I’m looking for suggestions for songs which have a story and something unexpected or devastating happens in the story. I’m thinking along the lines of George Jones ‘He stopped loving her today’, Jamie Lawson ‘Wasn’t expecting that’, Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue ‘Where the wild roses grow’, Stan ‘Eminem’, Plan B ‘Charmaine’. (All bangers, by the way).
The genre doesn’t matter, as long as there’s a suitable twist in the story, dark or otherwise.
Edit: I have downloaded all the suggestions. Ta.
The willow maid, by Erutan fits perfectly
Mary, by Cécile Corbel also a very good fit
Also, don’t know if you cold be interested in but fields of sorrow by orden ogan, the chorus gets new parts each time (the lyrics is not exactly a story like you find in a novel, but still narrates something)