Names -> Song Titles Not Used as Lyrics -> R
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 | ||
| R.E.M. | So. Central Rain | The chorus just repeats "I'm sorry!" over and over. Maybe Michael's apologizing to the title for not featuring it. - Brian Kelly | ||
| R.E.M. | E-Bow The Letter | Look up, what do you see? All of you and all of me Flourescent and starry Some of them, they surprise. - Rocky | ||
| R.E.M. | Pop Song '89 | Can we talk about the weather? Should we talk about the government? - Brian Kelly | ||
| Radiohead | Fake Plastic Trees | He says "Fake plastic" a couple of times, but follows it with "trees" neither time. - Brian Kelly | ||
| Randy Newman | Political Science | "They all hate us anyhow, so let's drop the big one now - let's drop the big one now." The song is about the USA bombing the rest of the world to smithereens - a twisted version of political science - but the title makes no appearance in the song. - Martha Hankins | ||
| Red Jumpsuit Apparatus | Grim Goodbye | I feel something deep inside me, I feel deep inside I feel something deep inside me and I can't let this go, whoa, - Katy | ||
| Red Jumpsuit Apparatus | In Fate's Hands | "Shake it, break it, get off your feet, come dance with me and don't you fake it." - Katy | ||
| Refreshments | European Swallow | I'll do anything for you Anything that you want me to It's just going to take a little more money - Katy | ||
| Refreshments | Blue Collar Suicide | I can't sleep cause she snores like a chain saw And I can't eat cause she can't cook I can't write cause she's got all my inspiration And she can't count all the pills I took - Katy | ||
| Refreshments | Banditos | Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people, So meet me at the mission at midnight, We'll divvy up there. - Katy | ||
| Relient K | Which To Bury, Us Or The Hatchet | The title isn't mentioned ANYWHERE in the song! The chorus goes: "No, I don't hate you/Don't wanna fight you/You know I'll always love you/But right now I just don't like you" Which particular one of these lines people would think is the title, I don't know. - Jonathan S. | ||
| The Righteous Brothers | Unchained Melody | Title is definitely not in lyrics, although I know of no other "alternate title". - Thessaly Danes | ||
| Rise Against | Injection | So, give me the drug Keep me alive Give me what's left of my life Don't let me go - Katy | ||
| Rise Against | The Good Left Undone | All because of you I havent slept in so long When i do i dream Of drowning in the ocean - Katy | ||
| Rob Stewart | Maggie May | Only the title calls the subject "Maggie May". In the lyrics, she is referred to only as "Maggie". - Emmy Kay Butanone | ||
| Rob Thomas | Streetcorner Symphony | "Street" and "corner" are mentioned at separate times, but never as one word. And "symphony" isn't heard at all. - MOR | ||
| Robert Plant | Big Log | "My love is in league with the freeway" is the song's most famous line. - Bone Soup | ||
| Rod Stewart | Young Turks | Nowhere in the song is the title mentioned; the chorus begins with the line "Young hearts be free tonight"! - crazydon | ||
| The Rolling Stones | Let It Bleed | Sexually explicit song from the album of the same name. The title is a parody of the Beatles' "Let It Be". - stoned | ||
| Rolling Stones | Sympathy for the Devil | Though this is about Satan, it should be called "Please to meet you", but then again it may cause confusion. - Paul Warren | ||
| Royal Guardsmen | Snoopy vs. the Red Baron | Should be known as 'The Bloody Red Baron', but this was the 60's so 'bloody' may have been too explicit for that time. - Paul Warren | ||
| Rupert Holmes | Escape | Usually called the Pina Colada song (and was later retitled as "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)," lyrics: And in the personal columns There was this letter I read "If you like Pina Coladas And getting caught in the rain If you're not into yoga If you have half a brain If you'd like making love at midnight In the dunes on the Cape Then I'm the love that you've looked for Write to me and escape." The title does appear in the lyrics but is still not known for it. - Pat Kenski | ||
| Rusty Eye | Return Of The Scarecrow | Return Of The Scarecrow is not in the lyrics - weirdkid106 |
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