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{{quote|''Blue, blue caravan,''<br />
''Winding down to the valley of lights,''<br />
''My true love is a man''<br />
''Who would hold me for ten thousand nights.''<br />
''In the wild, wild wailing of wind,''<br />
''He's a house 'neath a soft, yellow moon.''<br />
''So, blue, blue caravan,''<br />
''Won't you carry me down to him soon?''|'''Vienna Teng''', "Blue Caravan"}}
 
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* [[Alternate Universe]]: ''No Gringo'', {{spoiler|where-in [[Persecution Flip|Americans are trying to get across the border into Mexico]] because America's economy collapsed.}} [[Harsher in Hindsight|Oh, wait]].
* [[Album Title Drop]]: Recessional provides the title to Dreaming Through the Noise:
{{quote| ''And she dreams through the noise, her weight against me''}}
** The live album ''The Moment Always Vanishing'' gets its title from ''Antebellum'', which originally appeared in ''Inland Territory'':
{{quote| ''In the fall we circle through the leaves<br />
And talk about the little ones<br />
And we smile, but never say too much<br />
The moment always vanishing'' }}
* [[Amazing Freaking Grace]]: The penultimate line of "Recessional" is "oh words like rain, how sweet the sound," sung almost exactly to the familiar tune.
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* [[Breather Episode]]: ''Passage'', one of Vienna's eeriest and [[Tear Jerker|saddest]] songs, is placed between the heartwarming lullaby ''Anna Rose'' and the soft, pleasant ''Atheist Christmas Carol'' [[Better Than It Sounds|(which, despite what its title might suggest, is not an]] [[Author Tract]]).
* [[Ceiling Banger]] / [[Right Through the Wall]]: 1BR/1BA.
{{quote| ''My upstairs neighbors are making sounds that I never want to hear''<br />
''I hope they're just moving furniture around and really liking their ideas'' }}
* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: The man described in ''Whatever You Want'' is implied to be one of these.
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* [[Shrug of God]]: She has a habit of letting listeners form their own meanings with regards to her songs.
* [[Sleep Cute]]: ''Recessional'':
{{quote| "In the terminal she sleeps on my shoulder, hair falling forward, mouth all askew..."}}
* [[Sorry, I'm Gay]]: The back story of {{spoiler|''Unwritten Letter #1''}}
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: ''Watershed'' explores ''Pontchartrain'''s theme from a much more inhuman perspective.