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A Sub-Trope of Epic Rocking that's routinely paired with Epic Instrumental Opener. These songs have a short list of lyrics. Maybe there's only a few lines in a much longer song. Maybe the vocalist sings the lyrics repeatedly. Often overlaps with Title-Only Chorus. Has been known to overlap with Broken Record. Can result in Chorus-Only Song as these wind up feeling like a Limited Lyrics Song. Especially long songs can fall into this if the lyrics are sufficiently limited. The lyrics don't even need to be bunched up in a small space in the song. Can also result in Refrain from Assuming if the repeated line isn't the title. To qualify for this trope, the song must be more than 2 minutes long. Exceptionally short songs (under 2 minutes long) rarely qualify since there isn't enough time for a great many lyrics to begin with. |
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"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf" from The Three Little Pigs: | |
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In the Vengaboys' "Up and Down", the title is the only lyric. | |
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The theme "song" for the original Batman (1966) TV series consisted of nothing but the word "Batman", repeated ad nauseum, with a few nonsense words just before the last "Batman". | |
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Lil Pump became controversial due to his lyrical style consisting of repeating a couple of lines over and over again. Most of his songs are more sophisticated than most of the examples on this page, but his Diss Track "Fuck J. Cole" only consists of two insults to J.Cole repeated over and over. "Gucci Gang" has him repeat the title phrase 53 times in 3 minutes. | |
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Lamb Chop's Play-Along: This is the song that doesn't end... | |
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Bill Nye the Science Guy: The theme song's only lyrics are the show title, plus the spoken-word lines "Science rules" and "Inertia is a property of matter". | |
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"Shine on You Crazy Diamond Part 1-5" from Wish You Were Here (1975) has less than 3 minutes containing lyrics in a song over 13 minutes long. | |
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Numerous songs from Caravan; in particular, the twenty-two-minute "Nine Feet Underground", with vocals only featured in about five of those minutes, singing four verses and a few choruses. | |
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"Sexy Bitch" by Music/Akon and David Guetta only has one verse and the chorus, repeated twice. | |
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�A love supreme… A love supreme… A love supreme…� | |
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"I Want You (She's So Heavy)" from Abbey Road clocks in at 7:47, but just repeats the two lines: and |
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The title track of Human After All (an album that's practically built off of this) only has two different, repeated lines in its lyrics: | |
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Lifelover has "Mental Central Dialog", which consists entirely of "Jag finner inga svar. Finns det några svar?" for the first part, then ending with "Jag finner inga svar. Det finns inga svar!" | |
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"Thunderhorse" by Dethklok. The only words to appear in it, besides thunder, horse, and the two together, are ride and revenge. | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: The original theme song just features the line "Go, go Power Rangers" repeated three times before ending with "You Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" done twice in succession. However, season 2 debuted an extended version of the song that replaced the instrumental tune Zords used in season 1. This extended theme contained two full verses ending with "No one can ever take them down! The power lies on their side!", usually heard as the Thunder Megazord completes its assembly, before breaking into the repetitive part used in the show's opening title. | |
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No dictionary words at all in the ditty "Mah NÃ Mah NÃ " from the Italian film Sweden: Hell And Heaven, most famously known for its use in The Muppet Show. | |
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"Lose Yourself to Dance" from Random Access Memories repeats the same verse about 4 times over the course of the 6-minute song. Pharrell Williams sings the lyrics, but Daft Punk does add some extra lines later into the song. | |
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The Inspector Gadget theme just consists of the words "Inspector," "Gadget," "Woo-hoo," and "Go." | |
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The 90s Spider-Man: The Animated Series remixed the classic Spider-Man theme. The end result was a song with a guitar solo and the words "Spider-Man", "Radioactive Spider-Man" and "Radioactive Spider Blood" randomly spliced in at different intervals. | |
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Also from The White Album, "Why Don't We Do It In the Road": | |
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Several Jem songs count. The series required at least two songs per episode so of course not all will be very inspired or deep. Several songs repeat the same few lines several times, like "Hollywood Jem". | |
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Techno Syndrome, also known as The Mortal Kombat! song. All the lyrics lyrics are different combinations of the MORTAL KOMBAT scream, Test Your Might! and Saying the name of every playable character in the original game. | |
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Pendulum has a 6-minute song called "9,000 Miles", and this is the only lyric that was sung. | |
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One episode of A Bit of Fry and Laurie features Hugh Laurie singing a song called "America", the first verse of which consists entirely of the word "America". Then he switches to "The States", then back to "America". Then Stephen punches him. | |
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"Magnum Opus" by Kansas is over 8 minutes, with just this one verse surrounded by instrumental work: | |
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Madness did this several times in the early career, in particular on One Step Beyond Album. The title track of One Step Beyond starts with a spoken-word intro that runs for 25 seconds, without accompaniment. Once the music picks up, the only words are intermittent shouts of the title and background repetitions of "Here we go," mixed with assorted vocal effects. "Night Boat To Cairo" has one verse in the middle of the song; the rest is basically instrumental apart from random interjections of the title and "all aboard!". |
