I remember looking at bottles thinking it was like asking me to climb Everest. You have a lot to learn a lot about your own strength by listening to the lyrics, like: “If I can see it, then I can do it / If I just believe it, there’s nothing to it” Cause you have to believe in you!Even though the lyrics are clearly not the happiest on ever written, you can simply let them pass by and instead enjoy the amazing sound – that’s enough to make you happy and that’s all that matters!A positive song that shows us that every day is a great day. Rock songs about depression compete with country music somewhere at the same level, I guess.

While it seems like we have a hard time talking about mental illnesses in real life, music has always been a way to express what is hard to say out loud.

For the music video, frontman ... That band was Rise Against and this was their song. “I’ve lived with it my whole life and I’ve realised what it is in the past year,” he said on its release.The darkest cut from Kanye’s 2016 album ‘The Life Of Pablo’ pits the phrases ‘fuck my life’ against ‘for my lady’, and sets his struggles with mental health against his love for his family.“‘Breathe Me’ is about feeling worried, generally anxious” says Sia Furler, the woman behind the 2004 hit. “All my insecurities and selfishness and let-downs. His songs helped me overcome the most difficult times in my life. Songs about depression can be the best place to turn when the black dog comes around. Life is Beautiful.
The message in the chorus is what I need when I’m feeling down and the happy whistling makes me smile and fills me up with energy!There are a ton of versions of this song, but I prefer Rod Stewart’s because I love his voice better. If you have it, you probably know it: nothing helps, you just want to lie there in the bed all day, doing nothing and letting your mind create the most horrific scenarios it can come up with.

Seriously.If it makes us happy, it really can’t be all that bad.I mean, I love eating prunes and walking around with no pants on. The lyrics are perfect and seem to fit my depression to a T, while still reminding me to move on and keep going.” — Jamie DeAnn“Every feeling I had was described in that one song and made me realize I really wasn’t alone. “I’m not proud to say I hate myself and don’t like what I am,” he’s explained, “but maybe there is real human communication that ends up positive even though everything being said is negative.”Dan Auerbach drew on his painful divorce for these morose lyrics; he struggles to “stay on track just like Pops told me to.”There’s little to this that doesn’t sound forlorn and listless, although Drake’s keening guitar work is as deft and precise as ever. “I don’t remember singing it,” he once said, “but I still kind of can’t believe my voice is on this recording.

It’s easy to listen to depressing songs while we’re depressed, but listening to positive songs can actually help feelings of depression lessen. Others point out the crippling effects of //saudade// it portrays.One of the dourest songs from Morrisey’s pen, ‘I Know It’s Over’ tackles love, loneliness and despair with a sprawling five-and-half minute epic.This song was written in the face of The Beatles’ breakup; it sees McCartney struggling to carry on.In 2001 Will Oldham said his bleak 1999 track was about “an essentially evil person who tries to do good in the world.” Whether or not that fits with your ideas about depression, this song captures lows, and the drive to escape them, perfectly.One of Eminem’s darkest tracks is written from the point of view of a fan whose world unravels after Eminem fails to respond to him.Matty Healy’s song about his mother, Denise Welch, explores her post-natal depression, a subject she’s also broached herself: “My mum knew I had to keep physical contact with the baby.