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Can anyone tell me of bands that have really depressing lirics? But bands that you actually understand what they are saying so no screaming. And no moshy (sp) stuff either like Celine Dion or something like that.
Something like Evanescence.
Thanks

at the end of the movie two towers (lotr), "gollum's song" played, it was so sad and depressing. makes a person want to hurt themselves or commit suicide or something. (don't take me seriously on those.) travis said that song "back to life" made him want to kill someone, not for real of course! just depressing is all.

lots.. but this one i have been listening to latley

Depeche Mode

God Bless the Child

Yeeeeeah and I just heard gollums song, and it sent shivers up my spine. I will probably have trouble getting to sleep tonight.

A lot of Elton Johns early stuff is depressing.

Have to check the Gollum song, dont remember that.

Aaah recent suff. I dont like old music (by old I mean before 90).

Depeach mode isn't that like techno or something? Maybe I'm confusing with something else.

Yeah I know what you mean by old music. I can't stand anything before 1600's

Listen to The Smiths Kes, they've got some moody songs but they were great too.

why do you need depressing lyrics?

Baughhouse (sp), Morressey (sp), The Cure, those kinds of bands could put a razor in your hand for sure

Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
Godhead - I Hate Today
Staind - Epiphany
Nickleback - Leader of Men
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

These songs were written to die by.

Happy kine> I just like songs with depressing lirics Yes I'm wierd.

Execation> You think Iris from Goo goo dolls is depressing?

Umm, lots of Smashing Pumpkins songs.

I'll PM you some of the lyrics written in my teens there full of depressing "Oh woe is me... the worlds a bad mean place..." type lyrics.

Ah that would be cool Baylin. Thanks

dredg

Stone Sour - Bother
Goldfinger - Open Your Eyes

Give me a little while to dig them out I've got 'em in folder somewhere.

Ok.

Silverchair - Ana's Song (Open Fire). good song. very slow and Rockish.

Hey they made a song for me?!
How sweet!

Nightwish - Dead Boy' s Poem
Evanescence - My Immortal
Eric Clapton - Tears In Heaven

My Immortal by Evanescence is excelante!

It' s a great song!

no doubt : don't speak
always makes me cry, reminds me of something in the past

sorry to hear that

tis not like you can change that, storm

yeah, I know

im so sick of evenescence

Yeah, I never liked them

i have to listen to their crap all day at blockbuster. the girl is hot, but the music is so generic

I'm not sure if it's the same song from lotr but they use the same theme song as Requiem for a dream did. Yes pretty depressing song but more depressing when you see Requiem for a dream. Great song

Really ANY Linkin Park song is depressing and great. One that's stick out are "in the end," "faint," "forgotten," "crawling," "pushing me away," "easier to run" the list can go on and on. Also "teenage suicide" by Unwritten Law, hmm what else. "The Patient" by Tool is like my all time favortie song and is pretty depressing i'd say. "Only in dreams," and "say it ain't so" by weezer. And "The Last Song I'll Ever Write About a Girl" by The Ataris.

POD's Youth of the Nation is kind of depressing, but it has a great message. Sings about problems with kids like school shootings, sex young, and suicide. Depressing, but it's an awesome song with a great message.

Of course most of their lyrics have messages. They are a Christian rock band of course.

i used to think enya's "may it be" was depressing, from first lotr movie.

I thought it was "beautiful" *rinses tongue* not depressing. Reminds me that I need to put it on my Windows Media Playlist...

You got that one right. But depressing...? They always give me a boost of energy.

POD has the worst lyrics imaginable, and they have a rotten moral. No offense against christian opinions, it's just that POD's ones are sick.

*punches Mah and turns up the volume on POD*

Silverchair - Ana's Song (Open Fire). that song is depressing, and is the shiznit. sorry i think i mentioned this already but whatever. also "Faint" by Linkin Park is good. very depressing. "Somewhere I Belong" makes me wanna cry too cuz i can totally relate to it.

You see what POD teaches him?

