Horror month, #5: Two songs about dark things

[ceri]

One of the most perfect songs I know about despair, Alan Parsons Project's "Oh Life". When I comment on my down dark times, the way they sing "there must be more" here is part of my internal soundtrack:

And one of the first songs to strike me as implying a genuine horror story, Berlin's "Masquerade":

I'm interested to find, as I look it up, that the album this song is on came out in 1982, meaning I was 16 when I first heard it. In my memory I'm about three years younger than that and it plays a larger, more formative role in shaping my love of and tastes in horror.