Coincidentally enough, the group's bassist is first cousin to a survivor of the Columbine High School massacre. However, the lyrics only deal with him wanting to do this after finding a gun, so whether he actually ends up killing anyone is up to interpretation.
"Pumped Up Kicks" by Foster the People is a song about a teenager who goes on a killing spree because his schoolmates have nicer shoes than he does. Hurt's "Got Jealous", about the narrator killing a man for being with his (possibly ex-) lover. You could technically still consider it a murder ballad if you really wanted to. The victim is walking around, breathing, but dead inside. "Let The Record Show" is about how sexual abuse murders someone's soul. Considering the frequent setting of Emilie's work, there's also a high possibility that it's about a victim of Jack the Ripper. While there's no Word Of God, the lyrics of "Let The Record Show" by Emilie Autumn seem to be about a prostitute ("get them off and they'll let you go") murdered by her jealous lover. Evelyn Evelyn have two the tragic "Sandy Fishnets", about the life, disappearance, and probable murder of a twelve-year-old prostitute, and the darkly humorous "You Only Want Me 'Cos You Want My Sister", in which the narrator murders her more popular sister. "Water's Edge" by Seven Mary Three, about witnessing a murder. Pretty Polly by Queen Adreena is a cover of a traditional murder ballad. "Lovely Girls" by Blood Cells, from the victim's point of view. All set to catchy, upbeat synth/dance/rock/metal/something music. and then there's all the other songs that deal with violent things that aren't necessarily murder, of which there are too many to list. "Lover's End", "Happy Birthday", "Velvet". 
The Birthday Massacre loves making these.Deals with a father murdering his little girl. "Country Death Song" by the Violent Femmes, somewhat of a pastiche of the classic murder ballad (at least, considering the rest of their oeuvre)."Slow Motion" by Third Eye Blind, although you wouldn't know it from the original album release, which didn't contain any of the verses.She refers to them in concert as "the dead girlfriend songs." Anything off Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight by Kristin Hersh."Heavy In Your Arms" by Florence + the Machine."Buenos Tardes Amigo" by Ween is the tale of a South of the Border shooting, sung by the brother of the victim about how he will get his revenge, but it is revealed at the end that the narrator killed his own brother, and blamed it on the person to whom he is singing." Murder Ballad" - Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.The whole album is the Concept Album of Murder Ballads the story either as him or her as the killer or both at the same time.
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Snow White's Poison Bite's "The End Of Prom Night," "Kristy Killings," and "Serial Killer Girl (Come On, Come On, Kill Me!)" are about a serial killer girl whom the singer falls in love with. "Francoise Marten" by a short lived act The Tenth Stage, about the life of a man who would murder each of his wives for some petty reason. "Woman in the Wall" by The Beautiful South is about a drunk who kills his wife/girlfriend and hides her body inside the wall, The Black Cat-style. And the last song, an original, "O'Malley's Bar." Plenty of squick to go around. He also mentioned beforehand that he fully intended to have sex with and/or rape him after having sex with his girlfriend (who propositioned Lee) and stated that he would "crawl over fifty good pussies just to get one fat boy's asshole". And then shoots Billy in the middle of it. Cave's Stagger Lee murders at least one person in cold blood before the Billy Delyon character even enters the story - and then forces Billy to perform fellatio on him. And Cave's own " Stagger Lee." Look up the lyrics, I dare you. The most famous song would be "Where The Wild Roses Grow", a duet with Kylie Minogue. The Nick Cave album Murder Ballads consisted of nothing but, well, murder ballads. I Never Told You What I Do For A Living is just the most blatant example. In fact, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge is a Concept Album of these. "I Never Told You What I Do for a Living" by My Chemical Romance is written from the perspective of a serial killer.
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