Words of Hellenic (Greek) origin in popular, successful or favorite international songs.
P, Q
(75 words + 7 Names)
Goodnight Saigon - BILLY JOEL (LP The Nylon Curtain, 1982)
Lyrics: We held the day in the palm of our hands They ruled the night, and the night
Lyrics: We held the day in the palm of our hands They ruled the night, and the night
Lyrics: But in and outside I turn to water Like a teardrop In your palm
Lyrics: You gave me something, I understand You gave me loving in the palm of my hand
Lyrics: This morning I woke up from a deep, unquiet sleep With ashtray clothes and this lonely heart's pen With which I wrote for you a lovesong in tattoo upon my palm 'Twas stolen from me when Jesus took my hand
Lyrics: All I see is a starry night, And the wind blows up around you and palms start to sway, And you glide across the floor like you’re flying
Lyrics: 'Hi! My name is Sunshine - these are my girls Lace my palm with silver baby and oh yeah, they'll rock your world'
Lyrics: had it in the palm of my hand When I think to myself how I lie Had it in the palm of my hand Seems there's always some kind of surprise
Lyrics: Pandemic fly on the runway, in my hazmat
Lyrics: 'Cause after all the partyin' and smashin' and crashin' And all the glitz and the glam and the fashion And all the pandemonium and all the madness There comes a time where you fade to the blackness
Lyrics: Sarcastic reaper skeleton speaker Pure pandemonium
Lyrics: All my life Watching America All my life There's panic in America Oh Oh Oh, Oh There's trouble in America
Lyrics: Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in
Lyrics: I'm going deeper underground There's too much panic in this town
Lyrics: Crime is (Woo!) increasing Trigger happy policing Panic is spreading God knows where we're heading
Lyrics: Close your eyes Breathe slow and we will begin To look together For the Pan Within
Lyrics: From the olden days and up through all the years From Arcadia to the stone fields of Inisheer Some say the Gods are just a myth But guess who I've been dancing with The great god Pan is alive!
Under Construction
Panic - THE SMITHS
Paranoid Android - RADIOHEAD
Red Alert - BASEMENT JAXX
Lyrics: don’t panic
Saviour Man - FLASH & THE PAN
panorama
Clint Eastwood - GORILLAZ (2001)
Lyrics: Panoramic view (View?), look, I'll make it all manageable
Dani California - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (2006)
Lyrics: Gettin' born in the state of Mississippi Poppa was a copper and her momma was a hippie In Alabama, she would swing a hammer Price you gotta pay when you break the panorama
Goodbye To The Village - KILLING JOKE (1986)
Lyrics: Around the strangers moved, the shouts I felt within New panoramas seen (I loved it as it was)
Me & My Monkey - ROBBIE WILLIAMS (LP Escapology, 2002)
Lyrics: We got the elevator, I hit the 33rd floor We had a room up top with the panoramic views like nothing you'd ever seen before
pantheon
I Am - ARMY OF LOVERS (1993)
Lyrics: Entering the ballrooms The clocks come to a still The multimillionaires I thrill Headline of the columns My duellantes I kill The pantheon obeys my will
panther (πάνθηρας)
Rebel Without A Pause - PUBLIC ENEMY (1987)
Lyrics: The only party your body should be partyin' to Panther power on the hour from the rebel to you
Velvet Goldmine - DAVID BOWIE (1975)
Lyrics: Velvet goldmine, you stroke me like the rain Snake it, take it, panther princess you must stay
pantomime
The Great Beyond - REM (OST Man On The Moon, 1999)
Lyrics: In all this talk of time, talk is fine But I don't want to stay around Why can't we pantomime Just close our eyes and sleep sweet dreams Me and you with wings on our feet
Lady Lady Lady - JOE ESPOSITO (OST Flashdance, 1983)
Lyrics: Dancing behind masks Just subtle pantomime
Stolen Moments - MARK MURPHY (1978)
Lyrics: Those beards, dear Watch the pantomime
paper
Lyrics: A man in my shoes runs a light And all the papers lied tonight But falling over you Is the news of the day Angels fall like rain
Hey Eugene - PINK MARTINI (2007)
Lyrics: Hey Eugene, then we kissed Once we lugged your friend into the elevator And went to write my number on a soggy paper towel
It's Still Rock and Roll To Me - BILLY JOEL (LP Glass Houses, 1980)
Lyrics: Oh, it doesn't matter what they say in the papers 'Cause it's always been the same old scene
My Hometown - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (LP Born In The U.S.A., 1984)
Lyrics: I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
Suburbia - PET SHOP BOYS (LP Please, 1986)
Lyrics: It's on the front page of the papers: "This Is Their Hour of Need" Where's a policeman when you need one To blame the colour TV?
