The Self Injury Anthology Project: Music
Audioslave - What you are (Audioslave/Epic)
when you wanted love i cut my veins
and when you wanted love i bled myself again
Jack off Jill - Strawberry Gashes (Clear Hearts Grey Flowers/Risk)
Pale white skin with strawberry gashes all over all over
Manic Street Preachers - Roses in the hospital (Gold Against the Soul/Columbia)
Stub cigarettes out on my arm
Dark Lotus - Hurt Myself (Tales From the Lotus Pod/Psychopathic ?)
Cut and slice away with a steak knife
Hit myself in the ankle with a PVC pipe
Exacto blade underneath the fingernail
James - Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)(Unknown)
Are you aching for the blade
Hypocrisy - Slippin' Away (Abducted/Nuclear Blast)
As I bury this knife in my body
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris (Unknown)
And you bleed just to know you're alive
Kittie - Paperdoll (Spit/Artemis/Epic)
Watch The Blood Run Down Her Arms
Papa Roach - Last Resort (Infest/Dreamworks)
Don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding
Foo Fighers - All My Life (One by One/RCA)
another reason to bleed
One by one, Hidden up my sleeve
Distillers - Sick of it All (Sing Sing Death House/Hellcat)
If i cut, i wont look like that
If i cut if i cut i wont feel like this
The Juliana Theory - Breathing by Wires (Music from Another Room EP/Tooth & Nail Records)
addicted to razors. lashes to saviors
Eminem - Stan (The Marshall Mathers LP/Interscope)
Sometimes I even cut myself to see how much it bleeds
It's like adrenaline, the pain is such a sudden rush for me
Orange 9mm - Cutting And Draining (Driver Not Included/Warner)
I'm cutting and draining
Etched Memories - Kill Me (Unknown)
The mutilation of my skin
Cutting deeper within
Dawnrazor - Dawnrazor (Fields Of The Nephilim/Beggars Banquet)
Cutting razors and violence ..
Dawnrazor's falling brush their skin
Tori Amos - Never Seen Blue (Choirgirl Hotel B-sides/East West ?)
got a little red line
that tells you, boy
where the razor's been
Tori Amos - Hurt (introduction to Caught a Lite Sneeze) (Unknown)
I hurt myself today
to see if i could feel
Majandra Delfino - Bruises (The Sicks/Independent Release)
I can't stop thinking about
Cutting myself up.
Indigo Girls - Blood and Fire (Indigo Girls/Epic)
I have spent nights with matches and knives
Leaning over ledges only two flights up
Cutting my heart, burning my soul
Nothing left to hold
Nothing left but blood and fire
Footsteps - Pearl Jam (Jeremy/Unknown)
Aah...don't even think about gettin' inside
Voices in me head...ooh, voices
I got scratches, all over my arms
One for each day, since I fell apart
Silverchair - Point of View ()
Liberate the people that you hate
Then cut yourself again
Manic Street Preachers - Yes (The Holy Bible/Columbia)
I eat and I dress and I wash and I still can say thankyou, puking, shaking, sinking, I still stand for old ladies, can't shout, can't scream, hurt myself to get pain out.
Manic Street Preachers - Die in the Summertime (The Holy Bible/Columbia)
Scratch my leg with a rusty nail, sadly it heals
Manic Street Preachers - A Design for Life (Everything Must Go/Epic)
I wish I had a bottle, right here in my pretty face, to wear the scars, to show from where I came
Manic Street Preachers - Slash N' Burn (Generation Terrorist/Columbia)
Slash 'n' burn, kill to live, kill for kicks
Gene - Long Sleeves for the Summer (Drawn to the Deep End/Costermonger)
You're forced to wear long sleeves for the summer
Linkin Park - Part of Me (Hybrid Theory EP/Independent release)
Heard of me the routine scar
New cuts cover where the old ones are
One Man Army - Another Night (Last Spoken Word/Adeline)
and when I can't feel no more my answers take me to the door with self-inflicted wounds
a lifetime spent here-to-fore holding knives in the hopes of cutting some more
36 Crazyfists - One More Word (Bitterness the Star/Roadrunner)
But you’re sucked down in a steady strife and bleed without a halo
36 Crazyfists - Slit Wrist Theory (Bitterness the Star/Roadrunner)
With the absence of eye I can start to bleed again
Slipknot - Everything Ends (Iowa/Roadrunner)
Shallow skin, I can paint with pain
I mark the trails on my arms with your disdain ..
