Carousel @ 0:42, Fool Yourself @ 0:57 [video=youtube;K4MEjYXL4yQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4MEjYXL4yQ[/video] [video=youtube;GvR4dgFCTcQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvR4dgFCTcQ[/video]
No I don't think so, noticed this comparison a long while ago when I got the album. That phrase is used in a lot of songs, I don't think they would rip of a 10+ year old LP song, they just sound alike.
There are a few too many similarities, and that makes me want to say it was intentional. If a song is older it'd probably be easier to copy, since it isn't as fresh in most people's minds (it sounds logical in my head, anyways).
Probably, it's not unusual for novices to bite lyrics like that. That said I don't know who these people are.
It's such a memoral line, it was stuck in my head today so I thought "It must have been Linkin Park" then I remembered this song too. It's likely that the same thing happened to one of Chase and Status and they thought it was a song they'd written in their head.