Angst

Defined in the dictionary as:

a feeling of dread, anxiety or anguish.

Defined in music by the following. Note the need for both an anguish-filled voice and heart-breaking, gut-wrenching lyrics in equal parts:

I can't keep holding on

To what you've got

When all you've got is hurt

                                        - U2, "One"

And I don't know why you couldn't just stay with me

You couldn't stand to be near me when my face don't seem to wanna shine

'Cause it's a little bit dirty

                                        - Matchbox 20, "Push"

Oh my God, you can't believe, it's happening again

Your baby's gone and you're all alone and it looks like the end

                                        - Eagles, "Wasted Time" 

When it's good, then it's good, it's so good 'til it goes bad
'Til you're trying to find the you that you once had
I have heard myself cry, "Never again"
Broken down in agony just trying to find a friend
                                        - P!nk, "Sober"

If she ever tries to fucking leave again
Gonna tie her to the bed and set the house on fire
                                        - Eminem, "Love the Way You Lie"

Beautiful music, soulful voice & brilliant gutter lyrics.

What kind of fuckery are we?

Nowadays you don't mean dick to me

                                          - Amy Winehouse, "Me and Mr. Jones"

A musical genius who never lived long enough - and was never sober long enough - to tap her raw talent. May her tortured soul live in peace.

Then again, if she wasn't so tortured, would her music have been so brilliant?

Amazing voice, amazing song

The pistol now as prophet, the bullet some kind of Lord and King,

But pain is the only promise that this so called Savior's gonna bring

                                        - Ray Lamontagne, "How Come"

He strangles his girlfriend then shoots himself. How romantic. He the man.

And love is evol (evil)

Spell it backwards I'll show ya

                                        - Eminem, "Spacebound"

Original by the Rolling Stones. This cover is my favourite

I'll be in my basement room

With a needle and a spoon

And another whore to take my pain away

                                        - Guns 'n' Roses, "Dead Flowers"

He was enterprising before he was multi-platinum

This one's a tongue twister even when it's being written down!

I'm that brother* that sold coke, the brother that sold dope

The brother that shot dice, went broke and sold soap

                                        - 50 Cent, "Life's on the line"

*offensive words have been replaced with ones that won't get me killed.

How's this for sexual innuendo?

You've got a way of coming over me,

Like rain

                                        - Liz Longley, "Rush"

But jokes and double entendres aside, this is one great song, both musically and lyrically. Highly recommended!

He means, "Bastard"

I'll have your mama pickin out your casket,

Bastid

                                        - 50 Cent, "What Up Gangsta"

Extramarital

His ring is on your finger

But my heart is in your hands

                                        - Bon Jovi, "Damned"

Mayer. From his Jennifer Aniston album

Think we'll never fall into the jealous game?

The streets are flood with blood of those who felt the same

                                        - John Mayer, "Friends, Lovers or Nothing"