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Re: Favorite songs about Bipolar Disorder?

Postby SuperNova17 » Sun Feb 28, 2016 4:23 pm

I thought of more:

1. Shelter From The Storm- Bob Dylan. Just because it is beautiful and I often wish that someone would give me shelter from the storm in my head!

2. When You Were Young- The Killers. "We're burning down the highway skyline on the back of a hurricane that started turning when you were young" just gets me every time and reminds me of me when I'm manic.

I'm sure there will be more but that is all for now :D
"My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends -- it gives a lovely light!"

-Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Re: Favorite songs about Bipolar Disorder?

Postby borrowedtime » Tue Mar 01, 2016 2:11 pm

The ?Who - "Behind Blue Eyes"

https://youtu.be/KvzWkisqjn8

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad man
To be the sad man
Behind blue eyes
No one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated
To telling only lies
But my dreams they aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance that's never free
No one knows what it's like
To feel these feelings
Like I do
And I blame you
No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through
But my dreams, they aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance that's never free
When my fist clenches, crack it open
Before I use it and lose my cool
When I smile, tell me some bad news
Before I laugh and act like a fool
And if I swallow anything evil
Put your finger down my throat
And if I shiver, please give me a blanket
Keep me warm, let me wear your coat
No one knows what it's like
To be the sad man
To be the bad man
Behind blue eyes
"What do you see when you're in the Dark, and the Demons come for you?" - Godsmack- "Releasing the Demons"
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Re: Favorite songs about Bipolar Disorder?

Postby borrowedtime » Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:39 am

Metallica - "Welcome Home(Sanitarium)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WElvEZj0Ltw

"Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"

Welcome to where time stands still
No one leaves and no one will
Moon is full, never seems to change
Just labeled mentally deranged
Dream the same thing every night
I see our freedom in my sight
No locked doors, No windows barred
No things to make my brain seem scarred

Sleep my friend and you will see
That dream is my reality
They keep me locked up in this cage
Can't they see it's why my brain says Rage

Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Build my fear of what's out there
Cannot breathe the open air
Whisper things into my brain
Assuring me that I'm insane
They think our heads are in their hands
But violent use brings violent plans
Keep him tied, it makes him well
He's getting better, can't you tell?

No more can they keep us in
Listen, damn it, we will win
They see it right, they see it well
But they think this saves us from our hell

Sanitarium, leave me be
Sanitarium, just leave me alone
Sanitarium, just leave me alone

Fear of living on
Natives getting restless now
Mutiny in the air
Got some death to do
Mirror stares back hard
Kill, it's such a friendly word
Seems the only way
For reaching out again
"What do you see when you're in the Dark, and the Demons come for you?" - Godsmack- "Releasing the Demons"
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Re: Favorite songs about Bipolar Disorder?

Postby borrowedtime » Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:50 am

Metallica - "The Unnamed Feeling"

https://youtu.be/t8Xaet7OpaM

Been here before, been here before
Been here before, been here before
Been here before, been here before

Been here before couldn't say I liked it
Do I start writing all this down?
Just let me plug you into my world
Can't you help me be un crazy?

Name this for me, heat the cold air
Take the chill off of my life
And if I could I'd turn my eyes
To look inside to see what's comin'

It comes alive, it comes alive
It comes alive and I die a little more
It comes alive, it comes alive
It comes alive each moment here I die a little more
Ooh, I die, I die, I die a little more

Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
Then the unnamed feeling
Takes me away

Been here before, been here before
Been here before, been here before
Been here before, been here before

I'm frantic in your soothing arms
I can not sleep in this down filled world
I've found safety in this loneliness
But I cannot stand it anymore

I cross my heart and hope not to die
Swallow evil, ride the sky
Lose myself in a crowded room
You fool, you fool, it will be here soon

It comes alive, it comes alive
It comes alive and I die a little more
It comes alive, it comes alive
It comes alive each moment here I die a little more
Ooh, I die, I die, I die a little more

Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
Then the unnamed feeling
Treats me this way

And I wait for this train
Toes over the line
And then the unnamed feeling
It takes me away
It takes me

Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive, yeah-e-yeah
Then the unnamed feeling
It takes me away
Yeah, it takes me away

Get the ###$ out of here
I just wanna get the ###$ away from me
I rage, I glaze, I hurt, I hate
It hate it all, why, why, why me?

I cannot sleep with a head like this
I wanna cry, I wanna scream
I rage, I glaze, I hurt, I hate
I wanna hate it all away

Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive, yeah-e-yeah
Then the unnamed feeling
Treats me this way, yeah

Then I wait for this train
My toes are over the line, yeah
Then the unnamed feeling
It takes me away
Yeah, it takes me away

Then the unnamed feeling
It comes alive
Then the unnamed feeling
It takes me away
"What do you see when you're in the Dark, and the Demons come for you?" - Godsmack- "Releasing the Demons"
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Re: Favorite songs about Bipolar Disorder?

