101 Depression Songs to Help You Feel Less Alone (2023)

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beyond sadnessDepressionit can make a person feel hopeless, apathetic, and useless. Some people battle major clinical depression throughout their lives, while others experience situational depression after a major loss, such as the death of a loved one or the end of a significant relationship. Some manage by self-medicating with substances that cause itsearch. It's one of the most common mental health issues in the country, so it's no wonder it's reflected in the songs we listen to, no matter the type.Music– Pop, Metal, Rock, Rap o Country.

When it comes to depression, it is always important to seek the health care advice of a trained psychologist as soon as possible. But in the meantime, we've put together this list of 101 songs that deal with all aspects of life.Depression- from feeling isolated, to overcoming addiction, to asking for help and struggling to find a way out - based on explanations by the artists themselves, interpretations by critics, and perhaps most importantly, discussions among those living with depression who find solace in texts .

101 songs about depression

1. "Breathe Me" - Sia

Oh, I'm lost again/I'm lost and I'm nowhere to be found/Yeah, I think I might break/I'm lost again and I feel insecure

2. "Day and Night" - Kid Cudi

Now look at this / The magnet craze keeps pulling me in / I try to run but I'm not that fast

3. „Fade to Black“ – Metallica

Life seems to fade / It drifts every day / Losing myself / Nothing matters, no one else

4. "Null" —imagine dragons

Let me tell you what it's like to be a zero, zero

5. "Being Fine" - Ingrid Michaelson

Open me up and you'll see / I'm a gallery of broken hearts / I'm beyond repair, leave me alone? / And give me back my broken parts

6. „Runaway Train“ – Seelenheim

Seems like no one can help me now / I'm in too deep / There's no way out / I really fooled myself this time

7. "Lithium" - impermanence

I can't stand it/wonder what's wrong with me

8. „Autumn in Black Days“ – Soundgarden

Everything I feared has happenedLife/Whatever I fought for became my life/Just as each day seemed to greet me with asmile/ The sunspots have faded and now I'm doing time / Now I'm doing time? Cause I fell into black days

9. „Schön“ –Billie Eilishy Khalid

Isn't it nice to be alone? / Heart of glass, mind of stone / Tear me to pieces, skin to the bone / Hello, welcome home

10. "Autoradio" - Twenty One Pilots

My skin will scream and remind me of who I killed in my dream

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11. "Mad World" - Tears of Fear

And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad / That the dreams I'm dying in are the best I've ever had

12. "I should have known better" - Sufjan Stevens

I should have known better / To see what I could see / My black shroud / Repressing my feelings / A pillar for my enemies

13. "Danko/Manuel" – Jason Isbell

I'm not living like I should

14. "I'm so lonely I could cry" - Hank Williams

Listen to that lonely Whipporwhill / It sounds too sad to fly / The midnight train moans softly / I'm so lonely I could cry

15. "Telescope" - Lock Up the Elephant

I don't think you understand

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16. „u“ – Kendrick Lamar

And if these mirrors could talk, they'd say, "You must go"

17. "Paint It Black" - Rolling Stones

I see a red door and I want to paint it black/No more colors, I want them to be black

18. "Dark Times" - The Wknd

In my dark times I still have some problems I know / I drive too fast but I move too slow / And I've got something I wanted to let go / It sets me back every time

19. "No Rain" - Blind Melon

And I don't understand why I sleep all day / And I start to complain that it doesn't rain / And all I can do is read a book to stay awake / And it's killing me, but it's a great escape

20. "A Better Son/Daughter" - Rilo Kiley

But the bass is so extreme / That the good stuff seems damn cheap / And annoys you for weeks in its absence

21. "This Depression" - Bruce Springsteen

Baby I was down / But never this down / I was lost / But never this lost

22. "Pain" —Johnny Cash(originalmente por Nine Inch Nails)

Everyone I know ends up walking away

23. "Away from the Sun" - 3 doors down

I'm so tired of living in the dark / Can anyone see me down here?

24. „Regen“ – Patty Griffin

It's strange how hard it's raining right now / Rows and rows of big dark clouds

25. “Gravity” – John Mayer

I'll never know what makes this man / With the twelve his heart can take / Dreaming of ways to throw it all away

26. "You Don't Know" - from the Broadway showIn addition to normalperformed by Alice Ripley

wake up in theTomorrowand you need help to raise your head? / Do you read obituaries and are you jealous of the dead?

27. "Way of Mercy" - Peter Gabriel

She imagines the broken glass, she imagines the steam / She imagines a soul / Without a leak in the seam

28. "Fire and Rain" - James Taylor

I've seen fire and I've seen rain / I've seen sunny days I thought would never end / I've seen lonely moments where I couldn't find a friend

29. "Is that all?" -Peggy Lee

Is that all, is that all?/ If that's all, my friends, then let's keep dancing.

