One thing life has shown me

I've thought about you every day since that moment I died in your arms

- Boomer, Battlestar Galactica, S3E16

Reflecting

Drift gently into
Mental illness

- The Beat, Mirror In The Bathroom

Don't remember me

His last words would remind him what his legacy would be
He said "I'm not worth remembering - just forget about me"
Why you gotta keep on torturing us?
Haven't I paid enough for all the drugs that I've done?
My poor mother's praying that you'll take back her only son
Why you gotta keep on torturing yourself?
You aren't directly responsible for your own poor mental health
I locked myself up in prison and I threw away the key
But Lord, I'm tired of being tortured
I just want to be free

- Ohtis, Black Blood

You haunt this town

Maybe there's a way not to make it hurt
To cover up the words like you covered up the dirt
Ever since you left
It just gets worse

- Deacon Blue, Our Town

Wishing

I'm trying to let go
Of the things I used to think that you should know
'Cause I want to be free
From the hurt that I caused you to cause me

- Chastity Belt, Bender

How do we manage

I’m doing fine
Trying to derail my one track mind

- Lucy Dacus, Night Shift

Sister, oh sister

I wrote your name in dust on a truck
As it rolled out of town
Just in case my love for you
Might be found
I cried my tears in a mountain stream
They'll sting you one day
I called your name in a giant cave
It echoes to this day

The Verve, So Sister

Inside

black
like a nuclear bomb
you feel the pain
come

- Cherry Glazerr, Nuclear Bomb

And I wept for the future, and for the past

Mirror, mirror where's the crystal palace
But I only can see myself
Skating around the truth who I am
But I know, dad, the ice is getting thin

 

When you gonna make up your mind?
 
When you gonna love you as much as I do?

- Tori Amos, Winter

On pain

He did not want to forget his pain; he hugged it to him, learning what countless others had learned before him, that even the deepest pain concerning a beloved one is preferable to any surcease.

Robert Heinlein, The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag

Overwhelming

My heart is like the ocean
it gets in the way

- Tori Amos, Take To The Sky

On life as an addict

Understand this, it's not death that terrifies - it's life. Life is the horror, the unbearable living. We are suffering from life trauma... the miserable, shambling, boring, self-pitying lives we have fashioned for ourselves, alone, with shaking hands and tearful despair.

- AA Gill, Pour Me

Was there anything..?

I don't know where she's living
All I've got is a card
A picture of her at the pyramids
A knife held to her heart

Was there anything I could do?

- The Go-Betweens, Was There Anything I Could Do?

In a state

your shame is never ending

just one psychological drama after another. 

you are guilty and how you ever entered into this life

God only knows 

- Erasure, Drama!

Is there an end?

Even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea

- Swinburne

Healthy living

What's the difference between Shaun Ryder and Jason Pierce? Probably around 3 hours extra sleep a night and a banana, an avocado and some tangerines.

- John Doran, Jolly Lad

Swallow

Time will pass

time will leave you all alone

- The Savings & Loan, Swallows

On what matters

You know I have about as much interest in money as I do Hummel figurines

- Holmes, Elementary, Season 2 episode 2.

Second anniversary of loss

a year goes by
she doesn't

The Magnetic Fields, If You Don't Cry

All I want is to drown in you

Will you spend your life with me
and stifle me
I know why the caged bird sings
I know why

- Tricky, Suffocated Love