Postby voracious_lemon » Mon Mar 21, 2016 7:29 pm

Macy Gray- Relating to a Psychopath
https://youtu.be/Id5HZZTP13s
All I saw was the Devil's soul
And it looked a helluva lot like my own
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Re: Favorite songs about Bipolar Disorder?

Postby nmk1226 » Tue Mar 22, 2016 4:38 pm

Drops of Jupiter - Train
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~Laurell K. Hamilton~

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Re: Favorite songs about Bipolar Disorder?

Postby bumblebees » Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:38 am

Quite a few Passion Pit songs resonate with me and my bipolar disorder in general and in relationships.
Then the guy from Passion Pit 'came out' about having bipolar! Go figure :P

-- Fri Mar 25, 2016 7:40 pm --

HOW COULD I FORGET
Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys!
The whole song is so happy and manicky and then it gets very slow and sad sounding, but then again comes the mania!
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD
GOOD VIBRATIONS!
bipolar II
depression
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panic disorder
PTSD



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latuda 20mg 1x/day
klonopin .5mg 1x/day
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Re: Favorite songs about Bipolar Disorder?

Postby CloudShark » Sun Mar 27, 2016 1:19 am

This was my theme tune for my last mixed episode:

Nine Inch Nails - Into the Void

Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away
Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away
Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away
Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away

Talking to myself all the way to the station
Pictures in my head of the final destination
All lined up, all the ones that aren't allowed to stay
Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away

Tried to save a place from the cuts and the scratches
Tried to overcome my complications and my catches
Nothin' ever grows and the sun doesn't shine all day
Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away

Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away
Tried to save myself but myself keeps slipping away
"Away"
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Re: Favorite songs about Bipolar Disorder?

Postby bunnybug » Mon Mar 28, 2016 12:58 am

I cannot think of any songs but I'm very much convinced speedcore, splittercore, extratone and all those high bpm genres are the pure concentrated embodiment of a psychotic manic episode.
Do not be proud of your disorder, be proud it does not define you and your struggles with it.
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Re: Favorite songs about Bipolar Disorder?

Postby borrowedtime » Sun Apr 24, 2016 3:13 am

Eminem - "The Monster"

http://youtu.be/EHkozMIXZ8w

I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
I wanted the fame, but not the cover of Newsweek
Oh well, guess beggars can't be choosey
Wanted to receive attention for my music
Wanted to be left alone in public excuse me
For wanting my cake, and eat it too, and wanting it both ways
Fame made me a balloon cause my ego inflated
When I blew; see, but it was confusing
Cause all I wanted to do is be the Bruce Lee of loose leaf
Abused ink, used it as a tool when I blew steam
(Ooh!) Hit the lottery, oh wee
But with what I gave up to get was bittersweet
It was like winning a used me
Ironic cause I think I'm getting so huge I need a shrink
I'm beginning to lose sleep: one sheep, two sheep
Going cuckoo and cooky as Kool Keith
But I'm actually weirder than you think cause I'm...
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
Well, that's nothing
No, I ain't much of a poet but I know somebody
Once told me to seize the moment and don't squander it
Cause you never know when it all could be over tomorrow
So I keep conjuring, sometimes I wonder
Where these thoughts spawn from
(Yeah, ponder it, do you want this?
No wonder you losing your mind, the way it wanders)
Yodel-odel-ay-hee-hoo
I think you've been wandering off down yonder
And stumbled onto Jeff VanVonderen
Cause I need an interventionist to intervene between me and this monster
And save me from myself and all this conflict
Cause the very thing that I love's killing me and I can't conquer it
My OCD is conking me in the head
Keep knocking, nobody's home, I'm sleepwalking
I'm just relaying what the voice in my head is saying
Don't shoot the messenger, I'm just friends with the...
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
Well, that's nothing
Call me crazy, but I have this vision
One day that I walk amongst you a regular civilian
But until then drums get killed
And I'm coming straight at MCs, blood get spilled
And I take it back to the days that I get on a Dre track
Give every kid who got played at, pumped up feeling
And $#%^ to say back to the kids who play 'em
I ain't here to save the ######6 children
But if one kid out of a hundred million
Who are going through a struggle feels and then relates, that's great
It's payback, Russell Wilson falling way back in the draft
Turn nothing into something, still can make that, straw into gold chump
I will spin Rumpelstiltskin in a haystack
Maybe I need a straight jacket face facts, I am nuts for real
But I'm okay with that, it's nothing, I'm still friends with the...
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
I'm friends with the monster that's under my bed
Get along with the voices inside of my head
You're trying to save me, stop holding your breath
And you think I'm crazy, yeah, you think I'm crazy
Well, that's nothing
"What do you see when you're in the Dark, and the Demons come for you?" - Godsmack- "Releasing the Demons"
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