Cheap Trick had at least two but probably plenty more.
The music was hot, but my baby was not.
Rush - 2112 : Soliloquy
Joni Mitchell-Song For Sharon
"please do not understand me too quickly"-andre gide
One of the first songs Paul McCartney wrote as a lad was called "Suicide." It's a '40s-style song that he wanted to have Frank Sinatra perform. Here's a version from 1974:
He did release this later, but a different version.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
What an upbeat thread!
"Who would have thought a whale would be so heavy?" - Moe Sizlak
Did anyone mention
David Bowie - Jump they say
Kim Wilde - View From a Bridge
At least I always assumed it was supposed to be from the point of view of someone thinking of jumping off a bridge.
Ozzy and Lita: Close My Eyes Forever
Hardly 'pop' but Barclay James Harvest's 'Suicide?' is an obvious contender (the question mark raising the question as to whether the man in the song went through with the suicide or was murdered). Sadly their keyboard player Stuart 'Woolly' Wolstenholme did indeed take his own life in 2010.
Pur - Noch ein Leben
Many songs that end in a suicide or mention a suicide aren't songs about suicide per se, for example, "Richard Cory" is about the narrator's admiration and envy of the successful and wealthy man Richard Cory.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Beck - Loser (he's trying to get someone to kill him)
Marillion - The Great Escape and parts of Goodbye To All That ( and probably other parts of Brave)
Rock & Roll Suicide - David Bowie
Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed? - Richard Thompson
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
The Police- Can't Stand Losing You
Depeche Mode- Blasphemous Rumors
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Triumvirat: “A Cold Old Worried Lady”
Confirmed Bachelors: the dramedy hit of 1883...
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