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Songs that mention their title in the opening line of the song
Performer | Song Title | Opening Lines | Comments & Submittor Name | |||
| T. Rex | Chrome Sitar | Standing on the corner of the Chrome Sitar. | I'd like to see someone make a sitar out of chrome. - Paul Warren | |||
| Taio Cruz feat. Luciana | Come On Girl | Come on girl, come on girl, come on girl | This line is repeated throughout the song. However Luciana does sing, "Come on boy, come on boy, come on boy," at the end of her verse. - Stompgal | |||
| Take That | Everything Changes | Everything changes but you | - Mads | |||
| Take That | It Only Takes A minute | It only takes a minute girl | - Mads | |||
| Taking Back Sunday | Up Against | So this is what we're up against; this is what we're up against | - Tom | |||
| Talk Talk | Dum Dum Girl | Dum the dum dum girl | - B1982 | |||
| Talk Talk | The Party's Over | The party's over, I never thought you'd stay | The song is from Talk Talk's debut album, also titled "The Party's Over". - B1982 | |||
| Talk Talk | Life's What You Make It | Baby, life's what you make it | - B1982 | |||
| Talk Talk | Such a Shame | Such a shame to believe in escape 'A life on every face' | - B1982 | |||
| Talking Heads | And She Was | And she was lying in the grass. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Taylor Swift | White Christmas | I'm dreaming of a white Christmas | - weirdkid106 | |||
| Taylor Swift | Santa Baby | Santa baby, slip a sable under the tree, for me | - weirdkid106 | |||
| Taylor Swift | A Perfectly Good Heart | Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart | - weirdkid106 | |||
| Taylor Swift | Last Christmas | Last Christmas I gave you my heart | - weirdkid106 | |||
| Taylor Swift | Silent Night | Silent night, holy night All is calm and all is bright | - weirdkid106 | |||
| Tears For Fears | Shout | Shout! Shout! Let it all out! | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Thin Lizzy | Bad Reputation | You got a bad reputation | At least it gets straight to the point, right? - Michelle | |||
| Thompson Twins | All Fall Out | Hey! This is where we all fall out | no comments - Mickey D. | |||
| Thompson Twins | If You Were Here | If you were here, I could decieve you, and if you were here, you would believe | The song was used towards the end of the movie "Sixteen Candles". - Mickey D. | |||
| Thompson Twins | Love Is The Law | Have you heard that love, love, love is the law, don't you know that love is the law? | Self explanatory. - Mickey D. | |||
| Thompson Twins | When I See You | When I see you, it's just like takin' some drug, takin' some drug, takin' some drug | lol - Mickey D. | |||
| Thompson Twins | Watching | Watching you...watching me... | Look left, look right - Mickey D. | |||
| Thompson Twins | Tokyo | To-k-yo...To-k-yo...To-k-yo...To-k-yo... | Konnichi-wa sayonara - Mickey D. | |||
| Thompson Twins | Future Days | Here's to future days, here's to future ways | According to the song title, "Here's To Future Days" minus "Here's To". - Mickey D. | |||
| Three Days Grace | Pain | Pain.. without love.. | Cool song. - lyris | |||
| Three Days Grace | Just Like You | I could be mean, I could be angry, You know I could be just like you. | This band makes the most repeitive song lyrics I have ever heard. Every other line includes the song title. Nonetheless, I am a fan. - Lizzie | |||
| Three Dog Night | Old-Fashioned Love Song | Just an old-fashioned love song playing on the radio. | - oldrock | |||
| The Toadies | I Come From The Water | I come from the water. I crawled upon the shore. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Todd Rundgren | Bang The Drum All Day | I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day. | - Vic George | |||
| Todd Rundgren | Hello It's Me | Hello it's me I've thought about us for a long, long time | Originally recorded by Rundgren's late 1960's group, The Nazz, Rundgren re-recorded "Hello It's Me" (and played all the instruments on the new version) in 1971 and in 1972 took it into the top ten. - Peter | |||
| Tom Jones | What's New Pussycat? | What's new pussycat? Woah, Woah. What's new pussycat? Woah, woah. | Hot on the heels of Tom Jones first international top ten hit, "It's Not Unusual" he was requested to record the theme song for Peter Sellers new comedy for the fall of 1965, "What's New Pussycat?" Although, not totally as big of hit as "It's Not Unusual", "What's New Pussycat?" was still a major international hit for Welchman Tom Jones. - Peter | |||
| Tom Jones | It's Not Unusual | It's not unusual to be love by anyone. | 1965's top ten hit, "It's Not Unusual" was Tom Jones first international hit. - Peter | |||