I just don't like their extremist homophobic stance.

Halelujah by Rufus Wainright is quite a nice depressing song.

Cool. I'll ask my cousin to find me these songs. Thanks guys

They are a Christian rock band after all. By Bible standards (or so I've heard), God didn't put people on Earth so they could be gay. Being a Christian rock band, they are strong in their faith.

Well only extremist christians follow the old testament literally, and these buggers are obviously extremists..or fundamentalists.

the music video for "concrete angel" by martina mcbride was sad.

if you want truley heartbreaking lyrics, the best place to look is in korns self titled first album. there is a song called 'daddy' on that album, and it is undoubtably the most powerful, heart breaking song i have ever heard, period. there is screaming in it, but you can still easily make out what he is saying. again, you wont find a more personal or powerful song anywhere.

Still..Korn are rich spoiled bastards too.

until recently i thought pod stood for Priests On Demand... i had a friend with an aunt that was part of some cult called catholic or something... and she used to send him christian rock and rap tapes (yes, before cd's.) well anyway one tape he had was actually pid, Priests In Demand... it was rap... it was horrible... but still i never heard a pod song... just a funny story..

but for depressing lyrics of true suffering and pain, rather then whining, try nina simone's strange fruit.... here is a portion of that song...

Southern trees
Bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
And blood at the roots
Black bodies
Swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin'

now thats depressing in a real way.

right on!

the so called depressing music of today is trite... you have well off suburb kids complaining about petty stuff. if you listen to the song strange fruit by nina simone you can feel the TRUE pain in her voice.... true suffering. nina simone has many songs that run the gambit of emotion. from joy to pain, from love to suffering, from triumph to loss... truly a thing of beauty! anywho just my two cents.

Petty stuff to you...maybe not for them. And that's a huge generalization. "well off surburban kids" I'm from nyc and not well of and i listen to a bunch of the same music that so called "well off surburban kids" listen to. And also just because someone is from surburbia doens't mean they're "well off"-i've stated this before and will state it again just because someone has money doesn't mean they're void of emotion including pain. And just because someone lives in suburbia doesn't mean they live in a white house with a white picket fence and have a mother and father and a sibling. And even if they did have all these things doesn't mean they don't feel pain. Talk about stereotypes, jesus.

Still, singing things like "I live a life in pain/tormenting my soul" and so forth, isn't suitable if you say you're happy, you're rich, and you've got a beautiful woman.

what i really wonder is what there is to be depressed about.... i guess its perception... i look to the sky and see the beauty and realize being depressed is worthless and does not get me where i want to be. people who are depressed and have good health are crybabies.

That's the point, what if they aren't happy. So what if they're rich and they have beautiful women. Sometimes money doens't make a person happy. Whatever happened to money ain't everything. Or do you disagree with that statement to? Sometimes material things don't make a person happy. If they aren't happy, and they want to express that why should they be doubted. Some things that make other people depressed or angry, etc i couldn't care less about. And visa versa. example: people dying in a foriegn land, or in a war, i couldn't give a rats ass about and i don't wanna hear people sing about it. But that's not true for other people. So i don't judge and generalize the people who sing about these things.

some older korn songs are the exception. they are popular, but the guy went through some horrible events in his life.

my immortal ~ evanesense

Michael Jackson - Little Susie

Somebody killed little susie
The girl with the tune
Who sings in the daytime at noon
She was there screaming
Beating her voice in her doom
But nobody came to her soon...

A fall down the stairs
Her dress torn
Oh the blood in her hair...
A mystery so sullen in air
She lie there so tenderly
Fashioned so slenderly
Lift her with care,
Oh the blood in her hair...

Everyone came to see
The girl that now is dead
So blind stare the eyes in her head...
And suddenly a voice from the crowd said
This girl lived in vain
Her face bear such agony, such strain...

But only the man from next door
Knew little susie and how he cried
As he reached down

To close susie's eyes...
She lie there so tenderly
Fashioned so slenderly
Lift her with care
Oh the blood in her hair...

