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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.

Entries Beginning with N, Page PAGENUM

Band		Song		Comments & Submittor Name
The Nails		88 Lines About 44 Women		The title isn't in the lyrics, but it is a literal description of the song. - Brian Kelly
The Naked And Famous		Young Blood		The bittersweet between my teeth. Trying to find the in-betweens. Fall back in love eventually. Yeah yeah yeah yeah. - Brian Kelly
Nat King Cole		The Christmas Song		Also known as "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire", from its first line. The word "Christmas is in the song, as it wishes "Merry Christmas to you" in its last line, but the word "song" is not in the lyrics. - Thessaly Danes
Natalie Merchant		Kind and Generous		Should really be called "Thank You", as this is the point of the song and the phrase repeated many more times than "kind and generous". - Alex
Natalie Merchant		My Skin		Take a look at my body Look at my hands There's so much here That I don't understand Your face saving promises Whispered like prayers I don't need them I don't need them - Leo X Daniels
Nazareth		Hair of the Dog		Known as "Son of a B*tch", but that may not fly as a title of a song in the 70's. - Paul Warren
Neil Young		After The Gold Rush		The title is never found in the lyrics. Probably the best known lyrics are in the various choruses, with lines like "Look at Mother Nature on the run / In the nineteen seventies." and "They were flying Mother Nature's silver seed / To a new home in the Sun." So a presumed title might be something like "Mother Nature On The Run" or "Mother Nature's Silver Seed". - The Quirkfetch Kid
Nektar		A Tab in the Ocean		"A greatly under-rated Prog-Psych. group. None-the-less, I always felt the title of the first cut (and the whole album), was just used as a hook to lure prospective buyer's to take a chance, and spend a buck. It could have been just as easy to label the whole effort "Lake of Acid" - princejellyfish
New Order		Blue Monday		How does it feel to treat me like you do? - Eric Andrews
New Order		True Faith		I used to think that this day would never come. I'd see delight in the shade of the morning sun. My morning sun is the drug that brings me near, to the childhood I lost replaced by fear. - Brian Kelly
New Order		Blue Monday		New Order wrote a lot of songs like this, other examples include "Thieves Like Us" and "Bizarre Love Triangle". There is a term for these kind of songs, does anybody know what it is?? - Scunny
New Order		Bizarre Love Triangle		Another New Order song in which the title is nowhere to be seen. Like "Blue Monday" it had a hit cover---by the group Frente. - britrock
The Nice		The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack		The name of the title comes from the members of The Nice 'Emer'son, O''List', 'Davi'son, and 'Jack'son. Nowhere was the title to be heard. It should be called "I'm Going Back"...but it just doesn't seem to sound right. - Paul Warren
Nightwish		Sahara		1001 nights unseen the philosopher and the queen - thelastaurora
Nightwish		Ghost Love Score		my love will be in you my fall will be for you if you be the one who cut me i'll bleed forever - thelastaurora
Nightwish		Lagoon		imagine a perfect beach without a mermaid - thelastaurora
Nightwish		Dead Boy's Poem		dead boy's poem was not mentioned - thelastaurora
Nightwish		Swanheart		Be my heart a well of love flowing free so far above - thelastaurora
Nightwish		Two For Tragedy		beneath the candle bed 2 saddened angels in heaven in death - thelastaurora
Nik Kershaw		The Riddle		Near a tree by a river there's a hole in the ground. Where an old man of Erin goes around and around. And his mind is a beacon in the veil of the night. For a strange kind of fashion there's a wrong and a right - Nick Brown
Nirvana		Smells Like Teen Spirit		"Here we are now, entertain us" - B1982
Nirvana		Sliver		"Grandma" probably would have been better, since Kurt's telling her to take him home several times. - rocky
Nirvana		Smells Like Teen Spirit		As this song is known for having misheard lyrics, my dad believed this song was called "Let Me Entertain You". If that was the case, I could belittle Robbie Williams for ruining a perfectly good song. But he didn't, so I can't. - Ned
Nirvana		Lithium		Although Kurt Cobain mentions "I'm not gonna crack" several times (and 'cracking' is why some people are prescribed lithium), the drug is not mentioned in the song. - rocky
Nirvana		Lounge Act		No lounge act mentioned, but Kurt does say the 'f'-word, which would be contraidictory to what a real lounge act would allow. - rocky

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