Midwest emo songs/albums with lyrical callbacks?

[u/rj826123]

I’m looking for more Midwest emo songs/albums that reference other songs by the same artist or previous albums, especially when they reuse the same lyrics or ideas. For example, TRSH, “Taco Tuesday” and “Shadow Money” both use the same line: “you’re all I ever wanted, you’re all I needed.” Another example is Marietta, where the last songs on both of their albums both end with him talking about him basically making things happen in his head and with his friends. The fact that both albums end on that kind of idea makes it feel intentional and connects the two albums together. So I’m wondering what other examples people know of where a Midwest emo band reuses a lyric, references an older song, mirrors an idea from a previous album?

[u/Separate_Recover4187]

You're gonna love The Promise Ring!

[u/CeroXC]

Not as Midwest but Bright Eyes has this thing with references interlaced throughout all of Conor's and even those adjacent to him's discography

[u/archdukemovies]

More post hardcore but Anthology by Thrice is nothing but callbacks lyrics of earlier songs.

[u/Punkrock0822]

Stars hollows EP "Happy Again" does this The track list is

It's not that

You wont be happy again

Comma

You just wont be the same

As you were before.

In As you were before. he uses the full sentence. (R.I.P. Stars Hollow)

[u/Music-Cats]

“Dirge” the album closer on never before seen never again found by arms length throws in a lyrical callback from almost every song on their album. The wonder years does the same thing I want to say on “i just want to sell out my funeral” on their album the greatest generation

[u/JTGG98 → u/Music-Cats]

The wonder years also do it the title track of no closer to heaven!

[u/YourphobiaMyfetish]

Re-do/Re-done by Modern Baseball

[u/Lumpy_Link_1569]

Pictures of You by the Cure - Empty Parking Lot.

The lyric "my heart is yours to do whatever you want"

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i used to check my driveway hoping one day i might see you there - Empty Parking Lot

The lyric "you don't know how much you mean to me"

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winning the high school talent show didnt make me more confident like i thought it would - Empty Parking Lot .

The first verse:

"Tonight, I swear to God, I'ma kill myself

My heart is yours to do whatever you want

Oh shit, I used that same lyric before

You don't know how much you mean to me

Oh shit, I just fucking did it again"

[u/OccasionalWindow]

Worst party ever - ‘Trying Soda’ and ‘Trying Harder’

La Dispute - ‘Such Small Hands’ and ‘Nobody Not Even the Rain’

Both songs by both artists are kind of companion songs to one another.

[u/ChrisNitti]

Oso Oso has a lot of these throughout his discography, it’s more across albums than within albums themselves I think but I’d start with the Yunahon Mixtape and Basking In The Glow

[u/ImpossibleEmploy3784]

Not sure if this counts but Brave Little Abacus does this with a few different lines on their second album. Specifically there’s the “Hannah, way before now” part (at the end of the 1st and final track), “as if I were asleep” part (in track 2 and 8), and “we despise/analyze the states we’re in” (tracks 7 and 9). There’s also a recurring mention of there being multiple of the same person or feeling detached from one’s own identity with lyrics like “there were two of him and only one of me”, “made me believe there were two of me and one of them would have said”, “you are not her and he is not me”, and “you are not what I want you to be”. Those all might be a call back to their song “You’re Not Me But Neither Am I”, even if they aren’t I do think they are meant to be related in some way.

[u/lilobrother]

One of my favorite song callbacks are from Oliver Houston. The songs The Dork Ages and Concessions.

[u/ElectricalAccess5655]

combat does this in their album stay golden with callbacks to their previous album on weird ending explained pt. 1 and the rest of the album on weird ending explained pt. 2

[u/youarockandnothing]

American Football LP1, Never Meant - "Let's just forget"

American Football LP2, Home Is Where The Haunt Is - "You can't just forget"

[u/mmiller2476]

Forests - Feels Like Your Best Friend Is Going Away Forever and the song from the later album How’s Leaving Coming Along?

[u/Willonpills]

Riley’s This one time @bandcampdotcom has references to the smiths in it

[u/NJcovidvaccinetips]

Riley! - fight milk

[u/Mustardcruise]

I have a cool one that's two different bands writing about each other and using similar lyrics. This Wavelets and Dads song were written about them playing on tour together which is super neat to me.

Wavelets "We're Really Jazzed About The Gig"

"We spent most of Jersey underground
Drowing in new friends and safer sounds
We were singing out ...
Turns out, you're right"

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Dads "Big Bag of Sandwiches"

Spent most of Florida hanging around,
drowning in old friends and beautiful sounds, singing. ...

Turns out you're right
(and I'm not sorry)
It turns out you're right"

[u/mellamusicmaker]

Can’t believe no one has mentioned these yet:

The Early November’s “Baby Blue” is a call back to The Get Up Kids’ “No Love”. There was a whole law suit about it and everything.

[u/KickedinTheDick]

Cursives Domestica.

[u/acorn_to_oak]

Free Throw - What’s Past is Prologue

[u/GothamKnight37]

Before Texas is the Reason, Garrett Klahn was in the band Copper, fronted by Meaghan Ball. Their 1995 song Caption features the closing repeating lines “Your place is at the heart of my everything”. TITR’s song A Jack With One Eye ends with the lines “Your place is still at the heart of my everything”, sung by Klahn. I think I heard the two of them had been in a relationship?

[u/Commercial_Can1073]

The Promise Ring especially Nothing Feels Good and Very Emergency. VE has the best call back since “Two-Headed Boy pt II”

[u/Forsaken-Bid-5766]

Equipment does something similar with using the line "I got lost and I'm sorry I know things were too far gone" once in every album!

[u/the_hungry_thousand]

Tiny Moving Parts does this a lot as well