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Suicide

from Waves by The Purge

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about

Near the end of a 'bout of depression that lasted about two weeks where I effectively pissed off some of the people closest to me, I must have managed to become influenced by either Bauhaus' "Kick in the Eye" or the new Daft Punk song, "Get Lucky." Let's say it was the Bauhaus song for the sake of goth-cred. Anyway, I saw a video on Upworthy where a Canadian teenager gave a lecture on the stigma of openly expressing our feelings when we're depressed; how it's so much more acceptable to write on Facebook about when things are going well, or to give the illusion that things are going well, than it is to openly admit you didn't want to get out of bed because you were just too sad and unmotivated to live.

I'd already written a couple of songs for the album expressing a similar sentiment, and I found myself in the shower singing a melody about suicide with a funk-style bass riff in my head.

This is actually the second funk song I've tried to write in my life, and both songs came to me in the shower.

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There is a stigma,
right here and abroad.
We don't talk about it
because it's too strong.
At best, we wait until it hurts
too much to say.
By then it's too late to say
you care if I stay.

I've been thinking 'bout suicide
and what if I got myself
this time. x2

Yeah, it hurts to be alive
but it hurts much more to reveal
that I'm immobilized
by who I am and how I feel.

Would you understand me?
I don't want to disappoint.
I don't make any money
so what's the point?

I've been thinking 'bout suicide
and what if I got myself
this time. x4

I feel alone. (there is a stigma)
I feel embarrassed. (right here and abroad)
I feel weak. I feel small. (we don't talk about it)
I feel like I can't do anything at all.

*screaming*

I've been thinking 'bout suicide
and what if I got myself
this time. x4

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from Waves, released November 9, 2013
Written and produced by Thomas Duerig.

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