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Songs that mention their title in the opening line of the song
Songs That Open With Their Titles, N
Performer | Song Title | Opening Lines | Comments & Submittor Name | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | Taxi Cab | T-t-taxi cab, t-t-taxi cab, t-t-taxi cab | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | Run | Run, run, run, you can't run any faster | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | I'm Out | If you're gonna treat me that way, I'm out | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | I Don't Want to Go to School | I don't want to go to school, yes it's true | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | Mystery Girl | Who's our mystery girl, who I see on the block? | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | Everybody's Cried At Least Once | Everybody's cried at least once, everybody's laughed at least twice, and over and over again | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | If That's Not Love | If that's not love, then what is? | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | Crazy Car | Crazy car, you leave me nowhere, leave me nowhere | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | No Night Can be Perfect | No night can be perfect, but this comes pretty close | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | Hardcore Wrestlers | Hardcore wrestlers, hardcore wrestlers, hardcore wrestlers with inner feelings | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | If You Can Make It Through the Rain | If you can make it through the rain, you can make it through the sun | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | Body I occupy | And in this body that I occupy, I've asked you questions that can make you cry | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | I've Got a Question | I've got a question for you, I've got a question for you | Haha so weird to be submitting so many songs by a children's band.. but I used to like their music and still remember the lyrics to many of their songs (is that sad?) XD - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | Eventually | And the sun will find us all eventually, eventually | - J. | |||
| The Naked Brothers Band | I Indeed Can See | I indeed, I indeed can see | - J. | |||
| Nana Mouskouri | When Love Comes Calling | When love comes calling, you'd better be at home. | - Candy Welty | |||
| Nanci Griffith | I Wish it Would Rain | Oh, I wish it would rain | - Sutch | |||
| Nanci Griffith | There's A Light Beyond These Woods | There's a light beyond these woods, Mary Margaret. Do you think that we will go there | - Lily Orange | |||
| Nancy Ames | Cry Softly | Cry softly when he leaves you lonely, girl | - Leda Metro | |||
| Nancy Sinatra | Love Eyes | Love eyes, baby you sure got love eyes, turn me on a lot | - Candy Welty | |||
| Nancy Sinatra | Lightning's Girl | I told you that I'm Lightning's girl, but you keep hanging 'round | - Candy Welty | |||
| Nancy Sinatra | You Only Live Twice | You only live twice or so it seems, One life for yourself and one for your dreams. | From the James Bond movie of the same name. Nancy Sinatra was the first American artists to record (or be asked to) a James Bond movie theme. The second American artists, Carly Simon, wouldn't be asked to until a decade later. - Peter | |||
| Nat King Cole | All Over The World | All over the world (x2) Love is the thing. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Nat King Cole | Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer | Roll out those lazy-hazy-crazy days of summer, those days of soda and pretzels and beer | - Candy Welty | |||
| Nat King Cole | A Blossom Fell | A blossom fell from off a tree | - Candy Welty | |||
| Nat King Cole | Caroling, Caroling | Caroling, caroling now we go, Christmas bells are ringing. | - Ava Murphy | |||
| Nat King Cole | Dance, Ballerina, Dance | Dance, ballerina, dance and do your pirouette in rhythm with your achin' heart | - Candy Welty | |||
| Nat King Cole | Unforgettable | Unforgettable, that's what you are | "Unforgettable", according to Billboard Magazine's HOT 100 charts, was a #12 hit for Cole back in 1951 - 52. It was written by Irving Gordon. The song also charted three other times: In 1954 for the Dick Hyman Trio (#29), in 1959 for Dinah Washington (#17) and as a duet by a posthumous Nat and his daughter, Natalie in 1991. - Peter | |||
