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** Coldplay has a lot of counterintuitive song titles. "Politik" could easily get mislabeled as "Open Up Your Eyes," since that line is shouted loudly numerous consecutive times, while the word "Politik" only appears twice and doesn't sound important.
** "Viva La Vida" has many title-esque lines in it, but the phrase "Viva La Vida" isn't in the song at all (or in ''any'' song in the album "Viva La Vida," for that matter).
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20140716144946/http://www.wikicoldplay.com/Charlie_Brown#Lyrics_.28official.29 "Charlie Brown"] does not contain the phrase "Charlie Brown" and has no obvious relation to [[Peanuts|Charlie Brown]]. From the lyrics, the song sounds like it's called "Glowing In The Dark" (which is repeated prominently 3 times).
*** [[Fridge Brilliance]]? The outro kinda sounds like the "Peanuts" piano standby "Linus & Lucy".
*** Some incorrectly list the song name as "Cartoon Heart" due to the lyric halfway through the song, the fact this was the original name of the song doesn't help either.
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* [[New Order]]'s "Bizarre Love Triangle" is popularly known as "Every Time I See You Falling." New Order seems particularly fond of song titles that appear nowhere in the lyrics; other famous examples include "Blue Monday" ("How does it feel...") and "True Faith" ("I used to think that the day would never come...").
* "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" is the title of the [[Bob Dylan]] song better known as "[[Everybody Must Get Stoned]]". It's clear why the song couldn't be titled "Everybody Must Get Stoned"—it would have seriously hampered distribution of anything with that song on it; it's less clear why Dylan chose the decoy title. He claimed it was for two women who wandered into the studio the day the song was recorded...
** "Rainy day woman" is apparently a slang term for a marijuana cigarette from the '60s
** Bringing it around full circle, one of the many theories on the origin of 420 as slang for Marijuana is that 420 is 12*35, after this song.
** Similarly, while ''Don't Look Back'' is the Dylan documentary, the song is called "She Belongs to Me." And [[Anti-Love Song|yes, the title is ironic.]]
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** While we're on the subject of Three Dog Night, they never did a song called "How Does Your Light Shine". It's called "Shambala".
** "Black and White" is usually referred to as something along the lines of "A Child Is Black, a Child Is White". The words "black" and "white" appear constantly throughout the song, but "black and white" never appears as an unbroken phrase.
* For all the Canadians out there, "Ontario Sucks" is actually called "The Toronto Song." And it wasn't recorded by the Arrogant Worms either, it's actually by [[Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie]]. Which makes sense anyway, seeing how the Arrogant Worms are from Kingston, ON, not Alberta.
* [[Savage Garden]]'s song "I Want You" is almost exclusively remembered as "Chica Cherry Cola" (or some spelling variant), despite the fact that "I Want You" is most of the chorus and "Chica Cherry Cola" is in the bridge once. This is likely because "Chica Cherry Cola" is distinctive, and "I Want You" is more generic. (The Savage Garden song doesn't have a "She's So Heavy" section, does it?)
* Talking about Savage Garden, it's "Affirmation". And not "I Believe".
* The [[Arcade Fire]] song "Rebellion (Lies)" never has the word "rebellion" occur in its lyrics; it has the word "lies" only in the backup vocals, but it is repeated many times back there.
* [[Barry Manilow]]'s "Weekend in New England" is generally remembered by those who aren't fans of his as "When Will I Hold You Again?" It doesn't help that New England is mentioned only once in the lyrics, and the word "weekend" is never said at all.
* "Annie's Song", one of [[John Denver]]'s biggest hits, never mentions the name Annie anywhere in the lyrics. People who don't know the real title tend to assume it's called "You Fill Up My Senses" or "Come Let Me Love You".
** By the same token, "Annie's Other Song" is often assumed to be called "I'm Bringin' Me Home to You."
** And similarly, [[Simon and Garfunkel]]'s "Kathy's Song" never mentions Kathy in its lyrics (though she is mentioned in different song of theirs, "America", just to add to the confusion).
** Likewise, Loggins & Messina’s oft-covered big hit “Danny’s Song” never mentions Danny and is probably best known for its “Even though we ain’t got money” chorus.
* The song "Beer Barrel Polka" is usually called "Roll out the Barrel."
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** Initially, the song's title was just "I Got You" without the subtitle. The original version has shown up on several compilations over the years.
