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* The {{Vocaloid}} song "Love Disease" is a [[LyricalDissonance perky little number]] about a girl who's just happy to be spending time with the guy she likes. Then, after they've spent the day together and she starts heading home, we're treated to these lines, which mark the point where things [[ItGotWorse start to go downhill]]:
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* The {{Vocaloid}} song "Love Disease" is a [[LyricalDissonance perky little number]] about a girl who's just happy to be spending time with the guy she likes. Then, after they've spent the day together and she starts heading home, we're treated to these lines, which mark the point where things [[ItGotWorse start to go downhill]]:downhill:
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* ''Norwegian Wood'' by TheBeatles tells about one poor guy who goes home with a woman, drinks her wine, and is ultimately brushed off when she goes to sleep alone. The final line:
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* ''Norwegian Wood'' "Norwegian Wood" by TheBeatles Music/TheBeatles tells about one poor guy who goes home with a woman, drinks her wine, and is ultimately brushed off when she goes to sleep alone. The final line:
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* In "A Day in the Life" by TheBeatles: "He blew his mind out in a car ..." The moment you know the song is far darker than most previous Beatles works and the moment you realize this will be quite ... different.
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* In "A Day in the Life" by TheBeatles: Music/TheBeatles: "He blew his mind out in a car ..." The moment you know the song is far darker than most previous Beatles works and the moment you realize this will be quite ... different.
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* In MirandaLambert's song "Over You," the chorus—"You went away/How dare you/I miss you/They say I'll be okay/But I'm not going to/Ever get over you"—implies a typical break-up song, and most of the lyrics fit with that. Then comes the the last stanza: [[spoiler: "It really sinks in, you know/When I see it written in stone."]] It's followed by the chorus one last time, but now we know that it's about [[spoiler: mourning a boyfriend who died.]]
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* In MirandaLambert's song "Over You," the chorus—"You went away/How dare you/I miss you/They say I'll be okay/But I'm not going to/Ever get over you"—implies a typical break-up song, and most of the lyrics fit with that. Then comes the the last stanza: [[spoiler: "It really sinks in, you know/When I see it written in stone."]] It's followed by the chorus one last time, but now we know that it's about [[spoiler: mourning a boyfriend who died.]]]]
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* In MirandaLambert's song "Over You" the chorus—"You went away/How dare you/I miss you/They say I'll be okay/But I'm not going to/Ever get over you"—implies a typical break-up song, and most of the lyrics fit with that. Then comes the the last stanza: [[spoiler: "It really sinks in, you know/When I see it written in stone."]] It's followed by the chorus one last time, but now we know that it's [[spoiler: mourning a boyfriend who died.]]
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* In MirandaLambert's song "Over You" You," the chorus—"You went away/How dare you/I miss you/They say I'll be okay/But I'm not going to/Ever get over you"—implies a typical break-up song, and most of the lyrics fit with that. Then comes the the last stanza: [[spoiler: "It really sinks in, you know/When I see it written in stone."]] It's followed by the chorus one last time, but now we know that it's about [[spoiler: mourning a boyfriend who died.]]
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-->"Richard Cory went home last night [[spoiler: and put a bullet through his head.]]
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-->"Richard Cory went home last night [[spoiler: and put a bullet through his head.]]
* In MirandaLambert's song "Over You" the chorus—"You went away/How dare you/I miss you/They say I'll be okay/But I'm not going to/Ever get over you"—implies a typical break-up song, and most of the lyrics fit with that. Then comes the the last stanza: [[spoiler: "It really sinks in, you know/When I see it written in stone."]] It's followed by the chorus one last time, but now we know that it's [[spoiler: mourning a boyfriend who died.]]
* In MirandaLambert's song "Over You" the chorus—"You went away/How dare you/I miss you/They say I'll be okay/But I'm not going to/Ever get over you"—implies a typical break-up song, and most of the lyrics fit with that. Then comes the the last stanza: [[spoiler: "It really sinks in, you know/When I see it written in stone."]] It's followed by the chorus one last time, but now we know that it's [[spoiler: mourning a boyfriend who died.]]
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-->[[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext But I don't eat no cheeseburger's guys! I'm a vegetarian!]]]]
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-->[[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext But I don't eat no cheeseburger's guys! I'm a vegetarian!]]]]vegetarian!]]]]
* The traditional song "Richard Corey," most famously done by SimonAndGarfunkel, about a man who seems to have it all, and who the narrator desperately wants to be:
-->He freely gave to charity, he had the common touch
-->And they were grateful for his patronage, and they thanked him very much
-->So my mind was filled with wonder when the evening headlines read
-->"Richard Cory went home last night [[spoiler: and put a bullet through his head.]]
* The traditional song "Richard Corey," most famously done by SimonAndGarfunkel, about a man who seems to have it all, and who the narrator desperately wants to be:
-->He freely gave to charity, he had the common touch
-->And they were grateful for his patronage, and they thanked him very much
-->So my mind was filled with wonder when the evening headlines read
-->"Richard Cory went home last night [[spoiler: and put a bullet through his head.]]
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* [[{{Queen}} Mama,]] [[DoubleTake just killed a man.]]
