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You're listening to an album by one of your favorite bands, and you can't help but notice that this one line (or phrase) has popped up before. Maybe it's from a song earlier in the album, or maybe it was from another album entirely (maybe it's even the title of another song) but the point is that the songwriter — for whatever reason — has recycled their lyrics. Related to Arc Words, Album Title Drop, Author Catchphrase, Lyrical Tic, and Running Gag. Often used in a Concept Album. Not to be confused with Looped Lyrics. |
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"The Shattered Fortress" by Dream Theater is made up entirely of these — all the lyrics are taken from previous songs in the "AA Suite" series of songs. | |
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Metallica's "Damage Inc." from Master of Puppets (1986) contained the line "fuck it all and fucking no regrets". The exact same line appeared on "St. Anger" 17 years later, immediately followed by "I hit the lights on these dark sets", which is a reference to an even older song, 1983's "Hit The Lights". | |
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Modest Mouse, with every album a concept album, are notorious for this. They also have plenty of cross-album references. "Ice on the Sheets" reuses lyrics from several other songs. "People talk in soda pop / They talk it quite a lot / The opinions that I don't give / are the opinions I don't got." from "White Lies Yellow Teeth," and the slightly more grammatically correct version inserted into "Spitting Venom." |
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Slightly modified version: The Suburbs opens with "In the suburbs I / I learned to drive / And they told me we'd never survive / So grab your mother's keys, we're leaving," whereas the slower, sadder "Suburban War" has as its second verse a dark reprise of this: "In the suburbs I / I learned to drive / And you told me we would never survive / So grab your mother's keys, we leave tonight." | |
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Hammerfall has "At the End of the Rainbow" that drops this title, and "No Sacrifice, No Victory," that uses the same phrase. | |
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Faith No More's "Last Cup Of Sorrow" shares the lyric "raise it up and let's propose a toast / to the thing that hurts you most" with "Bloody Mary", an early Mr. Bungle demo - Mike Patton wrote the lyrics to both songs. | |
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Rhapsody of Fire do this a lot, along with Title Drop. Makes sense, too, since they're telling a fantasy story throughout their whole discography, and different songs often make references to the same event. | |
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Some of the the lyrics from the song "Something There" from Beauty and the Beast were actually reused from the earlier song "Belle." | |
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WASP's album The Headless Children contains a B-side entitled "For Whom the Bell Tolls." Some of the lyrics and the melody would later form the basis of "The Gypsy Meets the Boy" from The Crimson Idol. | |
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"Dead Man's Rope" (from Sacred Love) briefly quotes the chorus of "Walking in Your Footsteps" (from the Police's Synchronicity). | |
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"How to Disappear Completely" from OK Computer has "I'm not here, this isn't happening," which will be followed up by "This is really happening," in "Idioteque." | |
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In The Wizard of Oz, the verse to "We're Off To See The Wizard" originally included the couplet "Follow the rainbow over the stream/Follow the fellow who follows a dream." This part of the verse was not actually used in the movie, but E.Y. Harburg recycled the substance of these lyrics for the refrain of "Look To The Rainbow" from Finian's Rainbow. | |
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The band included the line "I don't know why I feel so tongue-tied / I don't know why I feel so skinned alive." in two songs. The first to use it was "Cuttooth," a popular B-side to their album Amnesiac; the second song, "Myxomatosis," is on Hail to the Thief, released after Amnesiac. | |
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Tony Iommi and Phil Anselmo wrote a song called "Inversion Of The Saviors" for the former's album Iommi, but ultimately a different Iommi/Anselmo collaboration ended up on the album instead. Anselmo reused a small portion of the lyrics in the Down song "Steeple". | |
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"Love Is The Seventh Wave" (from the album The Dream of the Blue Turtles) has phrases from "Every Breath You Take" (which he performed with his old band The Police). | |
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The European Portuguese version of "Life in Equestria" from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has its lyrics recycled from "Morning in Ponyville", despite the original English version having original lyrics to that song. | |
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The Song D'Angelo from Diablo Swing Orchestra has the same lyrics as Velvet Embracer, another song of theirs, but in Italian (although it's not a very good translation). | |
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"So to Be One of Us" (from the Return To Never Land soundtrack:) "We swing on limbs of trees / Till we wake up the bees..." | |
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"Sexx Laws" and "Debra" both have the line "I'm a full grown man but I'm not afraid to cry", although this seems to be more of a Call-Back because one's the first song on Midnite Vultures and the other is the last. | |
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Sting does this, usually near the end of a song: "Love Is The Seventh Wave" (from the album The Dream of the Blue Turtles) has phrases from "Every Breath You Take" (which he performed with his old band The Police). "We'll Be Together" (from Nothing Like the Sun) has "If you need somebody" and "If you wanna keep something precious" from "If You Love Somebody Set them Free". The title track from Soul Cages has lyrics from "Island of Souls" (from the same album). "Seven Days" (from Ten Summoner's Tales) has lyrics from "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic". Sting seems to really like this specific passage of lyrics, since they were also reused in a different Police song, "O My God". "Dead Man's Rope" (from Sacred Love) briefly quotes the chorus of "Walking in Your Footsteps" (from the Police's Synchronicity). |
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Fun Lovin' Criminals recorded their first demo track in 1995, "King Of New York". Only the chorus was reused in their 1996 hit of the same name, with the music and verses being entirely different. However, the verse line 'I'm the firehose, and everybody knows' was reused in "Mini Bar Blues" in 1998. | |
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Both 2008's "Lullaby" and 2014's "Burn the Pages" by Sia: | |
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Annie Get Your Gun had a Cut Song titled "Something Bad's Gonna Happen," which had in the second part of its chorus: "I can hear people singing though there's no one there/I smell orange blossoms though the trees are bare." The same lines, minus a few syllables, became the germ of "You're Just In Love" from Call Me Madam. | |
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"So far away" pops up in a lot of DragonForce songs. | |
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