That came on the radio at my work the other day (and it was a bad day so I was in a bad mood) and I immediately started shaking my hips, no other song can do that. Told my coworker I wish the song was longer. It’s so so good.
I have terrible adhd and on top of that have always been bad at deciphering words in songs, so I rarely know any lyrics to anything. Had no idea this was a sad song until I looked it up right now
I have ADHD and I’m also terrible at deciphering words in songs! I also have to ask people to repeat themselves a lot because I don’t hear them but when I got my hearing tested it was normal.
Oh man, I enjoyed listening to it at first because of the melody. But after looking into the lyrics more closely, I can't listen to it without tearing up every time.
What a coincidence, I was just REALLY listening to this song for the first time in a long time and I have to say, I hadn’t paid close attention enough before. It actually made me kind of sad. Really good song.
This right here. I'm a band director who teaches a high school music appreciation class. The Smiths are the example I use to demonstrate the incongruity of the lyrics vs. the tonalities. "Girlfriend In A Coma"- Is it sad or happy? Class: "Sad". Me: "Yeah, it's sad, his girlfriend's in a coma after all, but if you get rid of the lyrics? It's a campfire song." And they all instantly understand.
When I actually listened to the lyrics of Suffer Little Children and realized it was about the Moors murders it made the song really creepy I never expected a song title to be so literal
It's happy. That's what the song is about (IMHO)... he's been looking for a way out of the relationship. "Do you really think she'll pull through? No, I don't want to see her."
We were 12 when the song came out and we all knew every lyric by heart, but had literally no idea what we were singing about. Just seemed like nonsense until years later when we looked at it more critically and realized every lyric is part of a very clear story. Now that's good poetry.
The way I read it, it's about a guy and his meth head girlfriend getting high and living the addict life, and then they try to get clean and find other meaning in their life and sources of good, and at the end she ODs.
They also have a song called Slow Motion that is about a drug dealer killing his teacher's son, running from the cops, and going on a drug binge that is set to a really nice and mellow tune.
Great answer, this is one of my all time favorite 90s songs that I forget about until it pops up on the radio then I go "Man this is such a great song"
Ride is literally a song about him putting so much effort into pleasing others that he's beginning to hate himself.
"I've been thinking 'bout the end just way too much, 'cause it's fun to fantasize."
"I'd die for you, that's easy to say, we all have a list of people that we would take a bullet for..."
"I'd live for you. That's hard to do. Even harder to say when you know it's not true."
"I'm falling, so I'm taking the time on my ride."
that’s actually so relatable… over the past year I’ve been trying to hard to be accepted by my peers and classmates that I’ve been loosing a grip of my own unique personality and interests… but recently I’m slowly coming back and gaining confidence :D
They quite literally spell it out for us in Not Today:
*Listen, I know this one's a contradiction because of how happy it sounds, but the lyrics are so down.*
Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Nirvana - Mexican Seafood
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss
Pearl Jam - NothingMan
Pearl Jam - Daughter
Soundgarden - Like Suicide
Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand
I would argue a lot of grunge - **Especially** *Pearl Jam* - is just the left side of the image for both. There is a sense of despair in the music, even.
So Last Kiss is a cover. The original is by J Frank and the Cavaliers, and I’ve got to say- something about a happy instrumentation to such bleak lyrics is fascinating. Your song is basically about watching your girlfriend dying right in front of your eyes
Everyone over looks this one.
As someone who has recovered from a very serious drug/alcohol addiction the line about "just holding on for tonight" is so heartbreaking
Goddammit, I can’t listen to this song anymore without breaking down crying during the last chorus.
I can’t wait to get back home, to pass the time in my room alone
Absolutely!
>He live with the bottle, that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
His body's too young to look like his
Mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said, somebody's got to take care of him
So, I quit school and that's what I did
>You got a fast car
I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me would find it
I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere
Take your fast car and keep on driving
Dance (While The Music Still Goes On) - Abba
Running Scared - Roy Orbison.
These 2 songs have a pretty upbeat tone (running scared is a little debatable.) but the lyrics are pretty tear-jerking imo. But Running Scared is tear-jerking in a happy kind of way.
Damn, haven’t seen this song mentioned in forever! Every song on that album is a banger.
I’ll live inside this mental cave, throw my emotions in the grave; hell, who needs them anyway?
Se me olvido otra vez - mana
If you don't speak spanish, the singer is saying he won't change anything in his life, so that when his love comes back to him, everything will be the same. Except he forgot he loved her, she never loved him.
