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* Glass Animals frequently invoke this trope; examples include "Flip," "Walla Walla," "Hazey," "Wyrd," "Cocoa Hooves," "Life Itself," "Season 2 Episode 3," and "Cane Shuga." Additionally, "Youth," "Mama's Gun," and "The Other Side of Paradise" contain variations on their titles but not the titles themselves.

** With the notable exceptions of Music/NickCave's "The Weeping Song" and "Higgs Boson Blues", Music/{{Queen}}'s "Melancholy Blues", Music/BobDylan's "Tombstone Blues" and "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again", Music/TheWhiteStripes' "300 MPH Torrential Outpour Blues", The Music/ManicStreetPreachers' "Watsville Blues", Music/EddieCochran's "Summertime Blues", Glenn Frey's "Smuggler's Blues", Music/DavidBowie's "Running Gun Blues," "Existential Blues," and "I Got Those Wake Up 7:30, Wash Your Ears They're Dirty, Eat your Eggs and Oatmeal Rush to School Blues", Steely Dan's "Deacon Blues", Music/{{Robert Johnson}}'s "Walking Blues", Blind Willie [=McTell=]'s "Statesboro Blues", Weird Al Yankovic's "Buckingham Blues", Brian Setzer's "'49 Mercury Blues", and George Harrison's "Sue Me, Sue You Blues".

* Music/EltonJohn's "Border Song" (though the word "border" does appear), "The Greatest Discovery", "Indian Sunset", "Curtains", "Song For Guy" (nearly entirely instrumental, but contains the lyrics "Life isn’t everything" near the end), "American Triangle", "Postcards from Richard Nixon".

* Music/EltonJohn's "Postcards from Richard Nixon".

* Music/BrianJustinCrum's song "Wild Side" never mentions the title and is actually a song about power imbalance in a relationship.

* Music/PearlJam's "Corduroy", "[[LongTitle Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town]]", "I Got ID" (the supposedly original title, [[IntentionallyAwkwardTitle "I Got Shit"]], appears), "The Fixer", "Wishlist" and "Yellow Ledbetter".

* Music/PrimitiveRadioGods' "[[LongTitle Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand]]".

* Music/SufjanStevens' two "state albums", ''Michigan'' and ''Music/{{Illinois}}'', have a total of two songs between them whose lyrics contain the title completely: "Romulus" and "Chicago". "Jacksonville" is close, containing a use of "Jackson" that might refer to the titular city. Many of the other titles are [[LongTitle long, reference-laden sentences]].

*** Also, when you combine it with the album title, [[LongTitle you realize just how long it all takes to type...]]

** "Lost in Space (Theme)" has lyrics consisting of lines from ''Film/LostInSpace'', made into a StupidStatementDanceMix that appeared in the end credits. No TitleDrop was made in the film, so none is made in the song either.

* [[PickACard Pick a]] Music/{{Chiodos}} [[PickACard song. ''Any'' Chiodos song.]]

** "From Her Lips to God's Ears (The Energizer)
** "Pretty Girls (The Mover)

In some cases, the title refers to an older song that is being sampled or parodied. In other cases, it's because the song [[EpicRocking has the length of a series' episode]], and/or without chorus included as it's supposed to tell a story rather to be a catchy tune.

** Ukraine 2016 - "1944" by Jamala: The year in the title - the year the Crimean Tatars, amongst whom were the singer's ancestors, were deported from the Crimea to the Uzbek SSR - doesn't appear in the title.

** Another notable example is Micky Dolenz's "Randy Scouse Git"; Dolenz first heard the phrase on the TV show ''Till Death Do Us Part''. After the band's British record label told them that the phrase was [[DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch inappropriate in the UK]] and forced them to give the song an alternate title, Dolenz said, "Okay, [[LiteralistSnarking "Alternate Title" it is."]]

** Ukraine 2016 - "1944" by Jamala: The year in the title - the year the Crimean Tatars, amongst whom were the singer's ancestors - doesn't appear in the title.

* Zombie Nation's "Kernkraft 400" is an interesting one: the name of the song doesn't appear anywhere; the lyrics consist of just [[SingerNamedrop their name over and over]].

* The Music/ManicStreetPreachers have 'Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart', 'Facing Page: Top Left', 'Jackie Collins Existential Question Time', 'The Intense Humming of Evil', 'Elvis Impersonator: Blackpool Pier', 'Stay Beautiful', 'Crucifix Kiss', 'Nostalgic Pushhead', 'Symphony of Tourette', 'Yes', 'Archives of Pain', '4st 7lb', 'Mausoleum', 'Faster', 'Peeled Apples', 'Virginia State Epileptic Colony', 'The Convalescent', 'Golden Platitudes', 'A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun' and 'The Everlasting'.

* Music/{{Snow Patrol}}'s "How to be Dead", "Spitting Games", "If There's a Rocket, Tie Me to It", "Olive Grove Facing the Sea", "Disaster Button", "Life-ning", "The President".

* WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends has the song "Talk to the Jeans" by Pizza Party.

* Logic, Khalid, and Alessia Cara's "1-800-273-8255". The song is about talking someone out of [[DrivenToSuicide suicide]], and the title is the number for the (U.S.) National Suicide Prevention Hotline... until July 2022, when said 800 number will be replaced by the three-digit numeric code [[UsefulNotes/NorthAmericanNumberingPlan 9-8-8]].

* Colby Caillat's "Iris".

* Most songs by Music/FallingUp, including "A Guide to Marine Life," "How They Made Cameras," and "The Dark Side to Indoor Track Meets."

** The title of "Murexa" on the album Captiva is title dropped in the next song "Drago or the Dragons"

* Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe."

* Jack Harlow did this with "Baxter Avenue", a track from his debut album ''Thats What They All Say''. While the track is named after a street in Harlow's hometown of Louisville known for its nightlife, and the lyrics basically tell the story of his life in the city, the street name is nowhere to be found. %% The album title has NO APOSTROPHE.

* Music/EltonJohn's "Postcards from Richard Nixon."

* Creator/DavidHasselhoff's "Music/GuardiansInferno" has a title combining ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' with ''Theatre/DiscoInferno'', but the lyrics don't actually include either of those words.

* Oscillator X - "Dynamo".