Songs about suicide (Music Guide)

Source: Wikipedia. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 85. Chapters: Waltzing Matilda, Adam's Song, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, Jeremy, C'est une belle journée, Stan, Je t'aime mélancolie, Russian Roulette, Today, The Scientist, Everybody Hurts, Mad World, You Found Me, Who Knew, Suicide Is Painless, Stole, Shadow of the Day, Gloomy Sunday, Ode to Billie Joe, Lithium, Wonderful Life, Honey, Chop Suey!, Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of, Nothing in My Way, Vincent, Rock 'n' Roll Suicide, Inside the Fire, Alone Again, No Surprises, Blasphemous Rumours / Somebody, High and Dry, Spring nicht, Stay Together, Last Resort, Fade to Black, Savin' Me, Hey Man, Nice Shot, Whiskey Lullaby, Open the Door, Alone I Break, Jump They Say, Last Stop: This Town, Shine, Never Too Late, Untitled, Wait and Bleed, Redondo Beach, Skin o' My Teeth, Nothing to Lose, Yer Blues, Exit Music, The Blood That Moves the Body, Youth of the Nation, For You, Last Cup of Sorrow, A Day Without Me, You're Only Human, Suicide Solution, Jumper, Can't Stand Losing You, Suicide, it's a suicide, Stockholm Syndrome, Forgiven, Not Forgotten, Santa Monica, Much Like Falling EP, Headfirst for Halos, Joining You, Into the Ocean, Loser, Tourniquet, Local Boy in the Photograph, I Think I'm Going to Kill Myself, Nutshell, Saint Veronika, Round Here, Jed the Humanoid, The Red, Needle in the Hay, The Pass, Giving In, Richard Cory, What's This Life For, Televators, Bother, Hold On, These Days, Groupes de Pamplemousse, View from a Bridge, Zero, Jimmy Jimmy, Over My Head, The Last Song, Tomorrow Is Today, Music as a Weapon EP, We Sleep Forever, I Won't See You Tonight. Excerpt: "Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's most widely known bush ballad, a country folk song, and has been referred to as "the unofficial national anthem of Australia". The title is Australian slang for travelling by foot with one's goods in a "Matilda" (bag) slung over one's back. The song narrates the story of an itinerant worker, or swagman, making a drink of tea at a bush camp and capturing a sheep to eat. When the sheep's owner arrives with three police officers to arrest the worker for the theft, the worker commits suicide by drowning himself in the nearby watering hole, and then goes on to haunt the site. The original lyrics were written in 1895 by poet and nationalist Banjo Paterson. It was first published as sheet music in 1903. Extensive folklore surrounds the song and the process of its creation, to the extent that the song has its own museum, the Waltzing Matilda Centre in Winton, Queensland. The song was first recorded in 1926 as performed by John Collinson and Russell Callow. This recording of "Waltzing Matilda" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia Registry in 2008. The Combo Waterhole is thought to be the location of the story that inspired "Waltzing Matilda". The words to the song were written in 1895 by Banjo Paterson, a famous Australian poet, and the music was written (based on a folk tune) by Christina Macpherson, who wrote herself that she "was no musician, but she would do her best." Paterson wrote the piece while staying at the Dagworth Homestead, a bush station in Queensland. While he was there his hosts played him a traditional Celtic folk tune called "The Craigeelee", and Paterson decided that it would be a good piece to set lyrics to, producing them during the rest of his stay. The tune is probably based on the Scottish song "Thou Bonnie Wood Of ...