Newman has a ton of dark songs . The short people song above is actually quite light . He is poking fun at bigotry in general by assuming the role of a crazy person railing against short people to make the listener understand how crazy bigotry actually sounds . Replace short with black and you get the idea . A lot of people did not get the joke and assumed he was serious . If you want dark , oh boy in order of darkness 1 . Redneckso 80 BB 0 qZoVM 2 . I want you to hurt like I doKJGPv 66 Pc 243 . Roll with the punchesKBoddSdyWe 04 . I think it ' s going to rain todayk 9 Fn 8 VhkK 5 g 5 . Old mangMdWKfOLCro 6 . Jolly Coppers on ParadeAKIYVjVnaBI the fan video drives home the subversive , quasi fascist messageThe lyrics of these songs make for depressing reading . I mean , even the more upbeat songs like I Love LA have dark overtones look at that mountain , look at those trees , look at that bum over there he ' s down on his knees . as he recites some of the worst neighbourhoods in LA while a clueless audience chants I LOVE IT . There are also songs about slavers tricking slaves in order to get them to board slave ships . OW 2 m 9 O 9 b 23 ANewman . has a darker personality than people realise . It ain ' t all toy story my friend . Edit Sorry for the long post . you have engaged me on the one topic I care more about than economics Randy Newman .