It was all for god's sake
For her singing the tune
For someone to feel her despair
To be damned to know hoping is dead and you're doomed
Then to scream out
And nobody's there...

She knew no one cared...

Father left home, poor mother died
Leaving susie alone
Grandfather's soul too had flown...
No one to care
Just to love her
How much can one bear
Rejecting the needs in her prayers...

Neglection can kill
Like a knife in your soul
Oh it will
Little susie fought so hard to live...
She lie there so tenderly
Fashioned so slenderly
Lift her with care
So young and so fair

Metallica -Fade To Black on Ride the lightning album


Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free


Things are not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filing me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now He's gone
No one but me can save myself, but it to late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try
Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye

Cool.

Daddy



Little child, looking so pretty
Come out and play, I'll be your daddy
Innocent child, looking so sweet
A rape in my eyes and on your flesh I'll eat

You've raped!
I feel dirty
It hurt!
As a child
Tied down!
That's a good boy
And ****ed!
Your own child
I scream!
No one hears me
It hurt!
I'm not alive
My God!
Saw you watching
Mommy why?!
Your own child
{The third time this section is sung, "Mother" is repeated
in the background}

It's alright

I didn't touch you there
Mama said she didn't care
I didn't touch you there
That's why mama stopped and stared

NIN
i hurt myself today
to see if i still feel
i focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but i remember everything

what have i become?
my sweetest friend
everyone i know
goes away in the end
you could have it all
my empire of dirt
i will let you down
i will make you hurt

i wear this crown of shit
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
i cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
i am still right here

what have i become?
my sweetest friend
everyone i know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt
i will let you down
i will make you hurt

if i could start again
a million miles away
i would keep myself
i would find a way

If you want a great depressing song...listen to My Immortal by Evanescence!

Yellowcard-Star struck

Where is your inspiration,
you lost it oh so long ago
so much for innovation,
I saw this coming long before
You had no motivation,
your hopes are high but trapped below,
This constant competition,
we've won but your still keeping score

But I grew up, wishing on a star
Your think, I won't ever get to far

So high on dedication,
it feels so good to get away
From all this repetition,
this angry town, this battleground
So now we'll break tradition
we'll leave you swimming in our wake
Without your inspiration,
you won't survive
you'll surely drown

But I grew up, wishing on a star
Your think, I won't ever get to far (2x)

Where is your inspiration,
you lost it oh so long ago

I can think of a lot of country songs that are really depressing - even some of the lyrics.

Not necessarily true. They could be drawing from teachings in the New Testament. At least POD isn't afraid to say what they believe is the truth. They don't just do what they're doing to make money, but because it's what they believe in.

Actually, the POD we've been discussing stands for Payable on Death.

Like I said I like bands like Linkin Park and stuff. Not slow songs but not really heavy to the point of not understanding what they are saying.



Ok. That kind of bands I like it but there are members who knows their lyrics much better than me..so good luck

By the way..great concert of Evanescense in Lisbon.

Yeh must have been great. I dont like concerts thou. To many ppl.

I was there just until the third song. I went to take photos and we only can work until the the end of the third music...so I heard the most of it at the bar and took a look when they played the hit..goooiiiinnng uuundeeeeeeeeerrr... But people were happy there.

i reckon that marilyn manson's songs have depressing lyrics-thats just because most of his songs realate to events in his life.he has had a pretty s****y life.

MARILYN MANSON LYRICS

"I Want To Disappear"

Look at me now I've got no religion
Look at me now I'm so vacant
Look at me now I was a virgin
Look at me now grew up to be a whore
And I want it
I believe it
I'm a million different things
And not one you know

Hey and our mommies are lost now
Hey, daddy's someone else
Hey, we love the abuse
Because it makes us feel like we are needed now
But I know
I wanna disappear

I wanna die young and sell my soul
Use up all your drugs and make me come
Yesterday man, I was a nihilist and now today
I'm too ****ing bored by the time I'm old enough
I won't know anything at all

Hay, and our mommies are lost now


I can understand if you dont like his music cos its pretty "individual" but i admire the guy.

lol Cool.