paradox
Burning Heart - SURVIVOR (OST Rocky IV, 1985)
Lyrics: it’s the paradox that drives us all
You Want It Darker - LEONARD COHEN (2016)
Lyrics: There's a lullaby for suffering And a paradox to blame
paragon
O Baby - SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES (LP The Rapture, 1995)
Lyrics: Oh, you're a paragon
paragraph
Parisiene Walkways - GARY MOORE (1978)
Lyrics: Oh, I could write you paragraphs About my old Parisienne days
parallel
No Myth - MICHAEL PENN (1989)
Lyrics: It was just too soon to tell And looking for some parallel Can be an endless game
There’s Nothing Like This - OMAR (1990)
Lyrics: Sip a glass of cold champagne wine The rug that we lie on feels divine And there's no parallel for we two Ecstasy the word of the night
paralyzed
Cross My Heart - EIGHTH WONDER
Lyrics: I’m paralysed
I Need Love - LL COOL J
Lyrics:
Livin' In A World Withppout You - THE RASMUS (2008)
Lyrics: It's hard to believe that it came to this You paralyzed my body with a poison kiss
Radio Baghdad - PATTI SMITH (2004)
Lyrics: Suffer not Your neighbor's affliction Suffer not Your neighbor's paralysis But extend your hand Extend your hand
Thriller - MICHAEL JACKSON
Lyrics:
paramedic
Bad Medicine - BON JOVI
Lyrics: there ain’t no paramedic
paranoid
American Idiot - GREEN DAY (2004)
Lyrics: Well, maybe I'm the faggot America I'm not a part of a redneck agenda Now everybody do the propaganda And sing along to the age of paranoia
Lyrics: When I'm low, and I'm weak, and I'm lost I don't know who I can trust Paranoia, the destroyer, comes knockin' on my door You know the pain drifts to days, turns to nights
Girls & Boys - BLUR
Lyrics: love in the 90’s is paranoid
Lyrics: Hypocrisy made paramount, paranoia the law
Paranoid - BLACK SABBATH
Lyrics:
Paranoimia - THE ART OF NOISE
paranoia+insomnia
Somebody’s Watching Me - ROCKWELL
Lyrics:
Stop The Rock - APOLLO 440
Lyrics: paranoia
paraplegic
Because I Got High - AFROMAN (2001)
Lyrics: I was gonna pull right over and stop, but I was high Now I am a paraplegic and I know why (Why man?)
