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Some songs have titles that aren't used in the lyrics, and end up becoming better known for their lyrics than their title. Bob Dylan's "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is better known for the refrain "Everybody must get stoned" than it is for the title.
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are [an error occurred while processing this directive] Song Titles Not Used as Lyrics entries on the site.
Band | Song Title | Comments & Submittor Name | ||
| Oliver Wallace | Clown's Song | Oh we're gonna hit the big boss for a raise - Alan of Seville | ||
| The Blues Brothers | B-Movie Boxcar Blues | Doin' my best to get back to you, ain't nothing I'd rather do. Look for me Sunday, gonna be there honey with somethin' special just for you - Alan of Seville | ||
| Morrissey | Speedway | As the last track of one of his best albums, "Vauxhall & I", "Speedway" features the terrifying sound of something like the motor of a chainsaw or maybe the starting of a powerful engine - though the word speedway is never heard in the song. - usedtobeen | ||
| Morrissey | Little Man, What Now? | The title of this song is from the book "Kleiner Mann – was nun?" written by the german author Hans Fallada in 1932, which was filmed in the USA 1934 as "Little Man, What Now?" - usedtobeen | ||
| Morrissey | Alsatian Cousin | The title of this song is borrowed from Alan Bennett's play "Forty Years On", but never appears in it. The Song is famous for Morrissey's probably best line "Leather elbows on a tweed coat - is that the best you can do?" - usedtobeen | ||
| Metallica | Ride The Lightning | "Flash before my eyes/Now it's time to die/Burning in my brain/I can feel the flame" How odd that an album's TITLE TRACK doesn't mention its name anywhere in the lyrics. - Jonathan S. | ||
| Chuck Berry | Run Rudolph Run | He sings "Run, run, Rudolph" in the song; never "Run, Rudolph, run." - crazydon | ||
| Kristin Chenoweth | The Christmas Waltz | "Frosted window panes, Candles gleaming inside, / Painted candy canes on the tree" are the opening lines. So an alternate title might be "Frosted Window Panes". The phrase "The Christmas waltz" is never in the lyrics, and neither is the word "waltz". - Kris Kringle Aguilera | ||
| Mike + The Mechanics | Silent Running | Can you hear me? Can you hear me running? Can you hear me running? Can you hear me calling you? - Brian Kelly | ||
| The Popinjays | Monster Mouth | "Please help me from thinking" The only single from the 90s British pop band. - British Bullcrap | ||
| Jethro Tull | Hymn 43 | Not really a hymn, but it was quite controversial in its time; not for the morally questionable lyrics, but for the graphic (and quite accurate) account of the white man's distortion of history concerning their relationship with Native Americans in the Old West, both in books and Hollywood movies. The song claims rightfully that the white man used religion as an excuse to murder defenseless tribes - Rocky | ||
| George Frederic Handel | Messiah | Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! - Paul Warren | ||
| Procol Harum | A Christmas Camel | It's not even a Christmas song either! - Paul Warren | ||
| Donovan | Breezes of Patchulie | Originally to be named "Darkness of my Night"...and that was used in the lyrics! - Paul Warren | ||
| Simon & Garfunkel | Punky's Dilemma | Wish I were a Kellog's Cornflake.... - Paul Warren | ||
| Donovan | Sunshine Superman | Opening line is "Sunshine came softly through my window today". And other verses open with the word "Superman". But the two words never come together anywhere in the lyrics to create the title phrase "Sunshine Superman". - Melissa Conway | ||
| The Darlin' Buds | Poppy's Spell | Obscure song by the British pop rock band of the 90s. Its most famous lyrics are "Deep, deep down inside...I wanna do it again." - British Bullcrap | ||
| Fuel | Hemorrhage (In My Hands) | The only part of the title that is mentioned is the part in parentheses. - MOR | ||
| Limp Bizkit | Take a Look Around | "I know why you want to hate me". That quote should be the title of this song because it is the most repeated sentence in the song. The title of this song appears in the lyrics of another song by Limp Bizkit, called "My Generation". - B1982 | ||
| Relient K | The Only Thing Wose Than Beating A Dead Horse Is Betting On One | Nothing even close to the title is used in the song. I'd show you a chorus, but this song is so short it doesn't even have one! It ends with, "We control the chaos In the back of our minds Our problems seem so small But they grow on us Like gravity But gravity still makes us fall" (You can also look this one up under "Super Short Pop Songs.") - Jonathan S. |
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