Names -> Song Titles Not Used as Lyrics -> M
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.
Band | Song | Comments & Submittor Name | ||
| Macy Gray | Caligula | The name of the infamous Roman emperor is never mentioned in the lyrics. - xxxpress | ||
| Madness | Cardiac Arrest | Between '79 and '83 Madness had 15 top 10 hits. Cardiac Arrest was one of only two singles during that period not to get in the top 10. (The other being The Prince). - Nick Brown | ||
| Madness | Shut Up! | Now pass the blame and don't blame me Just close your eyes and count to three (One two three) Then I'll be gone and you'll forget The broken window, t.v. set - Ashley Martin | ||
| Madonna | Bedtime Story | Let's get unconscious honey! - Greg | ||
| The Mamas & The Papas | Creeque Alley | The title is not mentioned in the lyrics in this autobiographical song, and the most repeated line is "And no one's gettin' fat 'cept Mama Cass." - crazydon | ||
| Marilyn Manson | Come White | A pill to make you numb A pill to make you dumb A pill to make you anybody else But all the drugs in this world Won't save her from herself - Katy | ||
| Martin Grech | Open Heart Zoo | The lyric most similar to the title is "Fill this full of light and open up." but hearts and zoos are not mentioned through the entire song. - Leo X Daniels | ||
| Marvin Gaye | Inner City Blues | Make me wanna holler and throw up both my hands! - Joe H | ||
| Mary J. Blige | Family Affair | Let's get it crunk upon, have fun upon/Up in this dancery/We got ya'll open, now ya floatin'/So you gots to dance for me/Don't need no hateration, holleration/In this dancery/Let's get it percolatin' while you're waiting/So just dance for me - xxxpress | ||
| Metallica | No Leaf Clover | "When It Comes To Be" or "Freight Train" would have been better titles, but who's going to argue with these guys? (From the group's S & M live album.) - hardrock | ||
| 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. | ||
| Metallica | Enter Sandman | Sleep with one eye open./ Gripping your pillow tight./ Exit light./ Enter night./ Take my hand./ We're off to never-neverland. - Brian Kelly | ||
| MFSB and the Three Degrees | T.S.O.P. (The Sound of Philadelphia) | Although considered by some to be an instrumental, it does contain the lyrics "Let's get it on, it's time to get down" in the repeat and fade section of the song. - Bob Borst | ||
| MGMT | Time To Pretend | "We were fated to pretend" is as close as it got. - electric | ||
| 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 | ||
| Moby | Porcelain | In my dreams I'm dying all the time, as I wake its kaleidoscopic mind I never meant to hurt you, I never meant to lie So this is goodbye, This is goodbye.... (mostly music with few lyrics and used in several ads and movie soundtracks, but still "Porcelain" is never mentioned in the song) - Allen Sanchez | ||
| Monkees | Papa Gene's Blues | I have no more than I did before but now I've got all that I need cause I love you and I know you love me. I don't know who Papa Gene is, but he isn't mentioned anywhere in the song. - JD | ||
| The Monkees | Tapioca Tundra | It cannot be a part of me For now it's part of you. - Alan of Seville | ||
| The Monkees | Randy Scouse Git / Alternate Title | RCA disliked the title of Mickey Dolenz's song, but told The Monkees that as the words in the title did not appear in the lyrics, they would accept an 'alternate title' for the song. It was promptly named "Alternate Title" in protest. "Why don't you cut your hair?, Why don't you live up there?, Why don't you do what I do, See what I feel when I care?" - FussBudget | ||
| Monkees | Good Clean Fun | A typical Nesmith country rocker, and another one of his songs that doesn't mention the title. Also known as I Told You I'd Be Back. - JD | ||
| The Moody Blues | Departure | The title has one word and it's not even mentioned once! - Alan of Seville | ||
| Moody Blues | Legend of a Mind | The song should be called 'Timothy Leary is Dead' because it focuses more on Timothy Leary. - Paul Warren | ||
| 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 | ||
| Muse | Apocalypse Please | It's better known as "This is the end of the world". - Paul Warren | ||
| Muse | Knights of Cydonia | No "knights or "Cydonia" are mentioned here, just a course of "No one's going to take me alive; you and I must fight for our rights". - britrock | ||
| My Chemical Romance | Famous Last Words | I am not afraid to keep on living/I am not afraid to walk this world alone/Honey if you stay I'll be forgiven/Nothing you can say can stop me going home - Lizzie | ||
| My Chemical Romance | House Of Wolves | tell me i'm an angel/ take this to my grave/tell me i'm a bad man kick me like a stray/ tell me i'm an angel/ take this to my grave - The Unspoken | ||
| My Chemical Romance | Welcome to the Black Parade | Because one day I'll leave you/A phantom/To lead you in the summer/To join the black parade - flipside |
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