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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.

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Band		Song		Comments & Submittor Name
The Cardigans		Lovefool		Love me, love me, say the you love me... - Joe H
The Carpenters		Superstar		"Don't you remember you told me you loved me, baby?" - crazydon
Cat Stevens		Bad Penny		"Oh, no, don't say those same idle lies I-I've heard them before." From the album "Buddha and The Chocolate Box". - oldsongs
Cat Stevens		Father and Son		It's more of a scripted song where the father sings one part and the son sings the next. And "I have to go away" is mentioned more in this song. - Paul Warren
CBS Radio		Laid		James Gang and cover version by Matt Nathanson - Brian Thomas
The Charlatans U.K.		Polar Bear		"Your not one of those...". The same album contain's a song called "Your not very well", so I cant tell if these guys are ignorant or just not comfortable with the english language. Either way , they SHOULD be able to express themselves, as they are from the U.K. - princejellyfish
Charlie Daniels		Uneasy Rider		The song about a hippie's encounter with angry patrons of a "redneck" bar is still funny--and timely---today. - Country
Charlotte Church		She Moved Through The Fair		Lyrics include "She went through the fair" but never "She moved through the fair". Opening line is "My young love said to me", which might form an "alternate title". On the other hand, the words that end the first and last verses are "It will not be long, love, 'til our wedding day". That is another excerpt that might be the best known words and / or form an "alternate" title. - Karen Smith
Charlotte Church		Gabriel's Message		"The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came" is the opening line, and therefore might be a "title" by which the song could be better known. It conatins the only mention of Gabriel in the lyrics, and that mention is in the nominative case, not the possessive case, as is found in the title. And the word "message" is entirely absent from the lyrics. - Ava Murphy
Chevelle		Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)		Once again, the only part of the title that's actually sung is what's in parentheses. - Jonathan S.
Chicago		South California Purples		Huh? - Agrimorfee
Chicago		Poem 58		I wonder what they did to the other 57 Poems. - Paul Warren
Chiodos		A Letter From Janelle		don't you think i could tell that you were trying to, trying to make a fool out of me. a fool out of me. - Katy
The Chipmunks		Alvin's Harmonica		The lines "I wanna play my harmonica" and "I'm gonna play my harmonica" appear in the lyrics, but the title doesn't appear. - Candy Welty
Christmas Traditional		The Cherry Tree Carol		Begins "When Joseph was an old man, An old man was he," The first part of that might make an alternate "title". Though a cherry tree is referred to in the lyrics, the word "carol" is never found there. - Ava Murphy
Chuck Berry		Run Rudolph Run		He sings "Run, run, Rudolph" in the song; never "Run, Rudolph, run." - crazydon
Chumbawamba		Tubthumping		never got to No1 but still a classic - paul bolton
Chumbawamba		Tubthumping		The biggest earworm of the 1990's, the title is nowhere in the lyrics, but the line "I get knocked down, but I get up again" appears a lot! - crazydon
Circa Survive		Handshakes at Sunrise		We wont stop until the dawn has Given its all to you - Katy
The Clash		Train in Vain		This ought to be called "Stand by Me" because it's the most-repeated line in the song, but since there is already a song called "Stand by Me"… - crazydon
The Classic Crime		The Fight		I'll take my heart back And set the people free I'll leave the dead to die And take who's coming with me - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		Second Stage Turbine Blade		No lyrics at all =] - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		The End Complete IV: The Road And The Damned		I believed in the world, once in front of me; well now that's gone. - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		The Willing Well III: Apollo II: The Telling Truth		"I'll make you wish you hadn't burned our time before. I'll live through this in a manner cursed at my own accord." - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		The End Complete I: The Fall Of House Atlantic		No. - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		The Willing Well II: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness		"Run, little rabbit, go hide in the blades of that grass. Run, rabbit, run." - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		The Reaping		Hell must know there have been worse things I've done. I hold out these hands to receive the sum. Purge these days. Will we accept the things we must? The world will now learn of change to come... or no world. - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		The Willing Well I: Fuel For The Feeding End		"The better end of all to come. The truth be now here one by one. I am to you extend to none. The memory to fuel the fire." - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		Gravemakers & Gunslingers		I don’t wanna live no more. You’ve got the gun, I’ve got the bullets. Don’t wanna live no more. Oh