Favorite songs about Bipolar Disorder?

I just discovered Halsey and am obsessed.
Control sounds like a mixed episode/dysphoric mania:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGALaVgwdc0
and Gasoline is another good one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYfJTzDo-MA

No idea if this one has been mentioned before... but i think this is kinda like bipolar mania, at least the way it is portrayed here:

"Largo al factotum" (Opera song from the opera "Il barbiere die sevilla"="The barber of Sevilla", the one who sings is the barber himself, presenting himself to the audience)
https://youtu.be/-ipb9xbXSAY

In order to understand, here is a (crude) translation i found in the internet:

Handyman of the city. (Comment: "Factotum" is better, looses value in translation)
Early in the workshop I arrive at dawn.
Ah, what a life, what a pleasure
For a barber of quality!
Ah, bravo Figaro!
Bravo, very good!
I am the luckiest, it's the truth!
Ready for anything,
night and day
I'm always on the move.
Cushier fate for a barber,
A more noble life cannot be found.
Razors and combs
Lancets and scissors,
at my command
everything is here.
Here are the extra tools
then, for business
With the ladies... with the gentlemen...
Everyone asks me, everyone wants me,
women, children, old people, young ones:
Here are the wigs... A quick shave of the beard...
Here are the leeches for bleeding...
The note...
Here are the wigs, a quick shave soon,
The note, hey!
Figaro! Figaro! Figaro!, Etc..
Alas, what frenzy!
Alas, what a crowd!
One at a time, for goodness sake!
Figaro! I'm here.
Hey, Figaro! I'm here.
Figaro here, Figaro there,
Figaro up, Figaro down,
Swifter and swifter I'm like a spark:
I'm the handyman of the city.
Ah, bravo Figaro! Bravo, very good;
Fortunately for you I will not fail.

The way it is portrayed is exceptionally.
Like:
1. "yeah this is the life, everyone likes me and look at all those women around!"
2. "Ah i do this and i do that, and then a bit of this and that and this and this and this.... I am the factotum of the city!"
3. "Too much! Too many! Please, one at a time! Ahh... stay away from me!" (I love how the woman with the "teeth-puller" smiles in such a creepy way...)
4. "Sometimes i would like to rest, but it is impossible. There is so much work and everyone always needs me. 'Figaro!' - coming. 'Figaro take this letter' - ok. 'Figaro do this','Figaro, please...'
5. "Figaro up, Figaro down, Figaro here, Figaro there... Figaro everywhere!"
6. "Ah yes, i did that very well, i am so lucky. I am always lucky. Figaro, you did that very well... Yes this is the life. I am the most brilliant man in the city."

Not to mention how the aria is so virtuosic and the entrance is so totally exaggerated.

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5. "Figaro up, Figaro down, Figaro here, Figaro there... Figaro everywhere!"
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Fascinating, because one of my favorite bipolar songs is "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen. Always enjoyed the song but could never figure out the lyrics, so one time I looked up all the words I didn't understand. But I never figured out the reference to Figaro. Now that reference makes sense to me.

The lyrics are full of mood and circumstance contradictions. Convinced me that the writer/singer was definitely bipolar!

Ima

The first time I heard this song, I cried. Because, I felt so understood; and like I'm not alone in this.

Rilo Kiley- Better Son/Daughter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0sy7y54XAE

I cried too.

I Go to Extremes
Billy Joel

Call me a joker, call me a fool
Right at this moment I'm totally cool
Clear as a crystal, sharp as a knife
I feel like I'm in the prime of my life

Sometimes it feels like I'm going too fast
I don't know how long this feeling will last
Maybe it's only tonight

Darling I don't know why I got to extremes
Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens
And if I stand or I fall
It's all or nothing at all
Darling I don't know why I got to extremes

Sometimes I'm tired, sometimes I'm shot
Sometimes I don't know how much more I've got
Maybe I'm headed over the hill
Maybe I've set myself up for the kill
Tell me how much do you think you can take
Until the heart in you is starting to break?
Sometimes it feels like it will

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Too high…(repeat chorus)

Out of the darkness, into the light
Leaving the scene of the crime
Either I'm wrong or I'm perfectly right every time

Sometimes I lie awake, night after night
Coming apart at the seams
Eager to please, ready to fight
Why do I go to extremes?

