* An example from the third ''[[VideoGame/ArTonelicoQogaKnellOfArCiel Ar tonelico]]'' game comes from EXEC_Z/. Sounds a lot like a dance track. [[spoiler: The command part boils down to killing most of the Reyvateils, and turning their genes and memory spaces for their minds into a sort-of glue used to turn humans into horrible monstrosities.]]
* The opening song of ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2|CursedMemories}}'', "Sinful Rose", is a cheerful, upbeat song about betrayal and slaughter. This is what happens when we let demons sing theme tunes.
* ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}'''s opening song, "Maritsu Evil Academy", has about the same content, being the theme song of a school for demons. However, what with the ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'' vibe the music has, it's probably less of an example.
* Inverted for the Japanese "Ashley's Song" from ''VideoGame/WarioWare'', which has an ominous melody, but fluffy pop lyrics about how wonderful Ashley is. The English version initially averted this by using mock-sinister lyrics to match the melody, then played it straight when a more upbeat remix was made for ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl''.
* Another Nintendo example is [[VideoGame/{{Pikmin}} Ai no Uta]] (Song of Love). It has a cute melody, with a happy tone, typical cute J-pop song...turns out that it's about the Pikmin loving Olimar despite doing his dirty work and probably getting eaten in the end. And they are painfully aware of him only seeing them as a RedShirtArmy. [[PlayerPunch Ouch.]]
-->Today once again we'll carry, fight, grow and then be eaten\\
Dug up, we'll meet again and be thrown around\\
But we'll you follow forever...
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzSR_TFMirs ''Omoide was Okkusenman!'']] ("Memories are 110,000,000") is a song made of Japanese lyrics fitted to the ''VideoGame/MegaMan2'' Wily Castle theme and originally with that set as the background. The lyrics are of a man reminiscing about his childhood, wondering where his friends are, lamenting that all the seasons have passed him by, and continually nostalgizing about his childhood hero. To sum it up, the man in the song is saying GrowingUpSucks.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WctXJTxuHj4 Freesia]] from the end of the fourth ''VideoGame/MegaManZero''. The intro is an subversion, because it's rather mellow. However, from there on, it's Esperanto, a rather upbeat song from the second intro stage. What are the lyrics about? It's about Ciel's [[spoiler:AnguishedDeclarationOfLove.]]
* Aozora from ''VisualNovel/{{AIR}}'' is an example; the song is probably one of the most [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=un_-kExsuRk distressing melodies ever composed,]] but the lyrics are all happy and uplifting. If you read the lyrics and never heard the song, you would never suspect that it's used during the infamous "GOAL" scene [[ItWasHisSled in which Misuzu dies.]]
* A lot of the remixes in ''[[VideoGame/TheIdolmaster The Idolm@ster]]'' are like this, most notably the remix of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0S84Z9MK3Q&feature=channel_page My Best Friend,]] which is a song about having a close friendship with a person the singer has a crush on put to deathmetal. Or the song ''Inferno'' has a rocky beat, a hint of a love song in it and basically says that the end of the world is near and everything should burn to ashes. Still in a rocky fashion which can turn this into an ear worm.
* ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'':
** The song "Destiny", a 160-BPM Eurobeat-style tune, with very sad lyrics, eg "You were my destiny, I was clearly for eternity, something came and took you away from me".
** Similarly, "Broken My Heart".
** At first, "Sweet Sweet Magic" sounds like a typical happy hardcore tune, but when it gets to the bridge, the lyrics turn darker and sadder.
** "Mermaid Girl" is a bubblegum dance song about the story of ''Literature/TheLittleMermaid''. ...The Un-[[{{Disneyfication}} Disneyfied]] version where she DidNotGetTheGuy and turns into seafoam at the end. [[DownerEnding Yeah]].