Diamonds From Sierra Leone - KANYE WEST (2005)
Lyrics: Right then, my body got still like a paraplegic You know who you call; you got a message, then leave it
Godzilla - EMINEM feat. JUICE WRLD (2020)
Lyrics: So they wanna give me the chair Like a paraplegic, and it's scary, call it Hari Kari
parasite
For America - RED BOX
Lyrics: we’re satellites you’re parasites
parthenogenesis
Nemesis - SHRIEKBACK (LP Oil & Gold, 1985)
Lyrics: Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals Everybody happy as the dead come home Big black Nemesis, parthenogenesis No one move a muscle as the dead come home
pathetic
The Everlasting - MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Lyrics: Oh you're old I hear you say It doesn't mean that I don't care I don't believe in it anymore Pathetic acts for a worthless cause
I Remember That - PREFAB SPROUT (1988)
Lyrics: nothing pathetic
Lyrics: the corporate snakes coming in to feed On that pathetic fact known as human greed Skin and bone being raked over those hot coals
pathos
King Of Rock’n’roll - PREFAB SPROUT (From Langley Park To Memphis, 1988)
Lyrics: all the pathos you can keep for the children in the street
patriot
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It - REM (LP Document, 1987)
Lyrics: Dummy with the raptured and the revered and the right, right You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light Feeling pretty psyched
Nature Boy - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (LP Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus, 2004)
Lyrics: You took me back to your place and dressed me up in a deep sea diver's suit You played the patriot, you raised the flag and I stood at full salute
War Dance - XTC (LP Nonsuch, 1992)
Lyrics: a patriotic romance
pause
Rebel Without A Pause - PUBLIC ENEMY
Lyrics:
Twist In My Sobriety - TANITA TIKARAM (LP Ancient Heart, 1988)
Lyrics: We just poked a little empty pie For the fun that people had at night Late at night don't need hostility Timid smile and pause to free
pedal
What You Waiting For - GWEN STEFANI
Lyrics:
perimeter
The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) - THE DOORS (LP LA Woman, 1971)
Lyrics: The negroes in the forest, brightly feathered They are saying, forget the night Live with us in forests of azure Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars
petrol
Ich Bin Ein Auslander - POP WILL IT ITSELF (1994)
Lyrics: The knife, the gun, broken bottle, petrol bomb There is no future when the past soon come And when they come to ethnically cleanse me Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Lyrics: The knife, the gun, broken bottle, petrol bomb There is no future when the past soon come And when they come to ethnically cleanse me Will you speak out? Will you defend me?
Lyrics: One day ships will never sail from hendon And the big black God is under siege She's pissed on us a sea of petrol Flicked a spark into that breeze
That's Entertainment - THE JAM (LP Sound Affects, 1980)
Lyrics: Waking up at 6 A.M. on a cool warm morning Opening the windows and breathing in petrol
phantom
The Painted Moon - THE SILENCERS (1986)
Lyrics: Coming to the rescue Angels from another world Love is here to stay So the angels say Running to the rescue Angels flying up above Phantoms in the bay While the natives pray To the painted moon
Lyrics: Coming to the rescue Angels from another world Love is here to stay So the angels say Running to the rescue Angels flying up above Phantoms in the bay While the natives pray To the painted moon
Welcome To The Black Parade - MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE (2006)
Lyrics: When I was a young boy, my father Took me into the city to see a marching band He said, "Son, when you grow up, would you be The savior of the broken, the beaten, and the damned?" He said, "Will you defeat them, your demons And all the non-believers, the plans that they have made? Because one day, I'll leave you a phantom To lead you in the summer to join the black parade"
pharmacopoeia
Boom! There She Was - SCRITTI POLITTI (LP Provision, 1988)
