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* This can even happen with {{Scatting}}: In 1990, The Butthole Surfers' live sets included a song filled with manic scatting called "Watlo". The next year, vocalist Gibby Haynes would sing on {{Music/Ministry}}'s "Jesus Built My Hot Rod" and use most of those same nonsense syllables as lyrics. Despite (or perhaps ''because of'') this, "Watlo" then showed up on the next Butthole Surfers album under the title "Some Dispute Over T-Shirt Sales".

* Future Of The Left's ''the plot against common sense'' has two different songs that use the phrase "In principle if not reality" - "Cosmo's Ladder" and "Rubber Animals".

* This can even happen with {{Scatting}}: In 1990, The Butthole Surfers' live sets included a song filled with manic scatting called "Watlo". The next year, vocalist Gibby Haynes would sing on {{Music/Ministry}}'s "Jesus Built My Hot Rod" and use most of those same nonsense syllables as lyrics. Despite (or perhaps ''because of'') this, "Watlo" then showed up on the next Butthole Surfers album under the title "Some Dispute Over T-Shirt Sales".

* BruceSpringsteen's "State Trooper" and "Open All Night", both from ''Nebraska'', have certain lyrical parallels to each other: Both include the couplet "in the wee wee hours your mind gets hazy / radio relay towers lead me to my baby", and "State Trooper" has "Radio's jammed up with talk show stations", whereas in "Open All Night" the radio is "jammed up with gospel stations" instead.

* TheBeatles' "Glass Onion" is filled with [[SongOfSongTitles shout outs to other songs of theirs:]]

** "If You Love Somebody Set Them Free" (from the album ''The Dream of the Blue Turtles'') has phrases from "Every Breath You Take" (which he performed with his old band ThePolice).

** "First they built the road/Then they built the town" (''Wasted Hours'' and ''Month of May''.

** [[AuthorVocabularyCalendar Many instances]] of "the kids", "the suburbs" - and much reference to "the feeling."

* ArcadeFire's third album, ''The Suburbs'', does this for multiple phrases, including (but not limited to):
** "The suburbs"
** "Living/live in the shadows of your song"
** "Suburban war"
** Slightly modified version: "The Suburbs" has "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 "Suburban War" (another example!) has"In the suburbs I, I learned to drive/People told me we would never survive/So grab your mother's keys, we leave tonight".

* Andrew Bird's "Fake Palindromes" borrows lyrically from his earlier songs "Trepanation" ("you're six foot tall and east coast bred / some lonely night we can get together / and I'm gonna tie your wrists with leather / and drill a tiny hole into your head") and "Blood" (both mention someone having "blood in [their] eyes for you"). Neither of these other two songs saw proper release, but they were frequently played live before "Fake Palindromes" itself came out.

* BruceSpringsteen's "State Trooper" and "Open All Night", both from ''Nebraska'', have certain lyrical parallels to each other: Both include the couplet "in the wee wee hours your mind gets hazy / radio relay towers lead me to my baby", and "State Trooper" has "Radio's jammed up with talk show stations", whereas in "Open All Night" the radio is "jammed up with gospel stations" instead.

* BruceSpringsteen's "State Trooper" and "Open All Night", both from ''Nebraska'', have certain lyrical parallels to each other: Both include the couplet "in the wee wee hours your mind gets hazy / radio relay towers lead me to my baby", and "State Trooper" has "Radio's jammed up with talk show stations", whereas in "Open All Night" the radio is "jammed up with gospel stations" instead. What's interesting is that they're two songs where their narrators are driving on a New Jersey highway late at night for very different reasons - "Open All Night" has a man rushing to get home to his girlfriend after working the night shift, while "State Trooper" has a narrator on the run from the police, possibly after killing someone. It's been speculated that this is either just for the sake of contrast, or to add a bit of FridgeHorror that the narrator of "Open All Night" might be on the same stretch of highway as that of "State Trooper" without even knowing it.

* BruceSpringsteen's "State Trooper" and "Open All Night", both from ''Nebraska'', have certain lyrical parallels to each other: Both include the couplet "in the wee wee hours your mind gets hazy / radio relay towers lead me to my baby", and "State Trooper" has "Radio's jammed up with talk show stations", whereas in "Open All Night" the radio is "jammed up with gospel stations" instead. What's interesting is that they're two songs where their narrators are driving on a New Jersey highway late at night for very different reasons - "Open All Night" has a man rushing to get home to his girlfriend after working the night shift, while "State Trooper" has a narrator on the run from the police, possibly after killing someone. It's been speculated that this is either to just for the sake of contrast, or to add a bit of FridgeHorror that the narrator of "Open All Night" might be on the same stretch of highway as that of "State Trooper" without even knowing it.

