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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
Sabrina Carpenter		A Nonsense Christmas		This is a holiday remix of her song "Nonsense" hence the title. - JohnHowarth
Santana		Mother's Daughter		The song is clearly a poke at an ex. (girlfriend? wife? succubus?), but the lyrics only paraphrase the title. - princejellyfish
Saosin		It's Far Better to Learn		What is my body worth? Was there a price set before? There's something greater there - Nat
Saosin		Sleepers		The bridge comes close to mentioning the title: "Was it all enough? Did it wake you up from your sleeping?" - Nat
Sarah McLachlan		Possession		And I would be the one./To hold you down, kiss you so hard./I'll take your breath away,/and after, I'd wipe away your tears/ and close your eyes dear. - Brian Kelly
Savage Garden		Affirmation		I believe (THEN THE REST) - LAC
Say Anything		Wow, I Can Get Sexual Too		"I called her on the phone And she touched herself I laughed myself to sleep." - Katy
Schoolhouse Rock		Them Not-So-Dry Bones		Them bones, them bones, them dry bones Now they're the working on the Lord - John Howarth
Schoolhouse Rock		Three Is A Magic Number		"A man and a woman had a little baby That makes three, that makes three in the family It's a magic number" There is no "is". - Lance Crackers
Schoolhouse Rock		Three Ring Government		Gonna have a three-ring circus someday - JohnHowarth
Schoolhouse Rock		Tax Man Max		I hear you callin', Uncle, and I'm payin' my tax. - JohnHowarth
Scorpions		Animal Magnetism		From the eponymous 1980 album - Joey F.
Scorpions		Obsession		'Cause it feels so good to be your lover. (From 1999 album "Eye II Eye") - Joey F.
Scorpions		Fly To The Rainbow		From eponymous 1974 album. - Joey F.
Scorpions		China White		From the 1982 album Blackout. This was used as entrance music for the professional wrestling tag team The Skyscrapers in World Championship Wrestling (WCW). According to Kerrang!, Rudolf Schenker said that he could not choose between his guitar solos on this song, so the US and European releases differed in this small detail. - Joey F.
The Script		The Man Who Can't Be Moved		"Cause if one day you wake up and find that you're missing me And your heart starts to wonder where on this Earth I could be Thinking maybe you'd come back here to the place that we'd meet And you'd see me waiting for you on the corner of the street So I'm not moving I'm not moving, yeah" However, it is worth noting that the title does appear a couple times in the song, just not in the chorus, which is what most people know of the song - Insertnamehere
The Script		Love Not Lovers		"But you will never find love, you will only find lovers" is as close as it gets - Insertnamehere
The Script		Science and Faith		"You won't find faith or hope down the telescope. You won't find heart and soul in the stars. You can break everything down to chemicals, but you can't explain a love like ours - Alan O.
Sean Morey		The Beach Song		We're goin' down to Forgotten Beach / Some people say it's a rotten beach... - Jonathan S.
Seekers		The 59th Street Bridge Song		Slow down, you move too fast. You got to make the morning last. Just kicking down the cobble stones. Looking for fun and feelin' groovy. - Pat Kenski
SeeMore's Playhouse		Sunshine, Sunscreen		The words are used in the song, but the title is not sung together - Brionna Secret
Serj Tankian		Beethoven's C***		Find the little evil perpetrator/And feed him to the hungry alligator/You want it all, You want it all/Love is not about the profits/Nor the riches in your dreams/The arms of time are breaking off/Civilization is on trial/The clocks eliminating time/Do you believe in me - Jonathan S.
