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Here’s a sample of songs dealing with mental health
issues ranging from feelings of loneliness and depression to substance
abuse. Use them in your campus outreach; talk about them at a resident
hall program, get them played on your college radio station, or share
the lyrics on a bulletin board:
Rock/Pop/Folk
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Avril Lavigne – Damn Cold Night; Nobody’s Home
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Ben Folds Five – Evaporated
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Britney Spears – Everytime
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Christina Aguilera – Beautiful
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Counting Crows – Amy Hit the Atmosphere
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Dar Williams – After All
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Dido – Don’t Leave Home
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Evanescence – Tourniquet
• Fuel- Bad Day
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Grateful Dead – Touch of Gray
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Guster – The Prize; Scars & Stitches
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James Taylor – Fire and Rain
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Linkin Park – Bad Habit; Numb; Last Resort
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Matchbox 20 – Unwell
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Natalie Merchant – Tell Yourself
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Nine Days – If I Am
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Peter Gabriel – Don’t Give Up
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Pink – Don’t Let Me Get Me
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The Rolling Stones – Paint it Black
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Silverchair – Anna’s Song
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Staind – Outside
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Sublime – Garden Grove
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The Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work
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The Verve Pipe – The Freshman
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Third Eye Blind – Jumper
Punk/Ska
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Black Flag – Depression
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Blink 182 – Adam’s Song
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Bouncing Souls – Gone; Born to Lose
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Buck-o-nine – Albuquerque
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Catch 22 – 12341234
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Face 2 Face – Blind
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Five Iron Frenzy – Suckerpunch
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Good Charlotte – Hold On
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Greenday – She
• Lagwagon- Change Despair; Black Eyes; Angry days
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Less Than Jake – Bad Scene and a Basement Show
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Millencolin – Bullion
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MxPx – The Wonder Years; Today is in my way
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Pennywise – Depression
• Unwritten Law- Teenage Suicide
Hip-Hop/R&B
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Alicia Keys – Troubles
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K-Ci & JoJo – Suicide
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Mary J. Blige – My Life; No More Drama
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Pras – How it Feels
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Talib Kweli – Get By
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TLC – Unpretty; Waterfalls
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Tupac – So Many Tears
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