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* [[{{Queen}} Mama,]] [[DoubleTake just killed a man.]]]]
* At the end of 2112 by {{Rush}}:
-->[[spoiler: Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation. We have assumed control.]]
* This one on DevinTownsend's Deconstrution, considering how much her went through just to get it.
-->[[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext But I don't eat no cheeseburger's guys! I'm a vegetarian!]]]]
* At the end of 2112 by {{Rush}}:
-->[[spoiler: Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation. We have assumed control.]]
* This one on DevinTownsend's Deconstrution, considering how much her went through just to get it.
-->[[spoiler: [[ItMakesSenseInContext But I don't eat no cheeseburger's guys! I'm a vegetarian!]]]]
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* In "A Day in the Life" by TheBeatles: "He blew his mind out in a car ..." The moment you know the song is far darker than most previous Beatles works and the moment you realize this will be quite ... different.
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* In "A Day in the Life" by TheBeatles: "He blew his mind out in a car ..." The moment you know the song is far darker than most previous Beatles works and the moment you realize this will be quite ... different.different.
* [[{{Queen}} Mama,]] [[DoubleTake just killed a man.]]
* [[{{Queen}} Mama,]] [[DoubleTake just killed a man.]]
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*Scroobius Pip's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3HCXh9WQSo "The Struggle"]] has an excellent example. [[spoiler: 'My name is Johnny Depp, and I kill people.']]
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--> He laughs and sneers and says "[[LukeIAmYourFather Of course, dear son, where do you think you came from in the first place?]]"
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--> He laughs and sneers and says "[[LukeIAmYourFather Of course, dear son, where do you think you came from in the first place?]]"place?]]"
* From TwentyFirstCenturyBreakdown by GreenDay comes the song "¿Viva La Gloria? [Little Girl]", in a moment that [[MakesSenseInContext makes more sense in the context of the rock opera itself]]: "You are your own worst enemy ... [[IronicEcho Know your enemy.]]
* In "A Day in the Life" by TheBeatles: "He blew his mind out in a car ..." The moment you know the song is far darker than most previous Beatles works and the moment you realize this will be quite ... different.
* From TwentyFirstCenturyBreakdown by GreenDay comes the song "¿Viva La Gloria? [Little Girl]", in a moment that [[MakesSenseInContext makes more sense in the context of the rock opera itself]]: "You are your own worst enemy ... [[IronicEcho Know your enemy.]]
* In "A Day in the Life" by TheBeatles: "He blew his mind out in a car ..." The moment you know the song is far darker than most previous Beatles works and the moment you realize this will be quite ... different.
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--> And you can cry, "teacher, come help me!'
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--> And you can cry, "teacher, come help me!'me!'
* HarryChapin's ''The Mayor of Candor Lied''. A farm boy falls in love with the Mayor's daughter, who seems to be hell-bent on preventing them from getting together. The boy then stumbles upon the Mayor in the middle of an affair with the boy's own mother. He then attempts to use this as extortion against the Mayor, threatening his re-election campaign. The Mayor then proceeds to out maneuver the boy by sending his daughter to an out-of-country university, saying it's her own choice. The boy flies into a rage at this, but the Mayor simply points out that blackmail doesn't give him a moral high ground to proceed from and dares him to make good on his threat.
--> And as he stands there saying we're just two of a kind, it hits me like a thunderbolt exploding in my mind.
--> As I look into his aged, wrinkled, leering mirror of my own face
--> He laughs and sneers and says "[[LukeIAmYourFather Of course, dear son, where do you think you came from in the first place?]]"
* HarryChapin's ''The Mayor of Candor Lied''. A farm boy falls in love with the Mayor's daughter, who seems to be hell-bent on preventing them from getting together. The boy then stumbles upon the Mayor in the middle of an affair with the boy's own mother. He then attempts to use this as extortion against the Mayor, threatening his re-election campaign. The Mayor then proceeds to out maneuver the boy by sending his daughter to an out-of-country university, saying it's her own choice. The boy flies into a rage at this, but the Mayor simply points out that blackmail doesn't give him a moral high ground to proceed from and dares him to make good on his threat.
--> And as he stands there saying we're just two of a kind, it hits me like a thunderbolt exploding in my mind.
--> As I look into his aged, wrinkled, leering mirror of my own face
--> He laughs and sneers and says "[[LukeIAmYourFather Of course, dear son, where do you think you came from in the first place?]]"
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--> [[spoiler: even though you're only three.]]
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--> [[spoiler: even though you're only three.]]]]
* TheOffspring has a song from Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace called 'Hammerhead'. Most of the song sounds like it's from the point of view of a soldier or maybe a cop, but in the last few lines...
--> You can all hide behind your desks now
--> And you can cry, "teacher, come help me!'
* TheOffspring has a song from Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace called 'Hammerhead'. Most of the song sounds like it's from the point of view of a soldier or maybe a cop, but in the last few lines...
--> You can all hide behind your desks now
--> And you can cry, "teacher, come help me!'
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--> Well tough luck [[spoiler: that boy's mine now]]
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--> Well tough luck [[spoiler: that boy's mine now]]now]]
* "Save Your Kisses for Me" by Brotherhood of Man:
--> Kisses for me
--> save all your kisses for me.
