Line #63 MadnessMantra/Music


1	{{Madness Mantra}}s... {{Madness Mantra}}s... {{Madness Mantra}}s... {{Madness Mantra}}s... {{Madness Mantra}}s... [-in music.-]
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4	* [[Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon I've been mad for fucking years,]] [[NightmareFuel/PinkFloyd absolutely years, been over the edge for yonks...]]
5	** [[Music/TheWall Is there anybody out there?]]
6	* ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'':
7	** "Full Moon Laboratory" has someone chant the ArcWords: "La la la la la la la lu lu lu..."
8	** "Bloodstained Switch" features the singer repeatedly saying "I am not evil" because she is being accused of killing her father, which she did, [[SplitPersonality but not by choice]].
9	* ''Music/{{Communications}}'' Case One's final song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwd7N4QdFAI "HOUSEWIFE RADIO"]] starts off relatively innocuously, but as Nancy's day goes on things start to feel a little off, until [[spoiler:BLACK AND WHITE AND BLACK AND WHITE AND BLACK AND WHITE AND BLACK AND WHITE- NO, BLUE AND GREEN AND YELLOW AND RED- THE RADIO ONLY PLAYS IN ''"BLACK AND WHITE AND BLACK AND WHITE AND.."'']].
10	** The song itself opens with Nancy's ''"Stich sew cut pull, stich sew cut and pull, stich sew cut pull, stich sew cut and pull..."''. This could double up as a {{Survival Mantra}}, but whether she's saying this to prevent her breakdown or as an early part of it is unclear.
11	** In COMMUNICATIONS: Case 2, Song 2: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLvMo8laN1o "BROADCAST ILLUSION"]], we get Kennith's [[spoiler:''"We're screaming again! AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN! We're screaming again! AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN AGAIN! We're screaming again!"'']]
12	* GHOST:
13	** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ0muYBh2HY "The Distortionist"]] there's ''"You're making a wreck of broken glass, and leaving me a f*cking mess, bending light in a way that shows exactly how the story goes."'' played over and over backwards, as we see the character the song is named after [[spoiler: turn into a monster of hands and mirrors.]]
14	** From [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04BqFwERmac "HYPERDONTIA"]]: ''"Pull ‘em out and, and, and wash ‘em off, the memories... Pull ‘em out and, and, and make up for forgotten years..."''
15	* Commonly heard in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denpa_song Denpa Song]]. They're often EXTREMELY catchy.
16	* Music/WeirdAlYankovic's song "Music/DareToBeStupid". Where he incites the audience to "Dare to be stupid dare to be stupid dare to be stupid", citing ridiculous examples such as microwaving your head, to define "stupid".
17	* Music/BloodhoundGang's "Why Is Everybody Always Picking On Me?": "The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm! The drummer from Def Leppard's only got one arm!"
18	* Music/KylieMinogue:
19	** "Love at First Sight". ''"It was love at it was love it was love it was love it was love at first sight."'' A song about a lovestruck, lightheaded Kylie as she staggers back and forth in delirium on another planet, complete with futuristic dancers (aliens, clones, robotic men).
20	** "Wow" composed mainly of chanting ''"wow. wow. wow. wow. wow. wow. wow. wow. wow."''
21	* Music/NapoleonXIV, from side to side and straight down the middle.
22	** "They're coming to take me away - ha-ha, hee-hee, ho-ho..."
23	** They're trying to drive me sane...hee-hee...they're trying to drive me sane...ho-ho...they're trying to drive me sane...ha-haa...they're trying to drive me sane!...hee-hee!...they're trying to drive me sane!...ho-ho!...THEY'RE TRYING TO DRIVE ME SANE!...HA-HAAAA!...THEY'RE TRYING TO DRIVE ME SANE!!!"
24	* Music/EmilieAutumn:
25	** ''"Are you suffering?"''
26	** "God help me!" sung ''48 times!'' Clearly she was keeping herself sane while what happens in that song happens to her....
27	** "I want my innocence back, I want my innocence back, I want my innocence back..."
28	** [[ThatLiarLies Liar...Liar...Liar...Liar...Liar...Liar...Liar...Liar...]]
29	** "4'Clock" definitely..
30	* "Bodies" by Music/DrowningPool: "Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor..." "One - nothing wrong with me, two - nothing wrong with me, three - ..." "One - something's got to give, two - something's got to give, three - ..."
31	** "All Over Me": "All over me! ALL OVER ME! All over me! All over me. All over me! ALL OVER ME! All over me! All over me."
