Tunes: Songs where the title is not in the lyrics
To kick off this thread (I know, a day late from Friday, but here it is ... :) )
I proffer as the thread link ... 4 Non-Blondes - What's Up
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lyrics excerpt ... (you had to know this was coming... :) )
genius.com ... [Verse 1] 25 years and my life is still Tryin' to get up that great big hill of hope For a destination I realized quickly when I knew I should That the world was made up of this brotherhood of man For whatever that means
[Pre-Chorus] And so I cry sometimes when I'm lying in bed Just to get it all out what's in my head And I, I am feeling a little peculiar And so I wake in the morning and I step outside And I take a deep breath and I get real high And I scream from the top of my lungs "What's going on?"
[Chorus] And I say, hey-ey-ey Hey-ey-ey I said "Hey, a-what's going on?" And I say, hey-ey-ey Hey-ey-ey I said "Hey, a-what's going on?" ...
#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-22 08:57 PM | Reply
Another ...
Pink Floyd - Brain Damage (1973) www.youtube.com
Lyrics excerpt ...
genius.com
... Verse 1: Roger Waters] The lunatic is on the grass The lunatic is on the grass Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs Got to keep the loonies on the path [Verse 2: Roger Waters] The lunatic is in the hall The lunatics are in my hall The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day the paperboy brings more [Chorus: Roger Waters] And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon [Verse 3: Roger Waters & Peter Watts] The lunatic is in my head (*laughter*) The lunatic is in my head You raise the blade, you make the change You rearrange me 'till I'm sane You lock the door and throw away the key And there's someone in my head, but it's not me ...
[Verse 2: Roger Waters] The lunatic is in the hall The lunatics are in my hall The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day the paperboy brings more
[Chorus: Roger Waters] And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
[Verse 3: Roger Waters & Peter Watts] The lunatic is in my head (*laughter*) The lunatic is in my head You raise the blade, you make the change You rearrange me 'till I'm sane You lock the door and throw away the key And there's someone in my head, but it's not me ...
#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-22 09:06 PM | Reply
Zimmer-Man, "Positively 4th Street"
www.youtube.com
#3 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-22 09:35 PM | Reply
Stones, "Sympathy for the Devil."
#4 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-22 09:36 PM | Reply
"After the Gold Rush": Parton, Ronstadt, Harris
(get past the first minute of Letterman jabbering, and it's incredibly beautiful)
#5 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-22 09:39 PM | Reply
Jefferson Airplane, "The Ballad of You and Me and Pooneil"
[in honor of Fred Neil]
I'm out. For now.
#6 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-22 09:41 PM | Reply
@#6 ... For now. ...
thx.
... and don't take too long of a time out here ... :)
#7 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-22 09:53 PM | Reply
Well . . . one more, then back to work.
I've never tried to figure it all out -- and after five or six decades I've not been curious enough to look up the lyrics -- but I don't believe the words "murder mystery" are uttered here, among the four different voices.
Mo Tucker sounding intriguing as always.
Velvet Underground, "The Murder Mystery":
#8 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-22 10:22 PM | Reply
Ballad of Dwight Fry by Alice Cooper The Iliad by Ed Sanders
#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-02-22 11:27 PM | Reply
Ed Sanders? The Fugs' Ed Sanders?
#10 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-02-23 12:03 AM | Reply
@#10
The Fugs.
Oh, those memories ....
#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-23 12:22 AM | Reply
@#11
The Fugs en.wikipedia.org
... The Fugs are an American rock band formed in New York City in late 1964,[2] by the poets Ed Sanders and Tuli Kupferberg, with Ken Weaver on drums. Soon afterward, they were joined by Peter Stampfel and Steve Weber of the Holy Modal Rounders. Kupferberg named the band from a euphemism for ---- used in Norman Mailer's novel The Naked and the Dead. The band was one of the leaders of the underground scene of the 1960s and became an important part of the American counterculture of that decade.[3] The group is known for its comedic, even lewd, nature but also earned fame through its persistent anti-Vietnam War sentiment during the 1960s.[2] A famous song of theirs was "Kill for Peace",[4] on their 1966 album The Fugs. Some 1969 correspondence, found inside an FBI file on the rock group the Doors, called the Fugs the "most vulgar thing the human mind could possibly conceive".[5] They have been derided for their scatological lyrics.[6] But, Tom Robbins wrote of them in 1968, "Incongruously ... this trio of hairy gross ginch gropers is the most intellectual, sophisticated and literary ensemble in rock."[7] The Fugs have been labeled avant-rock noise music.[8] ...
The band was one of the leaders of the underground scene of the 1960s and became an important part of the American counterculture of that decade.[3] The group is known for its comedic, even lewd, nature but also earned fame through its persistent anti-Vietnam War sentiment during the 1960s.[2]
A famous song of theirs was "Kill for Peace",[4] on their 1966 album The Fugs.
Some 1969 correspondence, found inside an FBI file on the rock group the Doors, called the Fugs the "most vulgar thing the human mind could possibly conceive".[5]
They have been derided for their scatological lyrics.[6] But, Tom Robbins wrote of them in 1968, "Incongruously ... this trio of hairy gross ginch gropers is the most intellectual, sophisticated and literary ensemble in rock."[7] The Fugs have been labeled avant-rock noise music.[8] ...
Yup, the Fugs.
#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-23 12:26 AM | Reply
Yes
#13 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-02-23 12:46 AM | Reply
Careful With That Axe, Eugene www.youtube.com
Family Snapshot www.youtube.com
Watermelon In Easter Hay www.youtube.com
#14 | Posted by morris at 2025-02-24 12:18 AM | Reply
The Unheard Music - X
Friends warehouse pain Attack their own kind A thousand kids bury their parents There's laughing outside We're locked out of the public eye Some smooth chords On the car radio No hard chords On the car radio We set the trash on fire And watch outside the door Men come up the pavement under the marquee There's laughing outside We're locked out of the public eye Some smooth chords On the car radio No hard chords On the car radio Friends warehouse pain Attack their own kind A thousand kids bury their parents There's laughing outside We're locked out of the public eye Some smooth chords On the car radio No hard chords On the car radio Some smooth chords On the car radio No hard chords On the car radio
#15 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-24 01:48 PM | Reply
Yes, that's Ray Manzarek on organ.
#16 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-24 01:50 PM | Reply
"Breakin' the Law" - New Pornographers
#17 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-02-24 01:59 PM | Reply
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
Every time I think of you I feel a shot right through into a bolt of blue It's no problem of mine but it's a problem I find Living a life that I can't leave behind
There's no sense in telling me The wisdom of a fool won't set you free But that's the way that it goes and it's what nobody knows And every day my confusion grows
Every time I see you falling I get down on my knees and pray I'm waiting for that final moment You'll say the words that I can't say
I feel fine and I feel good I'm feeling like I never should Whenever I get this way I just don't know what to say Why can't we be ourselves like we were yesterday?
I'm not sure what this could mean I don't think you're what you seem I do admit to myself that if I hurt someone else Then I'll never see just what we're meant to be
#18 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-02-24 02:09 PM | Reply
"Badge," Cream (1969)
"A Day in the Life," The Beatles (1967)
"D'yer Mak'er," Led Zeppelin (1973)
"For What It's Worth," Buffalo Springfield (1966)
#19 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-24 02:22 PM | Reply
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