Do you know a song that's beautiful but slightly macabre?

Question

I think i can remember the one you mean Beautiful Elmo, if it is the one I'm thinking of i think it was a strange advert that fascinated me.

Thank you for the lyrics.
I havent heard them but they both seem like macabre songs.

Answer 1

the songs in the album "murder ballads" by Nick Cave

Answer 2

Woman In The Wall by The Beautiful South....

He was just a social drinker but social every night
He enjoyed a pint or two or three or four
She was just a silent thinker, silent every night
He'd enjoy the thought of killing her before

Well he was very rarely drunk but very rarely sober
And he didn't think the problem was his drink
But he only knew his problem when he knocked her over
And when the rotting flesh began to stink

Cry freedom for the woman in the wall
Cry freedom for she has no voice at all
I hear her cry all day, all night
I hear her voice from deep within the wall
Made a cross from knitting needles
Made a grave from koover bags
Especially for the woman in the wall

She'd knitted him a jumper with dominoes on
So he wore it everyday in every week
Pretended to himself that she hadn't really gone
Pretended that he thought he heard her speak

Then at last it seemed that he was really winning
He felt that he had some sort of grip
But all of his new life was sent a-spinning
When the rotting wall began to drip

Answer 3

These would be my top choices.

Opeth - "Face Of Melinda"
Green Carnation - "The Boy In The Attic"
The Flower Kings - "A Vampire's View"
Faith No More - Zombie Eaters
Stabbing Westward - "Sleep"
Into Another - "May I?"
Lillian Axe - "The Needle And Your Pain"
Ayreon - "2084"

Answer 4

Any song by Type O Negative and Hate Me by Blue October

Answer 5

Commerical for Levi - Placebo

Answer 6

Anything by Mr. Bungle.

Answer 7

'girlfriend in a coma' by the smiths

anything by the verve ('lucky man', 'drugs dont work', 'bittersweet symphony')

'choose drugs', 'girl in a box' by juliana hatfield

'comfortably numb' , 'wish you were here' by pink floyd

breathe (2am) by anna nalick

Answer 8

"kissed by a rose on the grave" by seal (one of he batman movie soundtracks, when Val Kilmer played batman)

Answer 9

Outside of Town-Gerldine Fibbers



I'm drownded in sorrow, I'm drownded in scorn.
I knew I'd end this way since the day I was born.
I never learnt nothing 'cept hunger and fear.
And the love that you gave me was lies to keep me near.

In a field of new grass you first lay me down.
I met you there daily just outside of town.
A fool I have lived and a fool I will die,
But you'll go to the devil for making me cry.

"You smile so sweetly," my momma would say,
"But you're wicked my little girl.
When death comes to heaven you never will go.
Till then, I will love you, till then.
Till then, I will love you, till then."

Your hands they offend me, they pull me apart.
Your eyes they can burn a hole right through my heart.
I'm ruined for love and I'm ruined for life,
I'll never be nothing, I'm ready to go.

I'm damned for sure, and I know that I'm lost,
But I'll take my revenge whatever the cost.
Please tell the angels to turn their pretty heads,
I can bare them to see me when I kill you dead.

"You smile so sweetly," my mama would say,
"But you're wicked my little girl.
When death comes to heaven you never will go.
Till then, I will love you, till then.
Till then, I will love you, till then."

Please tell my mama, my heart it was broke
At a very young age, of this we never spoke.
Tell her the man she loves is going cold in the ground,
And her only baby is hangin' outside of town.

"You smile so sweetly," my mama would say,
"But you're wicked my little girl.
When death comes to heaven you never will go.
Till then, I will love you, till then.
Till then, I will love you, till then.
Till then, I will love you, till then."

Answer 10

wings of a butterfly