32	* "Psycho Killer", by Music/TalkingHeads: "Psycho Killer! Qu'est-ce que c'est? Fa-fa-fa-FAH-fa-fa-fa-fa-FA-FA better, run, run; run, run, runaway."
33	** Music/OnceInALifetime has "Same as it ever was, same as it ever was, same as it ever was" repeated continuously at several points.
34	* The song "Flee!" by Music/TheDarkestOfTheHillsideThickets gives us "Pain! Death! Insanity! Death!"
35	* "AKA Driver" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants. "It just a full day's drive awaaaaaay. It's just a full day's drive awaaaaaaaaaaay..."
36	* Though there are many examples in the Creator/GilbertAndSullivan operas, the quartet from ''Theatre/TheGondoliers'' featuring the Duke and his entourage's entry stands out. "And... if... ever ever ever they get back to Spain, they will never never never cross the sea again; they will never never never never never never never never never never never cross the sea again - they will never never never never never never never never never never never cross the sea again!" - And they sing that chorus ''twice''!
37	* Music/{{Tool}}'s "Rosetta Stoned" features the (maybe) insane narrator repeatedly saying "Don't know, won't know" at the end of the song.
38	* The song "''He Knows, You Know''" by Music/{{Marillion}} has the word "problems" repeated many times, with the last one shouted - "Problems,problems,problems,problems,PROOOBLEEEEEMS!!". This might have something to do with the lyrics being about a man going insane, and committing suicide in a bathroom. The song also ends with a phone call, with the man shouting to a woman at the other end "Don't give me your problems!" and slamming the phone down.
39	* "Three Evils (Embodied in Love and Shadow)" by Music/CoheedAndCambria. "[[LyricalDissonance Pull the trigger and the nightmare stooooops! Pull the trigger and the nightmare stooooops!]]"
40	* The song "Echoplex" by Music/NineInchNails ends with Trent Reznor repeating "You will never, ever, ever, ever, get to me in here. You will never, ever, ever, ever, get to me in here...."
41	** "The Becoming" also qualifies: "It won't give up. It wants me dead. Goddamn this noise inside my head..."
42	** "Piggy": "Nothing can stop me now!". Not exactly a conventional example, but it is an example of the narrator losing his grip on reality. A variation on this one also shows up in "Ruiner".
43	** "Big Man With A Gun" qualifies as well: "Me and my fucking gun, me and my fucking gun, me and my fucking gun..."
44	** "Satellite (so very high), I know you're up there somewhere".
45	** His remix of Music/DavidBowie's song "I'm Afraid of Americans" fades out with Bowie repeating the line "God is an American" over and over.
46	* The ending of ''Motel of the White Locust'' by Music/{{Glassjaw}}: "Pack your shit and leave and take my memories of her with you..." It then concludes with the variation: "Pack your shit and leave and take her ''fucking'' with you."
47	* Music/SufjanStevens ''inverts'' this with a sort of Sanity Mantra: "I want to be well I want to be well I want to be well I want to be well..."
48	* The lyrics to Music/InformationSociety's "Ending World 1.1" are either three mantras chained together or one long one--either way, it does not end well for the narrator.
49	--> I am absolutely right. I am absolutely certain I am absolutely right. I am absolutely certain I am absolutely right. I am absolutely certain of all the mistakes I've made.
50	--> And I was born in a world that's ending. Tell me you're gonna fall down any day now. Eternal change outside me howling--and inside everything stays the same.
51	--> And it's the end of the world once again, and things are never gonna change when I die. As the circle comes to an end in my room--and everything stays the same--
52	* "She won't stop me/ Put it down!" in "Hang 'Em High" by Music/MyChemicalRomance.
53	** "Just sleep... just sleep... just sleep... ''JUST SLEEP!''
54	** "DESTROYA - DESTROYA - DESTROYA -"
55	** "Headfirst For Halos" features the phrase, "Think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts, think happy thoughts..." before bringing the song to a subtle stop, "...think ha-Woah!"
56	* Music/AliceInChains' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm3lqTOhRAw Love Song]]" is one long stream of these:
57	-->''My gums are bleeding! My gums are bleeding!''
58	-->''Rae Dong Chung, Rae Dong Chung, Rae Dong Chung...''
59	-->''Get the midget! Get the midget! '''Get the fucking midget!!!'''''