I actually like some of his songs. I adore Beautiful ppl!

just J.Lo in general and ofcourse britney "brag" spears

They have depressing lyrics, or they just depress you?

they're lyrics are so terrible that they depress me.

#1 Most Depressing...NIN- "hurt"...the cover by Johnny Cash is even more depressing...Johnny Cash has a much more soulful and emotional voice, it just fits perfectly
A CLOSE 2nd-Staind's "Epiphany"
The Verve Pipe-"Bittersweet Symphony" (definetly the winner for perfectly chosen movie song...the end of Cruel Intentions)
Blink 182's "Adam's Song" and "Stay Together for the Kids"

I hate to say it, but the video for Nickelback's "Someday" is pretty sad, and the song is great (and depressing...depending on your mood)

Thanks.

Silverchair- "Ana's Song"
Everlast f. Santana- "Put Your Lights On"
Everlast- "What its Like"

Oh yeah... one more... the last one I promise

DAVE MATTHEWS- "GRAVE DIGGER"...not only does the song have a deep meaning, but its a sad song, and the video is depressing...

this one in my opinion is like the 3rd most depressing song

I think when people try to tell you a song is depressing they do it by saying the lyrics are so sad and moving; but sometimes I think there has to be more for a ultimately depressing song...the sound of the vocalist the crying out..... if anybodys ever heard of a band called pictures; well on their album 'exposure' theres a track called loneliness


how I wonder
whats going to happen after
while Im in here, lonelinness

tv blind me,
radio on desk
outside watching
straining to perspect

while Im not there, loneliness

distant voices
happy rushing death
tired and lonely
father never cared
all the pain loneliness, all the pain loneliness

all this song wants you to do is curl up in a ball and just cry its so empty and sad......

We are all getting depressed with this thread

lol

REM...very depressing

A few songs by Cold's new album - The Year of the Spider - had a few depressing songs in it. That album is really good, check it out.

you can try some pantera songs allthough they seem to be a bit heavy for your taste

korns first record "self titteld" that album is depressing and sick its different from there latest records and i mean different " lyricaly and musically" songs like daddy are hard to chew

dredg "is not everything" this song has some deperssing lyrics

Tool has some well writen deperessing lyrics try the songs

1-forty 6 and two
2-sober
3-jimmy

*songs like daddy and faget are hard to chew

band Fear Factory-- song "Timelessness"

I've felt darkness closing in on me....Chilling shadows surrounding me...I've had the poison leak into my skin and it corroded my heart away...Bled away..Cut away..Dark night of my soul...

Hey Kess
Anything by Marilyn Manson is quite depressing to me...
Dont know why though.

Well really not sure what to tell you.

Thanks guys

hi - am making a music to sob to CD at the moment - My Immortal is such a good song, if you're in that place (lyrics below) i also have Nothing Else Matters - Metallica, a lot of REM, and First Cut is the Deepest, sheryl Crow version (me being a girlie and all)

I'm so tired of being here,
Supressed by all my childish fears,
and if you have to leave,
I wish that you would just leave,
Cause your presence still lingers here,
and it won't leave me alone,

These wounds won't seem to heal,
This pain is just too real,
There's just too much that time cannot erase,

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears,
When you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears,
and I held your hand through all of these years,
But you still...have...all of me,

You used to captivate me,
by your resignating mind,
now i'm bound by the life you left behind,
Your face it haunts,
my once pleasant dreams,
your voice it chased away,
all the sanity in me,

These wounds won't seem to heal,
this pain is just to real,
there's just too much that time cannot erase,

When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears,
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears,
and I held your hand through all of these years,
but you still...have...all of me

I've tried so hard to tell myself that your gone,
but though you're still with me,
I've been alone all along,

When you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears,
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears,
and I held your hand through all of these years,
but you still...have...all of me

