Scratch47 Posted December 15, 2011 Share Posted December 15, 2011 All I write is depressing stuff it seems. We're losing a custody battle for our granddaughter whom we raised her first seven years. Her biological dad who wanted little to do with her now wants her. Tough Christmas season for my wife and me... Rough draft needs polish. For Maddie: http://www.soundclick.com/player/single_player.cfm?songid=11271895&q=hi&newref=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Nobody did depression like Townes Van Zandt. Half of his catalog is depressing , but for depression: A Song For Ribbons of love Please keep me true sane Until I reach home on the morrow Never never to wander again Im weak and Im weary of sorrow London to dublin Australia to perth I gazed at your sky I tasted your earth Sung out my heart For what it was worth Never again will I ramble Theres nowhere left In this world where to go My arms, my legs theyre a-tremblin Thoughts both clouded and blue as the sky Not even worth the rememberin Now as I stumble And reel to my bed All that I've done All that I've said Means nothin to me I'd soon as be dead And all of this world be forgotten No words of comfort No words of advice Nothin to offer a stranger Gone the love, gone the spite It just doesn't matter no longer The sky's getting far The ground's gettin close My self goin crazy The way that it does Ill lie on my pillow And sleep if I must Too late to wish Id been stronger Too late to wish Id been stronger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Low Country Boy Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Hurt written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and covered by Mr. Johnny Cash. - Reznor video. - Cash video (I can't watch this without crying). I play the Cash version and substitute EAD# for EAC in the A Minor chord - gives it a real haunting sound. Sorry, don't know how to make the chords position over the words correctly. Am C D Am C D Am I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel C D Am C D Am I focus on the pain, the only thing thats real C D Am C D Am The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting C D Am C D G Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything Chorus: Am F C G What Have I become, my sweetest friend Am F C G Everyone I know, goes away in the end Am F C G And you could have it all, my empire of dirt Am F G Am I will let you down, I will make you hurt Am C D Am C D Am I wear this crown of thorns, upon my liars chair C D Am C D Am Full of broken thoughts, I cannot repair C D Am C D Am Beneath the stains of time, the feeling disappears C D Am C D G You are someone else, I am still right here Chorus with this Outro C D Am C D Am If I could start again, a million miles away C D Am C D Am(hold) I would keep myself, I would find a way. Peace, LCB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanCarlosVejar Posted December 16, 2011 Author Share Posted December 16, 2011 Hurt written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and covered by Mr. Johnny Cash. - Reznor video. - Cash video (I can't watch this without crying). I play the Cash version and substitute EAD# for EAC in the A Minor chord - gives it a real haunting sound. Sorry, don't know how to make the chords position over the words correctly. Am C D Am C D Am I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel C D Am C D Am I focus on the pain, the only thing thats real C D Am C D Am The needle tears a hole, the old familiar sting C D Am C D G Try to kill it all away, but I remember everything Chorus: Am F C G What Have I become, my sweetest friend Am F C G Everyone I know, goes away in the end Am F C G And you could have it all, my empire of dirt Am F G Am I will let you down, I will make you hurt Am C D Am C D Am I wear this crown of thorns, upon my liars chair C D Am C D Am Full of broken thoughts, I cannot repair C D Am C D Am Beneath the stains of time, the feeling disappears C D Am C D G You are someone else, I am still right here Chorus with this Outro C D Am C D Am If I could start again, a million miles away C D Am C D Am(hold) I would keep myself, I would find a way. Peace, LCB thanks LCB I play this song all the time . I have been a big J.Cash fan for a long time :D . but great contribution. thanks to all who have posted too !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duende Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Here's a song about being on the edge - it could be regarded to involve depression and It does involve losing control and obsession to the point of being dangerous Creep - Radiohead http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMbNcdoFDRs Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duende Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Creep - Radiohead When you were here before Couldn't look you in the eye You're just like an angel Your skin makes me cry You float like a feather In a beautiful world I wish I was special You're so very special But I'm a creep I'm a weirdo What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here I don't care if it hurts I want to have control I want a perfect body I want a perfect soul I want you to notice when I'm not around You're so very special I wish I was special But I'm a creep I'm a weirdo What the hell I'm doing here? I don't belong here She's running out the door She's running out She runs runs runs Whatever makes you happy Whatever you want You're so very special I wish I was special But I'm a creep I'm a weirdo What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here I don't belong here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Depression is a clinical problem for some folks. Most people have times in their lives when they are depressed, but do not suffer depression. Singing songs about depressing subjects sometimes helps deal with these times when we are depressed. Some say it helps keep us from falling into clinical Depression. Bluegrass music is full of depressing themes. I Wonder Where You Are Tonight Bury Me Beneath The Willow The Old Home Place Green, Green Grass of Home Wreck of the '97 Will You Miss Me (When I'm Gone) The Chatsworth Wreck House of the Rising