60	* {{Music/Gorillaz}}'s "Feel Good Inc". The music video shows the band apparently trapped in a creepy tower, 2D [[TearJerker staring out the window with an expression of complete hopelessness]] and chanting "feel good, feel good, feel good" through the instrumentals.
61	** After being kidnapped by Murdoc and forced to work on a new Gorillaz album with both Murdoc and [[spoiler: a chilling [[ReplacementGoldfish cybernetic replica]] of his long-missing friend,]] Noodle, 2D can be seen in the [[SanitySlippageSong Stylo]] music video chanting [[HeroicBSOD "Overload, overload, overload,]] [[BreakTheCutie coming up to the overload, overload,]] [[TearJerker overload..."]]
62	** The last minute of ''Clint Eastwood'' is filled with the just the line "My future is coming on, is coming on, is coming on, is coming on, is coming on, my future…" repeated over and over.
63	* "Blunt" by Canadian industrial band Econoline Crush begins with the repeated shouting: "Nothing...Nothing...Nothing...Nothing...Nothing...NOTHING!!!"
64	* Music/AliceCooper's ''Ballad of Dwight Fry'' (though it could possibly be more of a SurvivalMantra):
65	--> "I gotta get out of here. I gotta get out of here. I gotta get out of here."
66	** In Cooper's song, Vengeance is Mine, he repeats the song title a lot. And at one point in the song he starts repeating (getting louder each time), "What I want, what I need, what I want, what I need."
67	*** "I just can't live without it, I don't wanna think about it" from Cooper's song ''Some Folks''.
68	* [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Traffic Lights"]] off of ''Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album''.
69	* Malcolm [=McLaren=] has a song on ''Fans'' where he starts saying 'All work and no play makes Mac a dull boy', but it's more light-hearted than in ''Film/TheShining'', and he varies it a bit.
70	* Music/SteelyDan's "The Fez": ''No, I ain't gonna do it without the fez on, oh no, I ain't gonna do it without the fez on...''
71	* Music/TheBeatles has one on [[Music/TheWhiteAlbum "Revolution 9"]]:
72	--[[BrokenRecord Number nine... Number nine... Number nine... Number nine... Number nine... Number nine...]]
73	* MemeticMutation gives us the likes of [[Music/FooFighters "THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST! THE BEST!"]] and [[Music/{{Metallica}} "Fran-TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK TICK"]].
74	* In Music/TheDecemberists's "The Mariner's Revenge," a man constantly hears his mother's final words, begging him to take vengeance on the man who left them destitute: "Find him! Bind him! Tie him to a pole and break his fingers to splinters! Drag him to a hole until he wakes up, naked, clawing at the ceiling of his grave!" In the end, it's implied that the man whispers the mantra into his prey's ear, but the song only plays an increasingly manic, instrumental version of the mantra's tune, implying that he's doing some pretty unspeakable things.
75	* Music/PetShopBoys' "I Want To Wake Up" has the title line repeated increasingly desperately through the song as it becomes clearer the narrator is [[SanitySlippageSong going crazy]] from [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unrequited love]]: "Now, I want to wake up. How I want to wake up. I, I want to wake up, I want to wake up, wake up, wake up with you..."
76	** From the following track on the same album: "Beat, beat, beat, heart beat..."
77	* Vocaloid Miku's "Wide Knowledge of the Late, Madness": [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGMO1ko5EuM Watashi watashi watashi watashi watashi watashi watashi watashi watashi...]]
78	** "I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry" could fit as well, going by her staring expression at the end of the video.
79	* American Music Club's "In My Role as The Most Hated Singer in the Local Underground Music Scene":
80	-->Oh God I love you
81	-->Oh God I love you
82	-->I should have killed you when I had the chance
83	* Music/{{Radiohead}} has a lot of repeated phrases that can be interpreted this way.
84	** From ''Kid A'', special mention goes to "How to Disappear Completely" ("I'm not here, this isn't happening... I'm not here...") because the line comes from a way Thom Yorke coped with the pressures of touring (so it overlaps with SurvivalMantra). And "Everything in Its Right Place" is practically built out of them, and also inspired by breaking down on tour.
85	** Also "Karma Police": "For a minute there, I lost myself, I lost myself..."
86	** "[[Literature/NineteenEightyFour 2+2=5]]": "You have not been paying attention, paying attention, paying attention, paying attention..."
87	** "Sit Down Stand Up" is a far more clear-cut example: "The raindrops. The raindrops. The raindrops. The raindrops. The raindrops. The raindrops. The raindrops..." As the music gets ever more frantic.