The Smashing Pumpkins > Famous for melodic music

{ Tonight Tonight }

time is never time at all

you can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth

and our lives are forever changed

we will never be the same

the more you change the less you feel

believe, believe in me, believe

that life can change, that you're not stuck in vain

we're not the same, we're different tonight

tonight, so bright

tonight

and you know you're never sure

but you're sure you could be right

if you held yourself up to the light

and the embers never fade in your city by the lake

the place where you were born

believe, believe in me, believe

in the resolute urgency of now

and if you believe there's not a chance tonight

tonight, so bright

tonight

we'll crucify the insincere tonight

we'll make things right, we'll feel it all tonight

we'll find a way to offer up the night tonight

the indescribable moments of your life tonight

the impossible is possible tonight

believe in me as i believe in you, tonight

Unforgiven - Metallica
Strange Glue - Catatonia
Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
Something In The Way - Nirvana

this one depresses me cos it pretty much described something which happened to me a while back. its a cool song though.

Adema-Close Friends


Today you told me that I'd hate you forever
I can't believe what's really going on
Somehow I knew that you felt guilty for something
But tell me why you do this to me
Today you told me that I'd hate you forever
I can't believe that you'd wreck my life

I was betrayed, how can you say that you feel sorry inside
It's devastating, losing close friends
I've gone away, you make me stay but I can't tell it from lies
I've gone insane, losing close friends

Today I made the worst mistake
I put my trust into someone I don't know
And now I know because you've done everything possible to me
Made me so upset
And now I know just who to trust because you're laying in bed
You're thinking 'bout all that ****ed up shit

I was betrayed, how can you say that you feel sorry inside
It's devastating, losing close friends
I've gone away, you make me stay but I can't tell it from lies
(Lies)
I've gone insane, losing close friends

I'm so weak
The closeness of your skin
The smell of this place
Makes me go insane

You make me go insane

I was betrayed, how can you say that you feel sorry inside
It's devastating, losing close friends
I've gone away, you make me stay but I can't tell it from lies
I've got insane, losing close friends

Losing close friends

My fave depressing lyrics are from my beloved manic street preachers. The song is about an anorexic girl and is called 4st. 7lb. It ends with this lyric:
Self worth scatters, self esteems a bore
I long since moved to a higher plateau
this disciplines so rare so please applaud
just look at the fat scum who pamper me so
yeah 4st 7, an epilogue of youth
such beautiful dignity in self abuse
I've finally come to understand life
through staring blankly at my navel.

Listen to Alice in Chains. Layne Staley is the prince of darkness. RIP Layne.

its not that depressing but i think
evanescence - last breath
evanescence - tourniquet

evanescence - my last breathe

Hold on to me love.
You know I can't stay long.
All I wanted to say was I love you,
And I'm not afraid (Ahhh)
Can you hear me ?
Can you feel me in your arms ?

(chorus)
Holding my last breath.
Safe inside myself.
Are all my thoughts of you ?
Sweet raptured light,
It ends here tonight.

I'll miss the winter.
A world of fragile things.
Look for me in the white forest,
Hiding in a hollow tree (come find me)
I know you hear me.
I can taste it in your tears.

(chorus)
Holding my last breath.
Safe inside myself.
Are all my thoughts of you ?
Sweet raptured light,
It ends here tonight.

Closing your eyes to disappear.
You pray your dreams will leave you here
But still you wake and know the truth
No one's there!

Say goodnight
Don't be afraid.
Calling me,
Calling me,
As you fade to black.

(chorus)
Holding my last breath.
Safe inside myself.
Are all my thoughts of you ?
Sweet raptured light,
It ends here tonight.

Holding My Last Breath.
Safe inside myself.
Are all my thoughts of you ?
Sweet raptured light,
It ends here tonight.

evanescene - tourniquet

I tried to kill the pain,
But only brought more.
(So much more)
I lay dying,
And I'm pouring
crimson regret, and betrayal.

I'm dying,
Praying,
Bleeding,
Screaming.

