One of the saddest existential crisis songs I've heard: "King for a King" by Will Varley. Like Springsteen's "The River" but British, and maybe even more bleak. Someone taught me this song while I was in Sweden, lol. Basically about how society fucks you over, and mistakes can cost you everything. - Kotaku In Action 2

One of the saddest existential crisis songs I've heard: "King for a King" by Will Varley. Like Springsteen's "The River" but British, and maybe even more bleak. Someone taught me this song while I was in Sweden, lol. Basically about how society fucks you over, and mistakes can cost you everything. (www.youtube.com)

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– peterbeater 5 points 185 days ago +5 / -0

Lots of bands are like this. It's almost a game to me, to figure out the subject matter of the popular songs of the day people hum along to. All of modern pop is hedonistic, self-sabotaging, impulsive/compulsively/willfully about how making destructive choices is fun and edgy. Literally all of it. It's by design. Keep your subconscious gloomy and depressed so you don't have time to think about improving yourself. Read the lyrics to any Taylor Swift song, for example.

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– SoctaticMethod1 6 points 185 days ago +6 / -0

Rather not, makes me thing me listening to Prodigy when I was young kept me positive lol.

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