Fix my problems with the blade
Vex Red - Dermo (Start With a Strong and Persistent Desire/Virgin)
You make no sense in what you say, I’ve cut myself to get away, it hurts
AFI - Last Kiss (Black Sails in the Sunset/Nitro)
hurt myself today
its all for you
do you like what I'm becoming?
cut myself today
Jack Off Jill - When I am Queen (Clear Hearts Grey Flowers/Risk)
When I am queen I will insist with perfect scars upon my wrists ..
When I am queen they all will see the patron saint of self-injury
the glitter sores will heal themselves I'll play the part of someone else
Stabbing Westward - Everything I touch (Darkest Days/Columbia)
"I scratch and tear
Until it bleeds
I do not want
I only need "
Twiztid - We Don't Die (Freek Show/Polygram Records)
It's hard to explain the element my
Self inflicted pain
Miranda Sex Garden - Cut (Fairytales of Slavery/Mute)
Sharp wire
Cuts through foam
Cuts slow, cuts so deep
Slow it, slow it down
Let me feel it again
Rozz Williams - The Evil Ones (Every King a Bastard Son/Cleopatra)
Hidden tears impatient, like sleeves
Insults wiped away with bruised, cut palms
Korn - Here to Stay (Untouchables/Immortal)
So I take my face and bash it into a mirror
I won't have to see the pain bleed bleed..
So I take my time guiding the blade down the line
Each cut closer to the vain bleed bleed
The (International) Noise Conspiracy - A Body Treatise (A New Morning, Changing Weather/Epitaph)
I mutilate myself to make me real
(...)
I cut myself up to make it real
I cut myself up cause thats the way I feel
I cut myself up to be free
I cut myself up to be me
Mushroomhead - Inevitable (M3/Filthy Hands)
I cut myself to the bone,
Again cut it too close to the heart
Gob - I Cut Myself, Too (Foot in Mouth Disease/Arista)
Then I cut myself to pieces
And it rains, it pours
But it doesn't make any sense
My Ruin - Close Your Eyes (Speak & Destroy/Spitfire)
I pick the scabs from my arms
My Ruin - Cosmetic (Speak & Destroy/Spitfire)
Bored of the beauty whore
'Cause my body just wants more
Scars... And I can feel them
Wounds... I can't heal them
Red bring my mouth to life
Orbit - Medicine (Libido Speedway/A&M)
I think I hurt myself and cut myself some other day
The Cure - Shake Dog Shake (The Top/Fiction)
Wake up in the dark
The after-taste of anger in the back of my mouth
Spit it on the wall
And cough some more
And scrape my skin with razor blades
DJ Godfather - Who Run This? (DB-030/Databass Records)
I'm not shit, I won't be shit, I eat shit
I cut my veins and then I bleed shit
Placebo - Every You Every Me (Without You I'm Nothing/Elevator)
Carve your name into my arm
HIM - Beyond Redemption (Love Metal/RCA)
Oh I see all your scars I know where they from
Sensually carved and bleed until you're dead and gone
Ministry - Burning Inside (The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste/Warner)
Calling the mantra
with a blade in the skin
for the demons within
Rollins Band - Fool (Are You Civilized?/Flashback)
Self mutilation is the only thing I know
I am a fool I know
Biohazard - Tears of Blood (Urban Discipline/Roadrunner)
No one to blame except myself
What you call masochism I call wealth
Maybe its just a matter of pride
Too sweet to end with suicide
Peel the scub, pour salt in the wound
Dilated Peoples - Self Defence (Expansion Team/Parlophone)
cut my fingerprints with razor blades
AFI - The Last Kiss (Black Sails In The Sunset/Nitro)
Hurt myself today.
