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You know for a state of mind that I know so well, very little music specifically addresses this. Nearly all of my music was picked so that I can listen to it when my heart is dragging my head into places it would rather not go. So I have different sorts of music for the different ways I like to address my depression.

When I need to focus on something else, like, say work, I like to pop in some good rock. Classic often does the trick, but I don't really have enough of it. The Doors' "Been Down So Long" hits the nail on the head and maintains a slight sense of humor:

Well I've been down so goddamn long
that it looks like up to me
Well I've been down so very damn long
That it looks like up to me

Warden, warden, warden
oh, won't you take your lock and key
oh, warden warden, warden
won't you take your lock and key

why don't one o' you people
oh c'mon, and set me free!

I know it's not much to look at, but it's just about one of the best adaptations of classic East Texas blues that a white man has ever created. And since real blues isn't for listening to when you're actually down, this works pretty well.

Otherwise there is music that I like that just moves inside it's own darkness that I like when I want to wallow, but don't really want to do any soul searching. Nine Inch Nails, Dead Can Dance, the Metropolis CD of "industrial goth," Delirium and a host of others.

The best song that I know that just addresses the feelings, but was written when someone wasn't in that state of mind at the time of writing is probably Nirvana's "Dumb."

Dumb
Nirvana

I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun

I think I'm dumb
or maybe just happy
Think I'm just happy
my heart is broke
But I have some glue
help me inhale
And mend it with you
We'll float around
And hang out on clouds
Then we'll come down
And have a hangover...Have a hangover

Skin the sun
Fall asleep
Wish away
The soul is cheap
Lesson learned
Wish me luck
Soothe the burn
Wake me up

I'm not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I'm having fun

Obvious Answers:
Tori Amos: Juarez or Landslide
They Might Be Giants: A Self Called Nowhere




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