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"You know how people accept these footling habits that get you lot downwardly? Like... Bernie! Bernie liked to chew gum—no, non chew. Pop! And so, I come home this i day and I'm really irritated and looking for a niggling sympathy, and there's Bernie. Lying' on the couch, drinking a beer and chewing—no, not chewing, POPPING! So, I said to him, I said "You pop that gum ane more time..." And he did. Then I took the shotgun off the wall and I fired ii warning shots...

Into his head!"

— Liz, "Cell Block Tango", Chicago

Revenge is one of the oldest, simplest, and most compelling plots in existence. And for almost as long as the concept has been around, people have been writing songs about it.

Sister Trope to the Murder Ballad, the Revenge Carol is any song about getting even. The wrong righted could exist almost anything—popular topics for these songs include Domestic Abuse, someone else's murder, and romantic mistreatment.

Can overlap with Break-Upwards Song, Grief Song, or Sanity Slippage Song. If a whole bunch of people participate, it may be an Angry Mob Song. May involve All-time Served Common cold, Crusading Widower, The Dog Bites Back, Rape and Revenge, Roaring Binge of Revenge, and/or A Taste of Their Own Medicine.

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    Films — Animation

• At one point in Brave, Male monarch Fergus sings a song almost how he swears to kill Mor'du the comport every bit revenge for bitter his leg off.

     Alive-Action TV

• The Dick Van Dyke Show: In "The Sam Pomerantz Scandals", Emerge performs "I Want to Be Around", which is sung from the perspective of a Adult female Scorned hoping that she'southward there when the guy who broke her heart gets his own broken. The song's lyrics don't apply to Sally herself, however.

    Music

• "All the Rage" by electropop singer Allie X, where the singer plots revenge for an ambiguous rejection.

  I will exist all the rage this night
  Watch me shimmy into the light
  Filled with fury and starry eyed
  I volition be all the rage

• Annie Lennox's "Thin Line Betwixt Love and Hate", nearly a woman taking revenge on her useless husband via an bundled accident to brand him take her seriously.

  The sweetest woman in the world
  Can be the meanest woman in the world
  If you make her be that manner

• Avenged Sevenfold's "Strength of the World" reads as the story of someone whose family was killed by outlaws.

  I want it. I need it! Revenge is dripping from my teeth!

• The Beatles:
  • "Norwegian Wood" from Rubber Soul, where a homo takes revenge on a woman for not sleeping with him by called-for her apartment down while she is gone.
  • "Rocky Raccoon" from The White Album tells of the failed revenge plot of a man called Rocky confronting the man who stole his girl.
• Implied in Billie Eilish's "watch", most unrequited love:

  I'll sit down and watch your car burn
  With the fire that you started in me

• In "The Dismemberment Song" by Blue Child, the vocalizer takes a Torture for Fun and Data approach to revenge, fantasizing nigh dissecting her cruel ex-lover.
• James Brown in "The Payback" clearly states he'southward out for vengeance.

  Sold me out for chicken modify

  Told me that they had it all arranged

  You lot had me down and that's a fact

  Now you punk, You lot gotta go ready

  For the big payback!

  That's where I land, the big payback

• Carrie Underwood writes a lot of these:
  • "Church Bells" is about an driveling wife who poisons her hubby.
  • In "Blown Away", a young woman refuses to wake her abusive begetter every bit a tornado bears downwards on their firm, instead leaving him to die.
  • "Before He Cheats", where the singer trashes her ex'south truck while he's busy fooling around with "the other woman".
  • "Ii Black Cadillacs" tells of two women who team upwardly to take their husband/lover out, simply meeting contiguous at his funeral.

    Two months ago his wife called the number on his phone

    Turns out he'd been lying to both of them for oh and so long

    They decided then he'd never get away with doing this to them

    Two blackness Cadillacs waiting for the right time, the right time

• Coheed and Cambria'due south No World For Tomorrow album is filled with these. In item: "Gravemakers and Gunslingers", "Justice in Murder", and "The End Complete".

  Cause God knows I ain't now stoppin' 'til y'all breathe none!

• Corbin's "Revenge Song" tells the story of the singer helping a adult female get revenge on the human being who molested her as a kid.

  Grab my burglarize, time to brand amends

• Daniel Kahn and The Painted Bird's "Six Million Germans/Nakam" is something of a subversion. While information technology starts out as a song about Abba Kovner'south programme to become revenge on Those Wacky Nazis, by the stop it'southward much more complicated.

