Power Ballads about suicide: S/D

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"Tomorrow Wendy" is about Andy P's friend dying of AIDS, actually. Which really makes it that much more horribly depressing.

And since this is the first thread I clicked on when searching for the song, I just want to say this couplet is really really awesome:

I told the priest, "Don't plan on any second coming.
God got his ass kicked the first time he came down here slumming."

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Is 'Like Suicide' about suicide? It's one of he finest power-ballads ever written, hands-down.

― unfished business, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Unrest - Teenage Suicide.

Probably one of the poppier and upbeat songs posted so far.

― mehlt, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 01:14 (seventeen years ago) link

[ KIX Lyrics ]

"Don't close your eyes"

(center text)

what's you're doing out in the night time?
won't you call me on the phone?
your mama can't solve your problem
when's daddy ever get home?

so you think you're a little bit wild
IN the middle OF the suicide

don't close your eyes
don't close your eyes
don't sing your last lullaby

no one there to hold you
no one is your friend
you live life up and down now
nightmares on your brain

another lonely way of hanging round
don't you take it falling down no no

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

don't close your eyes
don't close your eyes
don't sing your last lullaby

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 02:15 (seventeen years ago) link

oops, didn't notice that one started the thread! who cares; it's great (not to mention almost the only ballad kix ever did!)

― xhuxk, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 02:16 (seventeen years ago) link

eleven years pass...

Here are thirty songs.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 16 March 2018 02:14 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTBy9CsPNU

― Heavy Messages (jed_), Friday, 16 March 2018 02:17 (six years ago) link

Not exactly a power ballad but from the same time period: Rush - "The Pass"

― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Friday, 16 March 2018 02:33 (six years ago) link

1-800-273-8255

― map, Friday, 16 March 2018 04:55 (six years ago) link

"suicidal thoughts" would be my #1 as well. "She don't even love me like she did when I was younger" is brutal.

"i know it's over" is an all-timer but i've always connected to "asleep" more. "It's so easy to laugh / It's so easy to hate / It takes guts to be gentle and kind" is absolutely iconic, i think, but it also represents a sort of a glimpse of a positive outlook that doesn't really resonate with me, not when one is in that state of mind. whereas

Don't feel bad for me / I want you to know / Deep in the cell of my heart / I really want to go
There is another world / There is a better world / Well, there must be

also presents a vision of something better, but it's somewhere else that unreachable from the world of the living, and that seems more real.

― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 March 2018 05:13 (six years ago) link

(responding to alfred's list, not the power ballad topic, obv)

― Karl Malone, Friday, 16 March 2018 05:17 (six years ago) link

Duran Duran, “So Long Suicide”
Franco Battiato, “Breve invito a rinviare il suicidio” (A brief invitation to put your suicide off)

― Max Florian, Friday, 16 March 2018 07:34 (six years ago) link

Metallica's "Fade to Black" I think would be a big tunes in this category.

― earlnash, Friday, 16 March 2018 12:24 (six years ago) link

I'm not sure it's about suicide per se (as opposed to just a premature death) but I'm fond of 'Fly High Michelle' by Enuff Z'Nuff.

― Another helping of mouthwatering cobbler? (Old Lunch), Friday, 16 March 2018 13:05 (six years ago) link

Twisted Sister - “The Price”!!!

― ... (Eazy), Friday, 16 March 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link