dirge

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Like the “crashed” truck, the paintings — the décor of an industrial fun house, complete with a soundtrack of autotuned laughter and overdriven guitar dirge — depend on the drama around them.

From New York Times

A singular work of lasting beauty, the song plays like a kind of funeral dirge, with McCartney singing, "Dear friend, what's the time? / Is this really the borderline?"

From Salon

The Nashville-based songwriter Amanda Shires rewrote “Silent Night” as a despondent, minor-key dirge — “Nothing’s calm/nothing’s been right” — on her album “For Christmas,” which includes nine other songs of her own.

From New York Times

Once a year every human must recommit to the familial cult by lighting a cake on fire while clan members chant a mournful dirge.

From Washington Post

"Exactly!" he hisses through bleached teeth, excited that she seems to get him, and unaware that she's paraphrasing a lyric from a dirge.

From Salon