--> Bye bye baby bye bye.
--> Don't cry honey don't cry.
--> Won't you save them for me
--> [[spoiler: even though you're only three.]]
* "Save Your Kisses for Me" by Brotherhood of Man:
--> Kisses for me
--> save all your kisses for me.
--> Bye bye baby bye bye.
--> Don't cry honey don't cry.
--> Won't you save them for me
--> [[spoiler: even though you're only three.]]
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* "Sk8r Boi" by AvrilLavigne seems to be a 3rd story and you expect the girl to see the error of her ways and get together with the titular character until the bridge
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* "Sk8r Boi" by AvrilLavigne seems to be a 3rd person story and you expect the girl to see the error of her ways and get together with the titular character until the bridge
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--> Well though luck [[spoiler: that boy's mine now]]
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--> Well though tough luck [[spoiler: that boy's mine now]]
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-->So I lit a fire. Isn't it good? Norwegian wood.
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-->So I lit a fire. Isn't it good? Norwegian wood.wood.
* "Sk8r Boi" by AvrilLavigne seems to be a 3rd story and you expect the girl to see the error of her ways and get together with the titular character until the bridge
--> Sorry girl you missed out
--> Well though luck [[spoiler: that boy's mine now]]
* "Sk8r Boi" by AvrilLavigne seems to be a 3rd story and you expect the girl to see the error of her ways and get together with the titular character until the bridge
--> Sorry girl you missed out
--> Well though luck [[spoiler: that boy's mine now]]
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* EverythingElse: In "Religion Song (Put Away The Gun)", the middle section sounds like a bigoted rant, claiming "There's no such thing as a Black Man/Asian/Woman/Christian/etc., but it is all turned around by the line "Because we're all the same."
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* EverythingElse: In "Religion Song (Put Away The Gun)", the middle section sounds like a bigoted rant, claiming "There's no such thing as a Black Man/Asian/Woman/Christian/etc., but it is all turned around by the line "Because we're all the same.""
* ''Norwegian Wood'' by TheBeatles tells about one poor guy who goes home with a woman, drinks her wine, and is ultimately brushed off when she goes to sleep alone. The final line:
-->And when I awoke, I was alone. This bird had flown.
-->So I lit a fire. Isn't it good? Norwegian wood.
* ''Norwegian Wood'' by TheBeatles tells about one poor guy who goes home with a woman, drinks her wine, and is ultimately brushed off when she goes to sleep alone. The final line:
-->And when I awoke, I was alone. This bird had flown.
-->So I lit a fire. Isn't it good? Norwegian wood.
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** ''Suicidal Thoughts'': "I'm sick of niggas lyin', I'm sick of bitches hawkin', matter of fact, I'm sick of talkin'." (BANG)
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** ''Suicidal Thoughts'': "I'm sick of niggas lyin', I'm sick of bitches hawkin', matter of fact, I'm sick of talkin'." (BANG)(BANG)
* EverythingElse: In "Religion Song (Put Away The Gun)", the middle section sounds like a bigoted rant, claiming "There's no such thing as a Black Man/Asian/Woman/Christian/etc., but it is all turned around by the line "Because we're all the same."
* EverythingElse: In "Religion Song (Put Away The Gun)", the middle section sounds like a bigoted rant, claiming "There's no such thing as a Black Man/Asian/Woman/Christian/etc., but it is all turned around by the line "Because we're all the same."
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-->[[HeelRealization Oh tell me Lord, am I the Antichrist?!]]
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-->[[HeelRealization Oh tell me Lord, am I the Antichrist?!]]Antichrist?!]]
*TheNotoriousBIG
**''Me and My Bitch'': "I saw my bitch dead with the gunshot to the heart"
**''Suicidal Thoughts'': "I'm sick of niggas lyin', I'm sick of bitches hawkin', matter of fact, I'm sick of talkin'." (BANG)
*TheNotoriousBIG
**''Me and My Bitch'': "I saw my bitch dead with the gunshot to the heart"
**''Suicidal Thoughts'': "I'm sick of niggas lyin', I'm sick of bitches hawkin', matter of fact, I'm sick of talkin'." (BANG)
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** Then there's The One You Really Love which sounds like a regular love song about a love triangle, with one party thinking about someone else... until the end of the song where we find out that 'the one you really love' is [[spoiler: 'the corpse you really love']]
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** Then there's The One You Really Love which sounds like a regular love song about a love triangle, with one party thinking about someone else... until the end of the song where we find out that 'the one you really love' is [[spoiler: 'the corpse you really love']]love']]
* The ArcadeFire song "(Antichrist Television Blues)" is about an amoral StageDad who forces his daughter to become a glorified stripper and uses his religion to justify his acts. The first verse of the song seems unconnected to the rest of the song, as it describes post-9/11 fear of working in buildings downtown that may be attacked by terrorists. The final lines bring it back full circle:
-->Do you know where I was at your age? Any idea where I was at your age?
-->I was working downtown for the minimum wage
-->and I'm not gonna let you just throw it all away!
