Line #32 TearJerker/ImagineDragons


1	* "Demons" is about a person protecting someone they love during a dark period of time. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWRsgZuwf_8 The music video]] takes this a bit further, showing how hard some people have it. The music video also ends with a memorial to teenage fan Tyler Robinson, who died of cancer. The song sounds even sadder when Dan Reynolds [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN78DOE8Z18 sings it live, in a lower key]].
2	* “30 Lives” definitely counts. It almost definitely has something to do with death, and the chorus is essentially begging for forgiveness.
3	* "Monster" could be interpreted as someone berating himself for struggling to meet society's standards of normalcy. The end of the live version repeats "Stronger. Stronger. It keeps getting stronger" ad nauseam to further accentuate the singer's difficulty in escaping the metaphorical monster.
4	** [[TragicMonster Well, it might be metaphorical, anyway....]]
5	* "Bleeding Out" gets pretty depressing when you realize what's being said could be interpreted as a suicide note or maybe even a final speech after a HeroicSacrifice.
6	* "Clouds" sounds like someone having a ''really'' hard time recovering from the loss of a loved one.[[note]]As of 2017, this song has never appeared on an album or EP, with the only recordings of it coming from live performances.[[/note]]
7	* "I Bet My Life" sounds a little like this and a little like a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment\|s}}, as it has Dan Reynolds remember making life decisions his parents didn't agree with, then try to assure his parents that he still considers them important.
8	* The entire video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txlk7PiHaGk Next To Me]]". The song itself is [[HeroicSelfDeprecation Dan's bemusement that after everything he's done wrong,]] [[UndyingLoyalty the person he is singing to is still sticking by him]].
9	* ''Smoke and Mirrors''. The entire album has a very dark, self-loathing bent. Special note goes to "Dream", in which Dan realizes that reality is harsh and his perfect world was just a dream.
10	* "Bad Liar". It's bad enough on its own as a song about the failure of a relationship, but it also has heavy FridgeHorror for "Start Over" and "I'll Make It Up To You" from the previous album, implying that Dan's promises of mending his relationship were just lies. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_kfi-WeZCw stripped version]] makes it even worse by stripping away the electronic flourishes and leaving it as weak and hopeless.
11	* The animated video for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXZkm9p_zY "Birds"]] which will hit ''anyone'' in the feels for either of these two things: either being ostracized/bullied for being different or losing a parental figure in your life.
12	* "Real Life" is about someone Dan loves dearly spending far too much of her time worrying about and fearing a cruel world. He admits he has none of the reassurance or answers she wants for why everything is so fucked up and all he can do is beg her to enjoy what she has now.
13	* "Zero" is a [[LyricalDissonance very fast, upbeat song]]. It also features lyrical gems like these:
14	--> Hello, hello
15	--> Let me tell you what it's like to be a zero, zero
16	--> Let me show you what it's like to always feel, feel
17	--> Like I'm empty and there's nothing really real, real
18	--> I'm looking for a way out
19	--> Hello, hello
20	--> Let me tell you what it's like to be a zero, zero
21	--> Let me show you what it's like to never feel, feel
22	--> Like I'm good enough for anything that's real, real
23	--> I'm looking for a way out
24	** It was written for (and appears during the end credits of) ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'', in which [[WesternAnimation/WreckItRalph the titular character]] is faced with his OnlyFriend/borderline surrogate daughter/kid sister leaving him to live in another game. It fits Ralph's situation almost perfectly.
25	** The lines "I remember walking in the cold of November/Hoping that I make it to the end of December/27 years and the end on my mind" from Verse 1 comes dangerously close to explicitly mentioning ''suicidal thoughts.'' In a song written ''for a family movie.''
26	* "Wrecked", written about Dan Reynolds' sister-in-law, who died due to cancer.
27	--> These days I'm becoming everything that I hate
28	--> Wishing you were around, but now it's too late
29	--> My mind is a place that I can't escape your ghost
30	--> Sometimes I wish that I could wish it all away
31	--> One more rainy day without you
32	--> Sometimes I wish that I could see you one more day
33	--> One more rainy day
34	* "My Life" is a heartbreaking song about drug abuse in which the singer laments that he can't undo his past mistakes or become a different person. "I'm running out of my mind, is this really my life?"
35	* "Waves" is all about sudden deaths. One is a woman who's finally made something of herself but is implied to have been killed in a car accident. The second is a friend who committed suicide simply because the singer wasn't able to be there for him.
36	* "I Wish" is also about Dan's sister-in-law, and it just may be even worse than "Wrecked," as Dan openly laments not being a "better friend" to her in a pained, drawn-out chorus.

Context TearJerker / ImagineDragons