There’s a lot of songs out there from the POV of the bad guy. But they’re still the bad guy, and it’s not pro the activity. Not everybody gets to write happy songs. And throwing in some cognitive dissonance between the sound of the song and the content of the lyrics makes it more interesting. Listen to the actual lyrics of Steely Dan, very happy music, very very dark lyrics.
>>from the POV of the bad guy
We recall a song from the late 60s in which the singer talks about happiness being a warm gun; the gun could also be interpreted in a sexual way. “I know nobody can do me no
harm”, the writer and singer says.
Except a little over a decade later, when the singer was
walking home with his wife. He didn’t have a gun. Mark
David Chapman did, and John Lennon was dead just 2 months or so after turning 40.
>>According to Lennon, the title came from the cover of a gun magazine that producer George Martin showed him: “I think he showed me a cover of a magazine that said ‘Happiness Is a Warm Gun.’ It was a gun magazine. I just thought it was a fantastic, insane thing to say. A warm gun means you just shot something.” The reference, whether or not intermediately from the magazine, was one of many 1960s riffs on Charles M. Schulz’s culturally popular saying, Happiness is a Warm Puppy, which began in the Peanuts comic strip and became a widely sold book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_is_a_warm_gun