It's all for you.
Do you like, do you like, what I'm becoming?
Cut myself today.
It's all for you.
Cage - Suicidal Failure (Suicidal Failure 12"/Rawkus)
Smoke a bundle till the face lace my brain and neurons
carving all my downfalls on my fucking forearm
Linkin Park - Breaking The Habit (Meteora/Warner)
Opening the Wound, I'm Picking Me Apart Again
I Hurt Much More Then Anytime Before, I Had No Options Left Again
Sage Francis - Inherited Scars (Climbs Trees 12"/Southern Records)
No matter the length of the needle, marking up one's body is so much more than skin deep.
Feel the pin prick. The grim reep what they sew and you're trained to say that you're fine.
Your thresh hold for pain is greater than mine.
People Like Us - The Gimp/Sometimes (Reworked by Coil) (Hate People Like Us/Soleilmoon)
Sometimes I hate myself
Sometimes I hurt myself
Violent Work Of Art - Different Problem, Same Solution (The Worst is Yet to Come/Indepently published)
The more I cut the more I bleed
I am my only enemy
The more I bleed the more I feel
Selfinflicted
Children of Bodom - Bed of Razors (Hatebreeder/Nuclear Blast)
The razor caressed my flesh
and my arms turned red, I feel a vast desire
Years of pain are flowing down my arms.
Dashboard Confessional - If You Can't Leave It Be (A Mark, A Mission, A Brand, A Scar/Vagrant)
Trace the scars to fit the pieces
If you can't leave it be, might as well make it bleed
Scalpled, sutured, made whole again.
Reuben - Numb at Four in the morning (Lets Stop Hanging Out (Single)/Racecar Records)
yeah i should have been,
i kicked myself inside.
im afraid i might fade
ive got nothing left,
i cant feel anymore,
im afraid i might fade
the more more i bleed,
the more i need
and nothing seems to hurt enough anymore
Reach 454 - in your arms (Reach 454/Lava)
Im looking at the
They’re running down my arms
I think im getting sick again
When im in ur arms
You show I can
Change the mistakes i’ve made in my past
KJ-52 - #1 Fan (It's Pronounced Five Two/Bec Recordings)
Sometimes I slash my wrists and even cut my hands
And I feel all alone like nobody understands
Superchic[k] - Hero (Last One Picked/Inpop)
the hurt she can't handle overflows to a knife
she writes on her arm wants to give up her life
My Ruin - Beauty Fiend (A Prayer Under Pressure of Violent Anguish/Spitfire)
Here's what you'll find
next time you undress me:
scars, wounds, I'm bruised.
Watch me bleed,
I'm your beauty,
Watch me bleed,
beauty fiend."
Hot Hot Heat - Bandages (Make Up the Breakdown/Subpop)
These bandages cover more than scrapes, cuts and bruises from regrets and mistakes
A.F.I. - No Poetic Device (Black Sails in Sunset/Nitro Records)
"I've been dreaming, I was lucid... blood was seeping from my pores.
Who'd believe that it was all my own decision?"
A few other songs that can be seen as relating to SI:
System of a Down - Chop Suey
Radiohead - Creep
NiN - Hurt
Machine Head - The Burning Red
The Used - A Box Full Of Sharp Objects
Kittie - Pain
Bad Religion - Bored and Extremely Dangerous
Deftones - Knife Party
Linkin Park - Crawling
Natalie Imbruglia - Smoke
Evanescence - Tourniquet
Stone Sour - Bother
Skillet - Under My Skin
Smashing Pumpkins - Today