Cutting playlist?

[AnyWayYouSliceIt]

So, sometimes I like to listen to music when I cut (sounds morbid, but it's relaxing, and usually when I listen to music when I cut, I don't cut as deep, which is good). Some of the music is specifically about cutting, some of it can just be twisted around to be about cutting. Sometimes I like music that lets me wallow in the pain and the cutting, other times I like music that makes me think this won't last forever and one day soon I won't need cutting to be my crutch in life. I'm looking for some suggestions?

Some examples: the song "Bleeding Love" by Leona Lewis was probably not intended to be about cutting, but it could definitely be interpreted that way.

"Tourniquet" by Evanescence is a made-about-cutting song I like, though I'm usually not into that kind of "emo" music... I'm too preppy, lol.

Linkin Park's two songs "Breaking the Habit" and "Bleed It Out" are really good, too.

I also like Alanis Morissette's "That I Would Be Good" and the Beatles' "Yesterday." They aren't about cutting, but I like them because they sort of catch the emotion you feel...

As a hopeful song, I like Green Day's "Time of Your Life"... makes me think cutting won't last forever and I'll stop someday... but their "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is a good song to wallow in...

Muse has great songs, too, like "Starlight" and "Map of the Problematique."

Any other suggestions? I want to get a good playlist together to keep on hand.

Thanks!

[love is louder]

i have loads and loads of soft songs i listen to on my ipod when im drawing but now i use it for cutting it kind of relaxes me and has the same effect
BUT for actuall cutting i have
Between the trees - the way she feels (vids not bad)
flyleaf - stay (faraway, so close) they are pretty good that sort of thing
and plum - cut
i have a few more but there more personal memories
like tracy chapman - the promise
jon mclaughlin - beautiful disaster

[Syvelocin]

^ Even though it's not my music, The Way She Feels was the key in me surviving one of my hospitalizations. I was seriously a wreck. I sang it quietly to myself each night, ended up writing the lyrics out a few times in my journal. A lot of people take it in the religious sense, which turns me off, but I liked it because it's an optimistic song and in my mind I thought of finding a guy who will help me get through it. And it happened :P

I don't think you want my suggestions because of music taste, but I'll give you them anyway. :P

Self harm-related:
Bad Habit - The Dresden Dolls
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
Bleed Like Me - Garbage (it's also a little of everything, but it does directly mention self-harm)

General psych:
Breathe Me - Sia (I see it as self-harm, but it's not obvious)
Runs In The Family - Amanda Palmer
HRSA - Blue October
Chameleon Boy - Blue October
Schizophrenia - Blue October
Opheliac - Emilie Autumn
Swallow - Emilie Autumn
The Art of Suicide - Emilie Autumn
Me and a Gun - Tori Amos
Medication - Garbage

[SylvioUltima]

I personally love how the main mod of the psych ward knows what people here are going through. That to me shows how deticated to VirtualTeen's members the administrators are. :)

[RAWWR]

JackoffJill-Strawberry Gashes.

[Love.Hate]

When she cries- Britt Nicole
My immortal- evanescence
Concrete angel- martina mcbride.. I think that's her name?

I interpret these ones as self harm ones.. They are also related to other mental illnesses. Bit sad though :/

[smithy94]

sum 41- slipping away
+44- no it isnt
puddle of mudd-away from me
killswitch engage- the end of heartache
Blink 182- adams song

not necessarily about self harm but i usually listen to em during/after i do it

[Immortal Love]

JackoffJill-Strawberry Gashes.


I love that song! I was just listening to it actually, and now I'm listening to When I Am Queen by them

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My playlist also has kind of darker music in it. Last night while I was cutting I was actually singing along. Oh, and yes, I actually have a specific list for it titled 'Grr'. Here's the songs.

This Is Halloween- Panic! At The Disco
All These Cuts- Lee Skinner ( About Cutting)
Lose Control- Blood On The Dancefloor
Breathe Me- Sia (About Self Harm)
Little Angel- Ana Johnson
Bullet With Butterfly Wings - The Smashing Pumpkins
Labyrinth- Oomph
Pain- Three Days Grace
When I Am Queen- Jack Off Jill
Unwanted- Avril Lavigne
Fear Of Dying- Jack Off Jill
Strawberry Gashes- Jack Off Jill ( About Cutting)
Lithium- Evanescence
Like Suicide- Seether
Walk Away From The Sun- Seether
Thorns- Demon Hunter
Painting Flowers- All Time Low
Take Me Away- Avril Lavigne
The Diary Of Jane- Breaking Benjamin
Riot- Three Days Grace
Ohio Is For Lovers- Hawthorn Heights
To Write Love On Her Arms- Helio

[Craig1995]

I agree with all the songs you mentioned tbh

[Ambrosia]

My only fav songs that even MENTION self harm are

Ohio Is For Lovers-Hawethorn Heights
and
Im A Fake- The Used

[georgiamay]

I tend not to listen to music while I cut, but I do listen to songs about self harm.