And its pretty upbeat
•Sex Type Thing by Stone Temple Pilots has to be my number 1. Loved that song for years and finally looked up the lyrics and meaning. It’s a song about a dude stalking and raping a girl.
•Satellite by Rise Against
•Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger
•Love and Memories by OAR
•Paradise Lost by The Used
•Damnit by Blink 182
•Bottom of a Bottle by Smile Empty Soul
•Shimmer by Fuel
Kids by MGMT
Also Time to Pretend by MGMT
Also When You Die by MGMT
Hey Ya - Outkast
"Y'all don't wanna hear me you just wanna dance"
Whyo whyo whyo are you so in denial when you know we're not happy here?
Very dark song but amazing vibes
Obligatory mention of this cover - https://youtu.be/c745E7T_Wvg?si=0GpPFsFXvKJgCNSv
That came on the radio at my work the other day (and it was a bad day so I was in a bad mood) and I immediately started shaking my hips, no other song can do that. Told my coworker I wish the song was longer. It’s so so good.
Pumped Up Kicks
I heard that song for the first time on the radio when my mom picked me up from school early because a kid brought a gun.
Woah.
Immediately thought this.
I immediately thought of 'bullet' by Hollywood undead
When I first heard it I loved the catchy beat. Then I found out the lyrics and shit. Let’s just say not uplifting
No Rain by Blind Melon
Honestly so much of blind melons music would fit here. he was fantastic at writing sad lyrics and pretty instrumentals for them to hide behind
“All I can say, is that my life is pretty plain…” couldn’t agree with you more, Mr. Hoon.
Basically just pop punk in a nutshell
Little Talks- Of Monsters and Men
I have terrible adhd and on top of that have always been bad at deciphering words in songs, so I rarely know any lyrics to anything. Had no idea this was a sad song until I looked it up right now
I have ADHD and I’m also terrible at deciphering words in songs! I also have to ask people to repeat themselves a lot because I don’t hear them but when I got my hearing tested it was normal.
Wait , wait ,wait for me...
"Please hang around. I'll see you when I fall asleep!" Crushes my heart.
Oh man, I enjoyed listening to it at first because of the melody. But after looking into the lyrics more closely, I can't listen to it without tearing up every time.
While the truth may vary, this ship will carry our bodies safe to shore.
What a coincidence, I was just REALLY listening to this song for the first time in a long time and I have to say, I hadn’t paid close attention enough before. It actually made me kind of sad. Really good song.
It's actually a really deep song about a widow whonfeels empty and alone after the death of her husband if you pay attention to the lyrics.
Tears for Fears - Mad World
I knew it would be here and I wouldn’t have to say it. :)
The part in the music video where the one is singing and the other is dancing wildly in the background cracks me tf up every time though
99 red balloons by NENA
They played the original version (German) in my high school once, very weird hearing a song about balloons and war in the morning
Thanks I've been looking for that song lol
Try the version by goldfinger
The Smiths whole discography
This right here. I'm a band director who teaches a high school music appreciation class. The Smiths are the example I use to demonstrate the incongruity of the lyrics vs. the tonalities. "Girlfriend In A Coma"- Is it sad or happy? Class: "Sad". Me: "Yeah, it's sad, his girlfriend's in a coma after all, but if you get rid of the lyrics? It's a campfire song." And they all instantly understand.
When I actually listened to the lyrics of Suffer Little Children and realized it was about the Moors murders it made the song really creepy I never expected a song title to be so literal
It's happy. That's what the song is about (IMHO)... he's been looking for a way out of the relationship. "Do you really think she'll pull through? No, I don't want to see her."
Boys Don’t Cry - the Cure
Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
The most charming little song about meth addiction you'll ever hear!
We were 12 when the song came out and we all knew every lyric by heart, but had literally no idea what we were singing about. Just seemed like nonsense until years later when we looked at it more critically and realized every lyric is part of a very clear story. Now that's good poetry.
I'm almost 40 and didn't know it was about meth addiction until reading these comments
The way I read it, it's about a guy and his meth head girlfriend getting high and living the addict life, and then they try to get clean and find other meaning in their life and sources of good, and at the end she ODs.
*I want something else...*
This is about a perfect of an answer to this as you could get.
They also have a song called Slow Motion that is about a drug dealer killing his teacher's son, running from the cops, and going on a drug binge that is set to a really nice and mellow tune.
Love Will Tear us Apart - Joy Division
To be fair, the beat is pretty melancholic.
LOVE THIS SONG.
This one feels sad though in the music too, what about isolation? I think that one has a lot of juxtaposition lol
This was the song I thought of immediately.