-->I'm through being cute, I'm through being nice
-->[[HeelRealization Oh tell me Lord, am I the Antichrist?!]]
* The ArcadeFire song "(Antichrist Television Blues)" is about an amoral StageDad who forces his daughter to become a glorified stripper and uses his religion to justify his acts. The first verse of the song seems unconnected to the rest of the song, as it describes post-9/11 fear of working in buildings downtown that may be attacked by terrorists. The final lines bring it back full circle:
-->Do you know where I was at your age? Any idea where I was at your age?
-->I was working downtown for the minimum wage
-->and I'm not gonna let you just throw it all away!
-->I'm through being cute, I'm through being nice
-->[[HeelRealization Oh tell me Lord, am I the Antichrist?!]]
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I survived after the fall]]
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I survived after the fall]]fall]]
* TheMagneticFields have two songs with these on their album 69 Love Songs. 'Abigail, Belle of Kilronan' sounds like your average song about a couple breaking up or being torn apart. The lyrics are sad enough and talk about a time "when I come home, if I come home". Then we find out:
-->I'm off to the war but you can be sure,
--> I will know you're what I'm fighting for.
** Then there's The One You Really Love which sounds like a regular love song about a love triangle, with one party thinking about someone else... until the end of the song where we find out that 'the one you really love' is [[spoiler: 'the corpse you really love']]
* TheMagneticFields have two songs with these on their album 69 Love Songs. 'Abigail, Belle of Kilronan' sounds like your average song about a couple breaking up or being torn apart. The lyrics are sad enough and talk about a time "when I come home, if I come home". Then we find out:
-->I'm off to the war but you can be sure,
--> I will know you're what I'm fighting for.
** Then there's The One You Really Love which sounds like a regular love song about a love triangle, with one party thinking about someone else... until the end of the song where we find out that 'the one you really love' is [[spoiler: 'the corpse you really love']]
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-->''Then you died on the 25th day of December''December''
* The Living Tombstone's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSZlAltkYoc September]]." The entire song is about an amnesiac who wakes up to find everyone in his town dead. And just when you're least expecting it, the final stanza comes:
-->I just remembered\\
What happened in September\\
[[AmnesiacDissonance I'm the one who killed them all\\
I survived after the fall]]
* The Living Tombstone's "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSZlAltkYoc September]]." The entire song is about an amnesiac who wakes up to find everyone in his town dead. And just when you're least expecting it, the final stanza comes:
-->I just remembered\\
What happened in September\\
[[AmnesiacDissonance I'm the one who killed them all\\
I survived after the fall]]
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-->''Then you died on the 24th 25th day of December''
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* An old but nice one from "Come Sail Away", "I thought that they were Angels but to my surprise, we climbed aboard their star ship and headed for the skies!"
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* An old but nice one from "Come Sail Away", "I thought that they were Angels but to my surprise, we climbed aboard their star ship and starship, we headed for the skies!"
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* The Long Winters' "The Commander Thinks Aloud" is a relaxing if slightly trippy-sounding track with happy, mildly space-themed lyrics. The last line changes the tone of the song from serene and hopeful to shocked and helpless as it's repeated over and over, with absolutely no change in key. [[spoiler:It becomes apparent that the entire song is about the Challenger disaster.]]
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* The Long Winters' [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8AisTXgAGA "The Commander Thinks Aloud" Aloud"]] is a relaxing if slightly trippy-sounding track with happy, mildly space-themed lyrics. The last line changes the tone of the song from serene and hopeful to shocked and helpless as it's repeated over and over, with absolutely no change in key. [[spoiler:It becomes apparent that the entire song is about the Challenger disaster.]]
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* The Long Winters' "The Commander Thinks Aloud" is a relaxing if slightly trippy-sounding track with happy, mildly space-themed lyrics. The last line changes the tone of the song from serene and hopeful to shocked and helpless as it's repeated over and over, with absolutely no change in key. [[spoiler:It becomes apparent that the entire song is about the Challenger disaster.]]
-->The crew compartment's breaking up...
-->The crew compartment's breaking up...
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-->Then I got Mary pregnant, and man, that was all she wrote.wrote.
*{{Prince}}'s BSide "Another Lonely Christmas" - at first it just seems like the narrator spending Christmas Day alone reminiscing about an ex-girlfriend who he still loves, but the situation changes when:
-->Baby, you promised me you'd never leave
-->''Then you died on the 24th day of December''
*{{Prince}}'s BSide "Another Lonely Christmas" - at first it just seems like the narrator spending Christmas Day alone reminiscing about an ex-girlfriend who he still loves, but the situation changes when:
-->Baby, you promised me you'd never leave
-->''Then you died on the 24th day of December''
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--> Come to think about it his name was Sta... IT WAS YOU!
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--> Come to think about it his name was Sta... IT WAS YOU!YOU!
* BruceSpringsteen "The River:"
-->Then I got Mary pregnant, and man, that was all she wrote.
* BruceSpringsteen "The River:"
-->Then I got Mary pregnant, and man, that was all she wrote.