  At present tin can vengeance put upon the shelf

  Be taken out subsequently on someone else

  Be careful how you lot read this tale

  Lest your ain prejudice prevail

• The Decemberists:
  • "The Hazards of Love 3 (Revenge!)"
  • "The Mariner'due south Revenge Vocal," if the championship wasn't obvious enough. When the narrator was a child, he took up his mother'southward dying wish of seeing the man who bamboozled them out of house and habitation, leading to her contracting a fatal case of tuberculosis, beaten and cached alive. He spends fifteen years thinking of revenge, and one day he finally hears of the conman now existence a sadistic transport captain. The narrator sets canvas, and later more than a year of looking, he finds the conman, merely both ships are suddenly swallowed past a massive whale, with the narrator and the conman being the only survivors. With nowhere for him to run, the narrator finally, and very happily, exacts his savage revenge. As an added bonus, the sequence of notes that played while the mother's dying wish was being recited is played over and over as the narrator is implied to kill the human being, playing faster and more frantic each time.

  Narrator: Information technology gives my heart swell joy to encounter your eyes fill with fear, then lean in shut and I will whisper the last words you'll hear.

• Diamond Head'due south "Am I Evil?" (also covered by Metallica), about a homo seeking vengeance for the called-for of his mother as a witch and losing himself in the process.
• Disturbed:
  • "The Vengeful One" and its music video relate the inflow of a divine being come to exterminate evil from humanity.
  • "Hell", which also has quite vengeful vibes:

    Now I tin't stay behind
    Save me, from wreaking my vengeance upon you
    Too chilling, more than I tin can tell
    Burning, now I bring yous hell!

• The Dixie Chicks' "Adieu Earl", about a woman and her best friend who take revenge on her abusive married man.
• Eminem frequently engaged in this in his early career, normally almost real people who had wronged him.
  • In the tertiary scenario in "Guilty Conscience", Slim Shady is a bad affections trying to persuade Grady to murder his wife for cheating. He eventually manages.
  • "Encephalon Harm" is a fantasy about Slim Shady chirapsia up DeAngelo Bailey, a school bully who, in real life, had bashed him then difficult with a shovel that he ended up in a blackout and with permanent mental health issues fifty-fifty after he recovered. In the vocal, he clobbers him with a broom handle wrapped in sharp objects, in a whole passage rhyming with the phrase "orange juice".
  • "Kim", a sadistic little piece where the rapper kidnaps his wife and murders her, her new husband, and the child she had with him. It's a prequel to his earlier song, "'97 Bonnie and Clyde", which describes him and his daughter disposing of the bodies subsequently the murders.
  • "Kill You" opens with Eminem singing almost the Gaslighting he experienced at the hands of his abusive mother, before rapping in Bloody Hilarious item well-nigh murdering and raping her.
  • Subverted in "Insane", which is ready like one of Eminem'southward babyhood revenge fantasy songs as Slim Shady describes being raped into insanity by his stepfather... only he never gets revenge on him, instead just channelling his rage into random destructive violence against bystanders.
  • Used equally a Casting Gag on Eminem's guest appearance on P!nk's "Revenge". Slim gets revenge on Pink'due south character's infidelity past cheating on her... but the song also contains an innuendo to "Kim", implying darker plans. (The encarmine visuals of the video reinforce this.)
  • "Stepdad" is a fantasy almost a immature Slim Shady attempting to murder his worthless, abusive stepfather.
• "Revenge" by the Eurythmics, about a woman who specializes in the matter.

  She said revenge can be so sweetness
  I similar to take information technology when I tin
  I need to play with the ones I detest
  I like to see them suffer

• Folk singer Ferron's "It Won't Take Long", almost the inevitable revenge of the working class.
• Florence + the Machine's "Seven Devils", which has been used in both Revenge and commercials for Game of Thrones to represent the concept.

  Holy water cannot assistance you now
  A k armies couldn't proceed me out
  I don't desire your coin
  I don't want your crown
  See, I've come to burn your kingdom downwards

• Garmarna'south "Vedergallingen" "Vengeance", based on Swedish folklore.
• The Grateful Dead: From the climax of their reworking of the classic song "Stagger Lee", in which the protagonist is forced into taking justice into her own hands:

  Every bit Stagger Lee lit a cigarette she shot him in the assurance
  Blew the smoke off her revolver, had him dragged to city hall
  Bayo, Bayo, see you hang him high
  He shot my Billy dead and now he'due south got to dice.