baby, be my lover, go on & pull that trigger. - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		Mother May I		"So run little children, play. I’ll leave the light off to turn your mother on. " - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		The Ring In Return		A phone rings, a girl answers, music ensues, a man responds. No lyrics. - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		The Lying Lies & Dirty Secrets Of Miss Erica Court		No, no, I said, “When you go, they won't be following.” - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		Apollo I: The Writing Writer		"I'll gravitate towards you. I will, in the now, hate you. " - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		Crossing The Frame		"Press the steps I take to cross your door frame if you decide to answer when my fist rings hello." - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		Welcome Home		"Hang on to the glory at my right hand. Here, laid to rest, is our love ever longed. With truth on the shores of compassion, you seem to take premise to all of these songs." - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		Always & Never		"Stay with me and fall asleep. Pray to God for no bad dreams. " - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		Keeping The Blade		It's an instrumental. - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		A Favor House Atlantic		"Bye, bye beautiful, don't bother to write. Disturbed by your words, and they're calling all cars. Face step, let down. Face step, step down." - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		The Velorium Camper III: Al The Killer		"Let this colony know, in the name of the dead, we're coming." - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		Three Evils (Embodied In Love In Shadow)		"You'll listen to reason while you're face down in the dirt. You'll stomach the hurt and break for him here just how much he's worth." - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		Cuts Marked In The March Of Men		"Slowly the streets begin to fill with new flesh bound to bone. Armed and ready, it begins again." - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		In Keeping Secrets Of Silent Earth: 3		"The navigator, the pilot, her favorite, the one they call the vision that bears the gift." - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		The Ring In Return		"Hello? Hello Apollo. Where should I begin?" - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		33		"In pieces, they staggered embedded. Rush me to the emergency room. Flat line equals frantic endeavor, but I guess this’ll have to do now. Patrick short flip and outside. We’re bringing it home." - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		Hearshot Kid Disaster		"Still searching for your face in the arm that killed the president. Relapse waiting here for. Still searching for your face in the crowd that buried New Mexico. I’ll be waiting here for." - Katy
Coheed and Cambria		Delirium Trigger		"You made a good friend to me, but while you were outnumbered and torn, you made us do things." - Katy
Coldplay		Viva La Vida		"I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing / Roman Cavalry choirs are singing" - hamburger456
Coldplay		The Scientist		Nobody said it was easy. It's such a shame for us to part. Nobody said it was easy. Nobody said it would be this hard. - Brian Kelly
Coldplay		Don't Panic		Despite the name, they never say "Don't Panic." The most well known lyrics are "We live in a beautiful world." Because of this, it is often mistakenly called "Beautiful World." - Bob
Counting Crows		A Murder Of One		All your life is just a shame, shame, shame./All your love is just a dream, dream, dream. (Note: While the song doesn't feature its own name, it does feature that of the band.) - Brian Kelly
The Cowsills		The Rain, The Park and Other Things		Lyrics by Artie Kornfield & Steve Duboff, this early 70s hit was a pop hippie anthem. Best known line: "Flowers in her hair, flowers everywhere." This song is sometimes referred to as "I Love The Flower Girl." - MasonR
The Cowsills		The Rain, The Park, And Other Things		I've heard it called "The Flower Girl" instead of its official title. The words "rain" and "park" are scattered through the lyrics, but never the words "other things" or the entire phrase that is the title. One who didn't klnow the title could never come close to guessing it from the lyrics. - Thessaly Danes
The Cranberries		Ode To My Family		The most familiar part would be the "Do do do do"s at the start and end. - Brian Kelly
Cream		Badge		Where in the song do they ever talk about a badge? - David Jones
Crosby Stills & Nash		Suite: Judy Blue Eyes		I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are... you take it hard. - Carole Krus
Crowded House		Kare Kare		It is dedicated to the place where the album and song were recorded. "Sleep by no means comes too soon, in a valley lit by the moon." - dizrythmia
The Cure		Love Song		The word song never appears in the song.. - Joe H
Cyndi Lauper		The Goonies R Good Enough		The Goonies are never mentioned in the song even though it was from the movie. "Good enough" is mentioned several times. - MOR

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