Tear Jerker / The Residents

• Demons Dance Alone was chock full of this. Standouts include the "Loss" section and "Make Me Moo."
• Animal Lover. From "What Have My Chickens Done Now?" and "Two Lips" (in which a mad rush to buy tulips leaves everyone with tulips and nothing else ^note Loosely based on true events at that) to pieces like "Dead Men," My Window," and "Inner Space," in which a woman recounts her visits to a bitter, detached father spending his last days in a hospital, this is considered one of the band's more depressing pieces, from a time when they were at their most pessimistic.
• The group's rendition of "Bury Me Not," from the Cube-E show.
• The last two tracks from Freak Show. "Lillie" is about a young member of the audience who's so screwed-up mentally that she gives the performers the creeps, while "Nobody Laughs When They Leave" is comparatively, quite a Dark Reprise of "Everyone Comes To The Freak Show."
  Everyone comes to the freak show
  to laugh at the freaks and the geeks
  Life is a lot like the freak show
  'Cause nobody laughs when they leave.
• The backstory of the mysterious man from "Hello Skinny" (read Nightmare Fuel section for details).
• "The Great Circus Train Wreck of 1918," told from the perspective of survivor Lon Moore, a clown who had to be pulled out of the wreck. He details the circus' best attempts at carrying on despite the grave loss and ensuing despair, as well as the funeral that followed after.
  The Entrance of the Gladiators echoed in the space
  While I perplexed and wondered some about God's golden grace
• The Assorted Secrets version of "Ship's A Goin' Down." This is a more subdued take than the lush, busy studio cut, with two vocal parts to its four, but it speaks no less than the album version did to the intense turmoil behind the scenes at the time. The two singers—supposedly the two remaining original members—sound outright broken.