30. "Both Sides Now" - Joni Mitchell

I've looked at life from both sides now / Of victory and defeat and yet somehow / It's life's illusions that I remember / I really don't know life at all.

31. "A Day Without Me" - U2

Caused a landslide in my ego / Looking from the outside at the world I left behind

32. „Down in a Hole“ – Alicia en Ketten

Down in a hole I feel so small / Down in a hole losing my soul / I would like to fly but my wings have been so denied

33. “Fear” – Julia Michaels andSelena Gomez

All my friends, they don't know what it's like / They don't understand why I can't sleep through the night / They told me I could take something to fix it / Damn I wish it was that easy

34. "Diary of a Madman" - Ozzy Osbourne

Screaming at the window / Watch me die another day / Desperate situation / Endless price to pay

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35. "The Dark Side" - Muse

You'd be afraid to live with my despair/ And if you could feel the things I can feel

36. „Adams lied“ – Blink 182

I never thought I'd die alone / Another six months I'll be unknown

37. "Atypical" —Kanye West

And I always find, yes I always find something wrong / You've held my ass too long / I'm so talented at finding what I don't like the most

38. "A Million Years Ago" —adela

Sometimes I feel like it's just me / that I can't stand the reflection they're seeing

39. "If It's Falling Apart" - Lisa Loeb

She comes home from school early / And closes her bedroom door / There's nothing in it / She's weak and tired of feeling like this

40. "Rainy Days and Mondays" - The Carpenters

Hanging around / Doing nothing but frown / Rainy days and Mondays always get me down

41. "Not Right" - Frank Ocean

I am going toOcean/I'm trying to swim from something bigger than me

42. "Under the Bridge" - Red Hot Chili Peppers

It's hard to believe / That there's no one out there / It's hard to believe / That I'm alone

43. „Hustensaft“ – The Young Giant

Life is too short to even care / I'm losing my mind and losing control

44. “Litio” – Nirvana

I'm so lonely but it's alright I shaved my head / And I'm not sad

45. "Duro" - Linkin Park

I keep dragging what's dragging me down

46. ​​​​​​“Anything worth holding” –Chrissy Metzy Matt Bloyd

It takes effort to fight / I don't have the strength / I'm holding on to what's left of me

47. "Breaking Down" - Florence and the Machine

All alone on the edge of sleep / My old familiar friend / He comes and lies next to me / And I can see him coming from the edge of the room / Smiling in the street light even with my eyes shut tight / I can still see him coming now / Ah, I think I'm breaking down again

48. “Please bear with me” – Wilco

It doesn't mean I don't care / It means I'm partially there

49. „The new dawn fades“ – Joy Division

No direction, so plain to see / A loaded gun won't set you free / So you say

50. "Rainbow in the Dark" - Dio

When I see a flash / You know it always pulls me down / 'Cause it's free and I see it's me? Who's lost and never found

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51. "I'm only happy when it rains" - Trash

Pour your misery on me

52. "It just wasn't made for this era" - Beach Boys

Sometimes I'm so sad (I can't find anything to put my heart and soul into)

53. "Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me." - Lana Del Rey

Don't ask if I'm happy, you know I'm not / But the best I can say is that I'm not sad / Because hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me

54. "Here Comes the Rain Again" - Eurythmics

Here comes the rain again / Raining on my head like a tragedy / Tearing me apart like a new emotion

55. "I'll Go To The Extreme" - Billy Joel

Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I get shot / Sometimes I don't know how much I have left

56. "Gasoline" —Halsey

I think there's a bug in my code/These voices won't leave me alone

57. "You Don't Know" - Katelyn Tarver

Just let me stop trying / Just let me stop fighting / I don't want your good advice / Or reasons why I'm fine

58. "Something Lazy" - Bright Eyes

Sometimes it seems worse than it is / But mostly the opinion is correct

59. "Irvine" —Kelly Clarkson

I don't have much to do / before I completely disappear

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60. "Behind the Blue Eyes" - The Who

No one bites that hard / In their anger / None of my aches and pains / Can shine through

61. "Pretty Hurt" -Beyoncé

But you can't fix what you don't see / It's the debit that the operation needs

62. "How Soon Is Now" - The Smiths

I am the son and heir/of nothing special

63. "Nobody knows" —rosas

You don't play the game winning or losing

64. "Happiness" -Britney Spears

He is so lucky, he is a star / But he cries, cries, cries in his lonely heart and thinks / If I lack nothing in life / Then why do these tears come at night?

