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Line 6: Compare [[Dark Reprise]]. Often overlaps with [[Age Progression Song]]. Subtrope of [[Double Meaning]]. {{examples~~\|Examples~~}} == [[Country Music]] == Line 60: The third and final time, the lead in was "...Treat you like equals, decieve you, stamp you and call you 'illegal' when there's an..." referring to an illegal Cuban immigrant making it to America. * Let's just agree, a vast majority of Lupe Fiasco's songs have double meanings, he's even said it. I'd say the hardest song to figure out is Twilight Zone, which is one giant, freaky metaphor. *** Kick ~~Push--Originally~~Push—Originally sounds like a song about a skateboarder's tale/ Also tells about how people are hated for things they love to do. * Kind of a stretch, but this is definitely a related idea: the song "I Can Hear You" by They Might Be Giants. The chorus is "I can hear you / I can hear you / I can just barely hear you." The first verse sets it up with "This is a warning. / Step away from the car. / This car is protected by Viper." Line 68: For bonus points, the song is recorded on a 19th century wax phonograph, so it is indeed difficult to understand the words. * Paul Simon's "Graceland" initially has the refrain "I'm going to Graceland, Graceland, Memphis Tennessee". The reference to Memphis is subsequently dropped. Simon says that from that point on "Graceland" is a metaphor for "something else". * [[~~The Protomen (Music)\|~~The Protomen]]: "Unrest In The House Of Light" has a refrain that proceeds a bit further every time. Near the start, "There was another who came before you / He was a hero and your brother and my son / He fought the darkness, the darkness won." ... "You need to know / you are not him." By the end, "You need to know / you are not him / {{spoiler\|this fight's not yours / you cannot win.}} Line 79: * ''DC Talk'' has a song called "What if I stumble?" In the early verses, it's "what will happen if I stumble?" as in, being afraid. After the last verse, the meaning has changed to "if I stumble, so what?" * "The Kids are Alright" by [[The Who]]. Mastery of this trope. First a chorus, a two-line bridge, then the chorus takes on a completely new meaning. * "Hopeless Bleak Despair" by [[They Might Be Giants (band)\|They Might Be Giants]]. The verses tell the ways that his depression has ruined his life, but the chorus promises that "then, one day, it disappeared". So it's a hopeful song, right? No, because at the end, it's revealed that the day that he "finally got rid of it" was when [[Posthumous Narration\|he died]] and went to [[Hell]], while the despair itself went to heaven. * [[Sparks]]' "Without Using Hands" has a [[Title -Only Chorus]] that the verses give different contexts to. The first verse describes men and women meeting up under the shelter of the canopy of the Paris Ritz Hotel in the rain, planning to "love tonight, without using hands". In the second verse, a couple is showing off slides of their vacation at the same hotel to their kids; the children start misbehaving, and the father laments that "the only way children are punished, unlike old times, is without using hands". Finally, it turns out that during this vacation there was an explosion at the hotel - only the hotel manager had any serious injuries, and everyone else seems pretty unconcerned that he's "going to live his entire life... without using hands". * In the musical ''Golden Boy'', "No More" is sung by Joe as a bitterly personal [[Break Up Song]], and by the chorus as an outspoken [[Protest Song]]. * "Walking Her Home" by Mark Schultz - in the first verse, he is literally walking her home (after their first date), but by the end he is walking her home (to heaven). Line 89: {{reflist}} [[Category:Double Meaning Tropes]] [[Category:Music Tropes]] [[Category:Dual -Meaning Chorus]] ~~[[Category:Trope]]~~