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Dashboard Confessional-The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most
This is really a pretty simplistic song. Accompanied by guitar it is quieter and almost reflective. It talks about the happy exterior and how inside you're just dying, but nobody knows... Then, eventually you just can't anymore and the fear of having the truth exposed... It's a painful song, no doubt. Is anything on this list happy???

Garbage-Bleed Like Me
This is a very graphic song about both anorexia and self-injury. It puts words in my mouth after I put them there already. It says things I've said or tried to say before. "She starves herself to rid herself of sin" "the kick is so divine when she sees bones beneath her skin" "________ takes Dad's scissors to her skin and when she does relief comes setting in." These are direct and really unnerving phrases. The song also talks about alcoholism which is somewhere I don't really find myself much anymore, though, at times I've wondered... And it discusses someone questioning their sexuality which is not an issue for me.

Superchic-Hero
Superchic is a Christian group that leaves God out of most of their music, I absolutely love them and the emotional messages they give. This stanza says it all to me and is the reason this is on the list. I don't think I even need to explain:

"No one talks to her, she feels so alone
She's in too much pain to survive on her own
The hurt she can't handle overflows to a knife
She writes on her arm and wants to give up her life
Each day she goes on is a day that she's brave
Fighting the lie that giving up is the way
Each moment of courage her own life she saves
When she throws the pills out a hero is made
Heroes are made when you make a choice"

Death Cab For Cutie-Bixby Canyon Bridge
I've heard this song interpreted many ways, but I can never get this image of a person going to the place his best friend died after jumping from the bridge. He waits, hoping or praying that the soul of his friend will speak to him, but it never happens. Listen to it, hear it as you may, but know this song strikes me as a raw and honest song about the suicide of a friend.

Breaking Benjamin-Here We Are
This is a song about suicide, I don't think I should go further in or someone will get the wrong idea...

Tori Amos-Me and a Gun
If you have never heard this song... Hold your teddy tight and listen to the excruciating emotions Tori poured into this song. She talks about the fear of returning home-that her rapist will find her and be there. She also talks about singing while being assaulted-he told her to... and the things that go through your head. From experience, these "things" are a mechanism to block the truth from your memory. I often though of grocery shopping, my gymnastics routines, or even jumping in puddles-spring-flowers. She asks if her choice in clothes gave them the right to her and if it means other men can do the same. How she only survived because the man needed more drugs... Her voice is haunting, the words scar my soul, and the message resonates so loudly in my head I can't turn her off.