14 Songs About Life Being Hard (Hard Times In Life)

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Have you been in a situation where you feel like life is so hard to deal with? You are not alone. These difficulties can come in different forms such as financial difficulties, struggle with mental health, depression and many others. Below are songs that talk about life being hard:

1. Olivia Rodrigo – Brutal


Olivia sings about the misleading promise of youth which has led to betrayals, disappointments and challenges in their “golden years”. She also references how crude the music industry is and the difficult world that is adolescence.

 

2. Eminem – Mocking Bird


Eminem directed this song to his daughters. He acknowledges that their upbringing had a lot of challenges such as growing up with his media image and their mother’s drug problem. Before Eminem got successful in music, he was really struggling financially and had to raise his daughters through that.

 

3. Eminem – Rock Bottom


The track deals with the stress and anger brought about by poverty and the struggles of raising a little girl under those conditions. Eminem wrote the song back in 1999 after he had been fired from his cooking job at Gilbert’s Lodge five days before Christmas which is also Hailie’s (daughter) birthday. He just had $40 to get her something.

 

4. Bruno Mars – Liquor Store Blues


Bruno takes the persona of a person who struggles to make ends meet and so to cope they turn to their local liquor store to get alcohol and drown their sorrows in booze.

 

5. Jay Z – Hard Knock Life


The song was one of Jay-Z’s earliest first hit songs. In this one, he raps about his rags-to-riches story and about how he overcame life in the ghetto to achieve success.

 

6. Bon Jovi – Living On A Prayer


Bon Jovi stated that the song deals with the way two kids face life’s struggles and how their love and ambitions get them through the hard times.

 

7. Ed Sheeran – The A Team


This was Ed’s debut single which shot his career to new heights. It focuses on a girl that he spoke with at the time when he was doing a gig at a homeless shelter. She had to settle for prostitution to earn a living and uses Class A drugs as a means of escape.

 

8. Justin Bieber – Life Is Worth Living


Justin pleads with both himself and anyone listening that life is still worth living no matter what the circumstance. He had experienced a rough patch in his life in 2013 and 2014 when he got a lot of negative media attention for things he did.

 

9. Eminem – Beautiful


Eminem wrote half this song when he wasn’t sober and the other half when he came out of rehab. The first part of the song is about depression and by the end of the track, Eminem expresses optimism and hope for the future.

 

10. Paramore – Hard Times


The track describes the depression that lead singer Hayley Williams had in 2016 due to personal issues in the band as well as confronting problems of growing up.

 





11. Pitbull, Ne-Yo – Time Of Our Lives


The duo dedicated this song to those who are going through tough financial times encouraging them to spend their last few dollars in the club by having a good time.

 

12. Avril Lavigne – Head Above Water


Avril sings about fighting for her life. This is a reflection of what is happening in her life since she has been trying to stop herself from drowning under the immense pressure from her battle with Lyme disease.

 

13. Taylor Swift – Evermore


The song deals with themes of mental health and Taylor Swift publicly discusses her struggles with significant periods of depression in the past.

 

14. Khalid – New Normal


Khalid gives a message of hope by stating that no matter what life throws your way, it’ll only be just a season.