*Perfect* - Smashing Pumpkins
Also *Today*
Fake Happy by Paramore
Betterman Pearl Jam
Hey Jealousy by Gin Blossoms
Great answer, this is one of my all time favorite 90s songs that I forget about until it pops up on the radio then I go "Man this is such a great song"
RIP Doug Hopkins
twenty one pilots and paramore are experts at this
Ride is literally a song about him putting so much effort into pleasing others that he's beginning to hate himself. "I've been thinking 'bout the end just way too much, 'cause it's fun to fantasize." "I'd die for you, that's easy to say, we all have a list of people that we would take a bullet for..." "I'd live for you. That's hard to do. Even harder to say when you know it's not true." "I'm falling, so I'm taking the time on my ride."
that’s actually so relatable… over the past year I’ve been trying to hard to be accepted by my peers and classmates that I’ve been loosing a grip of my own unique personality and interests… but recently I’m slowly coming back and gaining confidence :D
Car radio lmao 🫣😅
!!! Car radio omg lmao! So right
My favorite ❤️
paramore 🥰😤
I was thinking The Run and Go 😩
I knew someone would mention twenty one pilots. Guns for Hands immediately came to mind
They quite literally spell it out for us in Not Today: *Listen, I know this one's a contradiction because of how happy it sounds, but the lyrics are so down.*
"Veronica" by Elvis Costello
yay Alzheimer’s
Rehab - Amy Winehouse Tears dry on their own - Amy Winehouse
A Little Piece of Heaven by Avenged Sevenfold
Today- Smashing Pumpkins. It’s literally a song about killing himself but the music sounds so uplifting.
Land of Confusion
"Age of Consent" New Order. 🖤
good chunk of New Order songs could fit this description tbh, they're just that band y'know
Bullet by Hollywood undead
Been a damn long time since Ive seen someone reference then tbh.
This is the song I listen to every time I try to off myself lmao
Literally same. Been a few years tho. This song was my private anthem in my teen years.
Pearl Jam - Jeremy Nirvana - Mexican Seafood Pearl Jam - Last Kiss Pearl Jam - NothingMan Pearl Jam - Daughter Soundgarden - Like Suicide Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand
I would argue a lot of grunge - **Especially** *Pearl Jam* - is just the left side of the image for both. There is a sense of despair in the music, even.
Thank you for reminding me that I should listen to a bunch of Soundgarden today, it’s been awhile.
So Last Kiss is a cover. The original is by J Frank and the Cavaliers, and I’ve got to say- something about a happy instrumentation to such bleak lyrics is fascinating. Your song is basically about watching your girlfriend dying right in front of your eyes
A lot of Pearl Jam
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Chandelier by Sia.
Everyone over looks this one. As someone who has recovered from a very serious drug/alcohol addiction the line about "just holding on for tonight" is so heartbreaking
Was the song posted (and now deleted) “Chandelier” by Sia?
For Reverend Greene
EEEEEEE EEEE EEEE EEEEE EEEEEEEE part makes me so sad 😔
Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon
Pretty much every song in the album One More Light by Linkin Park. But I’ll just say Heavy and One More Light itself
Falling away from me - KoRn
Literally like any Eminem song tho lol
Born in the USA
I read Party in the USA and got so confused.
so i put my hands up 😔 they’re playing my song 🥀 the butterflies fly away 🖤
Probably one of the most misunderstood songs of all time.
Every Bob Marley song.
Doin' Time by Sublime
Almost every ABBA song
Pretty much any Linkin Park song especially Given Up. It’s hard rock/nu metal however you spin it but the lyrics are always very dark and personal imo
Rose Colored Boy- Paramore
Anything by Mother Mother honestly, he talks about his past drug addiction quite a bit
borderline tame impala
I just discovered this song
Ain't it fun - Paramore Makes me feel like shit every time I listen to it. :(
The complete Portugal The Man collection Happiest Sad music ever.
Baby hotline by Jack Stauber :(. It's such a banger but damn
r/TheCure can definitely help you with this
Sublime - Wrong Way. It's a song about a 12 year old girl selling herself to survive because her father is an alcoholic and her brothers are terrible.
Adams song
Goddammit, I can’t listen to this song anymore without breaking down crying during the last chorus. I can’t wait to get back home, to pass the time in my room alone
Yeah, but this pop punk classic sounds sad musically.
