Wrist Slashing Songs

[PFD]

Got this idea after RQing Porcupine Tree's Feel So Low. What are your favourite wrist slashing songs?

I'll begin with that one: Feel So Low. Of course lyrics without music don't quite give this tear jearker justice. It even sounds better on the XMII live version with Wes doing backup vocals.

So see how long I can last
You can pretend that I don't exist for you
And I can laugh about it now
But I hated every minute
I was waiting for your email
And each day that you forgot to call
Just made me feel so low
So low

Christmas 1998
I tried to call
I just couldn't wait
And your message was out of date
So I left my voice on your machine
But you did not respond
OK OK OK you've won
You make me feel so low
So low

Not Prog but........

Songs of Leonard Cohen.

Sorry folks but this album is one of my top ten records ever.

LC never did a better album.

Would love to know if there are any other "closet Leonard Cohen" fans out there on AM.

[OverHillandDale(Admin)]

Sorry, not a closet Leonard Cohen fan. But a brilliant writer/composer.

I must confess, however, to being a closet Neil Diamond fan. His sad songs really put the tape on my wounds.

You Don't Bring Me Flowers
And 12 Songs - his newest release (actually really, really good) very soulful.

And on the other side of wrist slashing was recovery!

After getting dreadfully low the first record out was one of three Yes albums:
CTTE, Relayer and Topagraphic Oceans. Those would usually restore me.

[DEzerov]

anything by Korn, 50 Cent, ICP....

[mossy]

Who Knows Where the Time Goes by Sandy Denny (the solo version by Sandy)

(Just thinking about this song puts a lump on my throat. I have listened to it on wrist slashing occasions and gotten good and morose. In and of itself it's just sheer beauty in music)

Across the purple sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming
I have no thought of time

For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

Sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are leaving
Ah, but then you know it's time for them to go
But I will still be here, I have no thought of leaving
I do not count the time

For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

And I am not alone while my love is near me
I know it will be so until it's time to go
So come the storms of winter and then the birds in spring again
I do not fear the time

For who knows how my love grows?
And who knows where the time goes?

[Rick and Roll]

There are so many....

I know I'm forgetting a bunch, but anything by the Smiths...of course it's mitigated by that light-hearted delivery.

Canto IV by Discipline always gets me..."How could there possibly be no room up there for me".

Been listening to Roine's "Wall Street Voodoo". That will depress you for days. Coincidentally, I've been listening to Joni Mitchell's Turbulent Indigo. Roine does a version of "Sex Kills", which is on that record, and a hard-hitting depressing number. The first song on TI is "Sunny Sunday", which is about a woman to tries to shoot a street light out and misses every day. Her idea is to leave when she finally hits it. It's a metaphor for futility and hopelessness. Mossy hit the nail on the head with her post. I've always felt that wasting time and just letting your life fly by is the most depressing thing of all. That and feeling trapped. Those are the songs that really hit me.

Something like Ambrosia's "Holdin' On to Yesterday"......

Now where's Terry Jacks or the "Shannon" song when you need it?

GREAT thread Joe.

[PFD]

Originally Posted by KeithieW

Not Prog but........

Songs of Leonard Cohen.

Sorry folks but this album is one of my top ten records ever.

LC never did a better album.

Would love to know if there are any other "closet Leonard Cohen" fans out there on AM.

Yeah, Leonard Cohen is great. Of course, being Canadian, it's the law here that we listen to him

[jtmckinley]

Most of The Wall? In particular, One Of My Turns:

...Day after day, love turns grey
Like the skin on a dying man.
Night after night, we pretend its all right
But I have grown older and
You have grown colder and
Nothing is very much fun any more.
And I can feel one of my turns coming on.
I feel cold as a razor blade,
Tight as a tourniquet,
Dry as a funeral drum...

Then there's Goodbye Blue Sky, Comfortably Numb, Don't Leave Me Now, Goodbye Cruel World, etc. If your wrists aren't slashed by the time you're done with The Wall you're not really depressed.

[Yesspaz]

"Cigarettes" by King's X
"Still She Cries" by Journey

"Only a Dream" by Mary Chapin Carpenter
-This one is especially tough for me. I'm the oldest, and I have one younger sister. This song is about a young girl watching her older brother leave home. Messes me up everytime. Here it is:



I can recall the sound of the wind
As it blew throught the trees and the trees would bend
I can recall the smell of the rain
On a hot summer night
Coming through the screen

I'd crawl in your bed when the lightning flashed
And I'd still be there when the storm had passed
Dead to the world, till the morning cast
Its light all around your room

We lived on a street where the tall elm shade
Was as green as the grass and as cool as a blade
That you held in your teeth as we lay on our backs
Staring up at the blue and the blue stared back

I used to believe we were just like those trees
We'd grown just as tall and as proud as we pleased
With our feet on the ground and our arms in the breeze
Under a sheltering sky

Twirl me about, and twirl me around
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
And when I look up at you looking down,
Say it was only a dream

A big truck was parked in the drive one day
They wrapped us in paper and moved us away
Your room was no longer next door to mine
And this kid sister thing was old by that time

But oh how our dreams went bump in the night
And the voices downstairs getting into a fight
And the next day a silence you could cut with a knife
And feel like a blade at your throat

Twirl me about and twirl me around
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
When I look up at you looking down
Say it as only a dream

The day you left home you got an early start
I watched your car back out in the dark
I opened the door to your room down the hall
I turned on the light and all that I saw
Was a bed and a desk and couple of tacks
No sign of someone who expects to be back
It must have been one hell of a suitcase you packed

Twirl me about, twirl me around
Let me grow dizzy and fall to the ground
When I look up at you looking down
Say it was only a dream

[mossy]

WB, Spaz

Originally Posted by mossy

WB, Spaz

Indeed...we've missed you.

Glad to see that the second you get back a mini Kings X hijack gets underway.

[eloy1964]

I always found a darker place when I listened to Black Sabbath's song 'Solitude'. For some reason I always go to that song to share my darker times:

My name it means nothing
my fortune is less
My future is shrouded in dark wilderness
Sunshine is far away, clouds linger on
Everything I posessed - Now they are gone

Oh where can I go to and what can I do?
Nothing can please me only thoughts are of you
You just laughed when I begged you to stay
I've not stopped crying since you went away

The world is a lonely place - you're on your own
Guess I will go home - sit down and moan.
Crying and thinking is all that I do
Memories I have remind me of you

[roger]

are these songs that you want to listen to when you're in the mood to slash your wrists, or that make you want to when you hear them?

[PFD]

Good question, Rog. Not sure really.