I can only think of a couple:
The Feelies - The Boy With the Perpetual Nervous(to be fair the big reveal comes fairly early in the song, at the end of the first chorus)
Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want(switches from third person to first person in the final chorus. "I am everything inside of youthat you wish you could be" is one of the most fucked up narcissistic lyrics in the history of popular music, and I still can't decide whether that's intentional)
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Monday, 15 January 2018 04:15 (six years ago) link
"Someone Else's Story" from Chess, kinda
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Monday, 15 January 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76IgTbz0v1M
― hoooyaaargh it's me satan (voodoo chili), Monday, 15 January 2018 04:27 (six years ago) link
I guess 'Ima Read' kinda fits this mold
Lydia Hughes: And your intention was to redefine the understanding of the word ‘Bitch’, right?Ojay Morgan: “Yeah, we were trying to re-appropriate it and get new meaning for it. I basically start by saying ‘Ima that bitch,’ with the intention to do something to this ‘bitch’, and then later on I say ‘I’m that bitch’. So initially we talk about this ‘bitch’ and what we’re gonna do to this ‘bitch,’ then we look at school, and how in school we learn from an education. We then try to elevate it from its lowest, degrading meaning into something that is a lot more powerful. Its about how you can be clever with word-play, and how word-play can change the meaning of the term. There are so many words that are so loaded in society - like derogatory terms, race terms - that have a lot of meaning, and the meaning can dissipate depending on who’s saying it; there are so many scapegoats. It might sound like I’m degrading all women, but I call myself a ‘bitch,’ so its playing, and depends on the context.
Ojay Morgan: “Yeah, we were trying to re-appropriate it and get new meaning for it. I basically start by saying ‘Ima that bitch,’ with the intention to do something to this ‘bitch’, and then later on I say ‘I’m that bitch’. So initially we talk about this ‘bitch’ and what we’re gonna do to this ‘bitch,’ then we look at school, and how in school we learn from an education. We then try to elevate it from its lowest, degrading meaning into something that is a lot more powerful. Its about how you can be clever with word-play, and how word-play can change the meaning of the term. There are so many words that are so loaded in society - like derogatory terms, race terms - that have a lot of meaning, and the meaning can dissipate depending on who’s saying it; there are so many scapegoats. It might sound like I’m degrading all women, but I call myself a ‘bitch,’ so its playing, and depends on the context.
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Monday, 15 January 2018 04:34 (six years ago) link
Relatedly, the Beatles "Glass Onion" / Veruca Salt "Volcano Girls" trick of revealing that a metaphorical character from a prior song is actually a fellow bandmember (though for "Volcano Girls"/"Seether" especially I'm not sure if it's actually true).
― Tim F, Monday, 15 January 2018 06:23 (six years ago) link
Metallica - Unforgiven. "That old man here is mey-ee-ye-AH!"
― chap, Monday, 15 January 2018 14:19 (six years ago) link
p sure lots of old folk tunes do this
― #TeamHailing (imago), Monday, 15 January 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
... following the different campfire-story twist ending to "Sad But True," where a string of second-person declarations is capped with "... I'M YOU!!!!" (xpost)
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Monday, 15 January 2018 14:31 (six years ago) link
The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia
― LLAMAS ARE FOR CLOSERS (WilliamC), Monday, 15 January 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link