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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
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		Bodysnatchers		The chorus has the line "I'm trapped in the body and can't get out" but that's as close as it gets. - Hawk
Radiohead		Idioteque		An unusually electronic piece from this group, from their 2000 album Kid A. As for the lyrics... well, there are a lot that get briefly repeated ("Who's in bunker?", "Women and children first" and "Ice age coming" to name a few), so it's anyone's guess what people might think the title is. - Jonathan S.
Radiohead		Fake Plastic Trees		He says "Fake plastic" a couple of times, but follows it with "trees" neither time. - Brian Kelly
Radiohead		Paranoid Android		You don't remember. You don't remember. Why don't you remember my name? - Brian Kelly
Radiohead		High And Dry		Not every word in the title is in the song. Which word is missing? "And". - Brian Kelly
The Ramones		Censorshit		Tipper what's that sticker doing on my CD? Is that some kind of warning to protect me? Freedom of choice needs a stronger stronger voice ... Ah Tipper come on, don't you think you're getting on? Ask Ozzy, Zappa or me We'll show you what it's like to be free... Hey hey all you senators' wives You need to take a good look at your own lives Before you come preaching to me Your definition of obscenity... Neither the words "censorship" or "censorshit" are used but the lyrics clearly indicate what the subject is and what the Ramones feel about that issue. - Rock Out Censorship
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
Reba McEntire		Ring on Her Finger, Time on Her Hands		The word "her" is nowhere in the lyrics. The closest lines to the title are "I had a ring on my finger and time on my hands" and "It's just a ring on your finger when there's time on your hands." - William Ransom
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
Regina Spektor		Fidelity		I hear in my mind, All these voices I hear in my mind, all these words I hear in my mind all this music And it breaks my heart And it breaks my heart And it breaks my heaaaaaaaaaaart, It breaks my heaaaaaaaart (She streches out the "a" sound in the the chrorus - Allen Sanchez
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.
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.
Relient K		Crayons Can Melt On Us For All I Care		The lyrics are, "I just wasted ten seconds of your life." That's it, that's the whole song. Do YOU see anything about melting crayons in ther??? Didn't think so. - K@
The Righteous Brothers		Unchained Melody		Title is definitely not in lyrics, although I know of no other "alternate title". - Thessaly Danes
Rise Against		Savior		This one comes close; the chorus mentions a girl who says "I just wanna save you while there's still something left to save," but I don't recall the word "savior" being mentioned. - Jonathan S.
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
Ritchie Family		Quiet Village		Most every line in the song is repeated several times. Repetitious lines or couplets include:"You sexy thing, you turn me on / Keep rockin' steady all night lo-ong", and "Gimme, gimme what I want". From those might come various apparent titles, including "Sexy Thing', "You Sexy Thing" and "Gimme What I Want". But the actual title occurs nowhere in the lyrics. - Lauren Overstreet
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		The Killing Of Georgie		Like a lot of Rod's best songs, the lyrics tell a story - Eddie2112
Rod Stewart		Maggie May		Only the title calls the subject "Maggie May". In the lyrics, she is referred to only as "Maggie". - Emmy Kay Butanone
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		Country Honk		On Joe Cocker's album "Mad Dogs & Englishmen," this song is called "Honky Tonk Women," which is what the title should be - Alan of Seville
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
Rush		BU2B		In the song, "BU2B" is actually short for "brought up to believe", which is sung multiple times, but "BU2B" as a word is never sung. - noskcaJ
Rush		The Spirit Of Radio		Invisible airwaves crackle with life - Eddie2112
Rush		Distant Early Warning		The world weighs on my shoulders./But what am I to do?/You sometimes drive me crazy,/but I worry about you. - Brian Kelly
Rusty Eye		Return Of The Scarecrow		Return Of The Scarecrow is not in the lyrics - weirdkid106

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