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{{trope}}
{{quote|''All the DJ's keep complaining
''The tunes run much too long
''So I went and wrote myself
''a 26-second song.''|'''[[Shel Silverstein]]''', ''26 Second Song'' }}
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* The Pixies' "Stormy Weather" from ''Bossanova''. "It is time, oh oh, it is time for stormy weather." Over and over. Not even a stanza, just a line.
** From the same album there's "Ana", which does have a whole stanza - it's one six line verse repeated a few times:
{{quote|
Undressing in the sun
Return to sea - bye
Forgetting everyone
Eleven high
Ride a wave }}
** The reason for this is that it's an acrostic - If you put the first letter of every line together, it spells "surfer".
* "Little Tiny Song" by [[Barenaked Ladies]]/The Brothers Creeggan:
{{quote|
Hey watch me now, I'm furious
Hey, I'm a cow, I'm full of hate
Hey watch me now, I'm on your plate }}
* "New Day Rising" by Hüsker Dü repeats its title all throughout the song, in various styles, shouting being the most prominent
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== Dance ==
* "Don't Let the Man" by [[Fatboy Slim]]:
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** The line is said twenty times in roughly four minutes.
** And pretty much any other lyrical song by him. "Right about know, the funk soul brother / Check it out now, the funk soul brother"
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* The [[Daft Punk]] song "Around the World", as recited in [http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive/1766 this] [[Diesel Sweeties]] strip.
** "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" is pretty much just various permutations of:
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Do it faster, makes us stronger
more than ever, Hour after
Our work is never over }}
* "Old Piano" by [[Frou Frou]]:
{{quote|
Rain rushing windowpane, oh well,
Not sure what space I'm in, oh well,
But I'm safe inside me here, oh well... oh well... oh well... }}
* "Five Ways To Run" by [[The Crystalline Effect]]:
{{quote|
You can feel the sadness that makes you cry
You can take action for what is right
You can inspire }}
* The lyrics of Eric Prydz's "Call on Me" consist entirely of a [[Looped Lyrics|looped lyric]] [[Sampled Up]] from Steve Winwood's "Valerie".
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== Grunge ==
* "Stain" by [[Nirvana]]:
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And he never leaves 'cause he's got bad luck.
Well he never reads and he never draws.
And he never sleeps 'cause he's got bad luck, yeah
I'm a stain, I'm a stain, I'm a stain, I'm a stain }}
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** "Shout to the Lord" is practically a novel compared to some of the songs of the [http://www.taize.fr/en Taizé Community]. Check out "Jesus Remember Me" on [http://www.taize.fr/en_article681.html this page], for example. As meditation music, they're supposed to be repetitive and somewhat hypnotic to focus the worshipper on prayer.
* "Down to the River to Pray" is a weird example of this, it's almost like a single multiple choice stanza song. The words are
{{quote|
Studying about that good ol' way
And who shall wear the starry crown/robe and crown?
Good Lord show me the way!
O sisters/brothers/fathers/mothers/sinners let's go down
Let's go down, come on down
O sisters/brothers/fathers/mothers/sinners let's go down
Down in the river to pray }}
== National Anthems ==
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== Punk Rock ==
* The Living End's 34-second song "Ready" features the lyrics:
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Don't ya think we're through buddy?
But is she the kind that you would buy the spirits
Before you're ready, ready, ready }}
* [[The Ramones]]:
{{quote|
I don't wanna walk around with you
I don't wanna walk around with you
So why you wanna walk around with me?
I don't wanna walk around with you!
I don't wanna walk around with you! }}
** They've got a few more:
*** "Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue"
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Now I wanna have somethin' to do
All the kids wanna sniff some glue
All the kids want somethin' to do }}
*** "It's A Long Way Back"
{{quote|
You by the phone
It's a long way back to Germany
It's a long way back to Germany }}
* The Ramones were ''kings'' of this trope. The best thing is that the songs are so good that you don't notice the lack of lyrics.
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* "Guide Vocal" by [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]], off their somewhat lackluster "Duke" album, is just over a minute long, and is one of the nastiest breakup songs ever (with the exception of the outright [[Ax Crazy]] "Vow" by Garbage).
* "Fourteen Black Paintings" is a track from the album ''Us'' by [[Peter Gabriel]]. The entirety of the lyrics are as follows:
{{quote|
from the dream comes the vision
from the vision come the people
from the people come the power
from this power comes the change. }}
* The [[Looped Lyrics|''only'' lyrics]] of Roky Erickson's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcGb24n9hvM "I walked with a zombie"] are "I walked with a zombie last night" - that's verse, chorus, everything. Unless you count the backing vocals ("He walked with a zombie").
* "Passive Manipulation" by [[The White Stripes]] is Meg singing:
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Don't just succumb to the wishes of your brothers
Take a step back, take a look at one another
You need to know the difference between a father and a lover }}
** Looped for thirty seconds.
* [[Bob Dylan]]'s "All The Tired Horses" consists of the chorus girls singing the lines "All the tired horses in the sun/How'm I supposed to get any ridin' done?/Hmmm." This hasn't stopped [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|dylanologists]] from examining and interpreting them at length.
* "Colour My World" by Chicago starts with a piano solo and ends with a flute solo, and has this verse in the middle:
{{quote|
Just what you mean to me
And now, now that you're near
Promise your love that I've waited to share
And dreams of our moments together
Colour my world with hope of loving you }}
* "T-Bone" by [[Neil Young]] has 2 lines and various permutations of it
{{quote|
Ain't Got No T-Bone }}
** Even the lyric book itself tells you to repeat the line in order to save space.
* [[Steely Dan]]'s "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q71gvV9n9Cs "The Fez"]" has one stanza repeated three times:
{{quote|
Don't make me do it without my fez on, oh no
That's what I am
Please understand
I wanna be your holy man }}
* [[Frank Zappa]]'s "Willie The Pimp" consists of one stanza, followed by a nine-minute jam.
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* The title song of ''[[The Pajama Game]]''.
* "Wintergreen for President" from ''[[Of Thee I Sing]]'' has two lines of lyrics, not counting repetitions of the title or wordless snatches of other campaign songs:
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Loves the Irish and the Jews. }}
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The lyrics to the ''[[Beatmania]] IIDX'' song "thunder" are composed of two whole sentences (albeit stretched out over eight measures each), both of which are identical save for two words, and are repeated twice in the 2 1/4-minute game version and even more in the extended 5:43 version:
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I'm drifting through the mists of love to find the place my heart belongs }}
* The credits song for ''[[Prince of Persia]]: The Sands of Time'' has only one verse and one chorus.
* "Here's To You" from ''Sacco e Vanzetti'' and ''[[Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots]]''.
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Rest forever here in our hearts
The last and final moment is yours
That agony is your triumph }}
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