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The Rednex version of "Cotton Eye Joe" repeats the same chorus eleven times, with two verses mixed in for good measure. | |
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The Patrick Star Show: In "There Goes the Neighborhood", during the Travel Montages, Patrick sings a song that mainly consists of the word "neighbor" and "neighborhood" repeated. | |
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John McLaughlin's "Abbaji", featured on Floating Point and The Boston Record, only features the phrases "Love and understanding" and "Love is understanding". | |
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Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota: "Fuegos de Oktubre" from Oktubre has only three lines that are repeated across the song: "Invocación", the opening track of Lobo Suelto, has Solari repeating several times "Lobo"note Wolf |
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"Gonna Fly Now", the Oscar-nominated song from Rocky, is only thirty words long. | |
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Pennsylvania 6-5000! | |
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The original album version of "Atomic" by Blondie has one verse, then goes into an instrumental for most of its running time before returning to a vocal refrain near the end. The single edit is more conventionally structured, as it edits down the instrumental section and also throws in a repeat of the sole verse. | |
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The Wall has a number of songs along these lines, including the three parts of "Another Brick in the Wall", "Is There Anybody Out There?", and "Stop!". | |
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The Iron Butterfly song "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" is upwards of 17 minutes long, yet only has a few lyrics, most of which being the Refrain. | |
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Black Sabbath has "Sleeping Village" which consists of a short verse, followed by a lengthy instrumental section. | |
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"Rose Rouge" from Tourist by St Germain. | |
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"Stop Smoking" by Car Seat Headrest has only two lines repeated multiple times: This is averted when the theme from Stop Smoking recurs in High to Death, a nearly eight-minute-long lyrical Doorstopper of a song that isn't even the second-longest song on the album. |
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Iron Maiden's "Another Life" | |
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"Peaches" by The Presidents of the United States of America is a complicated example. The song is split into two halves. The first half features two verses with a chorus. Said chorus consists simply of the line "Moving to the country, gonna eat a lot of peaches." The verses (which actually follow the chorus) have more varied lines. The second half of the song consists simply of the lines "Millions of peaches, peaches for me./Millions of peaches, peaches for free." | |
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Yello: While the band's songs usually lean towards wordiness, there are some songs that break this convention: The lyrics for the album version of "Bostich" consist solely of one verse, which is repeated five times. "Oh Yeah" is very sparse in the lyrical department, with the only distinct lines (other than the nonverbal mouth sounds) being a Title Drop, "the moon, beautiful," "the sun, even more beautiful," "beautiful," and "such a good time, a really good time." According to Boris Blank, vocalist Dieter Meier was "very angry" when he was asked to only say "oh yeah" over and over again, and it wasn't until after the song was recorded that he came around to it. The lyrics to "Planet Dada" consist only of a Title Drop, "electric," and "erotic," repeated in various different ways. |
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Genesis' "Guide Vocal". These lyrics are repeated verbatim (with the same melody and chords behind them, but a different arrangement) in "Duke's Travels", and they're the only lyrics to the song after an Epic Instrumental Opener that lasts for most of the song. There's also "Lurker", whose lyrics consist only of a brief spoken word section and then a verse that is sung twice. Also, many of Genesis' prog songs are examples of this trope due to their length; for instance, "The Cinema Show" only has about three minutes of singing before about an eight-minute instrumental break, while "Fading Lights" has only three verses and a chorus. "Los Endos" takes the cake, though; it only has two lines ("There's an angel standing in the sun / There's an angel standing in the sun / Free to get back home"), both of which are reprised from "Supper's Ready" a few years earlier. |
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In a similar manner, "Daftendirekt" from Homework repeats the lyric line "Da funk back to the punk, come on" over the course of its length, while "Superheroes" from Discovery does the same with the lyric "Something's in the air" up until its last third of length (which is entirely instrumental). | |
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"Year 2000" has "The year 2000 is right around the corner", and "Oh, we sing this song to a great tomorrow". | |
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"Killing in the Name" by Rage Against the Machine has only a few lyrics that are repeated several times. | |
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"Light & Dark" from Mind.in.a.box's debut album has two lines of repeating lyrics, unlike most of their later songs. | |
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The Solids' How I Met Your Mother theme is a full song of "ba-ba-ba-ba-baa-duu-da-du-du-duu-da-duu-da-duudaduudaduuda-da-da-da". | |
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The only lyrics that were included in the Jason Donovan song "Just Call Me Up" is the titular lyric, "I'll be waiting tonight(?)", and "I'll be waiting/I will be there" repeated all over again. The rest of the song is an instrumental. | |
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Need for Speed: High Stakes and Porsche Unleashed had quite a few of these from the in-house artists, usually composed of one or two lyrics such as "Rock This" in the former and "Rock This Place" in the latter by Rom Di Prisco (aka Morphadron). There was even a cut song from High Stakes called "Bass!" that literally has an upbeat voice going "Bass!" to the music. Same goes for most of the licensed songs, such as Dastrix's "Dude In The Moon", The Funk Lab's "I Am Electro", The Experiment's "Cost of Freedom", and Junkie XL's "No Remorse". | |
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This is Mr.Weebl's schtick for the vast majority of his songs. "Badgers" is a pretty famous example: |
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