Sesame Street (TV)		Magic Pig		The song is about perspective and has nothing to do with magic or pigs. - JohnHowarth
Set It Off		N.M.E.		It took me way longer than it should've to realize that the title stands for "no more excuses", which is said in the song. - Insertnamehere
Sgt. Barry Sadler		Ballad Of The Green Berets		Not surprisingly, neither the word "ballad" nor the phrase "ballad of" tend to be found in the lyrics of songs whose titles begin with that phrase. This one might be simply called "The Green Berets", from its obvious subject matter. The opening line, "Fighting soldiers from the sky" might also be cited as an apparent "title", but I suspect that that is less likely. - Thessaly Danes
Shabutie		Zut		The lyrics are ridiculous, and amazing, but not ridiculous enough to have "Zut" thrown in =] - Katy
Shabutie		Strung Short		"Well, I’m a snake in the grass, girl. You better watch out, I might strike. And I’m hard on running as fast as I can, and here we go to save the world." - Katy
Shabutie		Sarah Lawrence Strikes Back		"Hold mine. Hold mine. Hold mine. Hold mine. Hold merit. Hold mine." - Katy
Shabutie		Sarah Lawrence		"I miss you. You said you’d be coming home. To my home, move over to mine, to share. We’re inside you now. Well, I’m never going backward or outside, yeah, yeah. Think about it. Well, this dies tonight." - Katy
Shabutie		Disciple's Anthem		"Could have sworn that you’d fall, a beautiful girl whose smiles could cut me." Cute, yeah? But it never says "Disciple's Anthem" - Katy
Shabutie		Camouflage		Yes, I caught this stain! Begins to multiply, whoa! We echo through this song, yes, and in it's words, I'll rise! - Katy
Shabutie		Bloody Brit Song		These lyrics are insane, but they NEVER say anything about a bloody Brit. - Katy
Shabutie		Ambassador Johnson		I've tried listening for it to mention this Ambassador... but no. =] - Katy
Shinedown		Diamond Eyes		EVERYONE OF US IS EXPENDABLE! - Pete
Shonen Knife		Flying Jelly Attack		I'm gonna eat jelly, jelly, jelly, jelly, jelly, jelly, jelly, jelly beans. - Sheila Oh
Showtek		90s By Nature (feat. MC Ambush)		Fun fact: it samples their earlier track "Laa Di F**king Daa" (from 2009), specifically the line "to get hit with the motherf**king (hardstyle)". - Crafthead
Sick Puppies		Street Fighter (War)		Made for the game Street Fighter 4, which explains the main title. However, only the parenthetical title appears in the song. - Jonathan S.
Sick Puppies		You're Going Down		What's actually sung is "ONE OF US is going down". - Jonathan S.
Sigue Sigue Sputnik		Love Missile F1-11		It's not called "Shoot It Up." - dxman
Simon & Garfunkel		For Emily Wherever I May Find Her		It's a beautiful image-filled love song. - Greg Hulak
Simon & Garfunkel		The 59th St. Bridge Song		The opening line, "Slow down, you move too fast/got to make the morning last" and "feelin' groovy" are the best-known lines from this 60's tune. The "59th Street Bridge" is actually the span's nickname. It's official name is the Queensboro Bridge, and it connects Long Island City, Queens, with 59th Street in Manhattan over the East River. - MasonR
Simon & Garfunkel		Punky's Dilemma		Wish I were a Kellog's Cornflake.... - Paul Warren
Simon and Garfunkel		El Condor Pasa		I'd rather be a sparrow than a snail Yes I would, if I could, I surely would - Joe H
Simply Red		For Your Babies		Only one "baby" in the lyrics - Joey F.
Siouxsie and the Banshees		Cities in Dust		it only says “your city lies in dust” - brian Heller
Sister Janet Mead		The Lord's Prayer		The classic prayer sung with music; a hit in the US during the 70s - Joe H
Skillet		Awake and Alive		The closest it comes to the title is "I'm awake, I'm alive" and "I'm awake and I'm alive", both in the chorus. - Kung-Fu Cutbug
Skrillex		Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites		He never says the title in the song. - Brionna Secret
Skrillex ft. Ellie Goulding		Summit		There are four lines in this song, and none of them mention the title. This song has nothing to do with mountains at all. - Crafthead
Skylark		Wildflower		They sing "She's a free and gentle flower growing wild". Never the title. - Rich Connelly
The Sleeping		Loud and Clear		Back, back, back, back through the radio Now who is listening tonight? - Katy
Slipknot		Eyeless		The song does mention eyes quite a lot, particularly the hook "you can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes", which was inspired by the words shouted by a homeless man at Corey Taylor (the singer). - Danny Hates Dubstep
Slipknot		Duality		"If the pain goes on, I'm not gonna make it!" Beautiful. - Danny Hates Dubstep
Slowdive		When The Sun Hits		If you listen closely, you'll hear Neil and Rachel sing "As the sun hits" and not "When". - British Bullcrap
Smash Mouth		Shoes n Hats		The song is about shoes and hats, hence the title, which is nowhere to be seen in the lyrics. - JohnHowarth
Smashing Pumpkins		Ava Adore		"It's you that I adore You'll always be my whore." Sorry, no Ava. - rocky
The Smashing Pumpkins		Pug		"pug" is not said anywhere in the song. - Steve
Smashing Pumpkins		Where Boys Fear To Tread		The title is not mentioned in the song. - Mickey D.