Sun (sung from a woman's perspective) There is a Time 1949 come quickly to mind. Bluegrass isn't all depressing. There are plenty of pick-you-up songs. These will clutch you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duende Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Depression is a clinical problem for some folks. Most people have times in their lives when they are depressed, but do not suffer depression. Singing songs about depressing subjects sometimes helps deal with these times when we are depressed. Some say it helps keep us from falling into clinical Depression. Bluegrass music is full of depressing themes. I Wonder Where You Are Tonight Bury Me Beneath The Willow The Old Home Place Green, Green Grass of Home Wreck of the '97 Will You Miss Me (When I'm Gone) The Chatsworth Wreck House of the Rising Sun (sung from a woman's perspective) There is a Time 1949 come quickly to mind. Bluegrass isn't all depressing. There are plenty of pick-you-up songs. These will clutch you. Tommy Even though you neglect your Gibson forum friend Matt - as it is Christmas here, is a plus one! :) Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TommyK Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Tommy Even though you neglect your Gibson forum friend Matt - as it is Christmas here, is a plus one! :) Matt PLUS YOU! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinder Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Nobody encapsulated depression in quite the same way as Townes Van Zandt. 'Nothin'' is his defining moment in this arena. I've never heard a song touch so shiveringly accurately on a subject. Perfect bullseye, if you can bear to listen to it. 'Flyin' Shoes' is another great Townes song about depression, as is 'A Song For'. As Townes grew older and sank more deeply into chronic alcoholism and drug abuse, he revisited his older songs often, and the recordings of his ravaged older self singing these songs are almost heartbreakingly unbearable. There is a recording of him performing 'Nothin'' in the weeks prior to his passing away, wherein he gets halfway through the song and, too drunk to sing and too shaky to play straight, he stops playing guitar altogether and performs the second half of the song as a spoken word piece. If you can handle it emotionally, it's probably the most brutally honest piece of recorded music of all time. The darkest of the dark stuff, indeed... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lotus Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Nobody encapsulated depression in quite the same way as Townes Van Zandt. When asked why most of his songs are so sad; "They're not all sad... I think they're just hopeless....." Here's another hopeless one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dupY3Z_LPLo @ Jinder Can you tell me where I can find that recording you mentioned? Much appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madman_Greg Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 I would instantly point you to Nick Drake or Tim Harding I think there is some sad stuff in both of their works that might do Whilst not directly related to depression, there are melancholic undertones that could be what you seek I guess a few hours on youtube might be in plan ! Madman Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madman_Greg Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Depression is a clinical problem for some folks. Most people have times in their lives when they are depressed, but do not suffer depression. So true my friend, people often say they are depressed, but really they are just a bit down. If you have had clinical depression, as I suffered following the loss of a loved one for a long time. Then you will know that the dark spiral pulls you down and no matter how hard you try to escape there is no way, or no will that can make that happen Should I write some words for you after that Madman Greg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Cash and Townes are at the top of my dark, and depression list. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqodCNWqS8c Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duende Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 PLUS YOU! Plus you with bells on! Merry Christmas! Matt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j45nick Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 Hurt written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and covered by Mr. Johnny Cash. IMHO, Cash's cover of this is one of the best things he did late in his career. I still can't watch the video and listen to it without tears running down my face. There are some really good songs about loss and depression--if the whole concept of a good song about depression isn't a contradiction in terms--on Jesse Colin Young's first album, "Soul of a City Boy", from 1964. I used to do "Four in the Morning" back in the day, and it's still a great song about scraping the bottom of the barrel. Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Cod'ine" is a great song about drug-induced depression. Proud to say that performing it got me kicked out of the auditions for the 1967 Mississippi Folk Festival (the first). And, no, it wan't just my playing and singing. They said "we don't want songs about drugs". What they didn't realize is that half the songs that were being performed were about drugs: they just didn't understand the meaning of the words. It taught me the value of subtlety and irony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
provny Posted December 16, 2011 Share Posted December 16, 2011 "Rose Parade"-- Elliott Smith "Death Take Your Fiddle" -- Spiritualized Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortyearspickn Posted December 17, 2011 Share Posted December 17, 2011 Blues, to me leads to catharsis. Depression themed songs lead you down and leave you there. Doc Watson's " gonna lay down my old guitar" may not depress you, but it is instructive and possibly therapeutic. Hard to pick from the many, fine Johnny Cash songs. But I'm going with "A Boy Named Sue." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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