paradox

apparent contradiction; (logic) a statement that contradicts itself

Heard in 70 songs (390M+ combined views) — most famously in "Yonkers" by Tyler, the Creator.

Updated August 4, 2026

Songs Featuring “paradox

Tyler, the Creator - Yonkers

Time: 0:08

Uh, Wolf Haley, Golf Wang, go

I'm a fucking walking paradox

No, I'm not, threesomes with a fucking triceratops

Tyler, the Creator - Yonkers

Taylor Swift - Guilty as Sin?

Time: 0:31

Crashing into him tonight

He's a paradox

I'm seeing visions, am I bad?

Taylor Swift - Guilty as Sin?

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

Time: 1:31

There's a lullaby for suffering

And a paradox to blame

But it's written in the scriptures

Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker

Iggy Pop - You Want It Darker [Leonard Cohen cover]

Time: 1:32

There's a lullaby for suffering

And a paradox to blame

But it's written in the scriptures

Iggy Pop - You Want It Darker [Leonard Cohen cover]

Common - Respiration

Time: 2:50

Places where you could get murdered over a glare (say what?), But everythin' is fair (true)

It's a paradox we call reality (so what?)

So keepin' it real will make you a casualty of abnormal normality

Common - Respiration

Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start The Fire

Time: 1:54

Meghan Markle, George Floyd, Burj Khalifa, Metroid

Fermi paradox, Venus and Serena

Oh-oh-oh, Michael Jordan, 23, YouTube killed MTV

Fall Out Boy - We Didn't Start The Fire

$uicideboy$ - Thorns

Time: 1:21

Fine dining in a pair of Crocs, gripping Kimber Glocks

Watching money turning fam to opps, what a paradox (go, go, go)

Never could take none of them serious (North)

$uicideboy$ - Thorns

Kendrick Lamar - Complexion (A Zulu Love)

Time: 3:11

And frame of mind for them bustas, ain't talkin' "Woo-hah!"

Need a paradox for the pair of daughters they tutored

Like two Todds, L-L, you lose two times

Kendrick Lamar - Complexion (A Zulu Love)

Shinedown - For My Sake

Time: 0:30

Yeah, it's rainin' on me again

A paradox

The key you dropped

Shinedown - For My Sake

Pusha T - Trouble On My Mind

Time: 2:10

So much trouble on my mind

I'm a fucking walking paradox

And a really shitty rapper in my favorite pair of socks

Pusha T - Trouble On My Mind

Slipknot - I Am Hated

Time: 1:43

Individuals, indispensable

I'm the paradox deity vessel

The other side holds no secret

Slipknot - I Am Hated

No Doubt - Trapped in a Box

Time: 0:41

Watch the world as it flocks

To life's paradox

We're all trapped in a box

No Doubt - Trapped in a Box

bbno$ - two

Time: 0:02

That's bbno$, he's always up to somethin'

Bbno$, got money, I'm a paradox

Three scoop creatine, steam room, Equinox

bbno$ - two

Bae - Ch△mp1on

Time: 0:00

Paradox Live 刻む brand new history

Never stop Bae on the run 掴む victory

Bae - Ch△mp1on

Yasiin Bey - Stars

Time: 3:15

A manicured appearance concealin' the shattered spirit

Jinn sneerin' out the paradox prism

The palace as the prison, retail religion

Yasiin Bey - Stars

Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn

Time: 1:27

In such a world as this does one dare to think for himself?

The paradox of power and peace will destroy itself

To know the truth and live in fear of no man

Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn

Survivor - Burning Heart

Time: 1:39

Know it's you against you

It's the paradox

That drives us all

Survivor - Burning Heart

Eminem - Favorite Bitch

Time: 3:06

Back with Ed Lover (yeah)

When there was two Dr. Dre's, that's a paradox (pair of Docs)

But I never thought I'd get so jealous

Eminem - Favorite Bitch

Chicago - If She Would Have Been Faithful...

Time: 2:28

It's a paradox

Full of contradiction

Chicago - If She Would Have Been Faithful...