And if I stand or I fall
It's all or nothing at all
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens
And if I stand of I fall
It's all or nothing at all
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes
No I don't know why I go to extremes
Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens

You can be sure when I'm gone
I won't be out there too long
Darling I don't know why I go to extremes

Songwriters: Billy Joel
I Go to Extremes lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group

Gee thats a huge thread. Itll take me a few days to check it all.

I know that some of the stuff I listened to as a teen (more techno-trance like) could trigger mania...
I guess you want it emotional but not too much, slow but not too much (?)

My share today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bylj_hZPv-8

Beethoven - Ode an die Freude (Ode to Joy) // european hymn (yeah Im proud to be from the old continent.. but thats not the point.

Freude, schöner Götterfunken,
Tochter aus Elysium,
Wir betreten feuertrunken,
Himmlische, dein Heiligtum.
Deine Zauber binden wieder,
Was die Mode streng geteilt,
Alle Menschen werden Brüder,
Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.Wem der große Wurf gelungen,
eines Freundes Freund zu sein
wer ein holdes Weib errungen,
mische seinen Jubel ein!
Ja--wer auch nur eine Seele
sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund!
Und wer's nie gekonnt, der stehle
weinend sich aus diesem Bund!
Freude heißt die starke Feder
in der ewigen Natur.
Freude, Freude treibt die Räder
in der großen Weltenuhr.
Blumen lockt sie aus den Keimen,
Sonnen aus dem Firmament,
Sphären rollt sie in den Räumen,
die des Sehers Rohr nicht kennt.

In english that gives (googles your friend.. mine for sure)

Joy, beautiful spark of the gods,
Daughter from Elysium,
We enter, drunk with fire,
Heavenly, your sanctuary.
Your spells bind again,
What the fashion strictly shared,
All people become brothers,
Where your gentle wing is.Who managed the big hit,
to be friend of a friend
Whoever has won a devoted wife,
mix in his cheers!
Yes - who only one soul
his name is on the earth's surface!
And who could never, steal
weeping out of this covenant!
Joy is the name of the strong spring
in eternal nature.
Joy, joy drives the wheels
in the big world clock.
Flowers lure them from the germs,
Suns from the firmament,
Spheres she rolls in the rooms,
that does not know the seer's pipe.

It fits doesnt it ?
yet the song is slow enough that it shouldnt trigger or? I dont feel that, just warm inside.

Elysium is a afterlife place in greek mythology (Homer) for:

reserved for mortals related to the gods and other heroes. Later, it expanded to include those chosen by the gods, the righteous, and the heroic, where they would remain after death, to live a blessed and happy life, and indulging in whatever employment they had enjoyed in life.

Wouldnt be nice to believe in that for us, even just a minute ?



A longer version, Flashmob-like with people and children reacting to the music, beautiful and touching too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a23945btJYw

Was talkative yesterday - I apologize..

Found a link to the version I heard once, on the french speaking channel we receive hier (I leave not very far to the border)

Anne Sila - Chandelier (diretto in TV)
https://youtu.be/tmheRPkxyNU

At the end can be skipped, a lot of french blabbering I do not really understand (does sound good though if a bit feminine heheh)

Thanks for sharing! I'm still listening to Enya but I switched songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zkjQVh5KmQ

I'm feeling better. Right now I feel stable and sad sounding songs don't bring me down. When I'm slightly depressed, sad songs bring me down even more. I can feel it. My mood is so vulnerable to whatever I'm listening at that point.

quietgirl2538 wrote:Thanks for sharing! I'm still listening to Enya but I switched songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zkjQVh5KmQ

I'm feeling better. Right now I feel stable and sad sounding songs don't bring me down. When I'm slightly depressed, sad songs bring me down even more. I can feel it. My mood is so vulnerable to whatever I'm listening at that point.

Ah. Sorry didnt see this message and posted in the other thread. Funny.

Yes for me it is a bit different, when I am down I feel almost nothing no feeling except hopelessness. Then even a sad song can 'break down the stone wall' and make me feel / release some stuff.

In any case good to know what you need, and when you need it.

all the best, Bernie