History DrivenToSuicide / Music

* Music/SleighBells music video for "I Can Only Stare" follows three characters, all played by vocalist Alexis Krauss, as they decide to kill themselves- one [[SuicideBySea by walking into the ocean]], one by carbon monoxide poisoning and one by SelfImmolation. Given the song lyrics and some of the details in the video, it's implied all three were motivated by some sort of breakup or other relationship problems - the one who drowns herself carries a bouquet of roses she eventually smashes against some rocks, while the one who self immolates is in a wedding dress in an empty chapel.

** Shoujo Rei ''[[StartsWithASuicide starts]]'' with the suicide of the POV character's implied best friend/[[ImpliedLoveInterest crush]], with the song going back in time to explain what led up to that moment.

** The student in "''Merry Bad End''" suicides when she can no longer stand the extensive bullying on her.

[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3hlroOKFn8 Rise Above This]] by Music/{{Seether}} is about a teenaged boy committing suicide and how it affected his family.

* The subject of the song "Inside the Fire" by Music/{{Disturbed}}. Based on a true story in the lead singer's life.

* Music/SleighBells music video follows three characters, all played by vocalist Alexis Krauss, as they decide to kill themselves- one by drowning, one by carbon dioxide poisoning and one by SelfImmolation. Given the song lyrics and some of the details of the video it seems all three had some sort of breakup or other relationship problems- the one who drowns herself carries a bouquet of roses she eventually smashes against some rocks, while the one who self immolates is in a wedding dress in an empty chapel.

* The Music/ThirdEyeBlind song "Jumper" is about the singer trying to convince his friend not to go through with the latter's attempted suicide. It was also featured in the film ''Film/YesMan''.

** The demo version of "Can't Hardly Wait", recorded for the album ''Tim'', featured alternate lyrics that were more blatantly about suicide. It's possible the lyrics were toned down a little for the version heard on ''Pleased To Meet Me'' simply because that album already had "The Ledge" on it.

* The lyrics to Music/SleighBells' "I Can Only Stare" deal with depression after a romantic breakup, but don't explicitly mention suicide. However, the music video depicts three women, all played by vocalist Alexis Krauss, as they contemplate suicide by different methods, and by the end of the song all three appear to be going through with it - one is walking through the ocean presumably about to drown herself, one appears to either be dead or unconscious by smoke inhalation in her car, and [[SelfImmolation one has poured gasoline on herself and lit a match]].
* Crops up in a few later Music/TaylorSwift songs.

* The RockOpera "2112" by Music/{{Rush}} (specifically Part VI: Soliloquy). The protagonist, overwhelmed with despair that life under the repressive Solar Federation can never be anything like the visions of The Elder Race of Man from his dreams, takes his own life... whereupon the Elder Race appears and overthrows the Federation (according to WordOfGod).

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3hlroOKFn8 Rise Above This]] by Music/{{Seether}} is about a teenaged boy committing suicide and how it affected his family.

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* Music/{{Nightwish}} have a few songs which have this as part of the subject.

* Deconstructed by Badflower in their song "Ghost", taking a DARK look into the mindset of a DeathSeeker who knows that going through it will hurt those who care about him, but is still not able to stop himself.

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* The entire point of the Depressive Suicidal Black Metal genre, which includes bands like Music/{{Silencer}} and Music/{{Leviathan}}. That's not getting into the numerous famous black metal musicians who have killed themselves for real, including [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Dead]] of Music/{{Mayhem}}, who shot himself in the head with a shotgun because he suffered from depression and believed he was living in a false reality, and Jon Nödtveidt of Dissection, who apparently [[HumanSacrifice sacrificed himself to Satan.]]

* In real life: Yukiko "Yukko" Okada was a rising Japanese pop idol when she jumped seven stories to her death on April 8, 1986, at age 18, after having already attempted suicide ''twice'' the same day by slashing her wrists ''and'' attempting to asphyxiate herself. The reason for her suicide remains a mystery over three decades later, although some clues suggest it was due to [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unrequited love]].

* Music/PorcupineTree's album "Fear of a Blank Planet" is basically a concept rock album with some [[Main/SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped very heavy-handed commentary about youth isolation and technology]], culminating in the haunting track "Sleep Together." The lyrics speak for themselves...

* ''{{Music/Vocaloid}}'' has quite a lot:
** ''Franchise/EvilliousChronicles'':

* Iced Earth's "Anguish of Youth" is about a woman about to kill herself over her traumatic past, apparently via overdosing on pills (possibly sleeping pills or antipsychotics) only to be revived. Slight subversion in that the end hints that the experience changes her mindset and actually begins the path to recovering from her trauma.

* Close to half of defunct Finnish metal band Sentenced's studio output dealt with the subject (the other half, back when Taneli Jarva was fronting the band, tended more towards killing things ''other'' than oneself). Then again, with songs like "Excuse Me While I Kill Myself", "Consider Us Dead" and "End of the Road", it's kind of their thing.

* The video for Music/BrunoMars' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6iYWJxHqs Grenade]] starts with a guy who takes trouble dragging a piano to his girlfriend's house to perform a song for her, only to find out [[YourCheatingHeart she's been cheating on him]]. So the guy decides to take his piano and perform elsewhere... [[RailroadTracksOfDoom the railroads]].