| Tom Petty | I Won't Back Down | Well, I won't back down. No, I won't back down. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | Don't Come Around No More | Hey, hey, don't come around no more. | "Don't Come Around No More" was a #12 hit for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers from their 1985 "Pack Up The Planation" lp. "Don't Come Around No More" was from a time that many artists, Tom Petty, amongst them were experimenting with a return of the late 1960's psychedelic music. The video of "Don't Come Around No More" is a salute to Lewis Carroll's "Alice In Wonderland" and is probably one of the most mindbending videos ever seen. The video was produced by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics fame, who also played the sitar on the song. In the video, Dave Stewart played the smoking caterpillar who Alice meets sitting on top of a mushroom. Tom played the Mad Hatter and gives a wild tea party for Alice. - Peter | |||
| Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers | Don't Come Around Here No More | Hey, hey, don't come around here no more. | Just putting up here the whole title of this song and the whole opening lines, for some reason neither came out when posted on this part of this site. - Peter | |||
| Tommy James & the Shondells | Hanky Panky | My baby does the hanky panky, My baby does the hanky panky, My baby does the hanky panky, My baby does the hanky panky, My baby does the hanky panky! | Yes, Tommy James & the Shondells' first #1 song, the summer of 1966's "Hanky Panky" repeats the first line five times and actually repeats again for five more times the same lines (for a total of ten) before another lyric is heard. Of the seven tunes that were #1 in the summer of 1966, Frank Sinatra's "Strangers In The Night", the Beatles' "Paperback Writer", the Troggs' "Wild Thing", the Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer In The City", Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" and the Association's "Cherish", Tommy James & the Shondells' "Hanky Panky" had the longest and most convoluted time reaching the #1 position. In 1963, "Hanky Panky" (written by the songwriting team of Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich) was released as the B-side of the Raindrops' "That Boy John". A 13-year old, Tommy Jackson heard the Raindrops version and Jackson from Niles, MI recorded with his group the Shondells (started in 1959 as Tom & the Tornadoes) it at a club in South Bend, IN (where Jackson couldn't remember the lyrics and just made them up as he went along) for the tiny "Snap" label. The 1963, the Shondells version also went nowhere as did the B-side version by the Raindrops. Then in late 1965, a Pittsburgh DJ started playing it and it started to become a huge radio hit throughout the U.S., with bootleggers selling 80,000 copies illegally before the record company "Roulette" could release the original master copy. Realizing that they had a huge hit on their hands, "Roulette's", Pittsburgh DJ, DJ "Mad Mike" Metro asked Tommy Jackson to re-record the tune in Pittsburgh. But by then the Shondells had long since disappeared and Jackson had to ask a local group, the Raconteurs (not Jack White's later group) to become the new Shondells with very little pay, which they agreed to. And at this time Tommy Jackson changed his last name to James, and the rest as one might say was history! - Peter | |||
| Tommy James and the Shondells | Mony Mony | Here she comes now. Say, Mony, Mony. | Also covered by Billy Idol. - Brian Kelly | |||
| Tommy Roe | Dizzy | Dizzy, I'm so dizzy my head is spinning. | "Dizzy" was a U.S. #1 for Tommy Roe, for four weeks in the winter of 1969 (actually was #1 on Valentine's Day of 1969). "Dizzy" was originally released in Britian and was a #1 there in the fall of 1968. "Dizzy" was Tommy Roe's first hit since Fall 1963's "Everybody" and his first #1 since Fall 1962's "Sheila". At this time, many radio stations and record executives started classifying Tommy Roe amongst the Bubblegum artists such as 1910 Fruitgum Company, Ohio Express and the Archies, even though Roe was an actual artists and had been making hits before the Beatles came to America and was at least five to ten years older than many of the musicians behind those other groups. But Tommy Roe's new music, beginning with "Dizzy" did sell well amongst the Bubblegum music buying audience. - Peter | |||
| Tommy Roe | Stir It Up And Serve It | Stir it up and serve it, Shake it all around, 'Cause everybody's groovin' To what you're putting down. | "Stir It Up And Serve It" was a song that was released by Tommy Roe in 1970, but didn't make it as a hit as 1970's "Jam Up And Jelly Tight" did. - Peter | |||
