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00:0010 of the darkest mainstream songs ever written
00:03Number 10
00:04Disturbed, Down With The Sickness
00:07Album version includes graphic abuse-revenge monologue cut from radio
00:11Metaphorical intent lost as edits hid the song's darkest core entirely
00:16Number 9
00:17The Cure, Lullaby
00:19Nursery rhyme sweetness clashes with dread as Smith's ambiguous Spider-Man traps the narrator,
00:25weaponizing uncertainty into psychological unease
00:28Number 8
00:30Korn, Daddy
00:31Public therapy session where Davis confronts childhood abuse and disbelief
00:36Extended silence enforces emotional reckoning and catharsis
00:40Number 7
00:41Immortal Technique, Dance With The Devil
00:44Nine-minute cautionary tale follows a youth into gang violence culminating in matricide revelation
00:49Alleged real roots deepen the horror immensely
00:52Number 6
00:54The Doors, The End
00:56An 11-minute frenzied utiple odyssey grew from a breakup song
01:00Jim Morrison's explicit patricide incest imagery unsettled even 1960s audiences
01:06Number 5
01:07Nirvana, Polly
01:09Soft acoustic arrangement disguises first-person perspective of Gerald Friend who kidnapped and
01:15tortured a 14-year-old girl in 1987
01:17This is from a real case where deceptive calm underscore genuine evil
01:22Number 4
01:23Eminem Kim
01:25Graphic, humorless portrayal of a relationship's collapse culminating in fictional spousal murder
01:30Trading satire for uncomfortable, visceral realism
01:33Number 3
01:35Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Song of Joy
01:38Deadpan narration details murdered wife and daughters, ironic title heightening dread
01:43Subtle cues suggest confession yet remain ambiguous throughout
01:47Number 2
01:49Bob Dylan, Ballad of Hollis Brown
01:52Told in second person, Dylan implicates listeners in a destitute farmer's familicide
01:57Mirroring poverty's relentless, grinding hopelessness and despair
02:01Number 1
02:03Nine Inch Nails, Closer
02:05Disturbing production and self-loathing lyrics aimed to unsettle
02:09Yet clubs embraced it as erotic slow dance misinterpretation
02:13Fueling its paradoxical legacy
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