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Lyric Swap
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So you're listening to a song by a band you like. They get to the chorus, and maybe you're singing along because you've picked it up over the first few times. But wait—what did they just sing? That was different, wasn't it? And it changed the meaning quite a bit. That was a Lyric Swap. A Lyric Swap is essentially a repeated song lyric that gets changed in one of its iterations. It's not quite Lyrical Dissonance, because the lyrics generally match the tone, but maybe in one verse they sing a line slightly different, and it's a significantly different meaning. Not to be confused with a Mondegreen, which is unintentional. If a chorus evolves over the song, that's a Changing Chorus. |
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The verses of "Always the Last to Know" by Del Amitri all end "I'll be the last to know", as the singer laments that his ex is seeing someone else and he's given up the right to be kept in the loop. In the last verse he hopes her new partner doesn't cheat on her like he did, and the last line is "You were the last to know". | |
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"Even Though I'm Leaving" by Luke Combs. The first chorus, with a father putting his son to bed, and the second, when he sees him off for military duty, have the line "It's okay, I know you're scared". The last chorus, in which the father is dying, changes the line to "It's okay, boy, I ain't scared." | |
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Tracy Chapman: The final chorus of "Fast Car" swaps "we" for "you" and changes the meaning. The song has been about escaping a life you hate only find the new one isn't much better, and the chorus is about escaping the unhappy life together. In the final chorus, the singer is asking her now husband to be an equal partner/father or else get out—changing "we" to "you" and ending with "you've got to make a decision/leave tonight or live and die this way." | |
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Eric Idle's famous song from Monty Python's Life of Brian, "Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life", notably does, replacing the eponymous lyrics of the chorus by "Always look on the bright side of death/Just before you draw your terminal breath". | |
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As part of the run-up to Battle For Azeroth's release, Jaina Proudmoore's Warbringers short consists almost entirely of a musical cautionary tale, presumably titled Daughter Of The Sea. With the subject matter revolves around the death of Jaina's father, Daelin Proudmoore, the swap becomes a callback to the first line Jaina sings - "Beware, beware... the Daughter of the Sea" - when, after raising a shipwreck from the ocean and sailing it towards Kul Tiras, the final verse ends by showing the steadily rising anger nearly three expansions in the making. | |
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"If You're Anxious For to Shine" from Patience, which "The Foundation of SF Success" is a pastiche of, does the same thing, with the line "And ev'ryone will say/As you walk your mystic/flow'ry way" (the first two are the same), followed by: "If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me, Why, what a very singularly deep young man this deep young man must be!" "If that's not good enough for him which is good enough for me, Why, what a very cultivated kind of youth this kind of youth must be!" "If he's content with a vegetable love which would certainly not suit me, Why, what a most particularly pure young man this pure young man must be!" |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show opens with "Science Fiction - Double Feature" with lyrics about classic SF movies, and ends (in some prints) with the reprise version (with very similar lyrics) that summarizes the events in the film/play. | |
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The theme to GaoGaiGar FINAL uses the same tune as the theme to the TV series, but has mostly different words, though following the same general pattern. Essentially, it's a new set of verses. And yes, Masaaki Endoh has occasionally mixed them up when singing live. | |
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In the Red Dwarf song "Tongue Tied", the last line of the chorus changes after each verse: "You make me feel a clown"; "My trousers, they turn brown"; and "I drool so much I drown". | |
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In the last chorus of "Race for the Prize" by The Flaming Lips, the lyric "theirs is to win, if it kills them" becomes "theirs is to win, it will kill them". | |
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Morris Minor and the Majors: The chorus of their Stock Aitken Waterman parody "This is the Chorus" concludes by warning "And thirty seconds from now you're gonna hear it again". This obviously doesn't work for the final chorus, so they add one last SAW reference with "And if you're lucky, lucky, lucky, you won't hear it again". | |
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Gary Barlow and Sheridan Smith's "How Christmas is Supposed to Be": It's about a couple having a blazing row over Christmas, and the chorus goes: The final verse inevitably has them making up, following which the chorus is: |
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In Show Boat, the reprise of "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" that ends the first act has Magnolia sing "Can't stop me now, there's no use to try" instead of "Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly." This was not the case in the original production, though the 1946 revival was reinstating this lyrical variant from an early script. | |
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"England 2, Colombia Nil" by Kirsty Mac Coll: The first chorus goes: The second and third change this slightly to: And the final chorus, once she's washed her hands of him, is: |
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In "Wait For It" in Hamilton, the first, second, and fourth choruses are all almost the same with minor alterations (the third chorus, with Burr singing about Hamilton, is almost completely different): The first chorus has 'Love doesn't discriminate', but the second changes to 'Death doesn't discriminate', which the fourth chorus sticks to. Similarly, the first chorus has 'We laugh and we cry and we break and we make our mistakes', while that changes to 'We rise and we fall and we break and we make our mistakes' in the second and fourth. The first chorus has 'If there's a reason I'm by her side / when so many have tried', the second has 'If there's a reason I'm still alive / when everyone who loves me has died', and the fourth changes it again this time with 'If there's a reason I'm still alive / when so many have died'. |
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"Heart of Glass" by Blondie, the line "Soon turned out had a heart of glass" the third time around is changed to "Soon turned out to be a pain in the ass" (but not in the radio version). | |
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Steven Tyler of Aerosmith likes to swap lyrics quite often during live performances. Well-known live lyric swaps include "Dream until your balls turn blue" in the place of "Dream until your dreams come true" in "Dream On," "That makes a dead man rise" instead of "That makes a grown man cry" in "Back in the Saddle," and "Just give me some head" as opposed to "Just give me a kiss" in "Walk This Way." | |
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"Spirit Never Die" by Masterplan has an 8-line chorus and is repeated three times. 5 lines are subtly changed on the second iteration. Then, 2 lines are changed, and 3 lines are reverted on the third iteration. Oh, did you want to sing along? | |
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There was one line in the theme song to the the PBS show "Maya & Miguel" that went "He leads with his head and she follows her heart." After a few airings of the show, it was changed to "They make a great team as they each do their part" because executives apparently considered the other line to be sexist. | |
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The final chorus of "Give Me Novocaine" by Green Day does this. Instead of "Tell me that I won't feel a thing," it's "Tell me, Jimmy, I won't feel a thing." | |
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In the chorus of "Hosanna" in Jesus Christ Superstar, "Hey JC, JC, won't you smile at me?" changes to "...you're all right by me," then to "...won't you fight for me?", and finally, "...won't you die for me?" | |
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Coco: Héctor does this with "Everyone Knows Juanita" when he remembers a particular lyric is a bit dirty for Miguel. The fact he's able to do this in a second and play it off so that only somebody who knows the song catches it is foreshadowing of his musical talents, and the fact that he was a father. | |
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The final verse of Nickelback's Figured You Out: Chad Kroeger repeats the first verse, but replaces "love" with "hate". | |
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