There’s something beautiful about a surprise ending. Those goosebump-inducing moments — when it turns out Bruce Willis is actually dead, Amazing Amy staged her kidnapping, the narrator’s been Tyler Durden the whole time, and Maxim always hated Rebecca — are the stuff of artistic legend. But while these twists are difficult enough to pull off in a movie or book, they’re even harder in a song. Attaching a narrative to your lyrics is hard already; including one that blows the listener’s mind is Herculean. That said, it has been done. There are a handful of songs that turn their lyrics, or the typical themes present in songs like them, on their heads, providing masterful moments of mouth-covering revelation for the liste...