| Nat King Cole | Come Closer To Me | Come closer to me so I can see heaven in your eyes | - Candy Welty | |||
| Nat King Cole | Mona Lisa | Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you You're so like the lady with the mystic smile | "Mona Lisa" was a #1 song, according to Billboard Magazine's HOT 100 charts, for Cole for 8 weeks back in 1950. It was written by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans. It also won an Oscar award. It was from the U.S. film, "Captain Carey" starring Alan Ladd. - Peter | |||
| Nat King Cole | Too Young | They tried to tell us we're too young, too young to really be in love | - Candy Welty | |||
| Natalie Cole | Inseparable | Inseparable, that's how we'll always be | - Candy Welty | |||
| Natalie Merchant | Jealousy | Ooh, jealousy | - Tim | |||
| Natalie Merchant | Kind and Generous | You've been so kind and generous | - Alex | |||
| Natalie Wood | I Feel Pretty | I feel pretty. Oh, so, pretty, I feel pretty and witty and gay. | From the moive version of "West Side Story". (Wood's voice was actually dubbed by Marnie Nixon). Of course, the meaning of the word "gay" was different when Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics (in 1957) than what it is now. - broadway | |||
| Natalie Wood and Rita Moreno | A Boy Like That | A boy like that who'd kill your brother, Forget that boy and find another, One of your own kind! | "A Boy Like That" is another song from the Bernstein and Sondheim musical, "West Side Story". It is a duet between Maria and her friend, Anita, with Anita trying to plead in the first couple of lines for Maria to break things off with Tony. Anita was played in the motion picture by Rita Moreno and in the original Broadway musical by Chita Rivera. - Peter | |||
| Natasha Bedingfield | These Words (I Love You, I Love You) | My heart / these words are my own | - Alex | |||
| Natasha Bedingfield | Pocketful of Sunshine | I've got a pocket, got a pocketful of sunshine. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Natasha Bedingfield | Love Like This | Whoa oh, oh never find a love like this | Seems to be common for her, doing this. - Alex | |||
| Natasha Owens | Trump Won | Trump won and you know it | (Editor's note: The political opinions expressed in these lyrics do not necessarily reflect those of Amiright or its editors.) - William Ransom | |||
| The National | Graceless | Graceless. Is there a powder to erase this? | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Naughty By Nature | O.P.P. | O.P.P, how can I explain it? | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Nazareth | Holiday | Drinkin' my wine, makes me feel fine, gonna have me a holiday | - Joey F. | |||
| Nazareth | Love Hurts | Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and mars any heart not tough or strong enough | - Candy Welty | |||
| Nazareth | Dream On | Dream on, though it's hard to tell, though you're foolin' yourself | From 1982 album 2XS. Charted only in Europe. - Joey F. | |||
| Neil Diamond | Song Sung Blue | Song sung blue Everybody knows one | This was Diamond's 2nd #1 song, in 1972. - Peter | |||
| Neil Diamond | Kentucky Woman | Kentucky woman, she shines with her own kind of light | - Candy Welty | |||
| Neil Diamond | Cracklin' Rosie | Cracklin' Rosie, get on board Were gonna ride till there ain't no more to go | Even though Neil Diamond had been having several hits going back to 1966, and even writing hits for the Pre-Fab four group known as the Monkees, it would take the year 1970 and "Cracklin' Rosie" for Diamond to have his first #1 hit on Billboard Magazine's HOT 100 charts. - Peter | |||
| Neil Diamond | Longfellow Serenade | Longfellow serenade, such were the plans I made. For she was a lady and I was a dreamer with only words to trade. | - Candy Welty | |||
| Neil Diamond | Love On The Rocks | Love on the rocks. Ain't no surprise. | From "The Jazz Singer" soundtrack. - MOR | |||
| Neil Diamond | Beautiful Noise | What a beautiful noise comin' up from the street | - Candy Welty | |||
| Neil Diamond | Turn Around | Turn around. Where do you think you're going? | - Candy Welty | |||
| Neil Diamond | Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon | Girl, you'll be a woman soon. Love you so much, can't count all the ways I'd die for you, girl | - Candy Welty | |||
