Top 10 Happy Sounding Songs That Are Actually Depressing

We may love jamming out to these happy upbeat songs, but little do we know that they have actually dark stories behind them.
The Top Ten
1 Stay Awake - Dean Lewis
2 Twenty One - Khalid
3 Pompeii - Bastille

Wait how is this depressing and how does I took a pill in Ibiza not sound depressing

4 I Took a Pill in Ibiza - Mike Posner
5 Pumped Up Kicks - Foster the People

Daddy works a long day.
Yeah he's coming home late
Yeah he's coming home late and he's bringing me a surprise
Cause diner is in the kitchen and it's packed in ice,
I've waited for a long time,
Yeah the sleight of my hand is now a quick-pull trigger
I reason with my cigarette
Then say, "Your hair's on fire, you must've lost your wits, yeah? "

This songs is about a shooting in School.

6 99 Red Balloons - Nena

Love this song and its meaning

7 Jump - Van Halen

He's encouraging you to commit suicide not lose weight by jumping rope to be honest

8 Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind

This is about Crystal Meth addiction. It's sounds happy/peppy than later he sounds like he's panicking.

9 Bullet - Hollywood Undead
10 Hey Ya! - Outkast

This is like the happiest sounding song EVER! It NEEDS to get up there!

Depressing as hell

The Contenders
11 Uninstall - Made In Japan Production
12 Belfast - Orbital
13 Detroit Rock City - Kiss
14 Today - The Smashing Pumpkins

Really sad, but the music is quite upbeat.

15 Copacabana (At the Copa) - Barry Manilow

This song has a very upbeat sound and sounds like something to party to, but if you actually listen to the lyrics it's about a woman losing her love after he was killed, and her being depressed about it for the rest of her life.

16 Rock the Casbah - The Clash

It's about an Iranian king banning Western culture during the Iranian revolution.
"The king told the boogiemen." See?

17 You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon
18 American Pie - Don McLean
19 Adam's Song - Blink-182

What? There is nothing happy sounding about this song!

20 Basket Case - Green Day
21 Caught in the Middle - Paramore
22 Mamma Mia - Abba
23 Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles
24 Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
25 Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
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