2Pac - Military Minds

Time: 1:01

Clearly click a military mind May god forgive us

Though we dwell inside a paradox

Thugged out and drug dealing

2Pac - Military Minds

Madonna - Like It or Not

Time: 1:31

Is strictly up to you

Life is a paradox

And it doesn't make much sense

Madonna - Like It or Not

Lauryn Hill - Oh Jerusalem

Time: 2:41

Too intelligent to see it's me in the way

What a paradox, having God trapped in a box

All this time professing to be spiritual

Lauryn Hill - Oh Jerusalem

Rick Ross - Iconic

Time: 2:55

Diddy by my side, I got shooters and they scopes

Such a paradox comin' from one pair of socks

Lesson number one is that you never call the cops (uh)

Rick Ross - Iconic

Manchester Orchestra - The Grocery

Time: 0:36

I want to reach above the paradox where nobody can see

Want to hold a light to paradigm and strip it to its feet

Manchester Orchestra - The Grocery

Judas Priest - Revelations

Time: 5:09

Too late, no turning 'round

A paradox has woken

I serve with honor bound

Judas Priest - Revelations

Ren - Sick Boi, Pt. 2

Time: 0:38

Nothing to lose, nothing to win or to prove, nothing but holes in my shoes

Nothing but nothing, I'm hustling, bustling, pain is a paradox I didn't choose

Nothing but truth, nothing but fire in the booth, nothing that you could do I couldn't do

Ren - Sick Boi, Pt. 2

Lupe Fiasco - Sun God Sam & the California Drug Deals

Time: 2:54

She knows that I'm crooked like Owen

But still goin' like a paradox

Parasite, know it ain't right

Lupe Fiasco - Sun God Sam & the California Drug Deals

Jackson Browne - The Barricades of Heaven

Time: 1:06

Life became the Paradox, the Bear, the Rouge et Noir

And the stretch of road running to LA

Jackson Browne - The Barricades of Heaven

At the Gates - The Paradox

Time: 2:41

As all hope turns to black

Of pessimism and paradox

At the Gates - The Paradox

Upsahl - Notorious

Time: 0:35

Making movies in the parking lot

Deep down I'm shallow that's a paradox

You know I'm always getting what I want

Upsahl - Notorious

Oliver Tree - Oxymoron

Time: 0:14

We are oxymorons

To be human is a paradox

You split personality in every contradicting thought

Oliver Tree - Oxymoron

Ice-T - New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)

Time: 2:46

With cocaine, my success came speedy

Got me twisted, jammed into a paradox

Every dollar I get, another brother drops

Ice-T - New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme)

Newsboys - Beautiful Sound

Time: 1:23

And still be looking for you

It's "the soul's paradox of love"

You fill my cup

Newsboys - Beautiful Sound

Kokane - INvocation

Time: 2:07

They argue about me in barber shops when I got cropped

Hmm... What a paradox

I'm borderline crazy with a stamped up passport

Kokane - INvocation

Atmosphere - A Song About a Friend

Time: 1:58

I feel alone on this mission, I'm wishin' there was more of me

A pair of me, apparently I'm a parasite caught inside a paradox

A paradise, a parody, the hair police have got what you need

Atmosphere - A Song About a Friend

Blondie - For Your Eyes Only

Time: 1:19

Enjoy the paradox: you thinking I'm the fox

Can't ya see you personally?

Blondie - For Your Eyes Only

Raphael Saadiq - This World is Drunk

Time: 0:58

The view looks like a bomb

The paradox is far away

His brain weighs at least a ton

Raphael Saadiq - This World is Drunk

UB40 - Sardonicus

Time: 0:38

A human statue made of living stone

A paradox etched in human bone

If you could look behind his thin disguise

UB40 - Sardonicus

Iron Maiden - Dream of Mirrors

Time: 5:57

Lost in a dream of mirrors

Lost in a paradox

Lost and time is spinning

Iron Maiden - Dream of Mirrors

Guru - Any Given Sunday

Time: 0:42

Back then I guess it was hard to see

The real paradox what an odyssey

It's like that saying be careful

Guru - Any Given Sunday

Kutless - Passion

Time: 0:27

Come images that terrify and calm

A paradox in me

And nail pierced hands, they run with blood

Kutless - Passion

Lecrae - Holidaze

Time: 0:04

But I can't keep taking holidays

It's a paradox seekin' paradise

Thought I'd try my luck and roll it up like a pair of dice

Lecrae - Holidaze

Amanda Palmer - Machete

Time: 0:09

I have never liked the box of knives

You said was a paradox because you're kind

But withstood a childhood that robbed you blind

Amanda Palmer - Machete

Juicy J - Never See It

Time: 1:18

You might see a nigga stressin' 'bout blessings, I definitely prayed for

A paradox, need I say more?

