These songs sound like sunshine, lollipops, candy canes and rainbows, but if you pay closer attention to the lyrical content, you'll find there is nothing joyful about them.
Distant Early Warning-Rush
One Time, One Night-Los Lobos
Layla-Derek And The Dominos
Electric Avenue-Eddy Grant
Rock The Casbah-The Clash
Down In It-Nine Inch Nails
Fool In The Rain-Led Zeppelin
You Can Call Me Al-Paul Simon
Detroit Rock City-KISS
Jocko Homo-Devo
Knocked Down, Made Small-Was (Not Was)
Born In The U.S.A.-Bruce Springsteen
Semi Charmed Life-Third Eye Blind
99 Luft Balloons-Nena
That's just what I know off the top of my head, but this sounds like an interesting subject.