Lyrics: Pharmacopoeia I got a way with the [Incomprehensible], all right I wanna understand how I misunderstood and and I like it Pharmacopoeia I got a way with the word, all right I got an' alphabet that you never have heard and I like it
phase
Condition Of The Heart - PRINCE & THE REVOLUTION
Lyrics: my friends all say it’s just a phase
Constant Craving - K. D. LANG
Lyrics: even through the darkest phase
Dance Hall Days - WANG CHUNG (1983)
Lyrics: we were so in phase
I’m Not In Love - 10cc
Lyrics: it’s just the silly phase I’m going through
It's Still Rock and Roll To Me - BILLY JOEL
Lyrics: Next phase, new wave, dance craze, anyways It's still rock and roll to me
Just Like You - ROXY MUSIC
Lyrics: all phases of moon
phenomenon
Diamonds & Rust - JOAN BAEZ (1975)
Phenomenon - LL COOL J
Lyrics:
We Call It Acieeed - D-MOB
Lyrics: acieeed the musical phenomenon
philander
Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - BAZ LUHRMANN (1998)
Lyrics: Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old-- and when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders
philosophy
Closer Than Close - BEE GEES (1997)
Lyrics: Your soul is naked, it tells you what you want I read your letter, and look at how close I've come? There's more for us to see in this philosophy We both end up in Heaven, and look at how close we'd be
Closer To Fine - INDIGO GIRLS (1989)
Lyrics: And I went to see the doctor of philosophy With a poster of Rasputin and a beard down to his knee
In The Summertime - MUNGO JERRY (1970)
Lyrics: We're always happy Life's for livin', yeah, that's our philosophy
Our Last Summer - ABBA (1980)
Lyrics: you talked of politics, philosophy And I smiled like Mona Lisa
Sho’ You Right - BARRY WHITE
Lyrics: baby I’m relating to your philosophies
Stay The Night - CHICAGO
Lyrics: at least that’s my philosophy
What I Am - EDIE BRICKEL & THE NEW BOHEMIANS (1988)
Lyrics: Philosophy is the talk on a cereal box Religion is the smile on a dog... Philosophy is a walk on the slippery rocks Religion is a light in the fog
phobia, phobic
Fear Of The Dark - IRON MAIDEN
Lyrics: I have a phobia that someone's always there
Lyrics: Avoiding conflict hypertension Non-phobic word aerobic
phoenix
A View To A Kill - DURAN DURAN (OST A View To A Kill, 1985)
Lyrics
Blazing - ALEX SID & QUASAMODO (2023)
Lyrics: This love was a phoenix on fire This love was a luminous pyre
phones
Cleanin' Out My Closet - EMINEM (2002)
Lyrics: Where's my snare? I have no snare in my headphones There you go
phonograph
Pretzel Logic - STEELY DAN
Lyrics:
photograph
Absolutely (Story Of A Girl) - NINE DAYS (2000)
Lyrics: This is the story of a girl Who cried a river and drowned the whole world And while she looks so sad in photographs I absolutely love her
Angelia - RICHARD MARX
Lyrics: nothin’ but a photograph
Change - TEARS FOR FEARS (LP The Hurting, 1983)
Lyrics: You walked in to the room I just had to laugh The face you wore was cool You were a photograph
City Of Blinding Lights - U2 (2004)
Lyrics: Don't look before you laugh Look ugly in a photograph Flash bulbs, purple irises The camera can't see
Dear John - LOVE & MONEY
Lyrics: I’ll carry a photograph of you
Grace - SUPERGRASS
Lyrics: so we captured you in a photograph
(I Don’t Wanna Go To) Chelsea - ELVIS COSTELLO (1978)
Lyrics: Photographs of fancy tricks To get your kicks at sixty-six
I'll Wait - VAN HALEN (1984)
Lyrics:
If We Never Meet Again - TOMMY CONWELL & THE YOUNG RUMBLERS
Lyrics:
The Kids Are on High Street - MADRUGADA (2005)
Lyrics: They take your photograph You come into existence You realize it's your path In this very instant
La Solitudine - LAURA PAUSINI (1993)
Lyrics: Marco, nel mio diario ho una fotografia Hai gli occhi di bambino un poco timido
Michael Caine - MADNESS
Lyrics: a photograph to keep
My Funny Valentine - ELVIS COSTELLO
Lyrics: unphotographable
Otherside - RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS (1999)
Lyrics: I heard your voice through a photograph I thought it up it brought up the past
Paint A Vulgar Picture - THE SMITHS (LP Strangeways, Here We Come, 1987)
Lyrics: Double pack with a photograph Extra track and a tacky badge
Pandora's Box - OMD (1991)
Lyrics: And all the photographs Of ghosts of long ago Still they hurt you so Won't let you go
