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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
L.A. Guns		The Ballad Of Jayne		What happened to Jayne? - Joey F.
Lana Del Rey		Cruel World		Considering this is one of Lana's longer tunes, it is ironic that it is also one of her few songs in which the title isn't in the lyrics. - Frosty The Cat
Larry Gatlin & The Gatlin Brothers Band		Houston (Means I'm One Day Closer To You)		The phrase "Houston means THAT I'm one day closer to you" is often repeated in the lyrics, but the lyrics never contain the title line exactly, that is they never contain that lyrics phrase minus "that". Surely a lot who've heard the song think the title contains the word "that", as in the lyrics. I did, in fact. In preparing to make a different amiright post for this song, I googled what I thought was the title, containing the word "that". I only got one "hit" from goggling that as the title, and that is when I suspected something. Surely the song is not so obscure as to give only one "hit" on google for its title I thought. I searched a little more and found that "that" is not in the title. - Fiona Montrose
Led Zeppelin		Trampled Underfoot		Yeah, the band seems to be "talkin' 'bout love" rather than saying the title. - Alan the Ottoman
Led Zeppelin		Out On The Tiles		British slang for a night at the bar - Alan the Ottoman
Led Zeppelin		Bron-Y-Aur Stomp		Named for the house that the band lived in during a vacation from touring. - Agrimorfee
Led Zeppelin		Living Loving Maid (She's Just A Woman)		The band members omit the word "maid" from the title. However, they do mention the subtitle. - Isac
Led Zeppelin		The Immigrant Song		We come from the land of the ice and snow, from the midnight sun where the hot springs blow. - Dodd Harris
Led Zeppelin		Fool in the Rain		Yeah, the four words are in there… but never together - Alan the Ottoman
Led Zeppelin		D'yer Mak'r		Title is pronounced "Jeh-make-er", a pun on "Jamaica" (inspired by the reggae beat of the song) and British dialect for "Did you make her?" ("have sex with her?"). - Agrimorfee
Led Zeppelin		The Battle of Evermore		I don't see "Battle" or "Evermore" in the lyrics - Alan of Seville
Led Zeppelin		Over The Hills and Far Away		Many times I've lied and many times I've listened..... - Matt
Led Zeppelin		Thank You		Mentions of thanks, sans the title, abound the song. - Alan the Ottoman
Led Zeppelin		Black Dog		Hey Hey Mama said the way you move gonna make you sweat gonna make you groove. It was named Black Dog because a black dog walked by their cottage as they were writing the song. - Matt
Led Zeppelin		Four Sticks		Ooh baby, it's cryin' time. - Jimsdun
Led Zeppelin		Boogie with Stu		Had they used Valens' original title of "Ooh, my head," they might have made that work. - Alan the Ottoman
Led Zeppelin		Wearing And Tearing		At the end, he screams for medication. - Brit Boxx
Led Zeppelin		The Rover		"If we can just join hands" and "That's all it takes" are rhe most repeated lyrics. - Rock Maninoff
Lemon Jelly		Nice Weather For Ducks		All the ducks are swimming in the water Fal-de-ral-de-ral-da, fal-de-ral-de-ral-da - Jonathan S.
Leonard Cohen		One Of Us Cannot Be Wrong		"I lit a thin green candle, to make you jealous of me." I only just realised that some Leonard Cohen song titles are not used as lyrics. - Feurzeug
Leonard Cohen		The Stranger Song		From the film "McCabe And Mrs. Miller", the song does not mention a stranger or song. - Man With The Deep Voice
Leonard Cohen		The Old Revolution		"I have changed my name so often, I've lost my wife and children but I have many friends, and some of them are with me." - Feurzeug
Leonard Cohen		Story of Issac		"You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children, you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god." No mention of Issac in the song. - Feurzeug
Lil Nas X		Montero		This is the song named after his birth first name. It is also known as "Call Me By Your Name". - JohnHowarth
Lil Uzi Vert		XO Tour Llif3		Push me to the edge, all my friends are dead - JohnHowarth
Limp Bizkit		Take a Look Around		"I know why you want to hate me". That quote should be the title of this song because it is the most repeated sentence in the song. The title of this song appears in the lyrics of another song by Limp Bizkit, called "My Generation". - B1982
Linkin Park		The Catalyst		"God save us, everyone/We're a broken people living under loaded gun/And it can't be outfought, it can't be outdone/It can't be outmatched, it can't be outrun, no!" - Crafthead
Linkin Park		Paper Cut		It should be called "Beneath my Skin" since that's the Refrain. - Paul Warren
Linkin Park		Faint		"I can't feel the way I did before / Don't turn your back on me, I won't be ignored" - Nat
Linkin Park		Figure.09		And now/You've become a part of me (you'll always be right here)/You've become a part of me (you'll always be my fear)/I can't seperate myself from what I've done/Giving up a part of me, I've let myself become you - Jonathan S.
