Recursion

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Songs which contain an element of recursion, self-recurring or somewhat loopy lyrics.

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Figure Eight
The House At The Top Of The Tree - the chips travel a recursive path, similar to "The House That Jack Built"
I Palindrome I - the narrator grows old and his children treat him how he treated his mother
Mrs. Train
One Everything
Tucson
Wearing A Raincoat
Weep Day
West Virginia
Which Describes How You're Feeling
Withered Hope
Women And Men - A figurative stream of people pouring off a ship becomes a literal ocean carrying ships full of people.

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A Self Called Nowhere - "Standing in my yard/Where they tore down the garage/To make room for the torn-down garage"
Am I Awake? - "Is it that time again? / Wasn't it already then? / So does it have to be / The time it was again"
Ana Ng - "And it sticks like a broken record, everything sticks like a broken record, everything sticks until it goes away" More audio recursion than lyrical, but still recursion nonetheless.
Birdhouse In Your Soul - "And while you're at it / Keep the nightlight on inside the birdhouse in your soul"
Charlottesville - "Gonna pack my rucksack in my backpack [...] Gonna pack my backpack in my rucksack"
Damn Good Times - girl with amnesia unable to remember seeing a show about someone with amnesia
Dead - reincarnation is a somewhat recursive affair
Destination Moon - "You think, 'That's what you think: That's what they all say' "
E Eats Everything - E is consumed at the end of this song.
The End Of The Tour - The lines with "That it's old and it's totally over now" and "This was the vehicle, these were the people" are very loopy.
Indian Ocean - "No box without a box inside. No box without a box inside"
Miniature Sidewalk Whirlwind - An event that happens to one victim after another, "ever and always"
My Evil Twin - "He's even got a twin like me"
Pictures Of Pandas Painting - About pictures of pandas that are painting pictures of pandas that are painting pictures of pandas that are painting pictures of penguins that are proudly parading past penguins that are proudly parading past penguins that are proudly parading past.
Reprehensible - The narrator's life follows a recursive, relentless cycle
T-Shirt - Squirrels in their tree wear T-shirts with a picture of themselves in their tree on them.
Thermostat - "As I was just saying, 'As I was just saying: As I was just saying...' "
Till My Head Falls Off - "Clearing my throat, and gripping the lectern I smile and face my audience, Clearing his throat and smiling with his hands on the bathroom sink"
Where Your Eyes Don't Go - "Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of"

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