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What are some songs with dark lyrics but with a happy music tone?

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1. In Between Days - The Cure
2. Run For Your Life - The Beatles Well I'd rather see you dead, little girl Than to be with another man You better keep your head, little girl Of I won't know where I am You better run for your life if you can, little girl Hide your head in the sand little girl Catch you with another man That's the end'a little girl Well I know that I'm a wicked guy And I was born with a jealous mind And I can't spend my whole life Trying just to make you toe the line ......
3. maxwell's silver hammer by the beatles
4. Sunday Morning by the Velvet Underground Maxwell's Silver Hammer by the Beatles a lot of Pixies songs play up on the dichotomy of that, where dramatic lyrics are often softly sung and minutia is yelled
5. first thing that came to mind was the pixies "wave of mutilation" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BihjWa47WuM also "debaser" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mCoOlUjhlc also i find the misfits to be very upbeat musical but hilarious and dark lyrically check out "last caress" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1wbcqY6IIs and the minutemens corona is very upbeat but has downer socially concious lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F6GPYd_xNA
6. Siouxsie and the Banshees- Cities in Dust
7. Most Cure songs, LOL. Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division is also pretty upbeat. And so are most Pixies songs. Their songs are dark, but their music always makes me want to dance. The best though, would have to be People Who Died by Jim Carroll Band.
8. Eels - Mr E's Beautiful Blues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gIFm5earUY