* Conventional thinking says this of "Fade to Black" by Music/{{Metallica}}, as one of the earliest HeavyMetal examples; however, this has been subverted by WordOfGod. The song is, in fact, just about some Marshall Guitar Amplifiers that were stolen from the band.
* Music/ThePolice song "Can't Stand Losing You".
* Close to half of defunct Finnish metal band Sentenced's studio output dealt with the subject (the other half, back when Taneli Jarva was fronting the band, tended more towards killing things ''other'' than oneself). Then again, with songs like "Excuse Me While I Kill Myself", "Consider Us Dead" and "End of the Road", it's kind of their thing.
* The 17-year-old runaway girl protagonist of Music/{{Marillion}}'s ConceptAlbum ''Brave'' endures alienation, abuse, betrayal, addiction and rape and ends up killing herself although it's quite ambiguous.
* NerdCore artist MC Lars wrote a song called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3LGmhH5sbM "Twenty-Three"]] about a real life friend named Patrick Wood who drove himself to suicide.
* Subverted in the song "Spring" by Music/{{Rammstein}}. A man goes on a bridge to admire the view, but a crowd forms, thinking he's gonna jump. In the end, the man gets pushed off by an impatient bystander hungry for blood.

* The Music/ThirdEyeBlind song "Jumper" is about the singer trying to convince his friend not to go through with the latter's attempted suicide. It was also featured in the film ''Film/YesMan''.
* Music/TheRasmus' song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zMceA7YTI ''No Fear'']] tells about a suicide of an unnamed girl: ''"Girl, your final journey has just begun, your destiny chose the reaper."'' and ''"Girl, close your eyes for the one last time, sleepless night from here to eternity"'' are just a few bits from the lyrics.
* Music/SimonAndGarfunkel did a version of the ''Richard Cory'' (detailed in Literature) where the eponymous millionaire's story is told from the viewpoint of a factory worker, who is envious of the advantages and enjoyments available to Cory, believing his employer to be a happy and satisfied man. When this is proven wrong by Cory's suicide, the worker still curses his own poverty, and would still rather have Cory's life.
* "The Perfect Kiss" by Music/NewOrder is about watching a deranged friend take his life. "Told me not to see his gun... The perfect kiss is the kiss of death". Possibly based on the real-life suicide of [[Music/JoyDivision Ian Curtis]].

--> I don't like this place at all
-->Makes me wonder what I'm here for
-->Someone take this pain away
-->Dying to see another day
-->And I don't want to be your friend
-->Or pretend I can fit into
-->I'm incensed, I'm blown away
-->Dying to see another day
* Kix's "Don't close your eyes" features a person who angsts about a troubled friend's possible suicide.
-->Hold on hold on tight
-->I’ll make everything all right
-->Wake up, don’t go asleep
-->I’ll pray the Lord, your soul to keep
-->Don’t close your eyes
-->Don’t close your eyes
-->Don’t sing your last lullaby
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3hlroOKFn8 Rise Above This]] by Music/{{Seether}} is about a teenaged boy committing suicide and how it affected his family.
* "Torn" by Music/{{Seabound}} is told from the point of view of someone who has just slit their wrists, secretly hoping to be saved at the last second by the person he loves/is obsessed with. Sadly, as lyricist Frank Spinath makes clear on the band's website:
-->SHE will not burst through the door.
-->SHE will not call.
-->SHE is not thinking of you right now.
-->SHE won't even move.
-->SHE NEVER DID.
* Music/{{Voltaire}}'s ''Underground'', about a man who kills himself by jumping after being viciously rejected, and apparently jeered at, at a cafe'.
-->Six feet of earth\\
Above my head\\
keeps me safe\\
from what she said\\
Six walls of wood\\
to keep them out\\
the smart remarks,\\
the screams, the shouts\\
They scream, they shout\\
There's only one way\\
to drown them out\\
I hear your voice\\
I hit the ground

* Music/TheNotoriousBIG: Biggie's "Suicidal Thoughts"

* Music/DavidBowie's "Jump They Say" is about a man who is...''different'' from others mentally, and the victim of a world that refuses to help him, even encouraging his demise. The music video makes the story more specific -- Bowie plays the protagonist as a businessman who is taken captive by his suspicious peers and given electroshock therapy; if they intend it as a cure, it doesn't work (or even backfires) as he jumps from the top of the office building to his death afterward. Sad to say, this 1993 song has a RealitySubtext -- it's inspired by the 1985 suicide of Bowie's schizophrenic half-brother Terry.

* "Bullet" by Music/HollywoodUndead is one of the most [[LyricalDissonance deceptively peppy]] songs about someone attempting suicide.
-->My legs are dangling off the edge.
-->The bottom of the bottle is my only friend.
-->I think I'll slit my wrists again
-->And I'm gone, gone, gone, gone.

* Music/{{Nightwish}} have a few songs which have this as part of the subject.
** The Poet and the Pendulum ends with the songwriter, Tuomas, being found "Naked and dead, with a smile on his face, a pen, and 1000 pages of erased text".
** Planet Hell makes mention that in the CrapsackWorld the song's about it's better to kill yourself and leave everyone else to suffer.
** Tenth Man Down is a song about someone, likely a soldier, who has killed people and is suffering from either PTSD, survivor's guilt, or both. Unable to cope with it, they choose to hang themselves.