Ask Lemmy

Paul Thorn - Bull Mountain Bridge

Jonathan Coulton - Shop-Vac®

Timothy by The Buoys is a very happy song about men trapped in a mine collapse cannibalizing each other to survive.

Ring around the rosey

And

Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear

for some reason there's a bunch of upbeat sounding Japanese songs that are actually disturbing if you look into the lyrics (for example racing into the night)

Walking on broken glass - Annie Lennox

The Muffin Song

Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank by Barenaked Ladies is about the real stalking of a Canadian celebrity by a mentally unstable man who thought she was in love with him.

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/12/31/A-love-sick-farmer-who-has-pursued-singer-Anne-Murray/8301378622800/

Blackest Eyes by Porcupine Tree

most of the after laughter album by paramore

also hey ya by outkast is often played at weddings while being about a relationship failing

Passion Pit - Sleepyhead

Twisting In The Wind - David Byrne

In fact, the whole album's full of dark yet upbeat songs.

I didn't see wake up boo by the boo radleys in here.

It's about suicide

Komm Süsser Tod from The End Of Evangelion.

It's a little more than kind of depressing but Bullet by Hollywood Undead comes to mind.

I think Enola Gay by Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark is a perfect example.

It sounds upbeat and fun but it's about the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Some of the lyrics are incredibly powerful and I still get chills when I hear it.

Mack the Knife https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ0OOHLWo4w

Radiohead - No Surprises

Sad lyrics and fast tempo :
Kazim Koyuncu - Narino
Bagpipe song with the lyrics "I lost my sanity", "I sat down and cried", and "I wish someone knew my pain" especially. Can find longer versions on youtube.

French Gal - Poupèe de cire
Lyrics are about feeling more like a doll than human. TRIGGER WARNING FOR FRENCH LANGUAGE

Kazim Koyuncu - Fadime
Kemençe song with lyrics along same lines. Takes a bit before beat changes.

Sad lyrics and happy music/tone :
Danny Gonzales - Downhill
Song argues with a young adult on how rest of their life will suck.

Istanbul12 Orkestrasi - Bile Bile
Song about being unable to accept rejection.

Ayase/YAOSABI - Into the night
I am 70% sure "upbeat sounding song about suicide" is a genre in Japanese music.

HEALTH - everything from the band is banger after banger but with lyrics that'll leave you feeling a certain type of sad

Happier - by Bastille and Marshmello. It might depend on the listener tho.

Aint it fun - Paramore

Honestly, i don't like that a lot of radio music is so sad. I have to look to real oldies to find a happy song.

My boyfriend said he thought about me when we listen to Saturday Night by the Misfits. I'm like.... do you want to murder me?...

The lyrics always sounded very murdery to me. I think they did an amazing job of making it sound romantic but bf read through the lyrics after that and hugged me when I got home and said he definitely didn't want to murder me.

Edit: Ok this one is purely personal but I just got done with work and it came out on the playlist, Achilles Come Down by Gangs of Youth.

I learned this song from my daughter. I let her control the music when we'd drive to school and back but I immediately loved this song because unlike me, she has an amazing voice. This is one I only ever heard underneath her crystalline soprano while she sang along.

It was always so beautiful that I didn't focus on the song so much as her. She made a haunting, sad song a beautiful, pleasant memory for me because now she's had her license for a while, she's doing her thing being an ambitious senior. I don't get to listen to her sing anymore between my work and her school/social schedule.

I miss the days when I stayed up after a 12 hour shift to take her to school because I miss listening to her sing. I brain was fuzzy and that morning sun seared my eyeballs but I cherish every morning now because I don't have many left. I acutally miss everything about my kids needing me now that one has been independent for quite a few years and the other two are almost independent. I'm listening right now and all I can hear is her voice.

Fuck that shit hits hard. Im going to be an empty nester soon. Fucking FUCK. Fuck does it hit hard. I should be proud. I am! Jesus am I. I don't know how I was blessed with these people, bio and adopted, that's how vlessed I am, but I don't want to look the gift horse in the mouth. Fucking wow, am I proud. But really I'm sad, too.

/soliloquy

Fast Car

Pumped Up Kicks

Flowers on the Wall

The entirety of hissing fauna are you the destroyer by of Montreal

The Motown hit Keep Me Hanging On by the Supremes is the classic example of this.

It was even recognized for its pathos and turned into a sadder slow version by psychedelic band Vanilla Fudge

I know that there are probably a lot that I'm forgetting but here are the ones I remember:

No more crying by Sound Holic (lyrics)

Border of my life by Sound Holic (lyrics)

THE END by A-One

IT IS SO by A-One

U.N. Owen Was Her? by A-One

I think I have the best answer here: Gwar - Rock N Roll Never Felt So Good

Lyrics