• Halsey's "Castle", is, according to Word of God, about Revenge Against Men.

  I'thousand headed direct for the castle
  They wanna make me their queen
  And at that place'south an one-time man sitting on the throne that'southward maxim
  That I prob'ly shouldn't be and so hateful

• In Heywood Banks's "Revenge Song", the singer warns a bully nigh all the ways he could take revenge on them as before long equally they're off their guard.
• "Dark Sisters" by Inkubus Sukkubus is a rallying cry to witches to take Revenge Against Men.
• Kate Bush's "The Wedding List" where a pregnant helpmate tracks down and kills the murderers of her husband before committing suicide.
• Johnny Greenbacks:
  • The protagonist of "Oney" has suffered under the easily of a cruel and sadistic shop foreman for decades, and celebrates his retirement party with a flake of bare-knuckle boxing:

    All these year'south I've been building muscles
    Oney'south only been sittin' round, gettin' soft . . .

  • Subverted in "A Boy Named Sue", written by Shel Silverstein. The Human in Black sings of spending his whole adulthood hunting downwards his runaway dad in order to kill him for "giving me that awful name," just ends up hugging and appreciating him in the terminate. Though not before the two have a knock-down-drag-out fight commencement. And he still hates that name.
• Kesha:
  • A secondary theme of "Praying", where she vows to bury her offender:

    I'll bring thunder, I'll bring rain, oh
    And when I'thousand finished, they won't even know your name

  • In "Chase You Down," she warns her fellow that, though she'due south usually a nice person, she won't hesitate to get revenge on him if he wrongs her.

    If y'all fuck effectually,
    Boy, I'll hunt yous downwardly

• Leftfield has the song "Open up Upward", where the protagonist is pissed off at the film industry for promising him fame and so letting him downward. At that place'due south one particularly evocative poesy that goes:

  "Burn, Hollywood, Burn. Taking down Tinseltown

  "Burn, Hollywood, burn. Burn down down into the ground.

  "Burn down, Hollywood, burn down.

  "Fire, Hollywood burn down, burn Hollywood burn down"

  "Take down Tinseltown, burn downward to the ground."

• In Lyle Lovett'southward "LA County", he sings of crossing the country to attend the wedding of his ex- and his ex-best friend... with a Colt 45 in hand.
• Lolo's "Hit and Run", about a pair of prostitutes who take to murdering the johns who endeavor to purchase them.
• Lordi:
  • "It Snows In Hell". The narrator rises from his grave to kill his lover who is implied to be responsible for his decease.
  • "None For 1". The blood brother tricks the sister into murdering their father, and she is taken away and locked up. In the concluding verse, she figures out his plot and escapes to go her revenge on him.
• Automobile Girl's "Suck Shit" begins with "Crushing your skull underneath my foot, I'thousand finally free / I have dorsum my time, my soul and everything you lot stole from me", and only gets more resentful and trigger-happy from in that location.
• "Just Desserts" by Marina Diamandis and Charli XCX, nigh getting revenge on a lover for an unspecified offence.
• Metallica's "Here Comes Revenge", obviously, either sung from the viewpoint of a personification of vengeance itself or someone assault revenge for a decease regardless of consequences to himself or others.
• Panic! at the Disco: "Let'due south Kill This evening", where the singer vows to destroy an ex-lover'southward reputation to get revenge.

  Let's kill tonight!
  Impale this evening!
  Testify them all you're not the ordinary blazon

• P!nk's "Revenge" plays this for laughs, listing all the ways she could get even with her lover.
• Patti Smith's "Revenge":

  I feel upset - let'southward do some jubilant!

• "Revenge" past Evidently White T'due south:

  Go ahead and get mad
  Never talk to me again
  I don't even care 'cause
  I got my Revenge!