The Smashing Pumpkins		Eye		The word "eye" is never used in the song. The same sounding word "I" however, is frequently used. - Steve
Smashing Pumpkins		Thirty-Three		"To make it last forever you" was used as a chorus. But no "thirty-three" was mentioned in the lyrics. - Mickey D.
The Smashing Pumpkins		Rhinocerus		This wonderful creature is never actually mentioned in the song. - Blaydeman
Smashing Pumpkins		Bullet With Butterfly Wings		However, Billy can't seem to get enough of that "Despite all my rage, I'm still just a rat in a cage" line. - Brian Kelly
The Smashing Pumpkins		Cherub Rock		However, Billy can't seem to get enough of that "Let me out" line. Another thing, my imagination is in the version 2 of the video where Billy Corgan and another man plays boxing with each other on the ring. - Mickey D.
Smashing Pumpkins		Galapogos		However, Billy can't seem to get enough of that "I won't deny the pain" line. But a good key. - Mickey D.
Smashing Pumpkins		Jellybelly		However, Billy can't seem to get enough of that "We're nowhere" line. - Mickey D.
Smashing Pumpkins		Muzzle		"I knew the silence of the world" is sung so many, but no "muzzle" is mentioned. - Mickey D.
Smashing Pumpkins		Cupid de Locke		Billy Singer did not sing the song title in the song. - Mickey D.
The Smiths		There Is a Light That Never Goes Out		"There is a light AND IT never goes out" - Evan
The Smiths		How Soon Is Now?		"When you say it's gonna happen "now" Well, when exactly do you mean? See I've already waited too long and all my hope is gone." That just about as close to mentioning "How Soon Is Now?" as the song got. - British Bullcrap
Sneaker Pimps		Tesko Suicide		No mention of Tesco or suicide in the lyrics. The song's title comes from supermarket "Tesco", and the most well known lyric is "Go on girls". - JohnHowarth
Sneaker Pimps		Becoming X		The word "becoming" and the letter X are nowhere to be seen in the lyrics. - JohnHowarth
Snow Patrol		Chocolate		This could be the very minute I'm aware I'm alive All these places feel like home With a name I'd never chosen I can make my first steps As a child of 25 This is the straw, final straw in the Roof of my mouth as I lie to you Just because I'm sorry doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it at the time You're the only thing that I love It scares me more every day On my knees I think clearer Goodness knows I saw it coming Or at least I'll claim I did But in truth I'm lost for words What have I done it's too late for that What have I become truth is nothing yet A simple mistake starts the hardest time I promise I'll do anything you ask...this time - Zakery "The Weird Man" Wood
Soilwork		Overload		Trusting the ways of my vulnerable heart A million times before I get things right. So fragile it hurts when I just fall apart. - Katy
Sonic Rush		Metal Scratchin'		Go go ahead / Scratchin' me - JohnHowarth
Sonic Rush		Get Edgy		No mention of getting edgy in the song. The most well-known lyric is "won't get me" - JohnHowarth
Sonic Rush		Ethno Circus		Dah de Dah Dah, de Dah de Dah Dah, de Dah de Dah Dah, de Dah Dah Dah Dah - JohnHowarth
Sonic Rush		Jeh Jeh Rocket		No mention of a rocket anywhere in the song. - JohnHowarth
Sonic Youth		Hallowe'en		Bad Moon Rising is a great album to listen to for Halloween. The holiday is never directly mentioned in the song, however. - Evan
Soundgarden		Mailman		You know im heading for the bottom but im riding you all the way - Morbid J
spandau ballet		chant number 1		the song is called chant number 1 (i dont need this pressure on) they never mention chant number 1 in the song which is the main title while i dont need this pressure on is in brackets - anthony edwards
Spiderbait		Glockenpop		Just try to remember / Words go together - JohnHowarth
Spin Doctors		Jimmy Olsen's Blues		Lois Lane, please put me in your plan./Yeah, Lois Lane. You don't need no Superman./Come on downtown and stay with me tonight./I got a pocketful of Kryptonite. - Brian Kelly
Spineshank		Perfect Ending		I'm home as only you can see. I want to know why this happening to me. - Katy
Sponge		Molly (16 Candles)		Obviously refers to the movie "16 Candles" and its stsr Molly Ringwald. But Molly's name is nowhere in the lyrics. - Opie M.