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Most of the remainder of the song is used to compound the lives that were tragically cut short, and to argue that the value of one's life is in the things one leaves behind. Then, at the very end, we get the ''real'' WhamLine:
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* {{Chuck Berry}}'s song "Memphis, Tennessee", which became a big hit for Johnny Rivers under the title "Memphis" ("Long distance information, give me Memphis, Tennessee"), sounds like the singer is trying to call his girlfriend Marie, who was separated from him by a disapproving mother ("But we were pulled apart because her mom did not agree"). That is, until the final verse, where the singer tells the operator that "Marie is only six years old", revealing that she's his daughter, and the family was split up by the wife/girlfriend.
* From the DavidBowie song "Space Oddity:"
-->Ground control to Major Tom.\\
Your circuit's dead. There's something wrong.
** From "Cygnet Committee":
-->And the road is coming to its end.\\
[[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Now the damned have no time to make amends!]]
** "The Width of a Circle":
-->When I realized that God's a young man, too!
* The song "Polly" by Music/{{Nirvana}} contains a Wham Line in the second line of lyric:
-->Polly wants a cracker\\
[[RapeAsDrama Think I should get off her first]]
* "[[Music/DreamTheater Open your eyes, Nicholas.]]"
* Kate Miller-Heidke's ''Caught in the Crowd" [[spoiler:"I turned my back...and just walked away."]]
* Given away somewhat by the title of the song, Fucker by {{Eels}} seems like such a sweet song until: "Something about you / Something about spending the afternoon asleep in your arms / I hate you / Fucker."
* Music/TheProtomen include a {{Reveal}} towards the end of their first album on the track "The Stand (Man or Machine)"
--> You came to avenge your brother's death. [[spoiler:But here he stands, in the shadow of the man you've come to destroy]].
* "[[TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway Something's changed]], it's not your face! It's [[TomatoInTheMirror mine!]] It's ''[[TwistEnding mine]]''!"
* {{Metallica}}'s "Sad But True":
-->I'm your truth, telling lies\\
I'm your reasoned alibis\\
I'm inside open your eyes\\
I'm you!
* Randy Travis's country song, ''Three Wooden Crosses'', is a song about four strangers (a farmer, a teacher, a preacher and a prostitute) whose paths cross when they all ride a bus together, bound for Mexico. When the bus is hit by a semi, all but one of the four die that day, and we're given this set-up:
-->That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres,
-->The faith an' love for growin' things in his young son's heart.
-->An' that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children:
-->Did her best to give 'em all a better start.
-->An' that preacher whispered: "Can't you see the Promised Land?"
-->As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker's hand.
Most of the remainder of the song is used to compound the lives that were tragically cut short, and to argue that the value of one's life is in the things one leaves behind. Then, at the very end, we get the ''real'' WhamLine:
-->That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday.
-->As he held that blood-stained bible up,
-->For all of us to see.
-->He said: "Bless the farmer, and the teacher, an' the preacher;
-->"Who gave this Bible to my mamma,
-->"Who read it to me."
* Atmosphere's "Yesterday" tells the story of a man who thinks he catches a glimpse of someone who he hasn't seen in a while, presumably an ex. He spends the song reminiscing about everything he misses from the relationship. Then, toward the end of the song we get this line:
-->I thought I saw you yesterday\\
But I knew it wasn't you\\
Cause you [[spoiler:[[TearJerker passed away, dad]].]]
** Similarly, In "The Waitress", he tells the story of a bum who constantly visits a cafe to see a woman. She treats him badly when he comes in, but she also notices his absence on the days he doesn't visit. She is the one woman who acknowledges his existence. It seems like he could be in love with the woman since his life seems to revolve around seeing her, then at the very end of the song he says
-->So there it is, and I have to live with it\\
I had the chance to make a difference but I didn't.\\
In a cafe bathroom drinking free tap water\\
Thinking damn I should have been a better father to my daughter.
* The very last lines of {{Ayreon}}'s album ''The Human Equation'':
-->[[spoiler:Forever of the Stars: Emotions. I remember.]]
* [[{{Eagles}} "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."]]
* The end of [[TupacShakur 2Pac]]'s classic "Brenda's Got a Baby":
--> So now what's next? It ain't nothin' left to sell\\
So she sees sex as a way of leavin' hell\\
It's payin' the rent, so she really can't complain\\
[[RippedFromTheHeadlines "Prostitute Found Slain"]]\\
And Brenda's her name\\
She's got a baby.
* "Forever Yellow Skies" by TheCranberries.
--> Forever, I'll be forever holding you\\
Forever, I'll be forever holding you\\
Responsible, responsible, responsible
* Typical in TomLehrer, provided you don't know the title or that his songs are comedic:
** "All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon when we're [[spoiler:poisoning pigeons in the park.]]"
** "But still I keep your hand [[spoiler:as a precious souvenir.]]"
** "In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: [[spoiler:plagiarize.]]"
* {{Devo}}'s "Beautiful World":
--> It's not for me.
* An indie band, [[http://www.youtube.com/user/kirbykracklemusic Kirby Krackle]], played [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2kDtJZos8&feature=player_embedded a song]] called [[KonamiCode "Up, Up, Down, Down"]] which is basically about a random guy falling in love with a girl who plays video games. [[spoiler:Turns out she's a [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalistic murderer]] that's been stalking the guy for a while now. She kills him right after their first date and he sings about how he's dead.]]