Am I too lost to be saved?
Am I too lost?

My God! My Tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.
My God! My Tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.

Do you remember me;
Lost for so long?
Will you be on the other side?
Or will you forget me?

I'm dying,
Praying,
Bleeding,
Screaming.

Am I too lost to be saved?
Am I too lost?

My God! My Tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.
My God! My Tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.

(Return to me salvation)
(I want to DIE!)

My God! My Tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.
My God! My Tourniquet,
Return to me salvation.

My wounds cry for the grave.
My soul cries for deliverance.
Will I be denied?
Christ! Tourniquet! My suicide.

(Return to us salvation)
(Return to us salvation...)

thats more like whining but good lyrics..i thought all thier lyrics i crap

Every song on The Soul Cages by Sting reeks of despair and bitterness - especially "Island of Souls," "All This Time," "Why Should I Cry For You," "The Soul Cages," and "When The Angels Fall."


Island of Souls

Billy was born within sight of the shipyard
First son of a riveter's son
And Billy was raised as the ship grew a shadow
Her great hull would blot out the light of the sun
And six days a week he would watch his poor father
A working man live like a slave
He'd drink every night, and he'd dream of a future,
Of money he never would save

Billy would cry when he thought of the future
Soon came a day when the bottle was broken
They launched the great ship out to sea
He felt he'd been left on a desolate shore
To a future he desperately wanted to flee

What else was there for a ship-builder's son
A new ship to be built, new work to be done
One day he dreamed of the ship in the world
It would carry his father and he
To a place they would never be found
To a place far away from this town

Trapped in the cage of the skeleton ship
All the workmen suspended like flies
Caught in the flare of acetylene light
A working man works till the industry dies

And Billy would cry when he thought of the future
Then what they call an industrial accident
Crushed those it couldn't forgive
They brought Billy's father back home in an ambulance
A brass watch, a cheque, maybe three weeks to live

What else was there for a riveter's son?
A new ship to be built, new work to be done
That night he dreamed of the ship in the world
It would carry his father and he
To a place they could never be found
To a place far away from this town,
A Newcastle ship with no coals
They would sail to the island of souls

All This Time

I looked out across
The river today
Saw a city in the fog
And an old church tower
Where the seagulls play
Saw the sad shire horses
Walking home in the sodium light
two priests on the ferry
October geese on a cold winter's night

All this time
The river flowed
Endlessly,
To the sea.

Two priest came round
Our house tonight
One young, one old,
To offer prayers for the dying,
And To serve the final rite
One to love, one to teach
Which way the cold wind blows
one Fussing and flapping in priestly black
Like a murder of crows

All this time
The river flowed
Endlessly,
To the sea.

If I had my way
I'd take a boat from the river
And I'd bury the old man
I'd bury him at sea

Blessed are the poor
For they shall inherit the earth
Better to be poor
Than be a fat man in the eye of a needle
As these words were spoken
I swear I hear the old man laughing
What good is a used up world,
And how could it be worth having?

All this time
The river flowed
Endlessly,
like a silent tear.

All this time
The river flowed
Father, if Jesus exists,
Then how come he never lived here?
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah

Teachers told us
The Romans built this place
They built a wall and a temple on the edge of the
Empire garrison town
They lived and they died
They prayed to their gods
But the stone gods did not make a sound
And their empire crumbled
Till all that was left
Were the stones the workmen found

All this time the river flowed
In the falling light of a northern sun
If I had my way
I'd take a boat from the river
Men go crazy in congregations
They only get better one by one
One by one
One by one, by one
One by one

I looked out across
The river today
I saw a city in the fog
And an old church tower
Where the seagulls play
Saw the sad shire horses
Walking home in the sodium light
Two priests on the ferry
October geese on a cold winter's night

Why Should I Cry For You

Under the dog-star sail
Over the reefs of moonshine
Under the skies of fall
North-north-west, the stones of Faroe

Under the Arctic fire
Over the seas of silence
Hauling on frozen ropes
For all my days remaining
Would north be true?