Bleed like me - Garbage (not only about self harm, but the title sort of implies it...)
The way she feels - Between the trees
Cut - Plumb
With this knife - Smile empty soul
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails

I have loads of others that are about mental illnesses and similar problems like abuse and stuff that aren't completely related to self harm, and I know quite a few that suggest self harm, but it's not actually said.

Breath me - Sia
Concrete Angel - Martina McBride (about child abuse)
Nobody's Home - Avril Lavigne
Fix you - Coldplay
Not Afraid - Eminem (about recovering from an alcohol addiction, but you can interpret it in a different way easily)
Love the way you lie part 1 and 2 - Rihanna and Eminem (Domestic abuse, but you can interpret it in another way)
Going under - Evanescence
Bring me to life - Evanescence
Everybody's fool - Evanescence
Only happy when it rains - Garbage
I think I'm paranoid - Garbage (suggests mental illness, but not explicitly)
Under the bridge - Red hot chilli peppers (addictions)
Scar tissue - red hot chilli peppers
Beauty from pain - superchick
Pain - Three days grace

I could go on... :P
Honestly though, you can interpret any song you want in any way you want. There are a lot of songs in the charts right now, and even though they're all pretty shit, you can interpret the lyrics to make them about whatever you want. That's the good thing about music, the listener can make it personal to them.

[Jigsaw]

Knives and pens by Black Veil Brides, Black Rose Dying by Blass the Fall, Tillt the Hour Glass by Alesana, A Boy Brushed Red Living in Black and White by Underoath, most Evenecence songs, any song by Mayday Parade or Bayside. Lets just stop at that cause I have a lot more. I'm not to sure why but for some reason music like this calms me down. Maybe I'm just weird like that :/
Peace :-)

[Ryunosuke]

I Know My Friend Listens To Breaking Benjamin- Dear Agony
And Other Songs. I'll Ask. I Don't Cut But When I Try To Drink Myself Into A Coma I Listen To Music.

[Nevermore]

any song I can twist it to self injury.
Jar of Hears
Dresdon Dolls
Evanescence
Marilyn Manson
It depends what mood I'm in. I'll listen to anything while cutting or burning. There are songs that remind me of self injury, they of course are directly related and have self injury in them.

[Ryunosuke]

I Tried Cutting To Music. Couldn't Do It. Mostly Cause I Couldn't Hold The Knife Stable. Toooooooo Much Alcohol.... O.o

[Syvelocin]

No, I don't cut to music either, I stopped doing that a long time ago. I just like to listen to music that I can relate to lyrically, which is where my cutting playlist comes in :P

[mRojas2000]

Instead of my "cutting" playlist could I put my "self-harming" playlist? :D

[-Silence]

Full Of Grace
-Sarah McLachlan

The winter here's cold and bitter,
it's chilled us to the bone.
We haven't seen the sun for weeks,
too long, too far from home.
I feel just like I'm sinking,
and I claw for solid ground.
I'm pulled down by the undertow,
I never thought I could feel so low,
and, oh, darkness, I feel like letting go.

If all of the strength and all of the courage
come and lift me from this place.
I know I can love you much better than this:
Full of grace, Full of grace, my love.

It's better this way,
I said,
Haven't seen this place before.
Where everything we say and do,
hurts us all the more.
It's just that we stayed too long
in the same old sickly scheme,
and I'm pulled down by the undertow,
I never thought I could feel so low,
and, oh, darkness, I feel like letting go.

If all of the strength and all of the courage
come and lift me from this place
I know I can love you much better than this:
Full of grace, full of grace.

I know I can love you much better than this.

It's better this way.

Also, Click. (http://virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=50035&highlight=songs)

[Prinzessin_der_Nacht]

Labyrinth- Oomph


that song is sooo good :)

[mRojas2000]

Lifehouse - You're All I Want
Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
Linking Park - Leave Out All the Rest
Elisa e Ligabue - Gli Oscacoli del Cuore
Elisa - Eppure Sentire
Giovanni Allevi - Foglie di Beslan
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
3 Doors Down - Here Without You
Oasis - Wonderwall
Tiziano Ferro - Il Regalo piu' Grande
Green Day - Whatsername
Aerosmith - I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing
The Fray - How to Save a Life
James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover
Blink 182 - I Miss You
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved


There's a reason to all the love related songs... its complicated

[Unconventional]