--> I said we should do it again
--> [[WhamLine that's when you stabbed me with a pen]]
* Done twice in ''TrappedInTheCloset'', the first time setting up exactly what kind of [[BetrayalTropes betrayal daisy-chain]] we're in store for, and the second time heralding ReverseCerebusSyndrome:
-->Then a knock at the door, the gun's in my hand, [[PainfulRhyme he opens the door]], I can't believe [[ComingOutStory it's a man!]]
-->Now [[NoFourthWall pause the movie because]] [[LemonyNarrator what I'm about to say to yall is so damn twisted!]] Not only is there a man in his cabinet, [[LittlePeopleAreSurreal but the man...is a midget!]] [[spoiler:Midget! Midget!]]
** Twice? More like at the end of every episode.
* {{Wilco}}'s "She's a Jar". Sounds like a bittersweet love song, then the last line changes everything:
-->She's a jar, with a heavy lid
-->My pop quiz kid
-->A sleepy kisser, a pretty war
-->My feelings hid
-->[[spoiler:She begs me not to hit her]]
* "Eva", by Boudewijn de Groot, is told from the perspective of a God who creates Paradise. The last verse starts with:
-->Here I stand like a fool in my chamber gown\\
I thought I could do anything.
** Also by Boudewijn de Groot, the ending of his fairy tale song "De Kinderballade" ("The Children's Ballad"), about a fairy-like preteen girl and a prince-like preteen boy who elope together:
--> When, by the barking of dogs, he was found days later\\
The pallid prince lied tainted in the corn, without his fairy\\
With his big dead eyes, he motionlessly stared upwards and\\
Slowly, the blood still seeped from a horrid cut.
* The {{Vocaloid}} song "Love Disease" is a [[LyricalDissonance perky little number]] about a girl who's just happy to be spending time with the guy she likes. Then, after they've spent the day together and she starts heading home, we're treated to these lines, which mark the point where things [[ItGotWorse start to go downhill]]:
--> Look this way and call my name\\
But I guess that's just my wish\\
That's right, because you still\\
[[StalkerWithACrush Don't even know]] [[{{Yandere}} my face.]]
** 15 Years of Pursuing a Cute Boy starts off sounding like a goofy StalkerWithACrush song, but then:
--> In the 15th year my memories returned\\
I remembered everything, and burst into tears\\
Because I remembered...\\
[[DeadAllAlong That you died 15 years ago]].
* From 'Coward of the County'': "But you could've heard a pin drop, when Tommy stopped and blocked the door." Made more effective because it was spoken, not sung, by Kenny Rogers. [[spoiler: Tommy was about to beat up the three men who had raped his girlfriend. They laughed at him earlier, because he was thought to be "the coward of the county."]]
* "Behind Blue Eyes" by TheWho sounds like it's mostly about self-pity. That is, until the second verse...
-->No one knows what it's like to feel these feelings/Like I do/[[spoiler:And I blame you!]]
* "Rosetta Stoned" by {{Tool}} has an amusing example where the narrator describes his abduction by aliens and being told vast secrets of the universe:
--> Overwhelmed as one would be placed in my position...
--> Such a heavy burden now to be the one
--> Born to bear and bring to all the details of our ending.
--> to write it down for all the world to see.
--> [[spoiler:But I forgot my pen...]]
* "What's Your Mama's Name", by Tanya Tucker, is about a man (named in the song as Buford Wilson) who is imprisoned after asking a little green-eyed girl what her mother's name was, offering her a piece of candy if she would tell. The people overhearing the conversation misconstrued his interest, and he was sent to prison for a month, suffering emotional ruin and dissolving into alcoholism. After the man died thirty years later, a letter was removed from his ragged jacket, revealing, in the song's final verse that [[spoiler: the girl was his daughter, Buford having identified her by her eye colour (which was the same as his) and he was trying to confirm it by asking for her mother's name.]]
--> "Inside the old man's ragged coat, they found a faded letter. It said [[spoiler:"You have a daughter, and her eyes are Wilson green".]]"
* One song appears to be about a mother offering her child advice and encouragement on his or her first day of kindergarten, including admonishing him or her not to cry. The final verses, repeated for effect, turn everything on its head.
--> No, Mommy doesn't always act this way, but it's my first day of kindergarten.
* "All Your Life", by The Band Perry: It's a sweet love song to a boyfriend, [[spoiler: right up until "You could be the centerpiece of my obsession/If you would notice me at all".]]
* An old but nice one from "Come Sail Away", "I thought that they were Angels but to my surprise, we climbed aboard their star ship and headed for the skies!"
* SoundHorizon's "Yield" at first sounds like a simple song about a lonely girl during the harvest season, albeit one with an odd passage about subtracting from an unstable number to bring back stability ([3-1+1-2]). Then comes the line revealing that the "sweet fruits" the girl is harvesting aren't actually ''fruit'':
-->[[OffWithHisHead Ah, but isn't that a head?]]
* Eminem is very good with these Stan being the best example:
--> Some dude was drunk and drove his car over a bridge.
--> And had his girlfriend in the trunk, and she was pregnant with his kid.
