Lyrical Titles - Duet Challenge 2025

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Different songs with the same title

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Different lyrics from the same song

	1	2
Song:	"Gutter Ballet" - Savatage	"Gutter Ballet" - Savatage
Title:	Kill the unicorn, just to have its horn	Another death to mourn, another child is born (another chapter in the play)
Fandom:	Star Wars	Star Wars
Words:	300	300
Summary:	He meets her at the edge of a dream, and tries to keep her there.	Obi-Wan comforts the twins as Padmé dies, and considers their future.

A song and its parody

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A song and its reprise/remix/alt version

	Base Song	Reprise
Song:	"Seventeen" - Heathers: The Musical Soundtrack	"Seventeen (reprise)" - Heathers: The Musical Soundtrack
Title:	...if we've still got the right	Still time to make things right
Fandom:	Heathers: The Musical	Heathers: The Musical
Words:	100	100
Summary:	Wash away the blood on your hands in someone else's, but those hands are stained too.	Martha and Veronica rebuild their friendship.

A song from an artist's earliest album and a song from their latest

	Earliest Album (Point #1 - Chevelle)	Latest Album (NIRATIAS - Chevelle)
Song:	"Point #1" - Chevelle	"Lost in Digital Woods" - Chevelle
Title:	It seems I've gained the world but have nothing	After all your confidence, it's of no consequence
Fandom:	Star Wars	2001: A Space Odyssey
Words:	300	946
Summary:	Vader takes his first steps into a life without Padmé.	In a sense, HAL wasn’t wrong to put the blame on human error. After all, what is a machine but the product of his creator?

Different songs released in the same year

	2018	2018
Song:	"The Reckoning" - Within Temptation	"Black Vultures" - Halestorm
Title:	Between the madness and the sadness and the fire burning	Feels like the end of the world, but it's only the beginning of it all
Fandom:	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Avatar: The Last Airbender
Words:	300	300
Summary:	Even against overwhelming forces, a small Earth Kingdom village will not go down without a fight.	Iroh grapples with the immediate aftermath of losing Lu Ten.

Different lyrics that start on the same word

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Different lyrics that end on the same word

	"Again"	"Again"
Song:	"The Red" - Chevelle	"Again" - Flyleaf
Title:	Seeing red again	Trying to find air to breathe again
Fandom:	The Invisible Man	Dracula
Words:	200	100
Summary:	Griffin, after he gets shot but before he speaks with Kemp.	The pain of losing both his father and Lucy was bound to catch up with Arthur sooner or later.

Second fic's lyrical titles starts on the same word that the first fic's title ended on

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Different lyrics that share a phrase anywhere in the titles

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Lyrics in conversation with each other

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Lyrics and a translation of those same lyrics into another language

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Different songs with a shared subject or theme

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Different songs from a different band but a shared artist

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Different songs with the same length

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Different songs with the same track number

	Track #6 (Reign of Darkness - Circle II Circle)	Track #6 (Promised Land - Queensrÿche)
Song:	"Ghost of the Devil" - Circle II Circle	"Promised Land" - Queensrÿche
Title:	Through the eyes of those who passed beyond, they only speak by tearing us apart	Here's to love, here's to hate, to promises, and Promised Land lies
Fandom:	Star Wars	Dune (Villeneuve films)
Words:	300	415
Summary:	A Sith Temple looms in front of Dooku, its piercing cold reaching across the distance in cruel invitation. A Jedi would have refused its temptations. But Dooku is no longer a Jedi.	Chani is alone.