** His second-most famous is not "Sex Machine," or "Get Up", or "Get On Up," but has the baffling title "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine."
* 3 Doors Down's most famous song is not called "Superman," nor is it called "If I Go Crazy." It's actually called "Kryptonite".
* And the Spin Doctors' song featuring the line "I've got a pocket full of kryptonite" is entitled "Jimmy Olsen's Blues."
** Made more confusing by the fact that the album it's on IS called ''Pocket Full of Kryptonite''.
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* You ''can'' catch the title of John Lennon's "Instant Karma", as it's the first words of the song. But as it is sung rather fast, a lot of listeners pick up on the first words of the chorus instead: "And we ''All Shine on''".
** It's actually "Instant Karma!", with an exclamation point.
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* The [[Memetic Mutation|infamously memetic song]] that lodged "All your base are belong to us" into the minds of so many is titled "Invasion of the Gabber Robots".
** The Laziest Men on Mars used to distribute a version of the song that was tagged "Invasion of the Gabber Robots (all your ''bass'' are belong to us)" back when [[MP3]].com actually sold [[MP 3 s]].
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* You know the song "Freedom" by [[Aretha Franklin]]? It's actually called "Think."
* The only single off of BT's ''Emotional Technology'' is actually titled "Somnambulist (Simply Being Loved)". Between 75% of the refrain consisting of the subtitle and the US home version of ''[[Dance Dance Revolution|DDR Extreme]]'' including it with the title switched around, it's usually referred to as just "Simply Being Loved".
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*** Closest it
** There is no song titled "Do You Cry Your Eyes Asleep". That's "The Force of Gravity", whose title appears but once. Most of the remixes [[Chorus-Only Song|only use the refrain]], completely leaving out the title.
** The song with the refrain "Reach Out for Me" is titled "Mercury and Solace", also a [[Non-Appearing Title]].
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* [[Journey (band)|Journey]]'s song "Don't Stop Believin'" is often referred to as "Midnight Train" or any variant on the first line "just a small-town girl"...
** It's also referred to as "Streetlight People" from the refrain.
** Even after the infamous ''[[The Sopranos|Sopranos]]'' ending?
*** [[Crowning Music of Awesome|Assuming it ever left in the first place]].
*** Also, the song's title was originally written as "Don't Stop Believin'''g'''" on the album. Later re-releases and covers have used "Don't Stop Believin'".
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* That famous John Cougar Mellancamp song isn't called "Ain't That America?". It's called "Pink Houses", and those words do actually appear in the chorus.
** Although it doesn't help at all that John invites the audience to sing ain't that American with him, while he sings little Pink Houses for you and me as low key as possible during concerts.
* [[Madonna]] never did a song called "Spanish Lullaby"; you're looking for "La Isla Bonita". Also, [[Misattributed Song|many people misattribute it to Gloria Estefan.]]
* Hot Chocolate named their song about a black woman/white man relationship "Brother Louie" (famously covered by Stories.) They probably did this to distinguish it from that ''other'' "Louie Louie" song. The word "brother" ''does'' appear once in the lyrics ("Brothers, you know what I mean.")
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* The musical ''[[Little Shop of Horrors]]'' has quite a few of these. Two prominent examples are "Skid Row" (often referred to as "Downtown") and "Git It" (more popularly known as "Feed Me").
* There's a song by [[J Pop]] artist Hirose Kohmi whose [[Memetic Mutation|memetically mutated]] chorus prominently features the English words "Get down!" The song is, however, called "Promise".
* C & C Music Factory's hit is not called "Everybody Dance Now", it's "Gonna Make You Sweat", but "Everybody Dance Now" is its subtitle. (The [[Red Hot
* [[Shania Twain]] invoked this trope with "Love Gets Me Every Time". The song was originally titled "Gol Darn Gone and Done It", and that line is more prominent in the song, but she changed it at the last minute because she thought the original title would be too hard to pronounce.
* OMC's [[One-Hit Wonder|one hit]] is not called "Every Time I Look Around", but "How Bizarre". How bizarre, how bizarre.
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* Chic's disco hit was not titled "Freak Out!" It's "Le Freak".
* MIA's song is not called "All I Wanna Do *Bang* *Bang* *Bang* *Bang*" nor is it called "Paper Airplanes", or "I Fly Like Paper, Get High Like Planes", it's "Paper Planes".