--> And in the car they found a tape, but they didn't say who it was to.
--> Come to think about it his name was Sta... IT WAS YOU!
* From the DavidBowie song "Space Oddity:"
-->Ground control to Major Tom.\\
Your circuit's dead. There's something wrong.
** From "Cygnet Committee":
-->And the road is coming to its end.\\
[[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope Now the damned have no time to make amends!]]
** "The Width of a Circle":
-->When I realized that God's a young man, too!
* The song "Polly" by Music/{{Nirvana}} contains a Wham Line in the second line of lyric:
-->Polly wants a cracker\\
[[RapeAsDrama Think I should get off her first]]
* "[[Music/DreamTheater Open your eyes, Nicholas.]]"
* Kate Miller-Heidke's ''Caught in the Crowd" [[spoiler:"I turned my back...and just walked away."]]
* Given away somewhat by the title of the song, Fucker by {{Eels}} seems like such a sweet song until: "Something about you / Something about spending the afternoon asleep in your arms / I hate you / Fucker."
* Music/TheProtomen include a {{Reveal}} towards the end of their first album on the track "The Stand (Man or Machine)"
--> You came to avenge your brother's death. [[spoiler:But here he stands, in the shadow of the man you've come to destroy]].
* "[[TheLambLiesDownOnBroadway Something's changed]], it's not your face! It's [[TomatoInTheMirror mine!]] It's ''[[TwistEnding mine]]''!"
* {{Metallica}}'s "Sad But True":
-->I'm your truth, telling lies\\
I'm your reasoned alibis\\
I'm inside open your eyes\\
I'm you!
* Randy Travis's country song, ''Three Wooden Crosses'', is a song about four strangers (a farmer, a teacher, a preacher and a prostitute) whose paths cross when they all ride a bus together, bound for Mexico. When the bus is hit by a semi, all but one of the four die that day, and we're given this set-up:
-->That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres,
-->The faith an' love for growin' things in his young son's heart.
-->An' that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children:
-->Did her best to give 'em all a better start.
-->An' that preacher whispered: "Can't you see the Promised Land?"
-->As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker's hand.
Most of the remainder of the song is used to compound the lives that were tragically cut short, and to argue that the value of one's life is in the things one leaves behind. Then, at the very end, we get the ''real'' WhamLine:
-->That's the story that our preacher told last Sunday.
-->As he held that blood-stained bible up,
-->For all of us to see.
-->He said: "Bless the farmer, and the teacher, an' the preacher;
-->"Who gave this Bible to my mamma,
-->"Who read it to me."
* Atmosphere's "Yesterday" tells the story of a man who thinks he catches a glimpse of someone who he hasn't seen in a while, presumably an ex. He spends the song reminiscing about everything he misses from the relationship. Then, toward the end of the song we get this line:
-->I thought I saw you yesterday\\
But I knew it wasn't you\\
Cause you [[spoiler:[[TearJerker passed away, dad]].]]
** Similarly, In "The Waitress", he tells the story of a bum who constantly visits a cafe to see a woman. She treats him badly when he comes in, but she also notices his absence on the days he doesn't visit. She is the one woman who acknowledges his existence. It seems like he could be in love with the woman since his life seems to revolve around seeing her, then at the very end of the song he says
-->So there it is, and I have to live with it\\
I had the chance to make a difference but I didn't.\\
In a cafe bathroom drinking free tap water\\
Thinking damn I should have been a better father to my daughter.
* The very last lines of {{Ayreon}}'s album ''The Human Equation'':
-->[[spoiler:Forever of the Stars: Emotions. I remember.]]
* [[{{Eagles}} "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."]]
* The end of [[TupacShakur 2Pac]]'s classic "Brenda's Got a Baby":
--> So now what's next? It ain't nothin' left to sell\\
So she sees sex as a way of leavin' hell\\
It's payin' the rent, so she really can't complain\\
[[RippedFromTheHeadlines "Prostitute Found Slain"]]\\
And Brenda's her name\\
She's got a baby.
* "Forever Yellow Skies" by TheCranberries.
--> Forever, I'll be forever holding you\\
Forever, I'll be forever holding you\\
Responsible, responsible, responsible
* Typical in TomLehrer, provided you don't know the title or that his songs are comedic:
** "All the world seems in tune on a spring afternoon when we're [[spoiler:poisoning pigeons in the park.]]"
** "But still I keep your hand [[spoiler:as a precious souvenir.]]"
** "In one word he told me the secret of success in mathematics: [[spoiler:plagiarize.]]"
* {{Devo}}'s "Beautiful World":
--> It's not for me.
* An indie band, [[http://www.youtube.com/user/kirbykracklemusic Kirby Krackle]], played [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2kDtJZos8&feature=player_embedded a song]] called [[KonamiCode "Up, Up, Down, Down"]] which is basically about a random guy falling in love with a girl who plays video games. [[spoiler:Turns out she's a [[IAmAHumanitarian cannibalistic murderer]] that's been stalking the guy for a while now. She kills him right after their first date and he sings about how he's dead.]]