88	** "Separator", possibly: "wake me up, wake me up"
89	** "Where I End and You Begin also definitely qualifies, in fact it's one of the creepiest of these that Radiohead has done: "I will eat you alive/I will eat you alive/I will eat you alive/and I will eat you alive/then there'll be no more lies/there'll be no more lies/there'll be no more lies/I will eat you alive..."
90	* Music/LinkinPark does this a lot.
91	** In "Given Up" we have:
92	-->'''''[[MetalScream PUT ME OUT OF MY - MI - SE - RYYYY!]]'''''
93	-->'''''PUT ME OUT OF MY - MI - SE - RYYYY!'''''
94	-->'''''PUT ME OUT OF MY, PUT ME OUT OF MY - [[PrecisionFStrike FU - CKING]] - MI - SE - [[CarefulWithThatAxe RYYYYYYYY!!!]]'''''
95	** In "One Step Closer" we have:
96	-->'''''SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!!!'''''
97	-->'''''SHUT UP!'''''
98	-->'''''SHUT UP!'''''
99	-->'''''SHUT UP!'''''
100	-->'''''SHUT UP WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!!!'''''
101	-->'''''SHUT UP!'''''
102	-->'''''SHUT UP!'''''
103	-->'''''SHUT UP!'''''
104	-->'''''SHUT! UP!!! I'M ABOUT TO BREAK!'''''
105	** In "A Place For My Head", we get "You. Try to take the best of me. ''Go away.''" repeated until an eventual MetalScream breakdown.
106	* "[[Music/{{Wire}} In between of where only edges can be seen from the spaces in between...]]"
107	* Music/NeutralMilkHotel indulges in this trope fairly often, often to [[TearJerker very]] [[MindScrew different effects.]] A few examples:
108	** "Three Peaches": ''I'm so happy, I'm so happy that you didn't die...''
109	** "Rubby Bulbs": ''Beautiful babies / Are filled with angels!''
110	** "Sailing Through": ''You are a liar, you are a liar, you are a liar, you are a '''liar''' and YOU ARE A '''LIE!!!'''''
111	* Nick Cave knows this trope well. "How much longer?" from ''Loverman'' is one example.
112	* Music/TheWorldInfernoFriendshipSociety turns the end of "Canonize Creator/PhilipKDick, OK?" into one of these, sung as a round: "You can't change the system from within the system changes you, you can't change the system from within the system changes you, you can't change the system from within the system changes you ... and that should make you '''PANIC!'''"
113	* Kate Nash's "Mariella": "Yeah, I'm never ever ever ever ever ever ever evereverevereverevereverevereverevergonna unglue [[PunctuatedForEmphasis my lips! From bein'! Together!]] [[LaughingMad Ha ha ha ha...]]"
114	* Music/MercuryRev's "Very Sleepy Rivers". "Very sleepy rivers a very sleepy place very sleepy rivers a very sleepy place [[CarefulWithThatAxe VERY SLEEPY RIVERS A VERY SLEEPY PLACE]]!"
115	* Music/VNVNation's "Fearless": "I am not alone. I am not afraid. I am not unhappy." Could also be a SurvivalMantra, but it sounds more like denial.
116	* Music/PJHarvey's "Down by the Water" from ''Music/ToBringYouMyLove'': "Little fish, big fish, swimming in the water. Come back here and give me daughter."
117	* Music/TheResidents: "[[TitleDrop Smelly tongues]] [[TalkativeLoon look just as they felt]]. [[BrokenRecord Smelly tongues look just as they felt.]] Smelly tongues look just as they felt. Smelly tongues look just as they felt. Smelly tongues look just as they felt."
118	* Ling Tosite Sigure's "am3:45" is just one line repeated throughout: "[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Sekai kiete, wasurete]], [[DramaticSpaceDrifting mujuuryoku no]] [[CosyCatastrophe yue]]."
119	* Refused's "New Noise": "[[MetalScream The new beat! The new beat! The new beat! The new beat!]] [[CreatorBreakdown The new beat!]] [[BrokenRecord The new beat!]] [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment The new beat!]] [[OverlyLongGag The new beat!]] Thank you."
120	* Invoked in Music/KingCrimson's "Indiscipline": "I REPEAT MYSELF WHEN I'M UNDER STRESS! I REPEAT MYSELF WHEN I'M UNDER STRESS! I REPEAT MYSELF WHEN I'M UNDER STRESS!"