* ''VideoGame/GravityRush'': The ending theme, "Douse Shinundakara", is an upbeat jazz song sung in the game's faux-French ConLang. The translated lyrics are about how nothing you do matters, because you and everyone you know is doomed to die eventually anyway. Played with in that while most of the song has the singer be a StrawNihilist ("so give up, alright?"), by the end they're beginning to entertain an [[TheAntiNihilist Anti-Nihilist]] viewpoint of the matter ("But I’ve been told love isn’t quite that bad...").
* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''
** ''[[VideoGame/{{TokyoMirageSessionsFE}} Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE]]''
*** The main theme, “Reincarnation”, fits this trope. Quoting the Fire Emblem wiki, “Though the song has an upbeat tone, the lyrics reference darker desires to destroy, to disappear, and to be reincarnated”.
** ''VideoGame/Persona3''
*** ''Kimi no Kioku'', the credits music from ''VideoGame/Persona3'', is an upbeat J-Pop song about [[spoiler:[[GriefSong the death of a lover]]]].
----> [[spoiler: [[HeroicSacrifice Because you protected this ephemerally floating world by your own hand]]\\
[[BigSleep Now simply fold your wings and sleep restfully]]\\
[[TearJerker Be wrapped up in an eternal tranquility, and love through all eternity]]]]
*** The Overworld Music is not exempt from this, (the fact that it's sung in heavily affected English doesn't help make the meaning any clearer). [[CanonName Makoto's]] theme music, ''When The Moon's Reaching Out Stars'' is a peppy song about someone who is miserable because they [[CantSpitItOut can't bring themselves to confess their love to someone]].
----> When stars're smilling moon\\
[[WordSaladLyrics Wonder how look in your eyes]]\\
Just dialing your number\\
Failing to press the last two
*** Given that the game is about themes of the Death Arcana, a lot of the OST runs into this. There's also ''Changing Seasons'', the second semester school theme, which combines boppin' music with melancholy [[GratuitousFrench French proverbs.]]
** ''VideoGame/Persona4''
*** ''Persona 4's'' battle theme: "Reach Out To The Truth", runs into this with the second half of the chorus. It's extremely peppy and upbeat, but the lyrics refer to the victims that are thrown into the TV world and about to be murdered by their own Shadows. This dissonance could be representative of the game itself: which deals with dark themes but still keeps a lighthearted tone.
*** "Signs of Love", a relaxing theme that plays during downtime periods, has surprisingly depressing lyrics about a failed relationship ("didn't work, honey, cause we had a whole lot going on and on and on"; "you still think that it's nothing but love, rain still falls"). It even gets an epic jazz arrangement in ''VideoGame/Persona4DancingAllNight'', featuring an equally sad second verse!
** ''VideoGame/Persona5's'' regular battle theme, "Last Surprise", is an extremely upbeat song about how the target has been OutGambitted and about to be silently assassinated, while also functioning as a bit of a BraggingThemeTune for the Protagonist. "Life Will Change'' is an equally upbeat song about how the target is old, out of touch, and evil and the protagonist is going to change things via defeating them.
* ''VideoGame/PrimalRage'' has "Gorge!", an upbeat rock song about mass human sacrifice. It's more played for laughs, though, considering it's the player that the humans are willingly being eaten by.
* In ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Command and Conquer Red Alert 2]]'', the Iraqi Desolator unit subverts a cheery [[Music/TheBeatles Beatles]] song title for one of his taunts, referencing his radioactive fire weapon: "''HERE COMES THE SUN!''"
* Silver the Hedgehog's ImageSong, "Dreams of an Absolution", from the ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' sounds like a heavenly BoyBand love song. Bentley Jones, who sings it, even looks like a boy band member. However, with lyrics such as "In the night light, do you still feel your pain?" and "Happiness lies trapped in misery", the song's really about a KidHero who has suffered long enough in a hellish BadFuture along with his friends and wants to change it and bring back happiness. It also becomes weirder when you realize the prechorus sounds like the cheerful [[VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1991 Green Hill Zone]] theme everyone knows. This is possibly meant to represent Silver's {{Pollyanna}} personality.
