10 Happy Songs With Really Dark Endings

10. This Life - Vampire Weekend

For being the indie rock darlings of the late '00s, Vampire Weekend has a bit of a weird career trajectory before getting to Father of the Bride. Since Ezra Koenig was making more waves behind the scenes of the music industry alongside his bandmates, it almost felt like a new record was on the backburner. When This Life came across the stereo though, we saw them transitioning into their yacht rock final form...with a little cynicism underneath.

Despite having one of the most on-the-nose sunshine chord progressions in their catalog, This Life might be the most hopeless sounding lyric that Koenig ever put to music. Although he borrowed the signature "you've been cheating on me" hook from one of his many side-gigs, the rest of the lyrics paint a dark portrait of a coupe in peril.

It's clear that these two have some problems since they're both cheating on each other, but considering how much the world seems to be crumbling in around them, it doesn't make sense for them to be alone anymore. So why not just try to make it work, since you really have no other choice? While the theme might be about love prevailing through the dark times, it doesn't forget just how pitch black those times are going to get.