SpongeBob & Patrick		Nick's B. Danube		Da da da da dum - JohnHowarth
SpongeBob & Plankton		F.U.N. Song		They don't say the word "song", but SpongeBob says the word "fun". - John Howarth
SpongeBob SquarePants		Jellyfish Jam		La-la-la-la-la - John Howarth
Stabbing Westward		Shame		I don't know if I'm real without you. What is left of me without you? - Brian Kelly
Staind		Epiphany		"'Cause it's always raining in my head/Forget all the things I should have said." - Danny Hates Dubstep
Staind		Change		"How do I feel? I've been here before, I've felt this/Retreat to a place, a place within me, I need this/Keep it all down, bottled inside, it breaks me/To torment again and torture me like it used to." - Danny Hates Dubstep
Staind		Warm Safe Place		"And then I come to find you here/Through your eyes everything's clear/And I'm home inside your arms/But I'm alone for now." - Danny Hates Dubstep
Stars		Your Ex-Lover Is Dead		There's one thing I want to say so I'll be brave You were what I wanted, I gave what I gave I'm not sorry I met you I'm not sorry it's over I'm not sorry there's nothing to save. A popular You Tube video. I'm not sorry there's nothing to save - Indy
Static -X		I'm With Stupid (He's A Loser)		It only says "he's a loser", stupid, and I've - SpiderSkull98
Steely Dan		Pretzel Logic		Though this is the song that's also the album title, it should be known as "Those Days are gone forever over a long time ago". - Paul Warren
Steely Dan		The Caves of Altamira		Neither "Caves" nor "Altamira" appear in the lyrics. The more familiar chorus: "Before the fall when they wrote it on the wall / When there wasn't even any Hollywood" - Doug N.
Stephen Stills		Church (Part of Someone)		The subtitle "Part of Someone" is used once during the song, Church is never used. - Doug N.
Stereophonics		Dakota		The chorus is "I don't know where we are going now." The line "Wake up thinking of you" is used a few times so could be the title, but instead it's 'Dakota' which doesn't occur anywhere in the lyrics. - Chris
Steve Forbert		Romeo's Tune		The title wasn't in the lyrics, and the lyrics had nothing to do with Shakespeare's "Romeo & Juliet". - Bill Medley of Hits
Steve Miller Band		The Joker		"I"m a joker" He never says the joker.YY2 - Rich Connelly
Stevie Wonder		Master Blaster		Not even close. - rich connelly
Stevie Wonder		As		Okay, it IS the first word of the song, but after seven minutes of hearing "Always" and "Until", it's hard to remember the title. -- JDonVance - JDonVance
Sting		Saint Augustine In Hell		Although you hear the h-word at least once, you never hear the name 'Saint Augustine' once in the song. Some would probably know it best from the chorus: 'The minute I saw her face, the second I caught her eye, the minute I touched the flame, I knew it would never die!' - Larcen Tyler
Stone Temple Pilots		Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart		Its most famous line: "I am I am I said I'm not myself, but I'm not dead and I'm not for sale." - Rocky Rhodes
Stone Temple Pilots		Piece Of Pie		It's staring me down Wearing a crown... of apathy I'm standing around Dressed like a clown Don't know my name You know where to find me - Jonathan S.
Stone Temple Pilots		Plush		Where are you going for tomorrow? Where are you going with the mask I found? - Brian Kelly
Stone Temple Pilots		Big Empty		The song itself is empty of the title. - Brian Kelly
Stone Temple Pilots		Sex Type Thing		The title implies that the song is about rape, so none of these words appeared in the song. - Rocky Road
Stone Temple Pilots		Interstate Love Song		"Leaving on a Southern Train" would have been a better title. - Rocky
The Stories		Brother Louie		"Louie, Louie, Louie, Louie.... Louie, Louie, Louie, Lou-eye" The song is obviously about a white male falling in love a black girl--who he introduces to his parents, and things don't go well. "Brother Louie" is never said, so the title is an ironic way of saying how much easier it would have been for Louie--if only he was black.Actually, a rather sad, sobering tune about bigotry. - Rich "Sully" Connelly
The Story So Far		Placeholder		"and it's sodomy" , is actually "it's haunting me" - Jack
Strawberry Alarm Clock		Pretty Song from Psych-out		It is a Pretty Song, but Psych-out is nowhere to be heard! - Paul Warren
The Strokes		Juicebox		The title of the song is Juicebox, which is not in the song's lyrics. - Rock Maninoff
The Strokes		Under Cover Of Darkness		Don't go that way./I'll wait for you. - Brian Kelly
Strong Bad		Let's Get Started On Doing All Those Awesome Things I Suggested		Uh They got the, uh, what We got the, uh, what Oh girl, yeah I said, "Oh girl" Dang, you don't look half bad You clean up pretty nice What do you do, take a shower? Use some bath salts? Well anyways, you smell like apricots Let's get started...[song abruptly winds down] - Jonathan S.
