6/21/22
Last month was Mental Health Awareness Month. About two weeks ago, I created a Mental Health Awareness Playlist, which can be found on Spotify here. The songs in the playlist are meant to expose the experiences of people struggling with mental health and/or provide motivation to help people improve their mental health. Below is a list and overview of all the songs I added to that playlist.
1-800-273-8255
By Logic, Alessia Clara, and Khalid
An Essential Message and An Essential Number
Notable Lines:
"I want you to be alive
You don't gotta die today"
In My Blood
By Shawn Mendes
Resilience can Be a Natural Thing, not Something You Have to Train For.
Notable lines:
"Sometimes I feel like giving up
But I just can't
It isn't in my blood"
Fight For Me
By GAWVI and Lecrae
Find Someone Who Can Fight for You When You Need It.
Notable Lines:
"I need you to fight for me
I know you're my therapy
I know why we fight
It's just to know we try"
Ride
By Twenty-One Pilots
I Still Have So Much to Learn
Notable Lines:
"I just wanna stay in the sun where I find
I know it's hard sometimes
Pieces of peace in the sun's peace of mind
I know it's hard sometimes
Yeah, I think about the end just way too much
But it's fun to fantasize"
Best Part
By The Score
Could There be Goodness in Everything?
Notable Lines:
"I can be a liar, I can be a cheat
I can be neurotic, I can be a freak
I can be everything in between
But you always find the best part
The best part of me"
The Struggle
By Blacklite District
Every Struggle is Real, even if it Seems the World Doesn't Know about It
Notable Lines:
"Like you, nothing's forever
Like you, some things just die
Like you, I am no better
Like you, we wait and see, because
Like me, the struggle is real"
Time
By NEFFEX
Punctuality can Truly Puncture Your Soul
Notable Lines:
"I can't stop what I can't control
It keeps moving and I'm growing old"
Stay
By The Score
Lying About Oneself to Oneself is Paradoxical
Notable Lines:
"When it all comes crashing
Stay
Who you are don't be afraid"
Miracle
By The Score
Why Does it Feel Like the World is Conspiring Against Me?
Notable Lines:
"It never goes the way that you planned
Success is a door that always slams
I'm trying to break it"
Demons
By Imagine Dragons
Don't Neglect Your Insecurities
Notable Lines:
"I wanna hide the truth
I wanna shelter you
But with the beast inside
There's nowhere we can hide
No matter what we breed
We still are made of greed"
Human
By Rag N' Bone Man
Never Forget Your Limitations
Notable Lines:
"'Cause I'm only human after all
You're only human after all
Don't put the blame on me"
Overwhelmed
By Royal and the Serpent
Anxiety is a Polymath; it can Do Many Things to You
Notable Lines:
"Turn off the TV it's starting to freak me Out it's so loud it's like my ears are bleeding What am I feeling? Can't look at the ceiling The light is so bright it's like I'm overheating This mind isn't mine, who am I to judge?"
On and On
By the Score
There Has to Be a Way
Notable Lines:
"Everybody says that nothing ever lasts forever
So I'm hanging on tight trying to keep it all tied together
How do we make this heart beat on and on?"
A Year Ago
By NEFFEX
Not All Changes Are Like Climate Change
Notable Lines:
"I've changed for the better this time
I thought I would never be fine
I strive just to say I'm alright
And for the first time in a long time I'm alright
Something Beautiful
By Masked Wolf and Tom Walker
This World Isn't a Dystopia
Notable Lines:
"'Cause I've been feeling up, down
Put out, lost counts, of every sin
Just tryna find a new way, true say
Real change, it's not too late
Fight away the darkness, new dawn, new day
Will break"
All These Thoughts
By NEFFEX
Who Knew a Piece of Gray and White Matter could do all This?
Notable lines:
"Yo, all these thoughts keep me up at night, yeah
What am I doing, did I do it right? yeah
All these thoughts keep me up at night, yeah
I can't think straight, need the light, yo"
Stressed Out
By Twenty-One Pilots
There's A Reason Why Scientists Say the Amount of Disorder Increases as Time Passes
Notable lines:
"Wish we could turn back time
To the good old days
When our momma sang us to sleep
But now we're stressed out"
Everything I Wanted
By Billie Eilish
Not Everyone Cares.
Notable lines:
"Thought I could fly (fly)
So I stepped off the Golden, hmm
Nobody cried
Nobody even noticed
I saw them standing right there
Kinda thought they might care"
Mask
By Dream
People Pretend They're Happy, even Though It's Not Halloween
Notable lines:
"I wear a mask with a smile for hours at a time
Stare at the ceiling while I hold back what's on my mind
And when they ask me how I'm doing, I say, 'I'm just fine'"
Getting Older
By Billie Eilish
Traumatic Transition is Real
Notable lines:
"But next week, I hope I'm somewhere laughing
For anybody asking, I promise I'll be fine
I've had some trauma, did things I didn't wanna
Was too afraid to tell ya, but now, I think it's time"
The Sound of Silence
By Disturbed
(Original song is by Simon and Garfunkel)
What is the True Meaning of Communication?
Notable lines:
"And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never shared
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence"
Lovely
By Billie Eilish and Khalid
There's Something More Lovely Than Depression
Notable lines:
"But I know someday I'll make it out of here
Even if it takes all night or a hundred years
Need a place to hide, but I can't find one near
Wanna feel alive, outside I can't fight my fear"
The Search
By NF
Introspection can be Like Entering a Haunted House
Notable lines:
"The point I'm makin' is the mind is a powerful place
And what you feed it can affect you in a powerful way"
I'm Still Here
By Sia
If You Think Youth will Make You Feel Alive, then Why Do You Use It To as an Excuse to Disregard Yourself as You Get Older?
Notable lines:
"Oh, the past, it haunted me
Oh, the past, it wanted me dead
Oh, the past, tormented me
But the battle was lost
'Cause I'm still here"
Rain
By grandson and Jessie Reyez
It's Just Science
Notable lines:
"I do not mind the rain sometimes
'Cause that's the only way the roses bloom"
Darkside
By grandson
The Children are the Future, so Ensure that Future
Notable lines:
"He wore the silence like a mask
Now he's making up for
All the violence in his past
Took it from his father
Who never bothered to ask
What his son had on his mind"
Bored
By Billie Eilish
"When you’re in such a toxic place with someone and you’re treated so badly for such a long time that eventually you’re used to it."
--Billie Eilish
Notable lines:
"I'm not afraid anymore, what makes you sure you're all I need?
Forget about it
When you walk out the door and leave me torn
You're teaching me to live without it
Bored, I'm so bored"
Leave Me Alone
By NF
An Insight into How OCD Impacts the Singer's Perception of Fame
Notable lines:
"Diagnosed with OCD, what does that mean? Well, gather 'round
That means I obsessively obsess on things I think about
That means I might take a normal thought and think it's so profound (Leave me alone)"
Your Power
By Billie Eilish
The First Amendment Exists, and Yet People Still Abuse Their Power
Notable lines:
"Does it keep you in control? (in control, in control)
For you to keep her in a cage?"
Twisted
By MISSIO
It's Easy to Drown in Self-Hatred
Notable Lines:
"I'm uncontrollable, emotional, chaotically proportional
I'm visceral, reloadable
I'm crazy, I'm crazy, I'm crazy, I'm crazy"
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