Quotes / Sanity Slippage Song

We all deserve to die,

Even you, Mrs Lovett, even I,

For the lives of the wicked should be made brief,

For the rest of us death will be a relief,

We all deserve to die!

— Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Epiphany.

"I'm one card short of a full deck
I'm not quite the shilling
One wave short of a shipwreck
I'm not my usual top billing
I'm coming down with a fever
I'm really out to sea
This kettle is boiling over
I think I'm a banana tree"

—Queen, I'm Going Slightly Mad

"No, I've never been insane

Ah, what's the game?"

I believe I'm dying!"

—Supertramp, Asylum

The world has gone insane,

And parasites are eating at my brain,

And nothing is the way it was before,

A pack o' wolves is howling at my door,

I'm living in a non-stop nightmare,

Dead men's dreams,

Filled with screaming pain,

Hurling me to mad extremes

In a world that's gone insane.

—Jekyll & Hyde

Rocked, silent, in a soft lullaby

Panic stirring me, awakened by a ringing phone in time

Where and when would I see her?

Crazy were the words that scribbled out your mouth

I stuttered, replacing your face to those words,

Where and when would I kill her?

— "The Camper Velourium II: Backend of Forever," Coheed and Cambria

Remember when you ran away

And I got on my knees and

Begged you not to leave because

I'd go berserk

— "They're Coming To Take Me Away Ha Ha," Napoleon XIV

The lunatic is in my head

The lunatic is in my head

You raise the blade, you make the change

You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane

You lock the door

And throw away the key

There's someone in my head but it's not me.

— Brain Damage, Pink Floyd, from the album The Dark Side of the Moon.

Unusual and bizarre,

I have gone much too far.

Not my fault my thoughts are out of the norm

I am not right in the head,

Nowhere near a full deck,

Maybe my parade is led slightly off-beat?

— "Personal Demons," Rufus Rex, from the album Dead Beat.

Marceline, I can feel myself slipping away
I can't remember what [the crown] made me say...

—From the song "Remember You", Adventure Time

See how the brain plays around
And you fall inside a hole you couldn't see
And you fall inside a hole inside a
Someone help me
Understand what's going on inside my mind
Doctor, I can't tell if I'm not me

—"The Mind Electric", Miracle Musical

Free me from the Pause Menu Song! (We’re trapped here forever!)

PAUSE MENU SONG!! (We’re trapped!)

PAUSE MENU- gibberish (Oh my gross!)

PA!! (Here come the men!) PA!! PA!! PA!! (The men in the white coats!) PAUSE MENU SONG!!

— "Pause Menu Song", Tadpole Treble

"Old habits reappear
Fighting the fear of fear
Growing conspiracy
Everyone's after me
Frayed ends of sanity
Hear them calling
Hear them calling me"

— "The Frayed Ends of Sanity", Metallica, from ...And Justice for All (1988)

I wanna be insane
I wanna be insane
I wanna be fucking crazy

A breakthrough: Go mental
For a long time I've meant to
Uninspired, so tired
Of failing my potential

—"Insania", Qbomb