* ''Death to Squishies'' from ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankUpYourArsenal'' is an upbeat, catchy pop song about [[FinalSolution robots rising up to kill all organic life]]. The song gets a BossRemix when you fight the {{sadist}} pop star after her MoralEventHorizon.
* ''VideoGame/MegaMan3'''s Game Over theme, although not having any lyrics, is strangely cheery, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXnFhnpEgKY brentalfloss's "WITH LYRICS" version]] turns it up to eleven by, among other things, calling the player a "handicapped vagina scab" and a "wrinkly little poodle cock" and encouraging him to kill himself.
* ''VideoGame/TheCaligulaEffect'' features a {{Leitmotif}} for every Ostinato Musician. The song for the [[DefeatMeansFriendship enemy-turned-party-member]] Keisuke is an upbeat, peppy melody, but the lyrics are about how he [[GrowingUpSucks enjoyed his childhood more]] and was hoping to get [[IJustWantToBeSpecial adoration and attention through little work]] because he considered himself to be utterly talentless, boring, and generic, while also hoping to find ''someone'' who will love 'the me that has nothing'.
* ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxSaveTheWorld'':
** "The War Song" from "Abe Lincoln Must Die!" is a jazzy showtune glorifying the political clout to be gained from war.
--->''War! What is it good for?\\
It's good for you, it's good for me!\\
War! What is it good for?\\
It strengthens the economy!\\\
It shows the world that we've got stones\\
And carriers with fighter drones!''
** "World of Max", the closing credits song to "Bright Side of the Moon", is a gentle lounge song with lyrics about colorful gore and stabbing things with forks. It also contains scat sections which cut mid-bar into superfast "[[Theatre/ThePiratesOfPenzance I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major General]]"-esque breaks played on a hapsichord with the singer jabbering things like "What the hell's a lagomorph? It's like a rabbit but with several semantic differences"
* The Lebanese song "Al Nadda" was used for the menu for the ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}: Warlords'' expansion pack. That treatment of it sounds like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__29A8qWkrc this]]. It plays over a background of a Mongol sitting by a fire at night, resting his sword point on the ground. So what do the lyrics translate as? Gotta be badass shit about killin' infidels or of [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 what is best in life]], right? Yup. It's a love song. Admittedly, one of longing, and indeed of a woman whom the singer might well threaten to go to war over...but a love song nonetheless.
-->O' Nadda, Nadda\\
Where roses are blooming on her cheek.\\
And if they refuse to give you to me, I will tear down the high mountains.\\
O' Nadda, Nadda, Nadda.\\
Where roses are blooming on her cheek.\\
And if they refuse to give you to me, I will tear down the high mountains.\\
Nadda was by the water spring.\\
And I asked her why she was not around.\\
Nadda was by the water spring.\\
And I asked her why she was not around.\\
She looked at me with those eyes.\\
And she wanted to talk to me and she did not want to\\

* The song for the ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}} 2'' commercial [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCvIw7DMHXc "Oh No You Didn't"]] is a light hip hop/barbershop chorus set to an upbeat piano tune that wouldn't be out of place at an amateur recital or off-Broadway musical. The lyrics are about getting revenge after being betrayed and ShotInTheAss by your employer.
* The "Super Energy Apocalypse Theme Song" is a hilarious example of this that is obviously done for laughs rather than seriously. The Game itself that is about a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Super Energy Apocalypse]] involving rampaging zombie hordes in the future, is fairly serious, for the most part. it On the title screen [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/larsiusprime/super-energy-apocalypse-recycled here]], enter the [[ClassicCheatCode Konami Code]] to see the ending credits, where the song is played.
* With the sheer volume of ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' remixes, it's inevitable we get quite a few examples
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISw5t8HvvmA "Sweets Time"]], a vocal cover of the song [[VideoGame/TouhouKoumakyouTheEmbodimentOfScarletDevil "U.N. Owen Was Her?"]], features some very innocent lyrics, but... if interpreted properly, [[http://en.touhouwiki.net/wiki/Lyrics:_Sweets_Time it quickly turns into a combination of]] {{Squick}}, horror, and a [[TykeBomb healthy]] [[CreepyChild reminder]] [[AxCrazy why]] [[TheOphelia Flandre]] [[SiblingYinYang is]] [[SealedEvilInACan so]] [[AxCrazy frightening]]. It can also be interpreted as her being desperately lonely from being [[MadwomanInTheAttic locked up the basement for 495 years]], leading to the first interpretation.