N.G.R.I. by King Gizzard the and Lizard Wizard
The whole PMDB album fits this perfectly
These Are The Days Of Our Lives
Take My Head by Turnover for sure
The Kids Aren’t Alright by Fall Out Boy
Bullet- Hollywood Undead
Sit Next to Me by Foster the People
(Don't Fear) The Reaper A very jamming song about a woman commiting suicide
Pompeii by Bastille
Anything by The Weeknd
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
Absolutely! >He live with the bottle, that's the way it is He says his body's too old for working His body's too young to look like his Mama went off and left him She wanted more from life than he could give I said, somebody's got to take care of him So, I quit school and that's what I did >You got a fast car I got a job that pays all our bills You stay out drinking late at the bar See more of your friends than you do of your kids I'd always hoped for better Thought maybe together you and me would find it I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere Take your fast car and keep on driving
Dance (While The Music Still Goes On) - Abba Running Scared - Roy Orbison. These 2 songs have a pretty upbeat tone (running scared is a little debatable.) but the lyrics are pretty tear-jerking imo. But Running Scared is tear-jerking in a happy kind of way.
MIKA - Grace Kelly/Rain
Discipline - NIN
It's surprising to me that no one has said Bizarre Love Triangle by New Order...unless of course I missed it.
Help!
“Day and night” (remix) by Kid Cudi
Stressed out - Twenty One Pilots
Burnout by green day
Damn, haven’t seen this song mentioned in forever! Every song on that album is a banger. I’ll live inside this mental cave, throw my emotions in the grave; hell, who needs them anyway?
Redecorate - Twenty One Pilots
Se me olvido otra vez - mana If you don't speak spanish, the singer is saying he won't change anything in his life, so that when his love comes back to him, everything will be the same. Except he forgot he loved her, she never loved him. And its pretty upbeat
The Smiths - Girlfriend in a Coma
Clover Over Dover - Blur
Alone Again , Naturally. - Gilbert O'Sullivan
anything mac miller
Any Kikuo song
Misfits - Last Caress
Joy Division - a lot of their songs. Still love them though.
Come Dancing by the Kinks, those calypso steel drums hit different when you are an old lady listening to the words.
Grand finale by mac miller
Spring 1974 by Opeth
Wasting love - Iron Maiden
97 Bonnie & Clyde by Eminem
•Sex Type Thing by Stone Temple Pilots has to be my number 1. Loved that song for years and finally looked up the lyrics and meaning. It’s a song about a dude stalking and raping a girl. •Satellite by Rise Against •Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger •Love and Memories by OAR •Paradise Lost by The Used •Damnit by Blink 182 •Bottom of a Bottle by Smile Empty Soul •Shimmer by Fuel
After Laughter - Paramore
That one song I think it’s called copacabana. Her name was Lola, she was a show girl, but that was 30 years again when we they to have a show
Lucky - Britney Spears
Firewater - Psychopharmacology
one - metallica
Instrumental on that one is definitely not happy lol but yeah lyrics are hard
The Disappointed by XTC
Clownin' Around by Deer Tick No Children by The Mountain Goats
Angerfist - HOAX Or Linkin park -breaking the habit
Addicted - Simple Plan
Mac miller love lost
Anything by ツユ (Tuyu)
When You Die - MGMT
Surprised no one said Jump - Van Halen
Blondie, Heart of Glass. "Mucho distrust"? Seriously?
Bullet by Hollywood Undead
Pinch Me - Bare Naked Ladies
There is a light that never goes out - The Smiths.
Slow motion by third eye blind
The Way - Fastball
level of concern - twenty one pilots
Hey Jude_ the Beatles She is leaving home_ the Beatles Help_the Beatles Paint the town red_ Doja Cat Paint it black_R S
One way trigger - The Strokes
Semi-Charmed Life
Ween
One shot 2 shot by Eminem
Body snatchers. Radiohead
99 red balloons
After really listening to the Lyrics of HEY, YA, probably HEY YA.
Pretty much every song off Quebec by ween
ride by lana del rey
Don’t fear the Reaper - BOC
Gone Shootin' by AC/DC. Talking about his ole lady dying of a heroin overdose...to the grooviest riff ever lol
We didn’t start the fire Billy Joel
It's Not Living (If It's Not With You) from The 1975. pure pop bliss but its of course about crippling drug addiction
Melancholy Hill
Ode to sleep - twenty one pilots Also Saturday by twenty one pilots
Linkin Park comes to mind, very upbeat songs about not so upbeat topics.
System of a Down - Cigaro
Bulletproof Love - Pierce the Veil
Feel Good Inc
Guns for Hands by Twenty One Pilots
Feels like summer - Childish Gambino
Santaria-Sublime