| Neil Diamond | Stones | Stones would play inside her head. And where she slept, they made her bed. | - Candy Welty | |||
| Neil Diamond | Hello Again | Hello again, hello. Just called to say hello. | - Candy Welty | |||
| Neil Diamond | Walk On Water | Walk on water, ain't it like her? She leads the children. Ain't it right, ain't it right, ain't it right? | - Candy Welty | |||
| Neil Sedaka | Oh! Carol | Oh! Carol, I am but a fool. Darling I love you, though you treat me cruel. | - Candy Welty | |||
| Neil Sedaka | Sad Eyes | Sad eyes, don't you be sad no more | - Sutch | |||
| Neil Young | Lookin' For A Leader | Lookin' for a leader to bring our country home. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Neil Young | Lotta Love | It's gonna take a lotta love to change the way things are | From his 1978 album Comes A Time. Nicolette Larson scored a hit with her version of this song from her debut album Nicolette, released also in 1978. - Joey F. | |||
| Neil Young | Southern Man | Southern man, better keep your head. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Neil Young | One of These Days | One of these days, I'm gonna sit down | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Neil Young | Old Man | Old man, look at my life. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Neil Young | Cinnamon Girl | I wanna live with a cinnamon girl. I could be happy the rest of my life with a cinnamon girl. | - Candy Welty | |||
| Neil Young | Let's Impeach The President | Let's impeach the president for lying. | Just to be clear, he's talking about Bush, not Obama. - Brian Kelly | |||
| Nelly | Ride Wit' Me | If you wanna go and take a ride wit' me. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Nerf Herder | Sorry | Sorry we broke up, sorry I missed you | - RevengeFromMars YouTube | |||
| Nerf Herder | High Five Anxiety | High five anxiety, high five anxiety | - RevengeFromMars YouTube | |||
| Nerf Herder | Van Halen | I bought Van Halen 1. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Nerf Herder | Down on Haley | Down on Haley, Haley Street | Haley Street is in Santa Barbara, CA. - RevengeFromMars YouTube | |||
| Nerf Herder | Nervous Breakdown | Nervous breakdown, come take me away | - RevengeFromMars YouTube | |||
| NeverShoutNever! | Jane Doe | Jane Doe, I don't even know you but I know for sure that you are beautiful. | - Anonymous | |||
| NeverShoutNever! | 30 Days | 30 days till Christmas and all I know is I'm not quite ready to let go of this past year | - Chris Hodge | |||
| The New Christy Minstrels | Green, Green | Green, green, it's green they say on the far side of the hill | - Candy Welty | |||
| The New Christy Minstrels | Three Wheels On My Wagon | Three wheels on my wagon and I'm still rolling along | - Candy Welty | |||
| New Order | Confusion | Confusion. You just can't believe me. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| New Order | Shellshock | That's the way. Shellshock. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| New Order | 1963 | It was January, 1963 | - Brian Kelly | |||
| The New Pornographers | Champions of Red Wine | We are champions of red wine, poured all over. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| The New Vaudeville Band | Winchester Cathedral | Winchester Cathedral, you're bringing me down | - Candy Welty | |||
| The Newbeats | Bread And Butter | I like bread and butter, I like toast and jam | - Candy Welty | |||
| The Newbeats | Run, Baby Run (Back Into My Arms) | Run, run baby run | - Bob | |||
| Newsboys | Wherever We Go | Wherever we go the bluebirds sing, and the flowers bloom and the grass gets green... | Track 1 off their 2006 album ; Go. - Francesco | |||
| Newsboys | RSL1984 | RSL 1984... Some kissed the girls , I kissed the floor. | Track 10 off their 2009 album ; In The Hands Of God - Francesco | |||
| Newsboys | I'm not Ashamed | I'm not ashamed to let you know, I want this light in me to show! | - Francesco | |||
| Newsboys | Your Love is Better than Life | Your love is better than life! Your love is better than life! | Repeats the title five times in a somewhat distorted voice, then continues with the song, which is quite good if I may add. - Francesco | |||
| Newsboys | I Surrender All | I surrender all to the promises you made... | Track 9 off their 1999 album ; Love Liberty Disco. - Francesco | |||