** Music/AlstroemeriaRecords has covered the Stage 2 Theme of ''VideoGame/TouhouFuumarokuTheStoryOfEasternWonderland'' called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0pp2ebXT9k End Of Daylight]], which is an upbeat Electronica/Dance vocal cover about either hopelessness or TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
** Another Alstroemeria Records number is the famous "Music/BadApple" remix with the shadow art PV. Its lyrics focus around what appears to be a {{Hikikomori}} tired of life, and brings an [[AndIMustScream infernal]] image to mind. A popular English translation goes "Forever, on and on, I continue circling with nothing but my hate in a carousel of agony/'til slowly I forget and my heart starts vanishing and suddenly I see that I can't break free..."
*** This one got doubled down when it was included, extended but basically unchanged, in ''Touhou Spell Bubble''. Now some dark lyrics potentially about mental illness are the backdrop to an incredibly colourful Bust-a-Move/rhythm game hybrid.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtTYQuO1j6w Necromantic]] by Music/AkatsukiRecords, a remix of ''[[VideoGame/TouhouShinreibyouTenDesires Ten Desires]]'' stage 4 theme "Desire Drive", in which {{Necromancer}} Seiga Kaku [[{{Necromantic}} professes her love]] for her [[OurZombiesAreDifferent reanimated minion]] Yoshika Miyako. The song features an upbeat sound and the [[EarWorm impossible to shake]], cutesy catchphrase "doki doki waku waku~"... as it describes what is without a shadow of a doubt an unhealthy, [[UnequalPairing unequal]], abusive relationship, with TheUnfettered Seiga expressing {{Yandere}} tendencies and Yoshika, being her undead thrall, obviously being incapable of giving any sort of informed consent.
-->''No matter how many times I hurt you, I want you to keep chasing after me''\\
''Look at me alone with those blind eyes of yours.''
* "Still Alive" from ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' is certainly [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI upbeat]] for a passive-aggressive [[VillainSong gloating song]], or a song about how the singer was murdered, torn to pieces, and thrown into a fire.
** [[spoiler: And how it is immortal, and how it will go on long after you're dead.]]
** The sequel has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVVZaZ8yO6o "Want You Gone"]], a catchy, upbeat tune which sounds like it could be a break-up song… if said break-up song included constant references to your own mortality.
--> You've got your short, sad life left\\
That's what I'm counting on\\
I'll let you get right to it\\
Now I only want you gone
* In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'', [[FourIsDeath fourth]]-ranked assassin Margaret has a ''doubly'' dissonant boss theme: not only is the music surprisingly upbeat for a GrimReaper-themed ElegantGothicLolita who fights with a pair of [[MixAndMatchWeapon rifle scythes]], but the actual ''lyrics'' clash with the music, forming a diabolically catchy TheReasonYouSuckSpeech against Travis Touchdown as well as a jab at the Otaku culture. ''And'' the song is sung by Nadia Gifford, otherwise known as the singing of Connie from ''VideoGame/SteambotChronicles''. So it makes the song extra hilarious when you realize how vastly different the tone of ''Philistine'' is compared to ''In your Voice''.
-->"Reaper, Reaper", that's what people call me! Why?\\
'Cause they all die!\\
When I sing, I end their lives\\
You act as though payback makes you a noble man\\
Is that a fact?\\
Well, you're a goddamn Philistine!
** In ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'', there's also "The Virgin Child Makes her Wish Without Feeling Anything", the song sung by Dr. Peace before his fight. In an interesting variation, instead of upbeat, it plays like a Frank Sinatra song, classy and stylish. It almost sounds like a love song. The lyrics, however seem to be either about [[spoiler: a girl killing her own mother, and going to Hell for it]], or [[spoiler: [[ForeShadowing a girl watching her mother die, and living a hellish life after that]]]].
