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A couple that made me curious, for quite different reasons:

Thank you, didn't know about the first one.

 

[iamivancb]

Ozzy Osbourne: Suicide Solution
Nirvana: I Hate Myself And Want To Die

On a more lighthearted note, "Elevator Operator" by Courtney Barnett where the narrator thinks Oliver Paul is suicidal but really he's just unfulfilled because he hates his job and wants to be an elevator operator.

Always thought Suicide Solution is more about letting go of things with drug abuse but not of suicide specifically -Ozzy said in an interview-: https://www.kerrang.com/ozzy-osbour...-controversy-and-what-the-song-actually-means

 

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Ofc, Rise Against had to touch the topic as well in "Make It Stop":

Whoa, whoa.

Bang bang go the coffin nails, like a breath exhaled,
Then gone forever.
It seems like just yesterday, how did I miss the red flags raise?

Think back to the days we laughed.
We braved these bitter storms together.
Then brought to his knees he cried,
But on his feet he died.

What God would damn a heart?
And what God drove us apart?

What God could make it stop?
Let this end.
Eighteen years pushed to the ledge.
It's come to this,
A weightless step.
On the way down singing,
Whoa, whoa.

Bang bang from the closet walls,
The schoolhouse halls,
The shotgun's loaded.
Push me and I'll push back.
I'm done asking, I demand.

From a nation under God,
I feel it's love like a cattle prod.
Born free, but still they hate.
A born me, no I can't change

It's always darkest just before the dawn.
So stay awake with me, let's prove them wrong.

Make it stop.
Let this end,
Eighteen years pushed to the ledge.
It's come to this,
A weightless step.
On the way down singing
Whoa, whoa.

The cold river washed him away,
But how could we forget?
The gatherings hold candles, but not their tongues.

And too much blood has flown from the wrist,
Of the children shamed for those they chose to kiss.
Who will rise to stop the blood?
We're calling for,
Insisting on, a different beat, yeah.
A brand new song, whoa, oh
A brand new song, whoa, whoa, whoa

(Whoa) Make it stop.
Let this end,
This life chose me, I'm not lost in sin
(Whoa) And proud I stand, of who I am,
I plan to go on living

(Whoa) Make it stop.
Let this end,
All these years pushed to the ledge
(Whoa) But proud I stand, of who I am,
I plan to go on living

 

[iamivancb]

Lyrics in English, originally sung in Italian:

Around your body, there is a halo of death
I look at your gaunt face, you smile you are strong
your waxy face
and slow pulses
your dark lips
make my teeth gnash
you wait calmly
your absolution
your bittersweet death
gives a strange feeling (4 times)
you asked me
Not to cry
It was the last favour
Even this is denied you, dear unfortunate friend
And the world condemns you
and speaks of it in disgust
this dirty idiot world, the very one that created you (twice)
But I don't
But I don't, I understand you, I don't blame you
I know my story, I know your sad poetry
With the taste of death your hand in mine
and I give this death of mine
life returns to me
And now I feel the strongest
I no longer have queens but a king