All colours bleed to red
Asleep on the ocean's bed
Drifting in empty seas
For all my days remaining
Would north be true?
Why should I, why should I cry for you?
Dark angels follow me
Over a godless sea
Mountains of endless falling
For all my days remaining

What would be true?
Sometimes I see your face,
The stars seem to lose their place
Why must I think of you?
Why must I? Why should I?
Why should I cry for you?
Why would you want me to?
And what would it mean to say,
'I loved you in my fashion?'
What would be true?
Why should I, why should I cry for you?
Why should I cry?

The Soul Cages

The boy child is locked in the fisherman's yard
There's a bloodless moon where the oceans die
A shoal of night stars hang fire in the nest
And the chaos of cages where the crayfish lie

Where is the fisherman, where is the goat,
Where is the keeper in his carrion coat?
Eclipse on the moon when the dark bird flies
Where is the child with his father's eyes?

He's the king of the ninth world
The twisted son of the fog bells' toll
In each and every lobster cage, a tortured human soul
These are the souls of the broken factories
The subject slaves of the broken crown
The dead accounting of old guilty promises
These are the souls of the broken town
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages

'I have a wager,' the brave child spoke
The fisherman laughed though disturbed at the joke
'You will drink what I drink
But you must equal me,
And if the drink leaves me standing,
A soul shall go free'

'I have here a cask of most magical wine
A vintage that blessed every ship in the line
It's wrung from the blood of the sailors who died
Young white bodies adrift in the tide'

'And what's in it for me, my pretty young thing?
Why should I whistle when the caged bird sings?
If you lose a wager with the king of the sea
You'll spend the rest of forever in the cage with me'
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages

A body lies open in the fisherman's yard like
The side of a ship where the iceberg rips
One less soul in the soul cages
One last curse on the fisherman's lips

These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages
These are the soul cages

And he dreamed of a ship on the sea
It would carry his father and he
To a place they could never be found
To a place far away from this town
A Newcastle ship with no coals
They would sail to the island of souls

When The Angels Fall

So high above the world tonight
The angels watch us sleeping
And underneath a bridge of stars
We dream in safety's keeping
But perhaps the dream is dreaming us
Soaring with the seagulls
But perhaps the dream is dreaming us
Astride the backs of eagles
When the angels fall
Shadows on the wall
In the thunder's call
Something haunts us all
When the angels fall
When the angels fall

Take your father's cross gently from the wall
The shadow still remaining
See the churches fall, in mighty arcs of sound
And all that they're containing
Yet all the ragged souls of all the ragged men
Looking for their lost homes
Shuffle to the ruins from the levelled plain
To search among the tombstones
When the angels fall
Shadows on the wall
In the thunder's call
Something haunts us all
When the angels fall
When the angels fall
When the angels fall

These are my feet
These are my hands
These are my children
And this is my demand
Bring down the angels
Cast them from my sight
I never want to see
A million suns at midnight
Your hands are empty, the streets are empty
You can't control us, you can't control us anymore
When the angels fall
When the angels fall

bright eyes

the lead singer screams in some songs, but not all... i highly recommend "lover i don't have to love" and "a perfect sonnet"

Originally posted by Sc0rchy
bright eyes

the lead singer screams in some songs, but not all... i highly recommend "lover i don't have to love" and "a perfect sonnet"

"Lover I Don't Have to Love." Great song.

Non Zero Possibility is probably my favorite depressing song by At The Drive-In. It was probably written without the intention of being sad, but I still find it sad.

"I'm just tired of counting bodies,
Is this mausoleum tardy,
Let's just paint you a pretty face...."

People who spell it "Lirics" depress me.

-AC

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
People who spell it "Lirics" depress me.

-AC

Tracy Chapman always made me want to off myself, maybe you could start with her.

If you looking a good album with great female vocals try Veruca Salts American Thighs, it's not Evanescence but I'd say that the album all in all is better. Try it you may like it.

Depressing in what way? A death? A break-up? The world being lame?