Songs about depression?

Question

I want to choreograph a piece with a very strong and emotional meaning. So decided I wanted to do a dance about depression, self harm or eating disorders/body image. If you know any good songs like that, let me know! Thanks.

Answer 1

Favorite Answer

My two favorite are by Diary of Dreams, even the way the piano is played and the guitar is so sad, the songs are Oblivion and Flood of Tears

If that doesn't do it for you then maybe one of these:

A Lesson Never Learned - Asking Alexandria

Adam's Song - blink-182

After All - Dar Williams

Any Man In America - Blue October

Baby The Angels Are Here - Wishbone Ash

Beautiful World - Carolina Liar

Beyond the Realms of Death - Judas Priest

Breakdown - Suede

Choice Mountain - Everything Everything

Cleaning My Gun - Chris Cornell

Close My Eyes Forever - Lita Ford and Ozzy Osbourne

Come Around - Counting Crows

Crazy City - Barclay James Harvest

Creep - Radiohead

Crescent Noon - Carpenters

Cruel Guards - The Panics

Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car - U2

Deliver Us from Evil - Bullet for My Valentine

Doctor, Doctor - Barclay James Harvest

Don't Cry Daddy - Elvis Presley

Down The Drain - Marcy Playground

Electro-Shock Blues - Eels

Every Night - Paul McCartney

Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.

Faithless - Black Country Communion

Fell On Black Days - Soundgarden

Found - The Love Kills Theory

Four Walls - Staind

From The Morning - Nick Drake

Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday

Good Times - Marcy Playground

Half Mile Hill - David Nail

Headfirst For Halos - My Chemical Romance

Healer - Rumer

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths

Here Comes The Grump - Adam Ant

Here Comes The Rain Again - Eurythmics

I Don't Feel Very Receptive Today - Underoath

I Don't Know - Ozzy Osbourne

I Go To Extremes - Billy Joel

I Wish It Would Rain - The Temptations

I'll Find Me - Steve Azar

Iceland - Mary Chapin Carpenter

If It Makes You Happy - Sheryl Crow

Industrial Disease - Dire Straits

Irvine - Kelly Clarkson

King Of Pain - The Police

Last Hope - Paramore

Laura Laurent - Bright Eyes

Lithium - Nirvana

Lithium - Evanescence

Lost - Gorilla Zoe

Mad World - Tears for Fears

Manic Depression - Jimi Hendrix

Medication - Silverstein

Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel

Misery - Gallows

Mr Sunshine - Barclay James Harvest

Mr. Saboteur - The Yardbirds

My Alibi - Blindside

Narcolepsy - Third Eye Blind

Never Enough - Papa Roach

Never Thought - Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers

No Rain - Blind Melon

Not Alone - McFly

Only Happy When It Rains - Garbage

Outside - Staind

Pain Pain, Never Again - Glasvegas

Paint It Black - The Rolling Stones

Pavement Cracks - Annie Lennox

People Are Strange - The Doors

Poor Boy - Nick Drake

Poor Poor Pitiful Me - Linda Ronstadt

Praying For Time - George Michael

R.I.T - The Devil Wears Prada

Rain - Breaking Benjamin

Rain - Trivium

Rainbow In The Dark - Dio

Reflections Of My Life - Marmalade

S.A.D. Light - Glasvegas

Save Me - Ryan Adams

Save Me - Gotye

Save Me From Myself - Vertical Horizon

Save Your Goodbye - Mike Posner

Save Your Scissors - City and Colour

Screaming Infidelities - Dashboard Confessional

Sick, Sick, Sick - Bayside

Sink Into The Underground - CKY

Slippin' Into Darkness - War

Solid Air - John Martyn

Something Is Squeezing My Skull - Morrissey

Sorrow - Flyleaf

Sorrow - The National

Strawberry Gashes - Jack Off Jill

Stuck Between Stations - The Hold Steady

Sugar and Spice - Willow Smith

Suicide Is Painless - Johnny Mandel

Sway - The Rolling Stones

Talkin' S--t About a Pretty Sunset - Modest Mouse

Teenage Suicide - Unwritten Law

Temple From Within - Killswitch Engage

The Good That Won't Come Out - Rilo Kiley

The Infection - Disturbed

The Shape I'm In - The Band

Theme - Public Image Ltd.

Today - Smashing Pumpkins

Tomorrow Is Today - Billy Joel

Twilight - Vanessa Carlton

Under A Cloud - Bangles

Unhappy is the Only Happy That You'll Ever Be - Matthew Pryor

Until The End Of Days - Times of Grace

Valium Skies - The Verve

Weeping Willow - The Verve

What I Really Meant To Say - Cyndi Thomson

White Room - Cream

Wonderful - Gary Go

You Found Me - The Fray

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Answer 2

Life Must Go On by Alter Bridge

Answer 3

Mad World by Gary Jules

I feel pretty/ Unpretty by Glee cast

No surprises by Radiohead

Falling down by Muse

Catch me by Demi Lovato

Colorblind by Counting Crows

Ruled by secrecy by Muse

I'm in here by Sia

Breathe me by Sia

Answer 4

Theatre of Tragedy - Senseless

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZctHWk8Kdo

Theatre of Tragedy - Hollow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kTnhGmsrI

Anathema - Lost Control

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-55ZYpTwu1g

Anathema - Deep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik6tJqjMds8

Answer 5

Therapy-All Time Low

Answer 6

jr high emo without a face

Answer 7

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR_Z9_X24sA

and if that doesn't work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTejw8p3uz4