The Infidel

I thought it was interesting that an artist or group would seem to intentionally take lines from one song and put them in a totally different song on a future album. I only have two instances to offer, but I wondered how often this kind of thing happens:

The Police
"Do I have to tell the story
of a thousand rainy days since we first met?
It's a big enough umbrella
but it's always me that ends up getting wet"

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (1981), and
O My God (1983)


The Refreshments
"Cars break down and people break down
and other things break down, too..."

Down Together (1996), and
Fonder and Blonder (1997)

Any other examples?

Turd Ferguson

The Police
"Do I have to tell the story
of a thousand rainy days since we first met?
It's a big enough umbrella
but it's always me that ends up getting wet"

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (1981), and
O My God (1983)
also used in "Seven Days" by Sting

wendersfan

"I've got debts no honest man can pay" was used in two different songs from Nebraska, by Springsteen. But since that was originally just a cassette tape of demos, it's easy to understand.

At least, I think that was the line he used twice.

The Infidel

Cool. I never knew that.

UAIOE

I'd say KMFDM (especially early years) but that was mostly remakes of songs.

auto

This happens in a lot of Sublime songs.

7Keys

Bruce Dickinson (Chemical Wedding album):
Chemcial Wedding & The Alchemist; "And so we lay, we lay in the same grave, a chemical wedding day"

Iron Maiden (Seventh Son of a Seventh Son album):
Moonchild & Only the Good Die Young; "Seven deadly sins, seven ways to win, seven holy paths to hell...seven downward slopes, seven bloodied hopes, seven are your burning fires, seven your desires"

* Those two were done for creative purposes to tie the songs together.

I remember an article criticizing 311 for repeating lyrics quite a bit. I did pick up their s/t because I like one song (Don't Stay Home) and their lyrics are laughably bad so I believe it.

DJLinus

Not exactly under the OP's guidelines, but on Love & Rockets' self-titled album, they've got two songs with essentially the same lyrics: "Motorcycle" and "I Feel Speed" (one fast, one slow). The Mighty Lemon Drops do something similar on their Laughter album (although the names of the songs escape me at the moment).

More on-topic:
At the end of the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" they sing "she loves you, yeah yeah yeah."

And pretty much any Run-DMC song references a previous song of theirs, either directly in the rapping or through some scratching/samples.

Imail724

NIN:
"Nothing Can Stop Me Now"
-Piggy
-Ruiner
-La Mer
-Sunspots
possibly others.

Drexl

Sting also says "every breath you take, every move you make" at the end of "Love is the Seventh Wave." It's more just thrown out there rather than really being part of the lyrics though.

Tscott

How about a band using the same title for different songs?

(She Was A) Hotel Detective
She Was A Hotel Detective
(She Was A) Hotel Detective In the Future

all three are vastly different songs by They Might Be Giants.

The Infidel

That's exactly what I was thinking about the Beatles suggestion made earlier.

kms_md

... it don't bleed and it don't breathe
It's locked its jaws and now it's swallowing
It's in our heart
It's in our head
It's in our love
Baby it's in our bed

from both "debonair" and "if i were going" on afghan whig's gentlemen (1993)

edited to add - afghan whigs again. IIRC, both "the rebirth of cool" on uptown avondale (1992) and "milez iz ded" on congregation (1992) are essentially the same song lyrically.

Mhepburn20

Stevie Nicks has done this a few times. Her songs "Destiny" and "Enchanted" both begin with:

Crying in the morning...trying to be strong
Waiting for the spring to turn into the fall
Love don't mean what it says at all
And destiny says that I'm destined to fall...

And her song "The Nightmare" intentionally contains several allusions to previous Fleetwood Mac songs, occasionally usuing the title of the song (obviously several mentions of Dream and Dreams - her biggest Fleetwood Mac hit), but otherwise using lyrics, here are the more obvious instances below (there are a few more esoteric references to "Rhiannon" and "Angel" which I won't mention):

Thrown down through the arms of sleep
She fell through the ivory morning
Deep into the waters
Of the one she called love
She paled in the wake
Of what some call a dream
But, you cannot know a dream
Till you've known the nightmare

When I stood with you against the storm
And I tried once again
Well, I said, "I'd like to leave you
With something warm" (this line and the one above referencing the song, "Storms")
How many times
Drowning in the sea (referencing the song "Sara")
Drowning
That was when the dream took her prisoner
And she knew the dream was over
But, the nightmare was not over
Still some call that a dream
The nightmare...the nightmare

Well, you cannot know a dream
When you turn away
You don't know
You'll never care
The night is not your friend
And you have not had her
And when the nightmare ends
But, you never understand
When you're gone
She wakes up calling out
Oh, calling out
As children may cry as she will

Anytime...oh, anywhere
Blinded by the light of the day
She has known the nightmare

So about the moon and her sisters (referencing the song "Sisters of the Moon")
How dare he take them prisoner
Well, if she had flung out her heart against him
Then in all of her wisdom
Oh, well that was a mystery

That was when the dream took her prisoner
And she knew the dream was over
But the nightmare was not over
Somewhere in her ancient ways
She walks through the night
And then she tries to get through the day
Some will never know
Or share any kind of dream

The nightmare
This is not the world

foofighters7

Chris Cornell uses the chorus of one Audioslave song as a backing in another.
Cant remember which songs...my friend will, may post it later

Chrisedge

Every Cake you Bake...

He does this on multiple songs. (Using older songs on a newer song)

Groucho

"She loves you yeah yeah yeah"

"She Loves You" and "All You Need is Love" by The Beatles.

Jason

What about all those death metal songs where the guy grunts out "DDDDDDIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEE"?

starman9000

Speaking of Cake, does every Cake song count?

You know...

Hey/Ho/Yeah/Right/Now/Yeah/Hey/Ho!!

Supermallet

Not exactly in line with the question, but Iggy Pop's "Sister Midnight" and David Bowie's "Red Money" have the same music with different lyrics.

Flashback

Like all the songs that say "I love you"?

Perkinsun Dzees

Big Country - Tall Ships Go

"I hear your voice and it keeps me from sleeping."

They did a cover version of Roxy Music's Prairie Rose and added that same line to the end of the song.

emanon

Everclear:

"Nah nah nah nah nah nah"

- most every song they've recorded.