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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.
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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | 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 | 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. | ||
| 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 | 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 | 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 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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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