Songs that AREN'T about love

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Do you know any songs that aren't about love? Because it seems every single song you can hear is about love. The only songs that aren't about it I know are Ka-Ching (is it spelled this way, anyway?) - it's about money and a song from my country "What happened to Magda K." - it's about a gang rape. Here you have the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVCSu4s ... VCSu4sRrsk and here you have the translation:https://lyricstranslate.com/en/co-si%C4%99-sta%C5%82o-z-magd%C4%85-k-what-happened-magda-k.html

Well, love or lust!
This is one of the things that put me off pop music and attracted me to instrumental music as a kid, and to punk bands a bit later in life. As Chumbawumba once put it; "I hate the way that love songs have been made meaningless by endless, mindless repetition." (I can't remember the exact lyric, but that was the gist.)

As a musician and former song-writer, I could imagine writing a song about a particular love of my life, as a personal romantic gesture between just the two of us; but there's no way that I would ever have written a generic "love song" for public consumption.

Testcard music, light music...

I remember in the 90's there was a literal hate song that went "I Hate Everything About You". It was a pretty funny song, but a real one-hit-wonder and I don't remember the singer's name.

Judgement, Rage, Retribution, & Thyme - Mudhoney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s43yLMgXXOU Aaah, and THIS

Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

Strange Fruit - Billie Holiday

Mississippi Goddam - Nina Simone

Big Iron - Marty Robbins

White Lightning - George Jones

“Crazy Train” - Ozzy Osborn
“Paranoid” - Black Sabbeth
“Kashmir” - Led Zepplin
“Help” - Beatles
“Yellow Submarine” - Beatles
“Revolution” - Beatles
“Ohio” - Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

Last Kind Word Blues - Geeshie Wiley