Bands with a song where the lyrics reference another of their song's lyrics

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#1

“19, you’re only 19 for god’s sake, you don’t need a boyfriend”

“Because you’ll never be 19 again, and I thought I told you before, you don’t need a boyfriend”

Any more? Probably.

#2

“My loneliness ain’t killing me no more”

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#3

Every hold steady song

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#4

Yeah Dalek do this a lot.

First one says “most of these people prefer bullets to ballots” and second one says “said a million times people prefer bullets to ballots”. Few others that I can’t be bothered to post too.

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#5

Beatles - glass onion

Off top of my head it references strawberry fields, fool on the hill and I am the walrus. Maybe more.

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#6

Wow, I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to find this out!

#7

Jed The 4th by Grandaddy:

So Jed he’s dead and gone
And Jed he left a son
But Jeddy-4’s in Betty Ford
And he don’t come around no more

You know it’s all a metaphor
For being drunk and on the floor
So give it up for Jed the 4th
Though he don’t come around no more

He don’t come around no more

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#8

So I got a job
Cleaning toilets
At a nightclub in Baltimore

He wrote: “You wouldn’t recognize me anymore”
“I bet you’d rather be back cleaning toilets in Baltimore”

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#9

surely Los Camp have done this?

#10

Second one also contains the line “Not the only Lionkiller in a California Sate Penn” in reference to his previous tracks Lionkiller and Lionkiller Got Married.

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#11

Ashes To Ashes by ol’ King Nonce.

#12

Three Lions '98

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#13

Imagine how long and self referential the song would be now if they’d continued that pattern.

#14

Stronger by Britney Spears has the line ‘loneliness ain’t killing me no more’, referencing HMB1MT

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#15

do you even read threads

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#16

“there ain’t gonna be no middle anymore / it’s been said before”

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#17

does sampling/reframing your own lyrics count? Nas using his “sleep is the cousin of death” line as the hook here

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#18

Of course not

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#19

The Hold Steady have a song that goes “my loneliness ain’t killing me no more” in reference to Britney probably idk

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#20

In Stronger by Britney Spears she sings about ‘talk about football coming home’ in reference to her previous song ‘Stronger 96’.

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