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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 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 | ||
| Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats | Wasting Time | He sings "What a waste of time", but that's as close as it gets. - Opie M. | ||
| 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 | ||
| The Neighbourhood | Sweater Weather | The singer, Jesse Rutherford, mentions a sweater, but he doesn't mention the word "weather". - JohnHowarth | ||
| Neil Sedaka | The Immigrant | "There was a time when strangers were welcome here..." Dedicated to John Lennon. The single peaked at number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent one week at number one on the Easy Listening chart in May 1975. - Greg Hulak | ||
| 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 | Dreams Never End | But never guess how the 'Him' would scream - JohnHowarth | ||
| New Order | Love Vigilantes | I want to see my family / My wife and child waiting for me / I've got to come home / I've been so alone, you see - JohnHowarth | ||
| New Order | Blue Monday | How does it feel to treat me like you do? - Eric Andrews | ||
| New Order | 5-8-6 | Heard you calling, yes I heard you calling - JohnHowarth | ||
| 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 | Fine Time | The past doesn't matter - JohnHowarth | ||
| 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 | ||
| New Order | Age of Consent | I'm not the kind that likes to tell you - JohnHowarth | ||
| New Order | Face Up | Another New Order song where the title is nowhere to be seen. The word "face" is mentioned however. - JohnHowarth | ||
| New Order | The Village | Our love is like the earth/flowers - JohnHowarth | ||
| New Order | Let's Go (Nothing for Me) | "Let's Go" isn't said in any of the lyrics, but the parenthetical title (Nothing for Me) is. - JohnHowarth | ||
| Niall Horan | This Town | The only time "this" and "town" are used in the same phrase is in the line "It's funny how things never change in this old town". The words "Everything comes back to you" are used much more frequently. - Ariana Grande mocha swirl | ||
| 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 | ||
| Nickelodeon | Rugrats Rock | A baby's gotta do what a baby's gotta do - JohnHowarth | ||
| Nicki Minaj | FTCU | The word "FTCU", which is nowhere to be seen in the lyrics, stands for F*** the Club Up, which is used more frequently. - JohnHowarth | ||
| Nicki Minaj | Super Freaky Girl | The word "super" isn't said in any of the lyrics. - JohnHowarth | ||
| Nightcrawlers | Push the Feeling On (The Dub of Doom) | The only lyrics are "Earn. Their lives again. Earn. Their lie to pull us", which is repeated throughout the song. - JohnHowarth | ||
| 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 | Sahara | 1001 nights unseen the philosopher and the queen - thelastaurora | ||
| Nightwish | Dead Boy's Poem | dead boy's poem was not mentioned - thelastaurora | ||
| Nightwish | Lagoon | imagine a perfect beach without a mermaid - 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 | ||
| Nina Nastasia | 4 yrs | No mention of four years in the song. - JohnHowarth | ||
| Nina Nastasia | Bird of Cuzco | No mention of Cuzco in the song. There's still a mention of a bird in the beginning. - JohnHowarth | ||
| Nina Nastasia | The Long Walk | No mention of a walk in the song. - JohnHowarth | ||
| Nine Inch Nails | March Of The Pigs | All the pigs are all lined up./I give you all that you want./Take the skin and peel it back./Now doesn't it make you feel better? - Brian Kelly | ||
| Nirvana | Smells Like Teen Spirit | "Here we are now, entertain us" - B1982 | ||
| Nirvana | Tourette's | This title, which refers to a mental disorder where someone stands up and swears a blue steak (among other traits) is not used in the song. In fact, on the lyric sheet all that's listed is, "Cufk", "Tish" and "Sips". You do the math. - Sailor Sam | ||
| 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 | ||
| Nirvana | Sliver | "Grandma" probably would have been better, since Kurt's telling her to take him home several times. - rocky | ||
| 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 | ||
| Noah Cyrus | July | So tell me to leave/I'll pack my bags, get on the road - JohnHowarth | ||
| Notorious B.I.G. | Mo Money Mo Problems | The mo money we come upon, the more problems we see - Rich Connelly |
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