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* "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Song That Never Ends]]" from ''Series/LambChopsPlayAlong''.

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* "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Song That Never Ends]]" Doesn't End]]" from ''Series/LambChopsPlayAlong''.
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Generally PlayedForLaughs. Closely related to TheSomethingSong. Compare SelfDemonstratingSong. Sometimes BreakingTheFourthWall. See also TropeName, {{Postmodernism}}, and HeavyMeta.

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Generally PlayedForLaughs. Closely related to TheSomethingSong. Compare and contrast HowIWroteThisArticleArticle, which is writing about not knowing what to write anymore. Compare SelfDemonstratingSong. Sometimes BreakingTheFourthWall. See also TropeName, {{Postmodernism}}, and HeavyMeta.
HeavyMeta.
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* "This is the Chorus" by Morris Minor and the Majors, which is a parody of Music/StockAitkenWaterman that describes how formulaic it is.

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* Music/MorrisMinorAndTheMajors: "This is the Chorus" by Morris Minor and the Majors, which is a parody of Music/StockAitkenWaterman that describes how formulaic it is.
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** Sinatra also sang the original version of "The Christmas Waltz", written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne, which features the lyric, "And this song of mine, in three-quarter time..."
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* Lampshaded to hell and back in the self-explanatory [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sppRrbtxVD0 "This Song's Just Six Words Long"]][[note]]The actual line in the song is "This song ''is'' just six words long," making the song actually seven words long, even not counting all the other stanzas.[[/note]] by Music/WeirdAlYankovic. It's a send-up of George Harrison's "I've Got My Mind Set On You."

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* Lampshaded to hell and back in the self-explanatory [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sppRrbtxVD0 [[https://youtu.be/do5vXn_Rap4 "This Song's Just Six Words Long"]][[note]]The actual line in the song is "This song ''is'' just six words long," making the song actually seven words long, even not counting all the other stanzas.[[/note]] by Music/WeirdAlYankovic. It's a send-up of George Harrison's "I've Got My Mind Set On You."
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* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in ''Webcomic/{{Xkcd}}'' strip [[http://xkcd.com/70/ "Guitar Hero"]], in which Randall plots to write a song and insert lyrics about playing the song in VideoGame/GuitarHero:
-->''When I'm in a rock band, I'm gonna do a cool, mellow song. Then in the middle I'll stop, announce "this part is just to be an [[{{Troll}} asshole]] to people playing ''VideoGame/GuitarHero''," and then [[SurpriseDifficulty flail wildly on the strings]] [[ThatOneAttack for 30 seconds]].''
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* "Leider geil" by German rap group Deichkind. The last lines of the last verse translate to this:
-->''In this song\\
Nothing rhymed at all\\
Nobody noticed''
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* In ''Film/{{Fury}}'', the SS battalion is heard at distance singing ''Teufelslied'' (The Devil's Song)

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* In ''Film/{{Fury}}'', ''Film/Fury2014'', the SS battalion is heard at distance singing ''Teufelslied'' (The Devil's Song)
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* "The Song Of No-involvement" by Music/{{Skyclad}}.

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* "The Song Of No-involvement" by Music/{{Skyclad}}.Music/{{Skyclad|Band}}.
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* As well as "Step into Christmas"

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* ** As well as "Step into Christmas"
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* As well as "Step into Christmas"
-->''Welcome to my Christmas song''
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* Music/TallyHall:
** "Good Day", the AlbumIntroTrack to ''Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum''. The song welcomes its listeners and suggests things they can do together, only to veer off with describing some mysterious creature that has no name and yet insists it exists. It then suggests that the listener come up with the own interpretation as to what the song means as a whole.
** "The Whole World and You" is a sarcasm-laden song that's supposedly written to someone (presumably the ruler of a kingdom), while not actually saying anything about what they do and praising everybody else instead. The singer passive-aggressively suggests that "I've even written this whole song about you, and not about me. ''And not about me.''"

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The second verse makes things perfectly clear:

-->''So what d'you think of it so far?\\

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\n** The second verse makes things perfectly clear:

-->''So
clear:
--->''So
what d'you think of it so far?\\




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* Insane Ian's "Shortest Song" and "Second Shortest Song" have as their entire lyrics "This is the shortest song that I have ever written" and "This is the second shortest song that I have ever written", respectively.



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* The full version of the English-dubbed ''Animation/GGBond'' theme song contains a short rap section that has the lyrics "''GG's always going strong/That's why he's got his own theme song''".
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*The group Yachts had a ditty love song, "Suffice to Say" that started:

-->''I'm just an old romantic fool\\
I wrote this specially for you\\
Although the rhyming's not that hot\\
It's quite a catchy little tune''

The second verse makes things perfectly clear:

-->''So what d'you think of it so far?\\
You know I'm feeling rather proud\\
My words have never been that strong\\
Things really are improving now\\
I never wrote a middle eight\\
So we'll just have to do without\\
But there's an instrumental break\\
Just after this...''
Suffice to say it was released on Stiff Records.