Linkin Park		Iridescent		Could probably have been called "Let It Go" because it was around long before Frozen... - Crafthead
Linkin Park		Points of Authority		When you hear this song without having heard its title, you might think it's called "You live what you learn", because that's the most repeated sentence in the lyrics. - B1982
Linkin Park		Jornada del Muerto		All in foreign language, not English. English translation doesn't contain song title either - Jack
Linus' Blanket		Signal Waltz		Neither the words "signal" or "waltz" are said in the song, and the song is not a waltz. The only lyrics in the song are just non-lexical vocables. - Justin
Linus' Blanket		Blanket Song		The song doesn't seem to be about blankets, and the word "blanket" isn't said once in the song. But the song is comforting ,like a blanket, so that's likely how it got it's name. - Sweet Anne
Little Green Cars		Harper Lee		Oh, there’s a gun in the attic, let me go grab it Oh, I’d blow holes in my soul just so you can look past it Oh yeah, there’s glass on the floor, there’s a hole in the roof Oh yeah, the chandelier fell, now the rain’s falling through - Jonathan S.
Little Green Cars		Big Red Dragon		I'm not gonna wait for an "oh my god" - Jonathan S.
Little Green Cars		The John Wayne		It's easy to fall in love... - Jonathan S.
Little Stevie Wonder		Fingertips		I don't remember seeing "Fingertips" by Little Stevie Wonder on this list. I don't recall the word "Fingertips" in the lyrics. Most well known lyric is "Everybody say yeah" "Yeah" - Patrick Curley
Live		Mirror Song		No mention of a mirror in the song. The album's title "Mental Jewelry" is said in the lyrics however. - JohnHowarth
Live		Lakini's Juice		The singer, Ed Kowlaczyk, mentions "wine" and "water", but no "juice". And who knows where Lakini is? - newrock
Live		Top		Pick me up and put me on the ground / set me up and spin me all around / You are not the one - JohnHowarth
Live		Selling The Drama		I've willed, I've walked, I've read, I've talked. I know, I know I've been here before. - Brian Kelly
Live		T.B.D.		T.B.D. stands for "Tibetan book of the dead" or "to be determined", but neither of those are said in any of the lyrics. - John Howarth
Live		White, Discussion		Look where all this talking got us baby - JohnHowarth
Living Colour		Open Letter To The Landlord		"Now you can tear a building down but you can't erase a memory These houses may look all run down but they have a value you can't see." - Reggie Pillbox
Liz Phair		Chopsticks		The song borrows the melody of the piano piece "Chopsticks", composed by Arthur de Lull Allen (or "Lulli", real name Euphemia Allen) in 1877. - sherock
LMFAO		Party Rock Anthem		The word "Party rock" is used as a lyric, but not the word "anthem" - JohnHowarth
Local H		Bound For The Floor		And You just don't get it/Keep your copacetic/And you learn to accept it/You know you're so pathetic - Jonathan S,
Local H		Cynic		An ego might not be so bad It could be something I should have I can't make my mind up Help me with this while I grip this I made a promise to myself, but I think I need some help If you see something that is good in me won't you tell me? And maybe I'd be something you could stand - Jonathan S.
Loggins & Messina		Danny's Song		A top 10 hit for Anne Murray originally recorded by an obscure band called Gator Creek that Kenny Loggins was a part of. Danny is Kenny's brother and the song was written on the occasion of his brother's son. It is the Loggins & Messina version that gets more airplay today. "Even know we ain't got money, I'm so in love with ya honey" - KL Fan
Logic		1-800-273-8255		This is the number for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline, and it's mentioned nowhere in the lyrics. - Ariana Grande mocha swirl
Loreena McKennitt		The Mummers' Dance		A very beautiful song about Celtic traditions. - Lauren Tyler
Lostboycrow		HiyHiy		Oh oh, on that open road - JohnHowarth
Lou Christie		Lightning Strikes		They sing "That's lightning striking again"--not "Lightning Strikes".485 - Rich "Sully" Connelly
Love		Alone Again Or		The word 'or' isn't anywhere. - Opie M.
Lucky Boys Confusion		Dumb Pop Song		I'm gonna steal your girlfriend! - Jonathan S.
Lush		De-Luxe		The word "deluxe" is never mentioned, either as one word or a hyphenate. - British Bullcrap
Lush		For Love		Believe it or not, these two words are never together in the song. - She

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