--->Despair the end of the world\\
I hear the rising phoenix in my dream\\
And the virgin child made her wish upon a star\\
That night her mother talks no more.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QWbvfs4-7c In a Moment's Time]]'', the credits theme of ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'', sounds like a quiet jazz number with a bittersweet but warm tone and bouncy rhythm, with lyrics [[DoubleEntendre written to sound like]] a protective partner's musings and encouragement to their downtrodden lover... except it's about [[ArtifactOfDoom the Skull Heart]], singing to its potential hosts with ''actual'' intentions of conquest. With ''this'' context, the song is essentially the honeyed promises of a granted wish upon the Skull Heart luring in desperate or unsuspecting victims to make a DealWithTheDevil, only for it to turn into outright [[EvilGloating villainous taunting]] in the final verse in response to the latest Skullgirl likely realizing her mistake too late, all while staying a soulful and upbeat jazz song.
-->''[[JackassGenie Ask for any wish, I'm on it]]''\\
''Grant it [[LiteralGenie word for word]], I promise''\\
''Baby, that's the charm''\\
''You got it made, yes...''\\
...
-->''Ooh, buckle up tonight!''\\
''[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor You wanna get away?]] Forget it, baby''\\
''Got you in my sights,''\\
''It ain't in the cards, they don't ever learn!''
* Speaking of ''VideoGame/SteambotChronicles'', ''In Your Voice'' itself is a mostly cheery song about singing your cares away with friends, set to a very somber melody.
* ''VideoGame/SpaceChannel5 Part 2'' has [[DarkMessiah Purge's]] Theme, a song in Japanese that has an upbeat tempo and Creator/AkiraIshida singing. What could possibly go wron-
-->People who are troubled and weak\\
You will be saved soon\\
Puzzled people in pain and sadness\\
You will soon be delivered\\
Melt your heart to the world peace and dancing
** ...Oh.
* The ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' soundtrack has "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyxtKzhc00c Bein' Friends]]", which has predictably cheery lyrics. However, despite having a peppy tempo to match, most of the song is in a minor key, with the bridge and ending having an overall very eerie tone.
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'' has Eyes on Me. It's a [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic beautiful song]], however, you'd be wrong in thinking its a real love song. It's sung as a lamentation about the fact that the singer only has one more night to spend with their lover before they die. Funnily enough, the song is played [[spoiler: before it seems like Rinoa is going to be forced to leave Squall forever, but most people only remember the lovey-dovey theme of the song]].
* "Love You, My One and Only", the song from Remix 8 of ''VideoGame/RhythmHeaven Fever'', is a jazzy, up-tempo song which the game admits is about unrequited love.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8cELTdtw6U Build That Wall]] sung by Zia in ''VideoGame/{{Bastion}}''. A slow, gentle, and mournful song, whose lyrics point to it being a war march by the Ura threatening to tear down Caelondia's walls. [[spoiler: Until it's combined with Zulf's song, which somehow makes both songs much more optimistic without changing any of the lyrics]].
* The [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII famous]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmlm8d3IH68 "One-Winged Angel"]] theme can be this, but only if you know the context of the lyrics. These are lines taken from different [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmina_Burana Carmina Burana]] songs. [[Anime/AdventChildren Advent: One-Winged Angel]] has original lyrics more specific to Sephiroth and averts this trope.
* ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' features a trio of DemonicSpider convicts driving around in the mall's open-air plaza with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIRDCbP2SZQ this song]] blasting from the jeep's speakers. Reading the lyrics (or the ''title'', "Gone Guru") reveals that it's about a guy going on a spiritual journey and then starting a ScamReligion.
* The main theme of the classic action shooter ''VideoGame/CannonFodder'' for the Amiga (and pretty much everything else) has a very cheerful and energetic reggae-esque tone to the music and singing, and yet the chorus goes "WAR! Never been so much fun! Go up to your brother, Kill him with your gun, Leave him lying in his uniform Dying in the sun!". This is in keeping with the games satire of the futility of war.