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* The dancing portion of the Yule Ball scene in ''Theatre/PuffsThePlay'' has "A Really Short Slow Dance Song", which consists of a few seconds of music and the title words being sung once before it ends. Oliver TitleDrop[=s=] it, mildly surprised at its briefness.
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** And "Three Minute Song", his (mostly) clean song written for TV spots which details why and how he wrote a (mostly) clean song for TV spots. And which is ''exactly'' [[RunningTimeInTheTitle three minutes long]].
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* Lagwagon's "Falling Apart":

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* Lagwagon's Music/{{Lagwagon}}'s "Falling Apart":

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* Music/LeonardCohen' "Hallelujah" spells out its own chord progression.

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* Music/LeonardCohen' Music/LeonardCohen did a fair amount of this:
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"Hallelujah" spells out its own chord progression.


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** "Take This Waltz" is, in fact, a waltz.
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* Radio/RadioActive's album ''Never Mind the Originals Here's the Heebeegeebees'', contains parodies of Music/StatusQuo (''"We have to play the same refrain/And the same refrain again/Of this boring song"'') and Music/PaulMcCartney (''"And now we come to the second verse/Which I'm singing now/I wonder what I'll say in it/Oh well, it's over anyhow"'').

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* ''Theatre/SomethingRotten'' does this a lot in "A Musical".
-->'''Nick Bottom''' ''[speaking]'': So an actor is just saying his lines, and then out of nowhere he just starts singing?-- Well, that's the ''[singing]'' stupidest thing that I have ever heard!



* Similarly, the reworked-with-vocals version of the Overture for Groovelily's ''Striking 12'', with such lines as "Welcome to the overture..." and "This is an important theme / You will hear it later on..."



* Similarly, the reworked-with-vocals version of the Overture for Groovelily's ''Striking 12'', with such lines as "Welcome to the overture..." and "This is an important theme / You will hear it later on..."
* ''Theatre/SomethingRotten'' does this a lot in "A Musical".
-->'''Nick Bottom''' ''[speaking]'': So an actor is just saying his lines, and then out of nowhere he just starts singing?-- Well, that's the ''[singing]'' stupidest thing that I have ever heard!

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* Similarly, Mischa Bachinski's first number in ''Theatre/RideTheCyclone'', "This Song is Awesome," which stylistically parodies the reworked-with-vocals version {{AutoTune}}-heavy "[[BoastfulRap self-aggrandizing commercialized hiphop]]" of the Overture for Groovelily's ''Striking 12'', with 2000's. The chorus includes such lines as "Welcome to the overture..." "this hook is awesome," "this beat is awesome," and "This of course "this song is an important theme / You will hear it later on..."
* ''Theatre/SomethingRotten'' does this a lot in "A Musical".
-->'''Nick Bottom''' ''[speaking]'': So an actor is just saying his lines, and then out of nowhere he just starts singing?-- Well, that's the ''[singing]'' stupidest thing that I have ever heard!
awesome."
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* Labi Siffre's "My Song":
-->This is my song\\
And no one can take it away
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** "Smells Like Nirvana" is another classic example about how hard it is to understand the lyrics of the titular grunge band.

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** "Smells Like Nirvana" Music/{{Nirvana}}" is another classic example about how hard it is to understand the lyrics of the titular grunge band.

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* The Music/{{AJR}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4THFRpw68oQ "Bang!"]] includes the lyrics "pretend you know this song everybody" in the chorus.

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* The A version appears in the chorus to the Music/{{AJR}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4THFRpw68oQ "Bang!"]] includes the lyrics "pretend "Bang!"]]
--> So put your best face on, everybody
--> Pretend
you know this song everybody" in the chorus. song, everybody

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* Al Green's "[[SpellingSong L-O-V-E]]":
-->I started to write this song about you\\
And then I decided that I would write it all about love

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--> '' If you're offended by this song You're clearly doing something wrong If you're offended by this song Then you're probably saying Boys will be, boys will be Boys will be, boys will be boys
But girls will be women''

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-->
You're clearly doing something wrong wrong
-->
If you're offended by this song song
-->
Then you're probably saying saying
-->
Boys will be, boys will be Boys will be, boys will be boys
--> But girls will be women''
women
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But girls will be women ''

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But girls will be women ''
women''

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--> '' If you're offended by this song
You're clearly doing something wrong
If you're offended by this song
Then you're probably saying
Boys will be, boys will be
Boys will be, boys will be boys

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--> '' If you're offended by this song
song You're clearly doing something wrong
wrong If you're offended by this song
song Then you're probably saying
saying Boys will be, boys will be
be Boys will be, boys will be boys
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* The final song Boys Will Be Boys in Music/DuaLipa second album Future Nostalgia includes this

--> '' If you're offended by this song
You're clearly doing something wrong
If you're offended by this song
Then you're probably saying
Boys will be, boys will be
Boys will be, boys will be boys
But girls will be women ''
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--> '' I'm wanna sing a song to you and I refuse to make it fake... I'm gonna sing a song that feels so real it'll make this door break!''

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--> '' I'm I wanna sing a song to you and I refuse to make it fake...fake ... I'm gonna sing a song that feels so real it'll make this door break!''

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