10 Songs That Tricked You Into Thinking They're Happy

3. Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ Another widely popular song, (mainly known for its unbearably catchy chorus) that you'd find yourself singing along without realising what you are singing. Most people are aware that this is actually about a school shooting and the deranged and damaged mind behind it. Putting it in first person and singing as the boy planning to shoot up his school adds a dark dimension to the song. If a song about the homicidal thoughts of a troubled youth planning to replicate the school shootings of America can have a catchy and exciting chorus, then what can't?

"All the other kids with the pumped up kicks You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun All the other kids with the pumped up kicks You'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet..."