* A short one, but ''VideoGame/SegaRally'''s [[MemeticMutation memetic]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09s-c2JVI40 Game Over music]]. It leaves one wondering if the arcade machine is gloating at him/her for losing.
* Most of the vocal songs in ''VideoGame/{{Deemo}}'' have this (excluding extra song packs), but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgtwncI3RuM Nine point eight]] seems to be the most notorious. It sounds pretty upbeat and energetic until you realise she's singing about [[TogetherInDeath reuniting with her cremated lover...]]
-->Swirling wind sings for our reunion\\
[[DrivenToSuicide And nine point eight is my acceleration]][[note]]9.8 m/s^2 is the rate at which falling objects accelerate due to gravity.[[/note]]
* ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight'': Joker's post-mortem song "I Can't Stop Laughing" played straight from the high confines of [[spoiler:Bruce's mind]] takes the cake, a 1940's love swing with the lyrics of how Joker and the other Rogues have effectively ruined Bruce Wayne, slandered Batman forever, and are in the process of killing everyone he cares about. Joker can't stop laughing and dancing and spinning - even if he's dead!
* One of the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' games features "That's Death" by none other than Creator/EricIdle. It's a cheerful and triumphant show-tunes style song that plays after the game's relatively happy ending... except the lyrics are, in essence, ''suicide encouragement''. The narrator is happily singing about how awesome being dead is and much more fun it is than life, so you should just kill yourself. For bonus points it serves as a self-deprecating crack at the game's plot (involving getting Death back to work because without him nothing dies).
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', there is "I am the One", an uplifting song in Dalish that sounds like it's probably a hero's anthem. In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', we finally get an English-language version, and it turns out that it's actually about the destruction of Elvhenan, and "the One" is not, in fact, TheChosenOne, but one of the few survivors who's been entrusted with remembering all of the old Elvish lore.
* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' has "Uncontrollable", an asskicking battle theme with lyrics centered on a rocky relationship.
-->Every time I ask the smallest thing\\
You get mad, or just ignore.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiSeoX_4nzU Steel for Humans]]'', one of the battle themes in ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'' is a dark, dynamic song with lyrics that sound fairly ominous... even though they are actually taken from an old Bulgarian ''wedding song'' and wouldn't fit combat at all if translated into english.
* ''VideoGame/Conception2ChildrenOfTheSevenStars'' has ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j362QGQeE9M Lead My Love]]'', which plays when you fight [[spoiler:Alec when he begs you to kill him before he becomes a monster]] near the end of the game. To say it's unfitting is an understatement.
* [[https://youtu.be/piMtX5ozXG8 "Er Lasst Mich Niemals Allein"]] from ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor Underground'', especially the TranslatedCoverVersion [[https://youtu.be/3O0oNxl26S4 "Each Night He Comes Home To Me"]], is surprisingly uplifting for a GriefSong sung by a war widow.
* ''VideoGame/MadWorld'' invokes this repeatedly, being BloodyHilarious.
-->Hear the body drop, drop, yeah that shit is so official\\
We get it hot, hot, killing it is not an issue\\
"I got a problem with you," yeah, I hear that shit a lot\\
Then I start to breathe, breathe, then they scream for me to stop
** It makes it so much more dramatic after suddenly being averted at the end with "[[OrchestralBombing So Cold.]]"
--->See the bottom line is ya'll ain't fucking it right\\
I beat 'em up til the fucking guts busting inside
* ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns'' has a few:
** The most extreme being the upbeat "Rock On."
--->Party time is all I see\\
Stomping over dead bodies\\
War is all I need to see\\
Dead is all you mean to me
** "Laughing At U" really has fun with this.
-->If you go to war you'll die\\
Me brush you and you gon' fry\\
Death is falling from the sky\\
I'm laughing at you HA HA HA
* The ''VideoGame/LikeADragon''-franchise has these all over the place.
