Here are 40 Popular Songs with Upbeat Tune But Dark Lyrics for you. These are upbeat songs that are super dark. Do you know anyone of these famous dark themed songs. These top 40 songs that sound happy but are depressing are examples of dark songs. This list has most of the old, new upbeat songs with dark lyrics.
1. Copacabana
"Copacabana" also known as "Copacabana (At the Copa)" sung by Barry Manilow, was a hit 1978 song. It is is a very dark a depressing song with peppy music.
2. MGMT - When You Die
3. MGMT - It's Working
4. Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
5. Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon
6. Eddy Grant-Electric Avenue
7. Eddy Grant - Gimme Hope Jo Anna 1988
8. 9 to 5 by Dolly Parton
9. I Don't Like Mondays by the Boomtown Rats
10. Foster The People - Pumped up Kicks
11. 99 Red Balloons by Nena
12. Smile by Lily Allen
13. Stromae - Papaoutai
14. Alors on danse
15. At least it was here
16. No Rain by Blind Melon
17. Hard Times - Paramore
18. The Beatles - Maxwell's Silver Hammer
19. "The Lazy Song" by Bruno Mars
20. Bad Moon Rising by CCR
21. I Can't Decide by Scissor Sisters
22. Oh My Darlin' Clementine
23. Smooth criminal by MJ
24. The Muffin song
25. Dumb Ways to Die
26. Mr Brightside
27. Choke
28. Turn It Off from The Book of Mormon
29. Little Talks by Of Men & Monsters
30. Lovefool - The Cardigans
31. "You Are My Sunshine"
32. Every Breath You Take by The Police
33. Blinding Lights by The Weeknd
34. Possum Kingdom by The Toadies
35. Tears for Fears version of Mad World
36. Bullet by Hollywood undead
37. Chocolate Rain
38. Everything sucks- Reel Big Fish
39. Ring Around The Rosie
40. Heathens by Twenty One Pilots
- Deacon Blues
- Bad Sneakers
- Barrytown
- Black Cow
- Black Friday
- Chain Lightning
- Cousin Dupree
- Dirty Work
- Do it Again
- Don’t Take Me Alive
- Dr. Wu
- Everyone’s Gone to the Movies
- Everything You Did
- Glamour Profession
- Haitian Divorce
- Here at the Western World
- Josie
- Kid Charlemagne
- King of the World
- My Old School
- Night by Night
- Pearl of the Quarter
- Peg (obsessed stalker)
- Razor Boy
- Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
- Sign in Stranger
- Time Out of Mind
- Hey nineteen