What song is this? I only have the first line of the lyrics. "When you can't hold on and your will is mostly gone" or something like that. It's in 3/4 time, medium-slow soulful ballad, male singer...
posted on Jun 11, 2008 - 16 answers

What song is this? Ethereal and moody vocals (not quite spy, not quite gothic, but leaning ecletic), jazz rock background, sounds a bit like early Goldfrapp, or Morphine, or maybe even Darling Violetta. (All pretty approximate.) Very rough lyrics: I call you Tracy, You get along, You lovely... sing me your song. I call you darling, I know it's strong. I bet... ...and on. Show goes on. Show goes on. I call you ... ... I call you Liza B. I wish I could see That maybe it's only my dream. It's only my dream. Show goes on. Show goes on. I miss... ...queen of bees (beasts?). That honey Suzie, bewitched by me. I think you're... what else can be? ... ... Be my promise breaker, ... delusion maker, ... I wish I could see, It's only my dream. Show goes on, The show goes on.
posted on May 28, 2008 - 16 answers

Remembered song lyric: "No deposit, no return." What song? [more inside]
posted on Apr 1, 2008 - 16 answers

Help find an Eminem song. [more inside]
posted on Mar 7, 2008 - 6 answers

Please: I would like a bazillion examples of popular music lyrics and song titles that would make an English teacher cry out in empathetic pain for their abuse of grammar. [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2008 - 89 answers

What is this song lyric from "Little Shop of Horrors"? [more inside]
posted on Feb 20, 2008 - 12 answers

Heard a great song at a US H&M...help me identify the name of it and the band who plays it. [more inside]
posted on Jan 30, 2008 - 3 answers

My mother used to sing a song to me as a child: "It's a rainy day / and we have to stay inside. / The rain is falling down / and we can't go out to play. / Why does it have to rain / anyway?" She swears it's from Sesame Street, but Google seems never to have heard of it. Who composed this song? Where could she have heard it from? Is it indeed Sesame Street?
posted on Jan 30, 2008 - 6 answers

What is Mayra Andrade singing so beautifully about in Dimokránsa (language: Cape Verdean Creole)? [more inside]
posted on Dec 1, 2007 - 4 answers

Song Lyrics Filter: Help me name the Title/Artist of the song with these lyrics [more inside]
posted on Nov 29, 2007 - 4 answers

Is this a real song or a product of my imagination? [more inside]
posted on Oct 28, 2007 - 2 answers

Lyrics to a Willie Nelson song [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2007 - 5 answers

I'm trying to find a song where, at least near the end, "they always will" was repeated often (at the end of every other line, I think). I've heard it a few times but have never been able to catch more of the lyrics, which seem somewhat indistinct. It's an upbeat rock song, perhaps leaning a bit towards pop, male singer. It sounds like it could be from the 80s. [more inside]
posted on Sep 7, 2007 - 5 answers

Looking for a song with the refrain, "On the raa-dee-oh, the raa-de-oh." [more inside]
posted on Jul 18, 2007 - 23 answers

Help find the title of this 80's song that's stuck in my head... [more inside]
posted on May 28, 2007 - 12 answers

I've seen so many posts on Ask Mefi regarding long-forgotten songs that have been successfully resolved - but here's one with which I've been struggling for literally decades. [more inside]
posted on Apr 8, 2007 - 6 answers

Song lyrics filter: I'm looking for song lyrics that draw attention to the stupidity of following the predetermined life path that our parents or society tells us to go on. [more inside]
posted on Mar 4, 2007 - 39 answers

Looking for a song artist name (may be Sanseverino) and/or translation and/or original French lyrics... [more inside]
posted on Jan 29, 2007 - 2 answers

What is the name of the song that starts with the sound of a clock ticking? [more inside]
posted on Dec 25, 2006 - 36 answers

SongFilter: I heard this song on the radio, but I don't know what it's called. It goes something like this... [more inside]
posted on Dec 12, 2006 - 7 answers

Joe Jackson's The Band Wore Blue Shirts - The drummer's shoes are dirty... [more inside]
posted on Nov 6, 2006 - 6 answers

BluesFilter: A couple of years ago, a friend and I were flipping past the blues channel on XM radio, and stumbled across the one of the funniest songs I've ever heard. I want to find a copy for my friend for a Christmas gift. Of course, I have no idea what the song actually is. Help me, O HiveMind! [more inside]
posted on Nov 6, 2006 - 7 answers

Name that song: "Been climbing trees / I skinned my knee". [more inside]
posted on Oct 24, 2006 - 6 answers