| Newsboys | I Would Give Everything | I would give everything (dadadadada) to give nothing more... | Track 7 off their 1999 Album ; Love Liberty Disco. - Francesco | |||
| Nick Lowe | (I Made An) American Squirm | I made an American squirm, and it felt so right... | I'll bet you did, Nick! - Lust Labo(u)rer | |||
| Nick Straker Band | A Walk in the Park | A walk in the park, I've got to get some sense back into my head | The Nick Straker Band was a British band best known for their hits "A Walk in the Park" & "A Little Bit of Jazz" - Dylan Baranski | |||
| Nickelback | Believe It or Not | Believe it or not, everyone have things that they hide. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Nickelback | Photograph | Look at this photograph, everytime I do it makes me laugh | - Alex | |||
| Nico & Vinz | Am I Wrong | Am I wrong for thinking out the box from where I stay? | Hey, that's our sister site! - Brian Kelly | |||
| Nicole Scherzinger | Don't Hold Your Breath | Don't hold your breath | - Karmen | |||
| Night Ranger | Four In The Morning | Four in the morning came without a warning. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Night Ranger | Sister Christian | Sister Christian, oh the time has come. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Nikki Blonsky | I Can Hear The Bells | I can hear the bells. Well,don'cha hear them chime? | - Jessica | |||
| Nine Days | Absolutely (Story of a Girl) | This is the story of a girl / Who cried a river and drowned the whole world | - Alex | |||
| Nine Inch Nails | Hurt | I hurt mysef today. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Nino Tempo & April Stevens | Whispering | Whispering while you cuddle near me | - Claire Grayson | |||
| Nino Tempo & April Stevens | Sweet And Lovely | Sweet and lovely, sweeter than the roses in May | - Claire Grayson | |||
| Nino Tempo & April Stevens | Deep Purple | When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls And the stars begin to twinkle in the night, In the mist of a memory you wander on back to me, | The rest of the opening line: " ... Breathing my name with a sigh-sigh-yigh-yigh-a-yigh ." "Deep Purple" was originally a #1 song for Larry McClinton & his Orchestra back in 1939. But it would be Nino Tempo & April Stevens (brother and sister named at birth, Antonio and Carol Lo Tempio) version that would be more memorable by several generations. - Peter | |||
| Nirvana | Heart-Shaped Box | She eyes me like a pisces when I am weak. I've been locked inside your heart-shaped box for weeks. | - Liz Bone | |||
| Nirvana | All Apologies | What else should I be? All apologies. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Nirvana | Polly | Polly wants a cracker. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| Nirvana | Rape Me | Rape me. Rape me, my friend. | I hope he's kidding. - Brian Kelly | |||
| Nirvana | Come As You Are | Come as you are, as you were, as I want you to be | third track off "Nevermind" - nina | |||
| The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band | Buy For Me The Rain | Buy for me the rain, my darling, buy for me the rain | - Candy Welty | |||
| No Doubt | Ex-Girlfriend | I kinda always knew I'd end up your ex-girlfriend. | - Brian Kelly | |||
| No Mercy | Where Do You Go | Where do you go, my lovely? Where do you go, I wanna know | - Jacynthia Maries | |||
| Noel Harrison | Suzanne | Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river | - Candy Welty | |||
| Norah Jones | Sunrise | Sunrise, sunrise / Looks like morning in your eyes | - Alex | |||
| Norman Brooks | You Shouldn't Have Kissed Me | You shouldn't have kissed me the first time 'cause now you gotta do it again | - Candy Welty | |||
| Norman Brooks | Somebody Wonderful | Somebody wonderful is close to me | - Candy Welty | |||
| Norman Brooks | Hello Sunshine | Hello sunshine, goodbye rain. Got my baby back again. | - Candy Welty | |||
| The Norman Luboff Choir | Hooray For The Cowboys | Hooray for the cowboys, brave and bold | - Alyssa Jayne | |||
| NSYNC | Bye Bye Bye | Bye Bye Bye, bye bye bye bye bye bye... | - Max Power | |||
| NSYNC | You Drive Me Crazy | You drive me crazy, why are you messin' with my mind? | Only available in their European album, the song didn't make the cut when they made their American debut album. - Max Power | |||
| Nursery Rhymes | Hickory Dickory Dock | Hickory dickory dock | - JohnHowarth |
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