You might see me on the road, the which is currently in phase four

Juicy J - Never See It

Waxahatchee - Crowbar

Time: 1:14

Bending my crowbar with tension, it's telekinetic

A paradox poetic, you get choked-up reading the classics

Your pride'll take a gluttonous bite

Waxahatchee - Crowbar

Michael Card - God's Own Fool

Time: 1:47

Have the courage to say I believe

For the power of paradox opens your eyes

And blinds those who say they can see

Michael Card - God's Own Fool

The Game - Dollar and a Dream

Time: 3:13

I'm guilty by affiliation, in many ways gangsta

But let me explain something, a paradox if you may

I threw on my fresh Supreme Chuck Taylors today

The Game - Dollar and a Dream

Gang Starr - Stay Tuned

Time: 1:15

In the city, any city

Life's a paradox of good and evil

Many fall into the vicious cycle

Gang Starr - Stay Tuned

Stereolab - Esemplastic Creeping Eruption

Time: 1:11

Insufferable contradictions (insufferable)

Paradox's creativity (contradiction)

Powerful embrace, reality, streaming leafy revelations (a full embrace, revelation)

Stereolab - Esemplastic Creeping Eruption

Prince - Lavaux

Time: 1:23

I'm flying higher than any mountain, deeper than any sea

A paradox is box's key, I'm the why in mystery

You're gonna unlock the secrets if you please

Prince - Lavaux

Soilwork - Drowning with Silence

Time: 0:38

This life has gotten us all

The paradox still remains

We live to choke the difference

Soilwork - Drowning with Silence

Front Line Assembly - Plasticity

Time: 2:55

The laws of man

This volatile paradox will never stand

The laws of nature

Front Line Assembly - Plasticity

Sage Francis - ID Thieves

Time: 2:11

My game is so shaky, if you love pain but hate me

That's a paradox I'm unable to explain

Conspiracy exposed, it's the way in which we fold the bill

Sage Francis - ID Thieves

Big Sean - Paradise [Extended Version]

Time: 3:11

Eating ramen, nigga, this paradise

Life's a fuckin' paradox, a pair of dice

If they not rolling with you, then they parasites

Big Sean - Paradise [Extended Version]

Dance Gavin Dance - Descend to Chaos

Time: 3:20

Dismantling principles

Say this paradox proves no eternal invincible

Blinding light deceives

Dance Gavin Dance - Descend to Chaos

Slaine - The Last Song

Time: 2:42

Shit I'm livin proof, take a look and figure it

Grew up in a paradox and rather not forgive the shit

But I had to box out this box and I live with it

Slaine - The Last Song

Perry Farrell - Revolution Solution

Time: 2:24

The paradox of authority

Has left us dismayed

Perry Farrell - Revolution Solution

Thievery Corporation - Revolution Solution [TC Remix]

Time: 2:24

The paradox of authority

Has left us dismayed

Thievery Corporation - Revolution Solution [TC Remix]

The Church - Paradox

Time: 0:13

You are a paradox to me, a senseless maze

I run around, I'm looking for you all of my days

The Church - Paradox

Confederate Railroad - When and Where

Time: 0:56

Climbing ladders, punching clocks

Love and money, it's a paradox

I'm motivated as the next guy, but a

Confederate Railroad - When and Where

Kimbra - As You Are

Time: 3:59

Love comes at a cost, nothing's ever lost

Just another paradox

And dark was never just for us

Kimbra - As You Are

Gov't Mule - Perfect Shelter

Time: 2:17

I think you'll see

Life can be quite the paradox

Stay and be destroyed

Gov't Mule - Perfect Shelter

War Child - Naboo

Time: 1:10

Is the way that we should go

The paradox of choices, I

Am always running out of time, I

War Child - Naboo

Michael W. Smith - Help You Find Your Way

Time: 0:30

It can be wise or it can be a paradox

To seek solace in your solitude

Michael W. Smith - Help You Find Your Way

Minutemen - Mutiny In Jonestown

Time: 0:17

Tangled in the heap

I know it's paradox

With my dreams

Minutemen - Mutiny In Jonestown

Moloko - Be Like You

Time: 1:06

I wish I could just Xerox

(This is the paradox)

(You're waves) You're waves (in my brain) in my brain

Moloko - Be Like You

Linda Ronstadt - Give One Heart

Time: 0:40

Get back two

That's the paradox of I love you

So when you give your heart

Linda Ronstadt - Give One Heart

Aesop Rock - Send Help

Time: 2:26

Honestly, it's getting hard to watch like paradise for parking lots

Never mind that parking lots are paradise, the paradox

Oh, the places you'll go and exploding aerosols

Aesop Rock - Send Help

Bowling for Soup - Sandwich

Time: 1:23

It's a paradox and

You lose control and

Bowling for Soup - Sandwich

Belly - Snakes & Ladders

Time: 1:00

At the Marriott, cutting keys like we carry lock

Hell to paradise, I'm a paradox

Write with the hand of God, my pen want a Harry Potter

Belly - Snakes & Ladders