65. "I'm a rock" - Simon & Garfunkel

I do not need thatAmistad, friendship causes pain / laughter and love contempt

66. "Boulevard of Shattered Dreams" - Green Day

I'm walking a lonely road / The only one I've ever known / I don't know where it leads / But only me and I walk alone

67. "Man of Constant Sorrow" - Dan Tyminski con Alison Krauss y Union Station

For six long years I've been in trouble / I haven't found joy here on earth / For in this world I'm about to wander / I have no friends to help me now

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68."Scream Beautifully"- Carrie Underwood

You can lie and say it's okay / You can smile and just walk away / Pretend almost anything / But you can't cry pretty

69. "Everybody Hates Me" - The Chainsmokers

I'm so down I can't get out of my head

70. "It's me I said" -Neil Diamante

I am, I said/To no one there/And no one heard it at all/Not even the chair

71. "People are weird" —The doors

People are weird when you're a stranger/faces look ugly when you're alone

72. "Woke Up" - Scared Rabbit

I woke up in pain / Although I can't say exactly why

73. "Sober" —Demi Lovato

Sometimes I just want to give in / And I don't want to fight

74. "Purpose For Pain" - Scott Stapp

I closed all the doors but the right one / I fought the devil and he won

75. „Whiskey Lullaby“ – Brad Paisley y Alison Krauss

He held the bottle to his head and pulled the trigger/And finally drank his memory/Life is short but this was greater/Than the strength it took to get up from his knees

76. "The A-Team" —Ed Sheeran

She's trapped in her reverie / It's been like this for eighteen / But lately her face seems / Slowly sinking, wasting away / Crumbles like cookies

77. "Sound and Vision" - David Bowie

Bright blinds drawn all day / Nothing to do, nothing to say / Blue-blue

78. "Waiting For The Round To Die" - Townes Van Zandt

I finally got myself a boyfriend / He doesn't drink or steal or cheat or lie / His name is codeine / He's the good thing I saw / Together we'll wait and die

79. "It's been a while" - Staind

Why do I have to feel like this? / Just let it go / Just one more day of peace

80. "Desgarrado" - Natalie Imbruglia

I am completely without faith / This is how I feel / I am cold and ashamed / Lying naked on the floor

81. "How to Mend a Broken Heart" - BeeGees

How can you mend a broken heart? / How can you stop the rain from falling? How to stop the sun from shining?

82. "When It Rains" – Eli Young Band

When it rains some people go down/frown so I fit right in

83. "The Loner" - Christina Perri

I am the spirit of a girl / That's what I'd like to be / I'm the shell of a girl / That I knew well

84. „Trauer“ – The National

I live in a city where grief is built / It's in my honey, it's in my milk

85. "It Makes No Difference" - The Band

And no matter how far it goes / Like a scar, the pain will always show

86. "Everybody Hurts" - REM

When you're alone/In this life/The days and nights are long/When you think you have too much/Of this life/To hold on

87. "Move Along" - All America Refuses

Such a day you lost yourself completely / It could be a night that your life ends / Such a heart that will make you deceive / All the pain in your hands / Hands trembling with cold / Your hands belong to me

88. "Get Up" —Second day

When the silence won't still / And it feels like breathing is getting hard / And I know you feel like dying / But I promise we'll make the world work

89. „1-800-273-8255“ – Logic ft. Alessia Cara, Khalid

Hold on though the road is long / And see light in the darkest things / And when you look at your reflection / You finally know who it is / I know you'll thank God you did

90. "How to Save a Life" -The fight

What have I done wrong? / I lost a roast / Somewhere in the bitterness / And I would have stayed with you for nothing / If I had known how to save a life

91. "Lullaby" - Nickelback

Please let me guide you / out of the darkness into the light

92. "Last Hope" - Paramore

Every night I try to dream the best I can, tomorrow does better / And I wake up to cold reality and nothing has changed

93. "Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain)" - Gary Allan

Every storm runs out of rain / Just as every dark night turns to day

94. „Creep“ – Radiohead

I'm a freak, I'm a freak / What the hell am I doing here? / I do not belong here

95. "Levántate" - Shinedown

If you're ever in doubt/don't underestimate yourself, you might be bulletproof/hard to moveBankwhen you're paralyzed / But you have to try

96. "Help" - The Beatles

Help me if you can, I'm feeling down / And I appreciate that you're round / Help me get my feet on the ground

97. "Reason to Fight" - Disturbed

When the devil inside you is ready to start / And it seems like it's a fight you'll never win / When you yearn for the fire and beg for your sin / When there's nothing left in you, there's always one more reason to fight

98. "Waving Through a Window" - from the musicalDear Evan Hansen, played by Ben Platt

We start with stars in our eyes / We start to believe we belong / But not all suns rise / And no one tells you what you did wrong

99. „Manhattan“ – Sara Bareilles

And so it goes / One foot at a time / Until the black and white start to blur

100. “By the Grace of God” –Katy Perry

I thought it wasn't enough and it wasn't that hard / Lying on the bathroom floor

101. "I'm Moving On" - Rascal Flatts

I've dealt with my ghosts and faced all my demons / Finally content with a past I regret / I've discovered that you find strength in your moments of weakness / For once, I'm at itFriedenwith me

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