--> I said we should do it again
--> [[WhamLine that's when you stabbed me with a pen]]
* Done twice in ''TrappedInTheCloset'', the first time setting up exactly what kind of [[BetrayalTropes betrayal daisy-chain]] we're in store for, and the second time heralding ReverseCerebusSyndrome:
-->Then a knock at the door, the gun's in my hand, [[PainfulRhyme he opens the door]], I can't believe [[ComingOutStory it's a man!]]
-->Now [[NoFourthWall pause the movie because]] [[LemonyNarrator what I'm about to say to yall is so damn twisted!]] Not only is there a man in his cabinet, [[LittlePeopleAreSurreal but the man...is a midget!]] [[spoiler:Midget! Midget!]]
** Twice? More like at the end of every episode.
* {{Wilco}}'s "She's a Jar". Sounds like a bittersweet love song, then the last line changes everything:
-->She's a jar, with a heavy lid
-->My pop quiz kid
-->A sleepy kisser, a pretty war
-->My feelings hid
-->[[spoiler:She begs me not to hit her]]
* "Eva", by Boudewijn de Groot, is told from the perspective of a God who creates Paradise. The last verse starts with:
-->Here I stand like a fool in my chamber gown\\
I thought I could do anything.
** Also by Boudewijn de Groot, the ending of his fairy tale song "De Kinderballade" ("The Children's Ballad"), about a fairy-like preteen girl and a prince-like preteen boy who elope together:
--> When, by the barking of dogs, he was found days later\\
The pallid prince lied tainted in the corn, without his fairy\\
With his big dead eyes, he motionlessly stared upwards and\\
Slowly, the blood still seeped from a horrid cut.
* The {{Vocaloid}} song "Love Disease" is a [[LyricalDissonance perky little number]] about a girl who's just happy to be spending time with the guy she likes. Then, after they've spent the day together and she starts heading home, we're treated to these lines, which mark the point where things [[ItGotWorse start to go downhill]]:
--> Look this way and call my name\\
But I guess that's just my wish\\
That's right, because you still\\
[[StalkerWithACrush Don't even know]] [[{{Yandere}} my face.]]
** 15 Years of Pursuing a Cute Boy starts off sounding like a goofy StalkerWithACrush song, but then:
--> In the 15th year my memories returned\\
I remembered everything, and burst into tears\\
Because I remembered...\\
[[DeadAllAlong That you died 15 years ago]].
* From 'Coward of the County'': "But you could've heard a pin drop, when Tommy stopped and blocked the door." Made more effective because it was spoken, not sung, by Kenny Rogers. [[spoiler: Tommy was about to beat up the three men who had raped his girlfriend. They laughed at him earlier, because he was thought to be "the coward of the county."]]
* "Behind Blue Eyes" by TheWho sounds like it's mostly about self-pity. That is, until the second verse...
-->No one knows what it's like to feel these feelings/Like I do/[[spoiler:And I blame you!]]
* "Rosetta Stoned" by {{Tool}} has an amusing example where the narrator describes his abduction by aliens and being told vast secrets of the universe:
--> Overwhelmed as one would be placed in my position...
--> Such a heavy burden now to be the one
--> Born to bear and bring to all the details of our ending.
--> to write it down for all the world to see.
--> [[spoiler:But I forgot my pen...]]
* "What's Your Mama's Name", by Tanya Tucker, is about a man (named in the song as Buford Wilson) who is imprisoned after asking a little green-eyed girl what her mother's name was, offering her a piece of candy if she would tell. The people overhearing the conversation misconstrued his interest, and he was sent to prison for a month, suffering emotional ruin and dissolving into alcoholism. After the man died thirty years later, a letter was removed from his ragged jacket, revealing, in the song's final verse that [[spoiler: the girl was his daughter, Buford having identified her by her eye colour (which was the same as his) and he was trying to confirm it by asking for her mother's name.]]
--> "Inside the old man's ragged coat, they found a faded letter. It said [[spoiler:"You have a daughter, and her eyes are Wilson green".]]"
* One song appears to be about a mother offering her child advice and encouragement on his or her first day of kindergarten, including admonishing him or her not to cry. The final verses, repeated for effect, turn everything on its head.
--> No, Mommy doesn't always act this way, but it's my first day of kindergarten.
* "All Your Life", by The Band Perry: It's a sweet love song to a boyfriend, [[spoiler: right up until "You could be the centerpiece of my obsession/If you would notice me at all".]]
* An old but nice one from "Come Sail Away", "I thought that they were Angels but to my surprise, we climbed aboard their star ship and headed for the skies!"
* SoundHorizon's "Yield" at first sounds like a simple song about a lonely girl during the harvest season, albeit one with an odd passage about subtracting from an unstable number to bring back stability ([3-1+1-2]). Then comes the line revealing that the "sweet fruits" the girl is harvesting aren't actually ''fruit'':
-->[[OffWithHisHead Ah, but isn't that a head?]]
* Eminem is very good with these Stan being the best example:
--> Some dude was drunk and drove his car over a bridge.
--> And had his girlfriend in the trunk, and she was pregnant with his kid.
--> And in the car they found a tape, but they didn't say who it was to.
--> Come to think about it his name was Sta... IT WAS YOU!