| Tommy Roe | Everybody | Everybody, everybody, everybody's had a broken heart now. | "Everybody" was a #3 hit for Roe in the fall 1963, it was playing on a Dallas radio station when one of the bulletins about President John F. Kennedy's assassination broke. After the success of "Everybody", Tommy Roe went to England to tour with Roy Orbison. Roe decided to live in England for several years and started the Pickwick International record label with Jerry Lee Lewis in 1965. - Peter | |||
| Tommy Roe | Jam Up And Jelly Tight | Jam up and jelly tight, My, my, my, my, baby, now you're outta sight. | "Jam Up And Jelly Tight" was a top five hit for Roe in 1970, and considered the top 40 follow-up to his #1 1969 hit, "Dizzy". After the success of "Jam Up And Jelly Tight", Tommy Roe moved to Beverly Hills, CA and married a French actress named, Josette Banzet. In 1976, Roe moved to an acting career and won a Golden Globe award for his supporting performance in the TV mini-series, "Rich Man, Poor Man". Roe was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall Of Fame, in 1986, and late would be recognized for his work by the Rockabilly Hall Of Fame. - Peter | |||
| Tommy Roe | Sheila | Sweet little Sheila, you'll know her if you see her Blue eyes and a ponytail. | Fall 1962's "Sheila" was Tommy Roe's first hit and first #1 song. "Sheila" was released in May 1962 and would become a #1 hit in both the U.S. and Australia. "Sheila" was certified gold on March 25, 1969. Tommy Roe was born Thomas David Roe in Atlanta, Georgia on May 9, 1942 and was in the band at Brown High School. Roe was greatly influenced by Buddy Holly and it shows in the song, "Sheila". In April 1961, Tommy Roe had a daughter, out of wedlock, Cynthia, who is still living in Atlanta, GA with Roe's 3 grandchildren. - Peter | |||
| Toni Basil | Mickey | Oh, Mickey, you're so fine You're so fine you blow my mind Hey, Mickey! Hey, Mickey! | "Mickey" was a surprise #1 hit from dancer and choreographer Toni Basil (helped to choreograph routines for David Bowie when Bowie came in concert in Los Angeles) in December 1982. Toni Basil almost didn't make it on the charts with the tune, her record company Chrysalis was at first hesitant to release, but they did and had a hit with it with it's cheerleading like lines. And the video, played plenty in the fall of 1982 on MTV, helped with Toni Basil going back to her high school roots as a cheerleader. - Peter | |||
| Tonic | If You Could Only See | If you could only see the way she loves me, then maybe you'd understand. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Tori Amos | Amber Waves | well he lifts you up like amber waves | - Mattias | |||
| Tori Amos | God | God, sometimes you just don't come through. | The lyrics submitted on this site do not always reflect the religious or political beliefs of those submitting them. - Brian Kelly | |||
| Tori Amos | Cornflake Girl | Never was a cornflake girl | - crazydon | |||
| Tori Amos | You Can Bring Your Dog | you can bring your dog, I got 3 | - Mattias | |||
| Tracy Bonham | Mother Mother | Mother mother, how's the family? | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Tracy Chapman | Fast Car | You've got a fast car, I want a ticket to anywhere, Maybe we make a deal, maybe together we can get somewhere. | "Fast Car" was a #8 hit for Tracy Chapman in the summer/fall 1988, but was a big seller on more charts than the pop charts. "Fast Car" was also a hit in the album rock, folk, alternative rock and soul charts which was a very unusual and at the time unheard of thing for a record to do -- to make it big in all five of those charts. In many ways, Gnarls Barkley's 2006 hit, "Crazy" owes a debt of gratitude to Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" in that many different audiences would be open to the idea of listening and buying and asking radio stations to play the same song. And it almost didn't happen that way for Tracy Chapman or "Fast Car". Tracy Chapman, who owes a debt of gratitude to Joan Armatrading (a darling of critics in the 1970's and 80's, but never a big seller of records) for the record companies to be open to the idea of allowing a black artists (and especially a black folk artists) such a Tracy and Joan to be able to sell songs and lp's. Elektra records waited a very long time though to release a first lp for Tracy, entitled just, "Tracy Chapman", unsure as to actually how or in which category her songs belonged (they are generally very folk, but with some rock and elements of soul mixed in) to. And Tracy wrote many songs that were on the self-titled 1988 debut as far back as 1982. And at first Elektra had very little faith in "Fast Car", but when first alternative and hard rock stations both started playing the tune it took