Songs where the title is only sung once, as the last line of the song

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154. "Dr. Phil" by Lil B

155. "Lose My Breath" by My Bloody Valentine

irerisered, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:29 (two years ago) link

xp the last line is "in the southern cross". also, "southern cross" appears earlier in the song.

visiting, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:31 (two years ago) link

"but i was born to lose my breath"

visiting, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:33 (two years ago) link

Well I suck at life.

irerisered, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link

lil b is a good one!

visiting, Monday, 30 August 2021 02:42 (two years ago) link

156. The The - Angels Of Deception

he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Monday, 30 August 2021 07:35 (two years ago) link

I really want to add Lee Hazlewood's "I'm Glad I Never" but he takes a couple of lines to spit out what he's glad about, including three syllables after the titular phrase.

Nag! Nag! Nag!, Monday, 30 August 2021 09:56 (two years ago) link

157

Mgła - Exercises in Futility VI

Devilock, Monday, 30 August 2021 18:44 (two years ago) link

well he doesn't say "six"

maybe that doesn't count

Devilock, Monday, 30 August 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link

last line is "another chapter in the handbook for exercises in futility"

visiting, Monday, 30 August 2021 19:14 (two years ago) link

Thought for a moment that the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald would be one of these, but that line somehow comes in at the centre of the song instead.

Kim, Monday, 30 August 2021 19:23 (two years ago) link

Against All Odds is a near miss, but he sings a few more words afterward

Kim, Monday, 30 August 2021 19:53 (two years ago) link

five months pass...

Can't believe no one has posted: HERE, THERE, AND EVERYWHERE - The Beatles

A couple of others:
LATE FOR THE SKY - Jackson Browne
BIG CITY CAT - Steve Forbert

Junkman, Saturday, 5 February 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link

one month passes...

Can't believe nobody has posted ...(actually I can, I only noticed last week!)

Sex Pistols "I wanna be me"

Mark G, Saturday, 26 March 2022 21:42 (two years ago) link

er, “Here, There and Everywhere” is sung twice at the end

assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 26 March 2022 21:51 (two years ago) link

It isn't - "here" is missed the "first" time.

Mark G, Saturday, 26 March 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link

huh, thanks crap memory!

assert (MatthewK), Saturday, 26 March 2022 23:24 (two years ago) link

161. Nick Drake - "Harvest Breed"

Lee626, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link

162. Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place

✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link

xp last line is "And you're ready now for the harvest breed"

visiting, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link

"Jigsaw falling into place" is also sung earlier in the song.

visiting, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 20:52 (two years ago) link

but the title is only sung once and it's the last words of the song, so it counts

Lee626, Tuesday, 29 March 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link

"Jigsaw falling into place" is also sung earlier in the song.

― visiting

Crap it’s true.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 30 March 2022 05:37 (two years ago) link

three months pass...

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - "The One Who Got Us Out"

I swear this one has been on the tip of my tongue since the thread started, and I'm only just managing to spit it out

Attached by piercing jewelry (bernard snowy), Thursday, 14 July 2022 13:47 (one year ago) link

four months pass...

Sebadoh - The Freed Pig.

He actually mutters it sotto voce-like more than sings it though.

gjoon1, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 23:26 (one year ago) link

164. Patsy Cline - "A Church, a Courtroom and Then Goodbye"

assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 25 November 2022 21:43 (one year ago) link

Aha - Train of Thought is soo close but it has a softer repetition and then some other indistinct words

Kim, Friday, 25 November 2022 21:57 (one year ago) link

Weezer - Perfect Situation (the rubbish single version with the title shoehorned in at the end)

PaulTMA, Friday, 25 November 2022 22:10 (one year ago) link

The Cure "A Man Inside My Mouth" sounds like it fits to me.

The "internet" says there's one more lyric during the outro ("This won't hurt at all") but I just hear a bunch of screaming.

billstevejim, Friday, 25 November 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link

six months pass...

168(?) Brandy Clark - Buried

Dan Worsley, Monday, 19 June 2023 11:28 (nine months ago) link

"But I'll love you till I'm buried" is the last line.

Kim Kimberly, Monday, 19 June 2023 15:43 (nine months ago) link

I wonder how many songs fit the "My Name Is Jonas" pattern of having the title sung exactly twice, as the first and last lines of the song.

The king of the demo (bernard snowy), Monday, 19 June 2023 17:09 (nine months ago) link

Simple Minds - Premonition

visiting, Monday, 3 July 2023 03:08 (nine months ago) link

three weeks pass...

170(?) The Clientele: "Claire's Not Real"

Tim, Friday, 28 July 2023 10:43 (eight months ago) link

I wonder how many songs fit the "My Name Is Jonas" pattern of having the title sung exactly twice, as the first and last lines of the song

"I Got Life" from the original cast album of Hair does essentially this.

Nina Simone's Hair medley, "Ain't Got No, I Got Life," strikes "I Got Life" from the beginning but leaves the one at the end, so it is sort of an example of the original format.

Josefa, Friday, 28 July 2023 13:45 (eight months ago) link

Which is kind of interesting bc we've already established itt that Hair already has a song that does title once at the end only, namely "Frank Mills."

Josefa, Friday, 28 July 2023 13:50 (eight months ago) link

Wait, brain lapse. "Frank Mills" is a different thing, it's a song with no repeating lines at all.

Josefa, Friday, 28 July 2023 13:52 (eight months ago) link

Oh right!

Live and Left Eye (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 July 2023 14:20 (eight months ago) link


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