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* ''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]].
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