I haven't read all of the above posts so some of these may already have been mentioned...
All Time Low - Painting Flowers
All Time Low - The Girl's A Straight-Up Hustler
Cassandra Steen - Unter Null [This is in German.]
Diam's - S.O.S [This is in French.]
New Years Day - Razor
Josh Golden - How Can You Stand There
Ellie Goulding - Lights
The Used - I'm A Fake
The Used - Lunacy Fringe
The Used - Take It Away
Madina Lake - Adalia
Hawthorne Heights - Ohio Is For Lovers

I always remember when I was much younger, I bought Taking Back Sunday's album Louder Now, and I really loved it so it was permanently in my CD player for weeks and weeks. I was cutting a couple of times a week then and every time I would go to my bedroom to do so, I would just press play on my CD player and the first song would always be What's It Feel Like To Be a Ghost? by Taking Back Sunday. Whenever I hear it now, it reminds me of those times.

[Indecision]

Take a look at some songs from Superchick, their abit cheesy but really meaningful and some are about self-harm.~

[love is louder]

Lifehouse - You're All I Want
Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah
Lady Antebellum - Need You Now
30 Seconds to Mars - The Kill
Linking Park - Leave Out All the Rest
Elisa e Ligabue - Gli Oscacoli del Cuore
Elisa - Eppure Sentire
Giovanni Allevi - Foglie di Beslan
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
3 Doors Down - Here Without You
Oasis - Wonderwall
Tiziano Ferro - Il Regalo piu' Grande
Green Day - Whatsername
Aerosmith - I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing
The Fray - How to Save a Life
James Blunt - Goodbye My Lover
Blink 182 - I Miss You
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved


There's a reason to all the love related songs... its complicated

Very good choice in music in my opinion :)

at the minute i seem to be listening to creep - radio head i think it is and it kinda reminds me of that feeling.

[mRojas2000]

Very good choice in music in my opinion :)

at the minute i seem to be listening to creep - radio head i think it is and it kinda reminds me of that feeling.

Thanks... um, its a very meaningful playlist, and its hard for me not to play any of those songs over and over -- every single song has a deep meaning and its correlated to a specific moment.

May I ask why you listening to Creep?

[love is louder]

May I ask why you listening to Creep?

i actually have no idea why. i found it on some chick flick and the lyrics just kind of stuck in my head. most of the songs i listen to remind me of something but this one kinda just seems to be there.

[mRojas2000]

i actually have no idea why. i found it on some chick flick and the lyrics just kind of stuck in my head. most of the songs i listen to remind me of something but this one kinda just seems to be there.

It's a good song... just kinda... um... creepy :P

[NobodysCupOf Tea]

well i only have a couple songs which i just repeat over and over again when cutting... they tend to be

Sick Puppies - All the same
P!nk - Fuckin' perfect
Linkin Park - Numb

generally just songs that get me low

[mRojas2000]

well i only have a couple songs which i just repeat over and over again when cutting... they tend to be

Sick Puppies - All the same
P!nk - Fuckin' perfect
Linkin Park - Numb

generally just songs that get me low

Funnny fact -- I was going to add this one to my list yesterday and I forgot...

[MyConfusion]

I generally just listen to when I cut any punk rock type music mainly depressing ones great to know I'm not the only one :)

[mRojas2000]

I generally just listen to when I cut any punk rock type music mainly depressing ones great to know I'm not the only one :)

You silly :P You thought you were the only one??! :)

[Blujay]

Like some others said, I don't really listen to music while I'm cutting, but I do listen to several songs when I'm feeling the need and can't find anything to cut with.

A Day to Be Alone- One Less Reason
Falling Awake- Gary Jules
The Freshmen -The Verve Pipe/Jay Brannan (I like JB's version more)
Scar- Missy Higgins
The Boats & Birds- Gregory and the Hawk
Heaven Forbid- The Fray
Talk- Coldplay
You're Beautiful- James Blunt
Vulnerable- Secondhand Serenade
Why- Secondhand Serenade

Anything slow and melodic, really.

Oh and I really lovelovelove the lyrics to Creep. "I don't care if it hurts, I want to have control. I want the perfect soul, I want the perfect body."

[Grapefruitt]

All songs from Green Day.
for example.:

Jesus of suburbia (Especially that one. )
St Jimmy
Longview
Welcome to paradise
Shes a rebel
Whatsername
Sassafras Roots
Are we the waiting
Know your enemy
Holiday
When i come around
She
Ha ha you're dead
Basket Case

Just few of them. :P


I also love Panic! At The Disco.

I just listen to all of their song when i cut, theres really not any i listen to more than other when i cut.
Sooo ..

A fever you can't sweat out
Pretty Odd
Vices&Virtues

<3


My 2 fav. band.
I dont really listen to some specific music when i cut, i just listen to the music i do when i dont cut. :P