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

Anyone familiar with the Black Parade knows that My Chemical Romance weren't looking to make an album that was exactly chipper. Going through the story of a man fighting a losing battle with Cancer, the entire album plays out the grieving process in the realm of classic rock, as if Queen had suddenly decided to go through a fairly intense morbid phase. This was all supposed to be campy darkness though, until Sleep comes on and turns everything pitch black.

Coming out of the Patient having a complicated relationship with his family on Mama, he seems convinced that he's going to hell on this song and is now succumbing to different night terrors every night as he awaits his fate. Though it's the same style that we've heard already, the tone of the Patient suddenly starts to change, as he counts up all of the bad things he's done in his life and not feeling bad about any of them, including the time that he had to serve as a soldier and having to kill innocent men.

There's no saving him at this point, and all he wants to do is sleep to just make a little bit of the pain go away, all while his friends try to make him repent for his sins. By the time the final chorus comes in, you can faintly hear screaming of WAKE UP, which is drowned out by the guitars in the mix. You may be doing your best to save him, but there's no coming back at this point. If he ends up landing in Hell, chances are he's going to be coming back as a demon.