What Song Seems Upbeat Until You Listen To The Lyrics? (r/AskReddit)

what is a song which seems to be upbeat and happy until you listen to the lyrics idk why people play I will always love you at weddings it's literally a breakup song the first line is if I should stay I would only be in your way it's not a romantic breakup song Dolly Parton wrote in about the dissolution of a business partnership so even less appropriate for a wedding no rain by Blind Melon yep just posted it yet when I'm depressed this song helps me grandma got run over by a reindeer the grandma freaking dies and it describes how her body was found it's also implied that the grandfather was happy that she died Electric Avenue Eddie grant hunger rioting commercialism every breath you take the police not exactly upbeat but for a song sounding like it was written by a stalker it's unsettling to think it passed for a romantic song for so long I found that every breath you take is a lot less creepy as you convince yourself it's written from the perspective of a dog to waters its owner cherry wine by hozier it's about domestic violence but the song sounds so serene and peaceful it looks ugly but it's clean oh mama don't fuss over me talking about a bruise the abused received and how they try to downplay the how much they're actually going through to their loves ones such a freaking heartbreaker brandy by looking glass it sounds like a song you'd listen to while making pancakes on a Saturday morning but it's about a girl who fell in love and can't move on or you can listen to it when you're megalomaniac extraterrestrial Space Godfather crushes your Walkman people forget that red red wine is actually an extremely depressing song about alcoholism written by Neil Diamond not a feel-good quasi reggae song written by ub40 Cleopatra by the Lumineers is a fast paced song about a girl who dies alone because she led the love of her life walk out the door soon after her father passed away I was late for this late for that late for the love of my life but when I die when I die alone when I die I'll be on time gloria is a super upbeat song about a woman whose alcoholism is slowly killing her and emotionally destroying her family semi charmed life catchiest dang em song ever pretty much in a thing real big fish ever made ska happen ass beat off and masks the angst the way fastball the true story of lila and raymond howard's an elderly couple from Salado Texas who drove to the annual Pioneer Day Festival ten miles away in Temple and didn't return she had Alzheimer's disease and he was recovering from brain surgery thirteen days after the hards went missing their bodies were found in Hot Springs Arkansas about 400 miles from their destination they were still in the vehicle an Oldsmobile Delta 88 which had veered off the side of the road and was hidden in brush for my friends by LCD Soundsystem it starts out kinda happy and slowly turns into a bittersweet rant about getting older and pretending to have fun when you party until it becomes a straight-up lament about missing the friends you gave up along the way dear God it hits me hard 99 red balloons I'd only heard the original 99 luftballons for a while so I knew even less of what it was about there's a song that used to be played on clubs here su Fleur sitter her little flower a typical cumbia song pretty much made for dancing at the club a whole lot of people happily dancing and drinking listening to a song about a 12 year old girl being murdered and her mother mourning her my sister likes to sing that song out loud to my mom just to pee her off because of the lyrics Maxwell's silver hammer by the Beatles talks about a guy named Maxwell that seems to like to smash his hammer in the head off people bang bang Gary Barlow let me go it's about his stillborn son he didn't want the song to be slow and sad so it's an upbeat clap along song but if you read the lyrics it's written from the baby's point of view sweet dreams buyer if mcc's used to freak the heck out of me when I was a kid he's a loser Marge dumped him I've traveled the world in the seven seas I am watching you through a camera helped by the Beatles most of death camp for cutty's catalog I will possess your heart sounds like a love song until you realize he is stalking the crap out of her and she has no idea God that song is dark but it still contains one of my favorite lyrics of all time how I wish you could see the potential of you and me it's like a book elegantly bound but in a language that you can't read just yet Pumped Up Kicks Foster the People about shooting up a school bullet Hollywood Undead about suicide you never know immortal technique sounds like a nice soothing rainy day song until you realize it's about star-crossed lovers who could never be together and the guy doesn't find out that the reason was because the girl had HIV from a blood transfusion until she's dead forever and always parachute about a couple getting married in the hospital because they're pretty sure the man is about to die from injuries sustained in an accident who's that man Toby Keith's a crushing picture of the American divorce I can't believe pumped up kicks' is so far down it gets talked about on reddit but it seems like so many people will casually sing it and move on without realizing what it means I have a co-worker that played an acoustic set at our annual party and she played that and everyone was doing what they do and some people were singing along I was just looking around like what the heck Copacabana rocking in the free world by Neil Young I always tear up at the verse that's one more kid that'll never go to school never get a fall in love never get to be cool Pearl Jam and Neil Young performing this at the MTV Awards in 1993 does a much better job at emphasizing how depressing the song brilliance smile Lily Allen or pretty much any of her songs to be honest her song not fair is like my favorite breakup song I want to get better by bleachers honestly just most bleachers tracks hey-yah Outkast I knew a guy that thought Adams song