# Song Titles that don't Appear in the Lyrics **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 2, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697 "2006-03-02T00:05:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697/61 "2006-03-02T21:28:08Z")
Possum Kingdom- The Toadies ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697/62 "2006-03-02T21:30:02Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Sunshine Superman _Technically_ the title doesn’t appear as a phrase in the lyrics, but both words appear separately. ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2006, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697/63 "2006-03-02T22:13:13Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > Uh, isn’t that song entitled “Time of Your Life”? 😕 It’s both! On the _Nimrod_ album it’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” [Cite](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimrod_%28album%29) On the single it’s “Time of Your Life (Good Riddance)” [Cite (look at the picture)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Riddance_%28Time_Of_Your_Life%29) As to the OP: In the Green Day song “Longview” or “Long View” (They’re very inconsistent in things like this), I don’t think the title is ever a lyric. ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697/64 "2006-03-03T01:48:49Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > “Baba O’Riley” by The Who Also, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”. (The chorus actually says, _“we **don’t** get fooled again.”_) Does “N.W.O.” by Ministry count? ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697/65 "2006-03-03T03:19:43Z")
> [@Tootingkhamen](#): > > “Subterranean Homesick Blues” - Bob Dylan See #18 on the original list. ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697/66 "2006-03-03T06:31:39Z")
A few by **Pink Floyd** Brain Damage Run Like Hell Young Lust In the Flesh Sheep ---
**Author:** ![Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Boulter\_s\_Canary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boulter_s_Canary)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697/67 "2006-03-03T09:44:49Z")
> [@Suburban Plankton](#): > > A few by **Pink Floyd** > > Brain Damage > Run Like Hell > Young Lust > In the Flesh > Sheep A couple by Richard Thompson: **King of Bohemia Sloth Outside of the Inside** ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697/68 "2006-03-03T14:39:16Z")
**New York Mining Disaster 1941** – Bee Gees (“Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?”) \*\*A Song of Patriotic Prejudice[/b – Flanders and Swann (“The English, the English, the English are best/I wouldn’t give tuppence for all of the rest.”) **Ill Wind** – Flanders and Swann **Hymn 43** – Jethro Tull **Wind Up** – Jethro Tull **Summer '68** – Pink Floyd ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2006, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697/69 "2006-03-03T16:35:38Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > **Wind Up** – Jethro Tull “He’s not the kind you have to wind up on Sundays.” Perhaps you were thinking of “Cheap Day Return”? ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697/70 "2006-03-05T01:08:56Z")
**Tomorrow Never Knows** , The Beatles (“Turn off your mind…”) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697/71 "2006-03-05T01:21:47Z")
> [@FilmGeek](#): > > Screenwriter’s Blues Which makes me think of the Spin Doctors “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues” ---
**Author:** ![from\_a\_to\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5fc32e/32.png) [@from\_a\_to\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/from_a_to_z)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697/72 "2006-03-05T02:43:55Z")
> [@Frostillicus](#): > > … the actual title of the song… And if the actual title is “untitled”…? Anyway, some Tom Lehrer songs have actual titles – “The Elements” “MLF Lullaby” “The Derivative Song” “The Hunting Song” “The Irish Ballad” “The Professor’s Song” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-titles-that-dont-appear-in-the-lyrics/346697.md?page=3)