History Main / LyricSwap

* The theme to ''Anime/GaoGaiGar FINAL'' uses the same tune as the theme to the TV series, but has mostly different words, though following the same general pattern. Essentially, it's a new set of verses. And yes, Masaaki Endoh has occasionally mixed them up when singing live.

** The last iteration of "Country Boy"'s chorus changes "Up city streets, down country roads" to "winding roads".

* Music/TheBeatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" has it's last verse repeated twice, and the second time there's a slight change, famously resulting in Molly working at the market place with the children and Desmond staying at home and putting on makeup instead of the other way around. Paul [=McCartney=] had flubbed the lyrics and they decided to ThrowItIn.

* AlanJackson's "Where I Come From" can't seem to make up its mind whether a line in the chorus is about picking or sitting on the front or back porch.

* The final chorus of ''[[AmericanIdiot Give Me Novocain]]'' does this. Instead of "Tell me that I won't feel a thing," it's "Tell me, Jimmy, I won't feel a thing."

* TheBeatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" has it's last verse repeated twice, and the second time there's a slight change, famously resulting in Molly working at the market place with the children and Desmond staying at home and putting on makeup instead of the other way around. Paul [=McCartney=] had flubbed the lyrics and they decided to ThrowItIn.

* The narrator of NickCave's "The Mercy Seat" (about a man on death row) insists that he is innocent ("And anyway I told the truth"). The chorus always ends with the lines "And I am not afraid to die," until the last time it is sung, when the line is changed to "But I'm afraid I told a lie."

* ''Stromkern'' do this a lot. The choruses of ''Feed the Machine'' and ''Stand Up'' are altered each time they are sung. They also performed a cover of Nick Cave's ''The Mercy Seat'', elsewhere noted for invoking this trope.

* ''Stromkern'' do this all the time. They also performed a cover of Nick Cave's ''The Mercy Seat'', elsewhere noted for invoking this trope.

* Steven Tyler of {{Music/Aerosmith}} likes to swap lyrics quite often during live performances. Well-known live lyric swaps include "Dream until your balls turn blue" in the place of "Dream until your dreams come true" in "Dream On," "That makes a dead man rise" instead of "That makes a grown man cry" in "Back in the Saddle," and "Just give me some head" as opposed to "Just give me a kiss" in "Walk This Way."

* Eric Idle's famous song from ''{{Monty Pythons Life of Brian}}'', Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life, notably does, replacing the eponymous lyrics of the chorus by "Always look on the bright side of death/Just before you draw your terminal breath".

* {{R.E.M}}'s "The One I Love" alters the third verse so that "another prop has occupied my time", rather than "a simple prop to occupy my time".

* On the 'Garage Flower' album version of the Stone Roses' song 'Here It Comes', Ian Brown changes the lyrics from 'I'm just useless for her' to 'I'm a useless fucker'.

* "Heart of Glass" by {{Music/Blondie}}, the line "Soon turned out had a heart of glass" the third time around is changed to "Soon turned out to be a pain in the ass" (but not in the radio version).

* {{R.E.M}}'s "The One I Love" alters the third verse so that "another prop has occupied my time", rather than "a simple prop to occupy my time".

* The first two choruses of "Last to Know" by ThreeDaysGrace are, like the verses, about mourning the loss of a woman who abruptly left the singer for another man. In the last chorus, the singer decides he's better off without her, the relationship wasn't all that great, and warns his ex's current lover that she'll end up treating him the same way.

* In the last chorus of TheyMightBeGiants' "Man It's So Loud In Here", "When they stop the drum machine and I can think again" becomes "When they start the love machine and I can love again".

* For most of it's running time, NOFX's "Please Play This Song On The Radio" is a SelfDemonstratingSong about how radio-friendly the song itself is. Then after a FakeOutFadeOut, there's one last verse, which throws in some obscenities and mentions that if someone ''is'' playing the song on the radio at this moment, they'd better have switched to the next song by now... So of course the final chorus changes from [[TitleOnlyChorus "please play this song on the radio"]] to "You can't play this song on the radio".

A Lyric Swap is essential a repeated song lyric that gets changed in one of its iterations. It's not quite LyricalDissonance, because the lyrics ''generally'' match the tone, but maybe in one verse they sing a line slightly different, and it's a significantly different meaning.

* For most of it's running time, NOFX's "Please Play This Song On The Radio" is a SelfDemonstratingSong about how radio-friendly the song itself is. Then after a FakeOutFadeOut, there's one last verse, which throws in some obscenities, so of course the final chorus changes from [[TitleOnlyChorus "please play this song on the radio"]] to "You can't play this song on the radio".

* TheBeatles' "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" has it's last verse repeated twice, and the second time there's a slight change, famously resulting in Molly working at the market place with the children and Desmond staying at home and putting on makeup instead of the other way around. Paul [=McCartney=] had flubbed the lyrics and they decided to ThrowItIn.

* "Spirit Never Die" by {{Masterplan}} has an 8-line chorus and is repeated three times. 5 lines are subtly changed on the second iteration. Then, 2 lines are changed, and 3 lines are ''reverted'' on the third iteration. Oh, did you want to sing along?

* In {{Devo}}'s classic song "Jocko [[HaveAGayOldTime Homo]]" the line "Are we not men?" changes to "Are we not pins?" as a reference to the earlier lyric, "We're pinheads all."

* In [[LadyGaga "Pokerface"]] , many listeners are convinced that she sings "f**k her face" in one of the choruses, instead of "poker face".

Not to be confused with a Mondegreen, which is unintentional.