Styx		A.D. 1958		"And, so, my friends, we'll say good night" - David Jones
Styx		A.D. 1928		"Tonight's the night we'll make history" - David Jones
Suede		Metal Mickey		"She sells heart, she sells meat Oh dad, she's driving me mad, come see." According to Wikipedia, the only Suede song not to include the title within the song. - Brit Boxx
Sugar Hill Gang		Rapper's Delight		Hotel, motel Holiday Inn ... - Joe H
Sugar Ray		Disasterpiece		All over the world She's that kind of girl There's one in every scene Do you know what I mean? She's got that kind of face You see in every place Another beautiful girl All over the world - Jonathan S.
Sum 41		Crazy Amanda Bunkface		What's so hard about goodbyes? I'm sorry I'm just not as keen On planning out our perfect lives When I'm only 19 - Katy
Sum 41		Fat Lip		I don't wanna waste my time Become another casualty of society I don't wanna fall in line Become another victim of your conformity And back down... - Katy
Supertramp		Fool's Overture		Nearly eleven minutes long, and they use the word "fool" one time, "Fool's Overture" is never used. - Doug N.
Supertramp		Gone Hollywood		The word Hollywood is used once in the song, gone is never used. Probably best known for the use of "Ain't nothing new in my life today" as the oft repeated chorus. - Doug N.
Supertramp		The Logical Song		There are times when all the world's asleep, the questions run too deep for such a simple man. Won't you please, please tell me what we've learned I know it sounds absurd but please tell me who I am - Don
Supertramp		Breakfast in America		And you thought the title was "Take a Look at my Girlfriend," didn't you? - Alan the Ottoman
Susie Stevens Logan & LeapFrog Enterprises		The Days of the Week		Close. The plural form of "days of the week" isn't said in the lyrics. Just the singular. - JohnHowarth
Suzanne Vega		Tom's Diner		There is a mention of a diner but nothing about "Tom" - Joe H
Swimful		Pearls		La la la la eh eh la la la la eh oh - JohnHowarth
Sylar		Dark Daze		Don't wake me if I'm dreaming If You do, it's not enough Still I don't trust the feeling If I'm too high Don't let me come down Don't wake me if I'm dreaming If You do, it's not enough Still I don't trust the feeling Going "too far" even if get lost - Jonathan S.
System Of A Down		Question!		Do we, do we know, when we fly/When we, when we go, do we die? - Jonathan S.
System Of A Down		This Cocaine Makes Me Feel Like I'm On This Song		There's so many repeated lines....Probably something like "Don't eat the fish," "Killers never hurt feelings" or "Gonnorhea gorgonzola." - Jonathan S.
System of a Down		Chop Suey		Should be known as 'Self-Righteous Suicide' because There's no Chop Suey in this song whatsoever. - Paul Warren
System Of A Down		CUBErt		Humans everywhere, canned Cliche people, organs rare Humans everywhere, canned Cliche people cannot DARE! [Note: According to their self-titled album's back cover, the song's title is SUPPOSED to be "Cube" followed by the sign for pi (π). However, since Greek letters can't be typed on a computer, other places usually have it listed as "CUBErt"] - Jonathan S.
System Of A Down		B.Y.O.B.		Neither B.Y.O.B. or its definition (Bring Your Own Bomb) is mentioned. - hardrock (or another alias)
System Of A Down		Chic'N'Stu		"What a splendid pie!/Pizza pizza pie!/Every minute, every second, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy, buy!"...."Need, therapy, therapy/Advertising causes need!" Explanation of title taken from Wikipedia: The song is named for Chick Hearn and Stu Lantz, the Los Angeles Lakers broadcasters. The first lyric "[This] ballgame's in the refrigerator" refers to what Hearn said when the Los Angeles Lakers were in control during the game. - Jonathan S.
System Of A Down		X		We don't need to multiply. - Jonathan S.
SZA		Kill Bill		Despite the title, there is no mention of Kill Bill anywhere in the song. The most repetitive lyric is "not the best idea". - JohnHowarth

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