off from there (as what would happen with Gnarls Barkley's tune in 2006) with pop and then soul and then easy listening stations playing it (it was also one of the earliest pop tunes heard reviewed on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered", introducing Tracy Chapman to even more wider audiences) and reached legendary status. "Fast Car" (as well as the whole debut lp) is said to have appealed to a need many felt that much of the citizens of the U.S. and the world had been left behind and to needs in all of us for something more. Tracy Chapman would also win the Best New Artists Grammy for "Fast Car" and CBS-TV went out of their way to promote Tracy Chapman singing the song live on the Grammies that year. - Peter | |||
| Traditional | "All Hail The Power Of Jesus' Name" | All hail the power of Jesus' name, let angels prostrate fall. | - Vic George | |||
| Traditional | Amazing Grace | Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, That sav'd a wretch like me! | "Amazing Grace" was written by the Anglican Reverand/Englishman John Newton back in 1772, originally as part of a sermon he was to give on New Year's Day 1773. It later became a world reknown Christian hymn and included in part of Newton's "Olney Hymns" with music by William Cowper. "Amazing Grace" is based on the Bible's "I Chronicles, 17:16" when King David marvels at God choosing him and his house. Many artists have recorded "Amazing Grace" through the years, and later it became a spiritual and folk song. - Peter | |||
| Traditional | Jesus Loves Me | Jesus loves me, this I know. For the Bible tells me so. | - Christian | |||
| Traditional | My Bonnie | My Bonnie lies over the ocean, my Bonnie lies over the sea. | - Peter | |||
| Traffic | Dear Mr Fantasy | Dear Mister Fantasy play us a tune Something to make us all happy | - Peter | |||
| Train | Drops Of Jupiter | Jessie's back in the atmosphere with drops of Jupiter in her hair. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Trini Lopez/Peter, Paul & Mary | If I Had A Hammer | If I had a hammer I'd hammer in the morning I'd hammer in the evening, all over this land, I'd hammer out danger, I'd hammer out warning, I'd hammer | The rest of the opening line: "...out love between, my brothers and my sister, ah-aaah all over this land." "If I Had A Hammer" was written by Brazillian Trini Lopez and he had a top twenty American hit with it in 1962. Folk trio, Peter, Paul & Mary would record it the following year in 1963 and have the much bigger Top 5 hit with it, making it an instant Civil Rights movement anthem. - Peter | |||
| Tripping Daisy | I Got A Girl | I got a girl, she's crazy for me. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| The Troggs | Wild Thing | Wild thing you make my heart sing, you make everything groovy. | "Wild Thing" was another one of those #1 songs from the summer of 1966. The Troggs themselves were a British invasion quartet from Andover, Hampshire, England and were signed by the Kinks' manager. "Wild Thing" was written by Chip Taylor and was the only #1 song for the Troggs, made popular by the memorable vocals of lead singer, Reg Presley. But it has had a lot of staying power, still being played on many Classic Rock and Classic Hit stations, in several movies and in a very memorable episodes of the early 1990's hit TV show, "Life Goes On". And Jimi Hendrix with his group Experience recorded a memorable version of the tune at 1967's Monterey Pop Festival. - Peter | |||
| The Turtles | Elenore | You got a thing about you I just can't live without you I really want you, Elenore, near me. | "Elenore" is a 1969 top ten hit for the Turtles. - Peter | |||
| Twila Paris | We Will Glorify | We will glorify the King of Kings... | Her first big hit, from the 1982 album "Keepin' My Eyes on You." Today, it is found in church hymnals everywhere. - Edward Genereux | |||
| Twila Paris | He Is Exalted | He is exalted, the King is exalted on high. | - Vic George | |||
| Twisted Sister | We're Not Gonna Take It | We're not gonna take it. No, we ain't gonna take it. We're not gonna take it anymore. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Twisted Sister | I Wanna Rock | I wanna rock (rock!) | The video for this song not only features Mark Metcalf from Animal House, reprising his Neidermayer-type role as an abusive mean teacher (he also appeared in the video for "We're Not Gonna Take It" in a similar role as an abusive parent), but it also features Stephen Furst from the same movie (the Animal House character Flounder), saying, "Oh boy, is this great?" as he squirts water at the mean teacher at the end of the video. From the band's 1984 Stay Hungry album. - Vic George |
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