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Songs about the Unfortunate Side of Life - Deaths, Divorces, Disasters, Drugs, Demons, all the bad stuff.

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One more from Springsteen, this one is highly personal. I had a brother like Frankie...

 

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This is an absolute gut-wrencher from Eliza Carthy, who can wrench a gut as well as anyone. It’s a version of the unfortunare rake, which is also the root for Streets of Laredo, When I was on Horseback, etc.

 
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Is there such a thing as too many angels? Perhaps in this house...

 
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This one is dark and haunting, it was one of my brother's favorites.

 

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IIRC, this song was written in the 19 th century by a poet/songwright, can’t remember the person’s name. It’s about a damsel who was kidnapped by a demon and the hero who battled it and rescued her.

 
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Ironically, "Everything is Awesome" from The Lego Movie was written to the response of the songwriter's divorce from his wife and mother of his 3 children.
 
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Now he's gone, now he's gone, Lord he's gone, he's gone
Like a steam locomotive, rollin' down the track
He's gone, he's gone and nothin's gonna bring him back, he's gone

 

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Remember this one?
 
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Oh....Alison!!


This is a terrific song, with a great arrangement. (Thanks, T-Bone Burnett.) And her voice is angelic.

But it’s always miffed me that Led Zeppelin took credit for the song. It wasn’t written by them. It was written by Memphis Minnie and her husband, Kansas Joe McCoy, and recorded in 1929.

 

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About her sister Sharon. Beth had a lot of trouble with drugs too. She got herself cleaned up, Sharon didn't.

Sister Heroine - Beth Hart

 

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One of my favorite U2 songs. About a couple of heroin addicts living in the Ballymum Towers in Dublin.

Running To Stand Still - U2

 

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One straight about death.

My Name Is Death - Red Wanting Blue

 

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A little about death, drugs, and I think a jilted lover.

Dead Flowers - Rolling Stones

 
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