• Sound Horizon's Marchen anthology revolves around the spirits of seven women (all but 1 from the Fairy Tales of The Brothers Grimm) existence granted a chance at revenge against the people who wronged them by a strange ghost who goes by the name Marchen. The seventh woman, Elisabeth, rejects this offering, content that her start and only honey Marz has finally fulfilled his promise to return to her, fifty-fifty if only in death.
• In Suzanne Vega'due south "In the Centre", the singer warns someone about the revenge she is capable of:

  If you were to kill me now, correct here
  I would still wait you in the center
  And I would burn myself into your retentivity
  Every bit long as you were still alive

• Taylor Swift:
  • "Better Than Revenge", where the singer admonishes the woman who stole her human, telling her she really should have known better considering "There is nil I exercise better than revenge". The bridge reveals that the vocal itself is the revenge.

    You might have him, just I ever get the last word

  • "I Did Something Bad", one-half-parodying her media image as a ruthless maneater:

    I can experience the flames on my skin
    Cherry red paint on my lips
    If a man talks shit, then I owe him nothing
    I don't regret it 1 bit, 'cause he had information technology coming ...
    They say I did something bad
    Then why's it experience so good?

  • "Look What You Made Me Do", though she never specifies exactly what it was she did.

    Only I got smarter, I got harder in the nick of time
    Dearest, I rose up from the dead, I do information technology all the time
    I've got a list of names and yours is in scarlet, underlined

  • "no body, no crime" is this combined with a Murder Ballad. The narrator's best friend Este accuses her husband of cheating, and goes missing shortly thereafter. Later the cops fail to discover any evidence, the narrator takes matters into her own hands.

    No torso, no crime
    But I ain't letting upward until the day I dice

• Tracy Byrd's "Revenge of a Center Aged Woman" is a quite fun little song about a woman who sells her husband'south Mercedes for 7 hundred dollars and hooks up with a new guy as revenge for constantly sleeping around on her.

  Information technology was a classic case of a adult female scorned
  She'll brand that homo wish he had never been born
  She'due south a forty-something yr old estimate and jury
  Hell hath no fury like revenge of a centre-anile woman.

• Ween'southward vocal "Buenos Tardes Amigo" is a revenge vocal being sung to the homo who killed the narrator'south brother. The twist is that the narrator was actually the killer himself, probably due to jealousy, and is framing the listener to keep anyone else from knowing the truth.
• Within Temptation'south concept anthology The Unforgiving has a few examples, most notably "In the Middle of the Night" and "Murder".
  • There'south also "The Promise" from the Mother Earth anthology, nigh a women who goes on a Roaring Binge of Revenge confronting the ones who killed her lover.
• UB40's Rat In My Kitchen. Basically the vocalist has someone spreading mean rumors about him and otherwise making his life miserable, and how he plans to forcibly shut them up.
• "Hughie The Graeme" is nearly an attempt at this, when a man steals bishop'due south equus caballus afterwards learning his wife has an thing with the bishop. He is, nevertheless, caught and hanged.
• Warren Zevon. "Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner" is a song most a Norwegian mercenary who is assassinated by the CIA, only rises from the grave as a Revenant Zombie to take revenge on his killers.

    Theatre

• Cats: "Growltiger's Last Stand", nigh the pirate cat Growltiger being finally taken down by his enemies, the Siamese.
• "Cell Block Tango" from Chicago is the combined Revenge Carol for the "Six Married Murderesses of the Cook County Jail", who all (but ane) murdered their husbands or lovers and explain how and why here.
• In the musical product of The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmund sings "Hell to Your Doorstep" as he plots to destroy the conspirators who stole his life and condemned him to prison house.

    Web Animation

• RWBY: "One Affair" doubles as a Grief Song, centering around Neo's anguish over Roman's death and her blaming Cinder for his demise. The vocal implies Roman was the 'one thing' keeping Neo's life from being a living hell, and that Cinder destroyed information technology by getting him killed.

  I had one thing
  And y'all've taken it from me
  A single lite
  A single friend
  But y'all fabricated that end

    Web Video

• Dr. Horrible'south Sing-Along Weblog: Dr. Horrible sings "Brand New Day" once he decides to kill Captain Hammer after years of defeat and humiliation, and credits Hammer with instilling him with enough fury to go through with it.

  All the times that you vanquish me unconscious I'll forgive
  All the crimes incomplete, listen honestly I'll live
  Mr. Absurd, Mr. Correct, Mr. Know-it-all is through
  Now my time to come's so bright and I owe information technology all to you
  Who showed me the low-cal

    Western Animation

• "Busted" from Phineas and Ferb, where Vanessa and Candace sing nigh how they will make their moms listen to them and bust their father and brothers (respectively) once and for all.

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