanno, Flying Teapot, Cowboy Bebop soundtrack

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    “Your death it won’t happen to you, it happens to your family and your friends, I pretend.”

    From the song “I Always Wanna Die Sometimes” by the 1975.

    Got me out of a very dark place and made me realize how much it would hurt my friends and family if I went through with it.

    We all have suicidal thoughts at some point. It’s when you actively think about how and when you’ll do it that you need help.

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      I was in a similar spot a long time ago. Even though in such a situation it’s incredibly hard to see it from outside your black bubble of depression, from your family’s and friends’ POV, it really does help to try.

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    This line from Uncle John’s Band by Grateful Dead is really simple and maybe kinda cheesy but it’s given me motivation and kept me in check a few times:

    Well the first days are the hardest days, don’t you worry anymore. 'Cause when life looks like easy street there is danger at your door

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    Paul Simon, Crazy Love. The line is “sad as a lonely, little wrinkled balloon.” Even as a kid, I always found that image so evocative.

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      Paul Simon has so many hard-hitting lyrics across his entire catalog. I’m sure I could find something from just about any album, but for me, what comes instantly to mind is this line from “The Cool, Cool River”: “And sometimes, even music/ Cannot substitute for tears”.

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      From the same album…

      “Losing love is like a window in your heart,
      Everybody sees you’re blown apart”

      Such a devastating lyric.

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    The deadly, yellow snow from right there where the huskies go.
    Frank Zappa - Nanook Rubs It

    Always makes me smile :)

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    And you are young and life is long

    And there is time to kill today

    And then one day you find

    Ten years have got behind you

    No one told you when to run

    You missed the starting gun

    Pink Floyd, Time

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    “Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
    He knows that something somewhere has to break
    He sees the family home now looming in his headlights
    The pain upstairs that makes his eyeballs ache”

    Synchronicity II, The Police

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    “Tired of lying in the sunshine, staying home to watch the rain”

    “You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today”

    “But then one day you find, ten years have got behind you”

    “No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun”

    • Time, by Pink Floyd
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    I think that the truth is I’m scared

    I think I’m just scared to live

    I think that that the truth is I’m scared

    I think that the truth is I’m everything that I hate

    • Angela Baker and my obsession with fire
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    I went to the doctor

    I said I’m feeling kind of rough

    "Let me break it to ya son

    Your shits fucked up".

    I said "my shits fucked up?

    Well I don’t see how."

    He said "the shit that used to work.

    Won’t work now."

    -Warren Zevon

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    “A heart that’s full up like a landfill”

    No Surprises by Radiohead

    Makes me think of someone who’s so empathetic that their heart is just always overflowing with thoughts of other people’s misery. It hasn’t gotten better.