by blink-182 was funny he thought that until I informed him that it was about suicide born in the USA dart is not a flag waving patriotic song but the story of a vet who returns from Vietnam to find himself alienated by the society that he risked his life for American woman is kind of similar since it is an anti-war song even if you don't want to read into the lyrics it's not an anthem song it's not unusual by Tom Jones it's pretty upbeat until you get to the lyric but when I see you hanging about with anyone it's not unusual to see me cry oh I want to die thanks Tom chandelier by SIA this one gets me I figured out that it was about to party animal pretending to be okay a few years ago but missed a lot of the details until recently Rockabye Baby in the treetop when the wind blows the cradle will rock when the bough breaks the cradle will fall and down will come baby cradle and all oh H little talks of Monsters and Men ayuk it's about a guy's wife slowly dying from dementia or Alzheimer's or another similar disease I've also seen it being interpreted as the wife longing to join her dead husband either way not a very happy song despite the catchy beat and cheerful haze I took a pill in Ibiza by Mike Posner the sea bream ex the remix sounds like an upbeat catchy infections tune that's meant for the dancefloor but in reality it's Posner flexing on the emptiness sadness he feels after a night out partying the thing that most gets me about that song these days is how it starts out with I took a pill in Ibiza to show a VCI I was cool and a visi I didn't live much longer after that some of my personal favorites what's the matter here ten thousand maniacs an absolute Bop about child abuse Bobby Lee Barry Manilow a song about a young girl who ran away from home went to the big city and became a prostitute to raise enough money to chase her dreams sob Nathaniel Ratliff in the night sweats about a guy destroying himself with alcoholism everybody wants to rule the world Tears for Fears to quote Kurt Smith the concept is quite serious it's about everybody wanting power about warfare and the misery it causes can't feel my face the weekend swimming pools drank by Kendrick Lamar when I saw him in 2013 there were people around me drinking everytime they heard the word drank which I thought was pretty ironic not exactly a pro drinking anthem in college I had an alarm every few hours that played it to remind me to drink water it works fairly well in a positive way if you wanted to we are young fun I've never really paid attention to the lyrics but that song always struck me as a kind of sad sounding song anyway just from the tune I mean hey are bi outcasts if you listen closely to the lyrics it's about a relationship that's falling apart there's even a lyric referring to the audience just wanting to dance instead of actually listening to the song you'll don't want to hear me yaar just wanna dance really flicked me up when I found out Don McLean American Pie Ziggy Stardust David Bowie sounds like a pretty normal rock song about how great Ziggy is that the lyrics go into depth about how much the rest of his band resent him and his fan base and his eventual death another Bowie example running gun blues an upbeat cheerful proto metal song with a couple of laughs about a murderous Vietnam veteran who is planning on on a killing spree in his hometown message man 20 own pilots no clue what it sounds like it should be about but it's got circus music and is about being misrepresented and suicidal ideation calm susat odd or Thanatos both songs used in neon genesis evangelion with both of them having a jazzy fun beat sung entirely in English you won't think to notice that the former comm susat odd is about suicide or that finn ATO's is about bitter sweet love and now with all the hurt and pain it's time for me to confess the ones you love mean more than anything so with sadness in my heart feel the best thing I could do is end it all and leave forever calm susat odd Santos's about someone who wants a person's love and though they know it's impossible still fight for them in conclusions it's the big sad hours I thought the lyrics we're obvious I loved it because of it people clapping their hands together singing it all returns to nothing it all comes tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down it all returns to nothing I just keep letting me down letting me down letting me down Macrina it used to be a hit song at weddings but don't you worry about my boyfriend he's a boy whose name is Victorino I don't want him couldn't stand him he was no good so I now come on what was I supposed to do he was out of town and his two friends were so fine basket-case by Green Day is about a guy mentally breaking down the music video was shot in an abandoned Asylum - Paramore hard times has been a support recently it speaks to me about my depression and yet has a hopeful beat literally any songs on the after laughter album can finish category my personal fav is rose colored boy choked by ID cow I love ID cow saw them in Glasgow this last May fun facts I'll break your pretty face was originally I'll break your freaking face before the studio version was released back when they'd played it live already but done unchanged it the pinnacle at a song is about wanting to cheat on your cell with a random hookup who turns out to be your so it's about two people who feel stuck in a stale relationship attempt to cheat on each other and instead find out they didn't know each other as much as they realized and rekindle their relationship the underlying message pretty much is that communication is crucial to a healthy relationship it is a positive happy song and I will die on that hill like this video and this good boy will play you a nice song if you are new to the channel you can subscribe I publish new videos every day until then check another video or don't either way have a great day you 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Length: 13min 17sec (797 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 17 2020