Name that tune/artistfilter: Mid to late eighties i think, maybe a little later?, sounds like a youngish man singing, and all i remember are the words (sorta) to the chorus: [more inside]
posted on Oct 15, 2006 - 2 answers

What's the song that Eddie Murphy sings in Trading Places during the jacuzzi scene? [more inside]
posted on Oct 13, 2006 - 3 answers

I'm looking for the lyrics AND possibly an MP3 or recording of a "dirty" (funny) song I heard once... Language warning. :) Lyrics go: "Aw f*** it, I've got better things to do..." "All the years I've taken s**t would fill a bucket" etc... [more inside]
posted on Sep 20, 2006 - 3 answers

Did I imagine this song from the 80's? [more inside]
posted on Jul 31, 2006 - 9 answers

Song I heard at a salsa club last night.. [more inside]
posted on Jul 13, 2006 - 14 answers

Name this song. I also have the song for you to listen to if you'd like to. [more inside]
posted on May 26, 2006 - 6 answers

How does a musician learn to write better lyrics? [more inside]
posted on May 19, 2006 - 17 answers

what's the name of that song, couple years back, cello, acoustic guitars, male and female duet, b&w video with the camera slowly spinning from the inside of a circle of singers/musicians and a portion of the lyrics go something like "hurricane come knock me down" (or maybe it was 'tornado'?) is it just me or is it impossible to search for song lyrics on the intarwebs!
posted on May 16, 2006 - 9 answers

Can anyone make out the complete lyrics to "Goodbye, My Friend" (sample here), the catchy but hard-to-decipher theme song from the 1974 Italian movie "Street Law," starring Franco Nero?
posted on May 10, 2006 - 9 answers

SongLyricsFilter: First line (and refrain throughout the song, I believe) is "Getting down to business." Sounds vaguely 70ish with a sort of pump-up beat. Google is getting me nowhere. Any ideas you may have are much appreciated.
posted on Mar 11, 2006 - 5 answers

The only words I know are: "I'm in the money... I'm in the money" and then it goes doo-doo-doo etc. [more inside]
posted on Feb 14, 2006 - 20 answers

SongFinder: I've spent hours searching for a christmas song that I really don't know anything about. Very little details inside. [more inside]
posted on Dec 15, 2005 - 7 answers

Does anyone know what Pearl Jam's "Daughter" song is about? I love their "Jeremy" song, and this one, too... but I can't parse the lyrics on "Daughter" for the life of me.
posted on Sep 27, 2005 - 19 answers

Name that tune!! It was used in commercials to advertise the HBO film "Empire Falls", and now to advertise a new show coming in the fall - E-Ring maybe? Anyway - it's kind of pop-rock sounding, male vocal. Lyrics: Something like - even when you cannot hear me ... I'll be right beside you dear.
posted on Jul 20, 2005 - 3 answers

I am looking for songs with a psychiatric illness theme. 2 songs come immediately to mind, both by Simon and Garfunkel. One is Richard Cory dealing with a suicide by a probable manic-depressive .The other is A Most Peculiar Man which describes the suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning of a schizophrenic patient. i know it is rather morbid but I would appreciate hearing of other songs of the same ilk.
posted on Jul 14, 2005 - 73 answers

What recent song features a female vocalist, with lyrics like "The better you feel / The more you'll heal / The better you'll be / The more you'll see"?
posted on Mar 28, 2005 - 3 answers

Does anyone know what the song "This Woman's Work" by Kate Bush is about?
posted on Mar 25, 2005 - 2 answers

Does anyone know the significance/meaning of "Miss Chatelaine" (if any) in KD. Lang's song by the same name?
posted on Sep 1, 2004 - 19 answers

"...find someone else to beg..." This is a lyric from a song that last.fm played for me just as I was leaving yesterday. I couldn't get it to show me the title (server and browser troubles) nor did Google or lyrics.* have anything for that phrase. It sounded somewhat like Semisonic, but I'm not sure. Any ideas what this song might be? Don't make me beg.
posted on Aug 5, 2004 - 5 answers

I'm looking for a song that has "Rumble in the Jungle" in the lyrics, (the Ali vs. Foreman fight), and I don't want the Wyclef Jean/Fugees/Busta Rhymes hiphop one. For some reason the song is stuck in my head, but I don't know anymore than those 4 words of the lyrics or know why it's in my head so it's kind of driving me crazy.
posted on Apr 3, 2004 - 5 answers