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| - A song in which the lyrics are repeated time and time again. They fall under any of the following tropes (and probably Broken Record):
* Single-Stanza Song
* Second Verse Curse
* Chorus-Only Song Examples of Looped Lyrics include: Single Word Songs
* Koyaanisqatsi! Koyaanisqatsi!
* Parodied in PDQ Bach's "Prelude to Einstein on the Fritz": "Koy-hotsy-totsy..."
* The duet "Woe" from PDQ Bach's "half-act opera" The Stoned Guest.
* Several Daft Punk songs work like this. "Around the World", "Robot Rock", and "Television Rules the Nation" have only their titles for lyrics.
* Queens of the Stone Age's "Feel Good Hit of the Summer" has one line of lyrics that are repeated ad-infinitum throughout the whole song, with no real chorus. ("Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol...c-c-c-c-c-cocaine"
* I AM HENRY THE EIGHTH I AM, HENRY THE EIGHTH I AM I AM, I GOT MARRIED TO THE WIDOW NEXT DOOR, SHE'S BEEN MARRIED SEVEN TIMES BEFORE, AND EVERY ONE WAS A HENRY, SHE WOULDN'T HAVE A WILLY OR A SAM, I'M HER EIGHTH OLD MAN I'M HENRY, HENRY THE EIGHTH I AM.
* Second verse, same as the first!
* A little bit louder...
* AND A WHOLE LOT WORSE!
* "Gangs of Riverside" by Starflyer 59.
* "The funk phenomena, the funk phenomena, the funk phenomena, the funk phenomena, the funk phenomena" ad nauseam (Armand Van Helden)
* "A Better Class of Criminal" by Electric Valentine, which has a Non-Appearing Title.
* Crystal Castles has a little song called "Doe Deer", whose lyrics consist solely of Alice screaming DEATH RAY, DEAAAATH RAAY!
* "A/B Machines" by Sleigh Bells has the single line "got my a machines on the table, got my b machines in the drawer" repeated throughout it's 3 and a half minute runtime.
* Lamb Chops Play Along
* John Mayer's song "Say" repeats the phrase "say what you need to say" many times.
* The Police's song "Message in a Bottle" repeats the phrase "sending out an SOS" many times.
* LCD Soundsystem's "Us v. Them"'s latter half consists of "Us, and them, over and over again" and minor variations thereof... over and over again.
* DRI's "Reaganomics" is 42 seconds of "Reaganomics killing me, Reaganomics killing me, Reaganomics killing me, Reaganomics killing you!" being repeated.
* Right about now, the funk soul brother/check it out now, the funk soul brother/right about now, the funk soul brother/check it out now, the funk soul brother
* "Dicks Are For My Friends" by Mindless Self Indulgence.
* "Free Speech For The Dumb" by Discharge: "Free speech, free speech for the dumb" repeated for two minutes. The better known Metallica cover actually adds one more line to it - "free fucking speech!".
* In the play Vanities by Jack Heifner, Joanne offers to "teach the kids the words to 'Hold That Tiger'," which is not such a good idea because the words are just "Hold That Tiger!" repeated over and over again.
* In BT's song "Nectar", the lyrics are simply, "And it ebbs and goes, ebbs and goes where love can only flow..." repeated until the very end.
* When The Saints Go Marching In
* The Nightcrawlers - Push The Feeling On (MK dub and subsequent remixes): "-Er/ And their lives again -er / And their li- to pull us -er" ad nauseam. One hell of an Ear Worm.
* Paradise by Coldplay.
* A LOT of Church choruses.
* "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves; yes, on everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes... I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves; yes, on everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes... I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves; yes, on everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes...." And it can go on for as long as you like.
* Or until the driver pulls the vehicle over and threatens to put everyone out on the side of the road.
* "I Don't Wanna Wait" by The Veronicas: It starts just the way it finishes and you could loop it easily.
* "The Bear Went Over the Mountain:"
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