* BruceSpringsteen's "State Trooper" and "Open All Night", both from ''Nebraska'', have certain lyrical parallels to each other: Both include the couplet "in the wee wee hours your mind gets hazy / radio relay towers lead me to my baby", and "State Trooper" has "Radio's jammed up with talk show stations", whereas in "Open All Night" the radio is "jammed up with gospel stations" instead. What's interesting is that they're two songs where their narrators are driving on a New Jersey highway late at night for very different reasons - "Open All Night" has a man rushing to get home to his girlfriend after working the night shift, while "State Trooper" has a narrator on the run from the police, possibly after killing someone. It's been speculated that this is either to just for the sake of contrast, or to add a bit of FridgeHorror that the narrator of "Open All Night" might even be on the same stretch of highway as that of "State Trooper" without even knowing it.

* BruceSpringsteen's "State Trooper" and "Open All Night", both from ''Nebraska'', have certain lyrical parallels to each other: Both include the couplet "in the wee wee hours your mind gets hazy / radio relay towers lead me to my baby", and "State Trooper" has "Radio's jammed up with talk show stations", whereas in "Open All Night" the radio is "jammed up with gospel stations" instead. What's interesting is that they're two songs where their narrators are driving on a highway late at night for very different reasons - "Open All Night" has a man rushing to get home to his girlfriend after working the night shift, while "State Trooper" has a narrator on the run from the police, possibly after killing someone.

* AndrewWK's "Party Hard" and "Your Rules" both prominently include the lines "We will never listen to your rules/We will never do as others do".

* Cracker's "Big Dipper" and Camper Van Beethoven's "Long Plastic Hallway" both start with the phrase "cigarettes and carrot juice" - David Lowery, who fronts both bands, has said that cigarettes and carrot juice were the typical diet of college students he knew in Santa Cruz, CA. There's also the case of Cracker's ''Forever'' having the phrase "guarded by monkeys" turn up in four different songs: This originated as an in-joke between Lowery and [[{{Sparklehorse}} Mark Linkous]] about making fans question one's sanity by mentioning monkeys in every song on an album.

AndrewWK's "Party Hard" and "Your Rules" both prominently include the lines "We will never listen to your rules/We will never do as others do".

* {{Pixies}} recycle 'A white moon's hot, the other side's not' from "Brick Is Red" for 'when one side's hot, the other side of the moon is not' in "All Over The World", two albums later. And the chorus from early versions of "Subbacultcha" (We're having fu-un!) was recycled for "Distance Equals Rate Times Time"[[hottip:*:which is a line from Space (I Believe In) - "now it occurred to me as he drove away, D equals R times T]] (from looking into the su-un!).

** "The sun shines out of our behinds", heard first on "Hand In Glove", is repeated at the end of "Pretty Girls Make Graves" to close out their first album.

* The opening lyrics of metal band Threshold's Wounded Land reappear somewhere in their third album, Extinct Instinct.

* Cracker's "Big Dipper" and Camper Van Beethoven's "Long Plastic Hallway" both start with the phrase "cigarettes and carrot juice" - David Lowery, who fronts both bands, has said that cigarettes and carrot juice were the typical diet of college students he knew in Santa Cruz, CA. There's also the case of Cracker's ''Forever'' having the phrase "guarded by monkeys" turn up in four different songs: This originated as an in-joke between Lowery and [[{{Sparklehorse}} Mark Linkous]] about making fans question one's sanity by mentioning monkeys in every song on an album.

* {{Modest Mouse}}, with every album a concept album, are notorious for this. They also have plenty of cross-album references, as well.

** "The World at Large" has [[TitleDrop "Float On"]] in its lyrics.

* Arguably, {{Weezer}}'s "Crab" and "Take Control" - one has "She won't be comin' back 'round here no way", while the other has "''I'' won't be comin' back 'round here no ''more''".

* TeganAndSara: "Not Tonight" and "Terrible Storm" both have the lyrics "in the back of your car I feel like I have traveled nowhere".

* VampireWeekend uses the lyric "This feels so unnatural/Peter Gabriel, too" in both "Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa" and "Ottoman".

* MarilynManson's ''Antichrist Superstar'' has a few examples of this due to being a ConceptAlbum: "Cryptorchid" and the title track both have the passage "Prick your finger it is done \ the moon has now eclipsed the sun \ the angel has spread it's wings \ the time has come for bitter things". "Kinderfeld" and "Wormboy" both have "Then I got my wings and I never even knew it \ when I was a worm, thought I wouldn't get through it". "Astonishing Panorama Of The End Times" also shares a lyric with "Kinderfeld" ("This is what you should fear / you are what you should fear") - "Astonishing Panorama..." wasn't released until a couple of years after ''Antichrist Superstar'', but was written around the same time.

* FranzFerdinand intentionallly (after all, it is a ConceptAlbum) recycles "No You Girls" in "Katherine Kiss Me".