121	** Pre-Crimson group Giles, Giles & Fripp also did one with "Just George", where, in between the songs in the second half of the album, the band would repeat "I know a man and his name is George" in various ways.
122	** In "Thela Hun Jinjeet" Adrian Belew, who had just been assaulted by gang members on his way to the studio, repeats "This is a dangerous place" several times.
123	* A good chunk of Music/FrankZappa's "Help, I'm A Rock" has the band chanting the title. Helps that the title of its parent album is ''Freak Out!''.
124	* Music/{{Nirvana}}'s ''Lithium'': "I like it, I'm not gonna crack. I miss you, I'm not gonna crack. I love you, I'm not gonna crack. I killed you, I'm not gonna crack!"
125	** Also ''Breed'': 'I don't care I don't care I don't care I don't care I don't care, I don't care, care, care if it's old, I don't mind I don't mind I don't mind I don't mind, mind, don't have a mind...
126	* In Radical Face's "Kin", after Virgil gets a blood transfusion he starts to hear ghosts and slowly loses his mind: "I hear them al the time, I hear them all the time, I hear them all the time".
127	* Disturbed does this in Perfect Insanity. ''I've Lost My Mind I've Lost My Mind I've Lost My Mind I've Lost My Mind I've Lost My Mind...''
128	%%** And again in Meaning of Life
129	* Music/{{Swans}}' 2012 album ''The Seer'' contains a few excellent examples of this.
130	** To paraphrase a review, in the opener "Lunacy" the word ''[[TitleOnlyChorus "LU-NA-CY"]]'' is repeated just enough times to convince you that the speaker is an utter lunatic.
131	** In the [[TitleTrack title track]] the phrase ''[[MadOracle "i see it all i see it all i see it all"]]'' amounts to the only words spoken for a solid [[EpicRocking 28 minutes]]. The [[CreepyMonotone monotone]], practically [[MachineMonotone robotic]] delivery only reinforces the madness.
132	** Closing track "The Apostate" throws a few more into the mix, including variations on ''[[MindRape "get out of my mind"]]'', ''"ladder to god"'', and ''"we are blessed."''
133	* Edge of Dawn - Falling: ''"Destroy as much as you can, you're not an angry man / You're lost, you're lost, you're simply lost / You're lost, you're lost, you're lost [...] But you're lost, you're only lost"''
134	* [[Music/{{Can}} Doo right, yoo doo right, doo right, yoo doo right, Doo right, yoo doo right, doo right, yoo doo right, Doo right, yoo doo right, doo right, yoo doo right, Doo right, yoo doo right, doo right, yoo doo right.]] from their debut "Monster Movie" (1968).
135	* Music/RageAgainstTheMachine gives us a [[ProtestSong protest variation]] in "Killing in the Name" from [[SelfTitledAlbum Rage Against the Machine]]'': '''''FUCK YOU, I WON'T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME!'''''
136	* In "Din-Torah" from Music/LeonardBernstein's "Kaddish," after the Speaker rebels against the Covenant, the orchestra explodes in a barbaric frenzy punctuated by anguished choral exclamations of "Amen." This culminates with the chorus breaking up into sections chanting "Amen, amen, amen" without regard to each other. As this chanting dies down, the Speaker pleads: "Forgive me, Father. I was mad with fever. Have I hurt You?"
137	* [[Music/MysterySkulls This may be the year that I disappear...This may be the year that I disappear...This may be the year that I disappear...This may be the year that I disappear...]]
138	* Project Pitchfork's "Timekiller" video has Peter Spilles repeatedly typing "My confusion creates your universe!" on a typewriter. The mantra also appears as a lyric in "Solitude", the single's B-side.
139	* Music/{{ASP}}'s "Coming Home" has nigh unto endless repetitions of "The tiles the tiles the tiles the tiles the tiles."
140	* Canadian metal band Structures have one in their song "Tunnel Vision" that repeats until the song fades away and only the drums remain:
141	-->We're not the only living thing in the world (OPEN YOUR EYES)
142	-->We're not the only living thing in the world (OPEN YOUR EYES)
143	-->We're not the only living thing in the world (OPEN YOUR EYES)
144	* "Born Slippy.NUXX" by Music/{{Underworld\|Band}}'' has "Lager lager lager lager" and "Mega mega white thing". The lyrics were intended to sound like [[TheAlcoholic an alcoholic]]'s InnerMonologue, since [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Karl Hyde was a real-life alcoholic at the time]].
145	* The end of "Assimilate" by Music/SkinnyPuppy: "DEATH! DEATH! DEATH!"