* Bananarama never did a song called "Your Desire" nor did they ever do one titled "Goddess on the Mountaintop" or "She's Got It".
* Professional Wrestler Sheamus's theme is called "Written in My Face", not "Too Many Lies". (Or "Too Many Limes", or "It's A Shameful Thing, Lobster Head".)
* [[Flight of the Conchords]]:
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* The song sometimes referred to as "Please Don't Let them Hurt Your Children," is actually called "Dear Mr. Jesus" by Power Source/Sharon Batts.
* The fifth [[Naruto]] Shippuden opening, "Hotaru no Hikari" (Light of the Fireflies), is often incorrectly called "Sha la ls".
* Gonzo sings a song about Camilla the Chicken in the Leslie Uggams episode of ''[[The Muppet Show]]''. It's listed on [https://web.archive.org/web/20120405114820/http://www.moolyrics.com/muppets/camilla-lyrics.html lyrics] [http://www.lyricsforsong.net/lyrics/muppets-camilla-lyrics_jlqmkm.html sites]{{Dead link}} as "[http://www.asklyrics.com/display/muppets-the/camilla-lyrics.htm Camilla]{{Dead link}}", but is officially titled "[http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Gonzo%27s_Song Gonzo's Song]".
* [[The Guess Who]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLMF5GM0Kt8 1969 classic "Undun"] is almost unknown under its proper title. Almost everyone thinks of it as and calls it "She's Come Undone" for its first (and one of its most repeated) lines.
== Anime ==
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* A certain ''[[Prince of Tennis]]'' ending song is sometimes referred to as "Glory Days," due to this being the last two words of the chorus as well as one of the only English phrases in the song. The title is actually "White Line" (with this phrase only appearing if you translate the song).
* The first ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' theme song for the dub is literally called "Pokemon Theme Song", not "I Wanna Be The Very Best" or any other variation.
* The opening theme to ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' OAV 4 is called "Crisis ~Ikari o Komete Hashire~", not "Burning Highway".
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Possibly either inverted or subverted by the music of [[Gilbert and Sullivan]]. Very, ''very'' few of their songs are named after the most well-known line of their refrain
== [[Video Games]] ==
* When ''[[MOTHER]]'' was released, it was accompanied with a soundtrack containing lyricised versions of several songs from the game. Some familiar with the lyrics tend to assume that the name of the first (and most famous) song on the album is "I Believe in You". Some unfamiliar with the lyrics tend to call it "Pollyanna's Theme". Turns out ''both'' groups are wrong - the name of the song is simply "Pollyanna" (though to be fair, the full title for the lyricised version is technically "Pollyanna (I Believe in You)"), and [[I Am Not Shazam|there is no character by that name in any game in the series]]. (There ''is'' a "[[
* The song at the credit roll of ''[[Devil May Cry]] 3'' is titled "Devils Never Cry," although a lot of people call it "The Devil's Cry," after the last words of the song. Humorously, the song featured in the fourth game does not fall under this trope.
* That oddly epic song that plays throughout ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Brawl'' is not called "Audi Famam Illius". The title ''actually is'' "Super Smash Bros. Brawl Main Theme".
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* A song from the movie ''"[[Alvin and The Chipmunks]] Meet the Wolfman"'' is called "The Monster's out in You", not "Little Brother, Mr. Hyde".
* The iconic instrumental tune associated with the [[Peanuts]] cartoons is usually referred to as "Peanuts" or "The Charlie Brown Theme". It's actually called "Linus and Lucy" - which is confusing in itself, since Linus is merely Charlie Brown's [[The Lancer|Lancer]] (and truth be told, ''Snoopy'' gets higher billing than him) while Lucy is simply [[The Chick]]. This tends to bring a lot of confusion, as there is already a song called "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80ojk1dwbos Charlie Brown Theme.]"
* While it's somewhat justifiable, "Awaken" by Dethklok is not called "Mustakrakish." It doesn't help
* [[The Nightmare Before Christmas|Jack's Lament]] is sometimes referred to as "The Pumpkin King" or simply "Jack's Song".<ref>the latter making no sense, as most of the songs are sung by Jack.</ref>
* The [[Training Montage]] song from ''[[Mulan]]'' is called "I'll Make a Man Out of You", not "Be a Man".
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