** ''{{VideoGame/Yakuza 0}}'' has "Fake Love" (the Sunshine Cabaret Club theme) which is a smooth easy listening number... about a hostess who feels trapped in her professional role and that the fake love she sells to her clients has deadened her to the real thing. This causes her to slowly lose track of where the boundaries between her professional and real personality are.
** ''VideoGame/Yakuza6'' had a whole bunch.
*** "Today is a Diamond" sounds like a happy, upbeat song, even having the residents of Onomichi joining in. Then you learn it's basically a PleaseWakeUp song while Haruka is in a coma.
*** "Hands" is a peppy little rock ballad about watching your children grow up, and the conflict between the desire to protect your children and the knowledge that you can't shield them from the world forever, and that they will at some point become the protectors.
*** "Like a Butterfly" is an upbeat, badass nu-metal track, clearly meant to channel M.O.V.E.... but the lyrics are about the singer persona describing her relationship to her criminal and possibly abusive boyfriend, using the butterfly as a metaphor for herself and calling the relationship a spider's web. She is also certain that even if she could break free, she will never fly again in this life.
** On the other end of the spectrum, "Ijisakura", or more specifically "Ijisakura 2000", is a dark sounding metal track about how hard work and persistence can overcome any obstacles.
* ''VideoGame/FarCry5'': [[ApocalypseCult Eden's Gate]] broadcasts music over their radios that can be quite uplifting to listen to, but the lyrics are all about preparing for the Apocalypse they believe is coming and that they will bring people into their cult, willingly or not.
* ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin:'' "Winter Horrorland" is a cheery, slightly mystical-sounding Christmastime song about how much the boss of Week 5 wants to kill and eat the protagonist and his girlfriend.
* Despite having [[Creator/ReinaUeda a human singer]], ''VideoGame/TheCaligulaEffect'' has songs ''written'' by actual [[{{Music/Vocaloid}} Vocaloid Producers]], and thus inherits their habit of favoring this trope quite heavilly.
* In ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'' the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUKTgpuw3TY Big Bunyan Ride tune]] is a cheery upbeat western/country song with lyrics being a warm invitation to go on the ride, but the second line of the song features a out of place "no place to hide!". The song then continues merrily, until the end of the verse where it flat out turns very hostile and threatening, "YOU WILL SCREAM AND CRY AND THEN YOU'LL DIE!" The song then once more continues on with its jolly tune before it slowly starts getting very ominous and finally turning into a very fitting haunted carnival sounding horror song.
* Bridget's character theme from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGearStrive'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQTBzmBDSv0 The Town Inside Me]]'', is a peppy pop/R&B tune whose upbeat tone belies the fact that -up until the bridge- the song is about her being at a loss for what to do with her life now that she's accomplished her goal of disproving her town's superstitions and her struggles with gender dysphoria. Though to be fair, [[StepfordSmiler that's probably the whole point]].
* Monsoon's boss theme from ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep7Ni6dtQaA Stains of Time]]," is an intense metal/dubstep theme matching the ferocity of the other boss themes from the game. Aside from focusing on ThePowerOfHate and Monsoon's nihilism and belief in destruction being natural, it's basically saying "the pain won't stop until I die."
-->"And it will come\\
Like a flood of pain (rain)\\
Pouring down on me\\
And it will not let up until the end is here\\
And it will come\\
Through the darkest day\\
In my final hour\\
And it will never rest until the clouds are clear\\
Until it finds my dreams have disappeared"
* In ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles,'' the theme song of both the character Iris and the game itself, "Invincible Rainbow Arrow," is a cheerful pop melody about maintaining hope even through dark times. While being cheerful and reassuring is normal for a poppy song, the dissonance comes from how existential the lyric get, with the "dark times" including the ravages of aging and the inevitability of death.
--> While the old bow their heads\\
While the blind lead the blind\\
The marble loses shine,\\
The eye clouds by design\\
But we know in our souls,\\
The one hope, the one truth,\\
If we believe\\
We can make miracles!
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