Top 10 Metal and Rock Songs with Dark Lyrics and Happy Music

I don't say these songs are bad. I like some of them very much. This list just shows that sometimes music artists do weird things, even the good musicians.

Dark lyrics can be sad or creepy, or just related to serious lyrical themes but suddenly some happy cheerful music starts ...
The Top Ten
1 Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

Thanks to Ozzy's cheesy voice every song they meant to be dark sounds happy even with Black Sabbath... am I the only one who laughing on the vocals of Black Sabbath or War Pigs?

That's some nice LSD to be on if you think that in Sabbath (espcially on the song Black Sabbath) that the vocals are funny.

Its supposed to be really dark yet when I hear this its sounds happy

The entire song follows this gap between music and lyrics.

2 Bad Moon Rising - Creedence Clearwater Revival
3 Jump - Van Halen

Believe it or not, this happy music was written to a suicide song.

4 (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult

Man, the lyrics to this song are really dark when you think about it, but damn if it isn't catchy as hell

I never liked this song... mainly due to it's a halloween song yet it's cheesy and poppy as hell. Not talking about BÖC have tens of better songs than this one.

5 Killer On the Loose - Thin Lizzy

Just click on the song sample below.

6 Semi-Charmed Life - Third Eye Blind
7 Fast As a Shark - Accept
8 Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones
9 Maxwell's Silver Hammer - The Beatles
10 Adam's Song - Blink-182
The Contenders
11 Invite It - Annihilator

I love this song start to finish but the chorus is too playful for these lyrics:
"Just try it, entice it telling me I'm dead. Don't fight it, invite it",... and so on.

12 Banish from Sanctuary - Blind Guardian
13 Detroit Rock City - Kiss

Ooh, yes. Who knew that a song about a Kiss fan who dies in a car accident can be so much fun? (Sarcasm alert).

14 Bullet - Hollywood Undead
15 Suicide and Mania - Primal Fear
16 Pictures of Home - Deep Purple
17 Miss Murder - AFI
18 It's the End of the World as We Know I - R.E.M

Music to the chorus is pretty happy

19 Happy Song - Bring Me the Horizon
20 Last Caress - Misfits

I am genuinely amazed nobody has added this song to the list yet.

21 Help! - The Beatles
22 Rock the Casbah - The Clash
23 Hey, Hey, What Can I Do - Led Zeppelin

I don't think it's that dark, if I'm honest.

24 Oh No - Bring Me the Horizon
25 Spanish Bombs - The Clash
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