10 Classic Rock Songs You Didn't Realize Were Incredibly Dark

Out of all the great Seattle bands to emerge from the early '90s, Pearl Jam seemed to be one of the few acts that shifted their focus outside of themselves. While acts like Nirvana and Alice in Chains dealt with some pretty heavy material by just laying into themselves, you weren't going to see them write a song like Jeremy any time soon, with Eddie Vedder almost using his songs as a way of reporting different tragedies that happen in everyday America. Even when they shifted to something a little more heavy on Vs., Daughter brought things down a bit but kept the same intensity.

Outside of being one of the few acoustic songs on the record, the girl at the center of Daughter is in a very bad way, suffering from some sort of developmental disorder that her family has trouble engaging with. From one verse to the next, you can hear her trying to improve and fit in with the rest of the kids at school, only for her to disappoint her parents and feel like she's not measuring up to the same standards of what other kids her age are supposed to be.

Even though the line "don't call me daughter" might be catchy, the message behind it is heartbreaking, as this girl feels almost subhuman in the face of her parents and her classmates at school. Fitting in at school may be hard for a lot of kids to get through, but when you have to deal with the same kind of scrutiny from your parents, what's the point in even going home?