146	* The Music/DeadKennedys' "HolidayInCambodia" has "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pol_Pot Pol Pot]]!"
147	* Music/{{Primus}} sums up the [[DrugsAreBad main idea]] of "Lacquer Head" with the chant of "Keep on sniffin' till your brain goes pop!"
148	* "Company Town" by The Silent Comedy is about a revenge plot against a corrupt mine foreman. Repeated continually throughout the song are the words "I'm not angry. God forgive me."
149	* Music/TheOffspring's Special Delivery is about a StalkerWithACrush, and it ends with the character saying "But you can't kill a man when he's got no hope! You can't kill a man when he's got no hope! '''You can't kill a man when he's --GOD HELP ME!'''
150	* The song ''Coded and United'' by {{Nerdcore}} hip hop group Optimus Rhyme is an excellent example.
151	** The song is written around one: "Reboot, Work, Recharge, Work, Walk home, Recharge, Shut Down, Reboot, Repeat." This is expanded during the chorus.
152	--> Reboot, Work, Recharge, Work, Walk home, Recharge, Shut Down, Reboot, Repeat.
153	--> I am not Unique. I am not distinctive, Not inimitable. Reboot, repeat.
154	--> Reboot, Work, Recharge, Work, Walk home, Recharge, Shut Down, Reboot, Repeat.
155	--> I am not me. I am not reflective. Not inimitable. Reboot, repeat.
156	** The same song also describes one experienced by a robot.
157	--> When they let me loose, I knew that I was doomed
158	--> Dug through CPU, couldn't find a clue
159	--> Ran twenty miles then I stopped
160	--> Couldn't take a step, couldn't think
161	--> Every process was blocked
162	--> Spent 10 years stuck in the same spot
163	--> Repeat directive, it seemed that I forgot
164	--> And since I don't recall: I repeat directive
165	--> That's a loop, y'all. Lost, got no objective!
166	* Music/CountingCrows have several examples, likely a reflection of singer-songwriter Adam Duritz' depersonalisation-derealisation disorder. For instance, the character Maria in "Round Here" repeats the phrase "It's only in my head", which is her way of reminding herself that her mental issues don't reflect external reality and that she's not in any physical danger, thus making it double as a SurvivalMantra. Despite this, as we see later in the song, this isn't enough to stop her from entertaining suicidal ideations. Duritz has noted on several occasions that Maria is his DistaffCounterpart AuthorAvatar.
167	** ''Amy Hit the Atmosphere'' ends with Adam repeating over and over "All I really know is I don't want to know."
168	* Cursor Miner: "I was [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v6nrtMpHWA The Man with the Transparent Face]]. I was The Man With the Transparent Face. I was The Man With the Transparent Face. I was The Man With the Transparent Face. I am The Man with the Transparent Face. I am The Man with the Transparent Face. I am The Man with the Transparent Face."
169	* Music/JoyDivision has a couple of examples:
170	** "Digital":
171	--> Day in, day out, day in, day out, day in, day out...
172	** "Dead Souls":
173	--> Calling me, calling me, calling me, calling me...
174	* From the third verse/bridge of Music/LemonDemon's song "My Trains", after the narrator talks about [[IncredibleShrinkingMan shrinking himself through sheer force of will]]: "Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna - whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do?"
175	* Music/MarinaDiamandis' track ''Electra Heart'' serves as a closing track to her album of the same name definitely counts, and fittingly so, as it symbolically represents Electra's suicide.
176	--> Lights they blind me, lights they blind me, lights they blind me...
177	* Music/AURORA has a song titled ''Murder Song (5, 4, 3, 2, 1)'' and has Aurora repeatedly counting down from 5 to 1 as she waits for death. The bridge in the album version is much more impactful.
178	--> 5, 4, 3, 2, 1; The gun is gone, and so am I. [[FaceDeathWithDignity And here I go.]]
179	* Appropriately enough, Music/{{Muse}}'s "Madness" has a repeated chant of "m-m-m-m-m-m-m-m-mad, mad, mad” heard at points throughout.
180	* Gang Starr's "B.Y.S." ends with Guru saying "Keep on faking moves and Imma-and Imma-and Imma-and Imma-and Imma", fading as the song ends with him presumably getting beaten down.
181	* The sceptic in "This House Is Not Haunted" (by Music/TheMenThatWillNotBeBlamedForNothing) becomes increasingly desperate to reassure themselves that "everything's alright - ''no God, no ghosts, no afterlife''".

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