Downer Ending/Music: Difference between revisions

* "Strange Kind of Woman" by [[Deep Purple]]; guy tries to seduce a high class call girl and eventually succeeds...only for her to die not long after they wed.

* [[Avril Lavigne]] has a song called "My Happy Ending" where she sings about how the "ending" of her relationship was one of these.

So much for my happy ending" }}

* Finnis Schlager example: ''Yksinäinen'' ("Lonely"). The song name in itself is somewhat of a [[Spoiler Title]], but the listener might still be unpleasantly surprised. The song is about someone who leaves their home village to try their luck in the world and find happiness. After a few verses of the world generally pissing in in their face, they return home, realising the only true happiness for them is their true love who they left behind years ago. They finally arrive -- and cannot find their love -- only a grave.

* ''W'' by [[Van der Graaf Generator]]. The whole song's pretty down- a recurring line being "you're twice as unhappy as you've ever been before"- but the last line takes the cake. "At six o'clock you realize you're dead."

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0LtrppDDkg All Systems Go] by Krypteria is an energetic, motivational song about overcoming one's fears and hesitations, boldly stepping up to the challenge, and seizing your moment of glory, yet ends with the [[BSOD Song|BSOD]] line:

* One of the ''strangest'' downer endings in music is in Queen's song ''39''. The lyrics are cryptic and do not open easily, but it is a bittersweet introduction into relativistic physics. Queen's "39" is a description of interstellar travel with time-dilation effects. (It helps to have an astrophysicist as your lead guitarist.) The protagonist is a prospector who has volunteered to an interstellar space expedition seeking new habitable planets around the Milky Seas (read: Milky Way, the galaxy) and he returns back home. His spaceship has moved with a speed near the speed of light, and while the voyage has lasted only one year in the spaceship time, hundred years has gone at Earth, and all the protagonists's friends and relatives have passed away. He meets his great-granddaughter, telling ''though so many years have gone/I'm but older than a year/your mother's eyes, in your eyes/cry to me''. He then contemplates that all his life is still ahead, but he feels he is out of that world and there is nobody there for him anymore.

* There is a ''whole genre'' of rock music known as ''[http://www.nyx.net/~anon52ea/DeadTeenSongs.html Dead Teen Songs]'', which are dedicated to death. Either the protagonist, or someone close to him or her, dies in those songs.