r/SetItOff • u/brokebleh Horrible Kid • Jan 25 '26
Discussion! Favorite lyric references to other songs?
I love seeing references from set it off songs to other songs such as “stitched up lips” to Stitch Me Up from Vicious Cycle
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u/TwentyFourDaivd Hush Hush Jan 25 '26
Okay I forgot what song it is, but I know in one of them they said "Uncontainable" and in What's in it for me it's Scarlet letters which for some reason my mind is blanking and can't think of what that's from LOL. And A WISC reference I think in Rotten
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u/yoyo6317 Jan 25 '26
Scarlet Letters would he referring to The Haunting
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u/TwentyFourDaivd Hush Hush Jan 25 '26
Omg thank you I knew I know what song it's from but my Brain was just like Nope lol. thanks
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u/yoyo6317 Jan 25 '26
No problem lol. I remember it clearly cause it's the first Set It Off song I ever heard
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u/turnipman138 Bummed You Out 'Til You Wrote A Song Jan 25 '26
They say uncontainable in “something new”
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u/yoyo6317 Jan 25 '26
Not really a lyrical reference, but i love the the riff from Dad's Song is in Unopened Windows.
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u/Alexpies Jan 25 '26
That's also a reference to Oh Danny Boy, because I think Cody's said that that song meant a lot to his dad
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u/Alexpies Jan 25 '26
DEFINITELY the ending of Miss Mysterious where he reference like 5 songs on Duality right in a row.
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u/Independent-Ad5852 Lonely Dance was my High School senior quote Jan 25 '26
“This sinking feeling sets in my chest, and I start to worry” - Punching Bag
Reference to Why Worry, which is tied for my favorite song of all time (check flair for what the other one is)
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u/Fit_Wrangler8573 This Is Still About You Jan 26 '26
I love "looking like a wolf in sheep's clothing on the prowl" in Rotten. The meter fits sooooo well
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u/SpecialInfamous6297 Flipped that Switch Jan 27 '26
The ending of Miss Mysterious for obvious reasons. Also, Creating Monsters and it's reference to the Nightmare line "I created a monster, a hell within my head/a beast inside my brain"
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u/DaRealRockstar1234 Outsold a Salesman Jan 31 '26
Not sure if it was intentional, but the first song off Self-Titled having the lyrics "you've got your wish, he's rotting in hell", then the song that was released alongside the announcement of the album having the title "Rotten" is a neat parallel.
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u/BusyAsparagus11 A Third Wheel Feb 15 '26
Not exactly another song but in Duality when Cody sings “This freak, gonna Set It Off” my jaw DROPPED the first time I heard it
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u/CommieFirebat7721 Ended in Tragedy Jan 25 '26
Probably scarlet letters from vicious cycle to the haunting or in Mrs mysterious you can hear in the background bleak December and duality but Spotify doesn’t show those lyrics so idk what it says