Tear Jerker / Cormorant

This Tiberian-Ass Bastard Folk band writes primarily Horrible History Metal lyrics — with emphasis on "horrible".

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• The utmost example is "Junta", with being about the Guinea stadium massacre and its following mass-raping is only a given. To put it into perspective: around 50-100 people died that day, while women were sexually assaulted by soldiers. The song focuses on one, who was only let go when one of her rapists recognized her, and was traumatized to the point of being Driven to Suicide. Oh, and the last line notes that no justice may ever be served for many of those involved.
• "The Emigrant's Wake". Suicide Is Painless taken to hopeless and despairing levels.
  Perhaps if I tread further,
  Past where my feet engraved
  My last mark upon the world,
  I'd find a face within the waves.
• The second half of "A Howling Dust". An innocent Chinese man is brutally lynched by a mob conjured up by the protagonist's father due to a huge misunderstanding. They both undergo a My God, What Have I Done? stage, and the father ends up drinking himself to death, leaving the protagonist with the job of burying him in the midst of a Dying Town. The last lyrics are a desperate plea that someone will stick around to bury him as well.
  Soon all the gold mines dried
  but that blood never did.
  Red still stains the jail cell wall.
• Arthur's voice cracking on the line "Was Christ not crucified?" in the song "Blood on the Cornfields" can be this, if a bit unintentionally so.
• "Hanging Gardens" gets some of this, if you know the story behind the lyrics. While the song itself can be described as Nightmare Fuel rather than Tear Jerker, the lyrics were inspired by a suicide note left by Arthur von Nagel's father (who, thankfully, didn't go through with it).
• "A Sovereign Act", which is about the Death With Dignity Act.
  A gathering of kin to witness my final breath
  Their hands and words allay me
  Memories to bring to death