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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 R, Page PAGENUM
Band | Song | Comments & Submittor Name | ||
| R.E.M. | Texarkana | I would give my life to find it./I would give it all./Catch me if I fall. - Brian Kelly | ||
| 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 | High And Dry | Not every word in the title is in the song. Which word is missing? "And". - Brian Kelly | ||
| Radiohead | Paranoid Android | You don't remember. You don't remember. Why don't you remember my name? - Brian Kelly | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Raydio | Jack And Jill | Although the names Jack and Jill are mentioned during the song , the "and" is not. - Percy Fingertips | ||
| Raye & 070 Shake | Escapism | Close, but she says "escape" instead. - JohnHowarth | ||
| 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 | ||
| Rebecca Frezza | B3 | She sings the word "bee" many times in the song, but never the number 3 - Brionna Secret | ||
| Rebecca Frezza | H20 + O2 + Sun | The exact title isn't sung, but the common terms for them " Give them water, clean air, and sunlight" are - Brionna Secret | ||
| The Red Hot Chili Peppers | Emit Remmus | London in the summer time - RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| 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 | 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 | 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 | ||
| 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 | Elephant Parade | What's actually sung is, "Hip hip hooray for the elephants *ON* parade." - Jonathan S. | ||
| Relient K | Sahara | So I'll ask one thing Just one thing of you Don't ever turn me loose Even when I turn my back - 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. | ||
| 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@ | ||
| REM | Star Me Kitten | The title is censored. Michael's actually singing "F*** me kitten". - Brian Kelly | ||
| Remy Zero | Over the Rails and Hollywood High | Now the last great hollywood high/Stole right over the rails - JohnHowarth | ||
| Remy Zero | Perfect Memory | The parenthetical title "I'll Remember You" is said instead. - JohnHowarth | ||
| The Righteous Brothers | Unchained Melody | Title is definitely not in lyrics, although I know of no other "alternate title". - Thessaly Danes | ||
| The Righteous Brothers | Soul And Inspiration | The Brothers add two words, making the first line in the chorus "You're my soul and my heart's inspiration." The Words "soul and inspiration" are never sang together - Odie Garfield | ||
| Ringo | The NO NO Song | Naturally, he never says anything along the lines of, you know "Here's The NoNo song". - Rich Sully Connelly | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | Politics of Love | The title is nowhere to be found in the lyrics. - Jack | ||
| 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 | Other Arms | The word "other" is not in the lyrics. He actually sings "Lay down your arms". - Rock Maninoff | ||
| Robert Plant | Burning Down One Side | One of his early hits following the break-up of Led Zeppelin. The title is nowhere in the song. - Frosty The Cat | ||
| Robert Plant | Big Log | "My love is in league with the freeway" is the song's most famous line. - Bone Soup | ||
| The Robins | Riot In Cell Block #9 | What's Actually sung is "There's a riot goin' on up in cell block #9". NOTE: Because some members of this group later became part of The Coasters, this song is sometimes credited to that group. - Jonathan S. | ||
| Rock 'N Learn | Basic Colors | The song teaches basic colors. - JohnHowarth | ||
| Rock 'N Learn | Color Practice | This song is for practicing finding colors. - JohnHowarth | ||
| Rod Stewart | The Killing Of Georgie | Like a lot of Rod's best songs, the lyrics tell a story - Eddie2112 | ||
| Rod Stewart | Do Ya Think I'm Sexy? | He never sings the whole title. Instead, he sings "If you want my body and you think I'm sexy". This has always bothered me. - Odie Garfield | ||
| Rod Stewart | Young Turks | Nowhere in the song is the title mentioned; the chorus begins with the line "Young hearts be free tonight"! - crazydon | ||
| Rod Stewart | Tomorrow Is a Long Time | The similar line "If tomorrow wasn't such a long time" appears in the song, but not the title itself. - Bob | ||
| 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 | The Motown Song | The only mention of the word "Motown" is in the lyrics "Bring over some of your old Motown records." However, nowhere in the song is the word Motown preceded by "the" or followed by "song." - Isac | ||
| 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 | She's A Rainbow | Mick Jagger says "She's LIKE a rainbow" in this song. - Rich Poor | ||
| 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 | Paint It Black | The closest he comes is "painted black". - Brian Kelly | ||
| 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 | ||
| The Rolling Stones | Rocks Off | The title is suggestive, but it's nowhere in the song. - Rock Maninoff | ||
| Roy Orbison | Mean Woman Blues | Well, I got a woman... Mean as she could be. - rich connelly | ||
| 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 | ||
| Rush | Marathon | From first to last The peak is never passed - RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| 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 | Entre Nous | Just between us "Entre Nous" means "between us" in French but "entre nous" isn't present in the song lyrics. - RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| 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 | ||
| Rush | Manhattan Project | The big bang took and shook the world Shot down the rising sun - RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Rush | The Spirit Of Radio | Invisible airwaves crackle with life - Eddie2112 | ||
| Rush | Lessons | You didn't listen again - RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Rush | The Body Electric | 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 SOS - RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Rush | Madrigal | When the dragons grow too mighty To slay with pen or sword I grow weary of the battle And the storm I walk toward - RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Rush | The Analog Kid | You move me - RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Rush | Rivendell | You feel there's something calling you You're wanting to return To where the misty mountains rise and friendly fires burn - RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Rush | Red Sector A | I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate Are the liberators here? Do I hope or do I fear? - RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Rush | Vital Signs | Everybody got to elevate from the norm... - RevengeFromMars YouTube | ||
| Rusty Eye | Return Of The Scarecrow | Return Of The Scarecrow is not in the lyrics - weirdkid106 |
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