Parisiene Walkways - GARY MOORE (1978)
Lyrics: Looking back at the photographs Those summer days spent outside corner cafes
Photograph - NICKELBACK (LP All The Right Reasons, 2005)
Lyrics: Look at this photograph Every time I do, it makes me laugh How did our eyes get so red? And what the hell is on Joey's head?...I had the photo album spread out on my bedroom floor... I found the photo of the friend that I was looking for It's hard to say it, time to say it
Photograph - RINGO STARR (1973)
Lyrics: Every time I see your face It reminds me of the places we used to go But all I've got is a photograph And I realise you're not comin' back anymore
Real Gone Kid - DEACON BLUE
Lyrics: it scattered all the photographs
Remembering The First Time - SIMPLY RED
Lyrics:
So Emotional - WHITNEY HOUSTON
Lyrics: I keep your photograph beside my bed
Stop Loving You - TOTO (1988)
Lyrics: I can almost hear a laugh Coming from your photograph Funny how a look can share a thousand meanings
La Solitudine - LAURA PAUSINI
Lyrics:
The Train - THEW NITS (1988)
Lyrics: Once I opened the drawer In a room of a strange hotel I saw a photograph of you
Wishing - A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS
Lyrics: if I had a photograph of you
phrase
Amado Mio - GRACE JONES (1990), PINK MARTINI
Lyrics: It was just a phrase that I heard in plays, I was acting a part
Eye Know - DE LA SOUL
Lyrics: of phrase I’m right up to bat
Lyrics: Something in the phrasing was quietly amazing We were waiting for the chorus to come
New Moon On Monday - DURAN DURAN (LP Seven and the Ragged Tiger, 1983)
Lyrics:
What's Love Got To Do With It - TINA TURNER (1984)
Lyrics: There's a name for it There's a phrase that fits But whatever the reason, you do it for me
physic(al)
Affair Of The Heart - RICK SPRINGFIELD (1983)
Lyrics: But don't try to tell me You think it's all physical It goes much deeper than that
Better Do Better - HARD FI (2005)
Lyrics: Your face makes me want to be sick Ah yeah, it's a physical reaction You'd better leave 'cause you see, I Can't, won't be blamed for my actions
Buttons - THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS (2006)
Lyrics: Typical ain't hardly the type I fall for I like when the physical don't leave me askin' for more I'm a sexy mama
Cymbeline - LOREENA McKENNITT (1991)
Lyrics: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this and come to dust
Glam Slam - PRINCE
Lyrics: it seems to transcend the physical
I Feel For You - CHAKA KHAN feat. MELLE MEL & STEVIE WONDER
Lyrics: it’s mainly a physical thing
If You Ever - SHAI (1992), EAST 17 feat. GABRIELLE (1996)
Lyrics:
King In A Catholic Style - CHINA CRISIS
Lyrics: physical in every way
Lola - THE KINKS
Physical - OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN (1981)
Sho’ You Right - BARRY WHITE
Lyrics: girl we got to get physical to get off
So Many Men, So Little Time - MIQUEL BROWN (1983)
Lyrics: Feels like heaven every night Being here with someone new A physical thrill, a beautiful smile And wonderful muscles, too
Something Beautiful - ROBBIE WILLIAMS
Lyrics: You can't manufacture a miracle The silence was pitiful that day And love is getting too cynical Passion's just physical these days
Tomb Of Memories - PAUL YOUNG
Lyrics:
What's Love Got To Do With It - TINA TURNER (1984)
Lyrics: It's physical Only logical You must try to ignore that it means more than that
Pilot - THE NOTWIST (LP Neon Golden, 2002)
Lyrics: Could be enough If only he's the pilot Once a day
Lyrics: He took a top-gun pilot and he— He made him fly through a hole
Lyrics: She packs her bags for outer space And now she's waiting for the right kind of pilot to come
pirate
Puff, The Magic Dragon - PETER, PAUL & MARY (1963)
Lyrics: Pirate ships would lower their flags when Puff roared out his name
That's Life - FRANK SINATRA
Lyrics: I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
planet
A Spaceman Came Travelling - CHRIS De BURGH (LP Spanish Train & Other Stories, 1975)
Lyrics: I come from a planet a long way from here And I bring a message for mankind to hear," And suddenly the sweetest music filled the air
The Eve Of The War - JEFF WAYNE feat. RICHARD BURTON & JUSTIN HAYWARD (1978)
Lyrics: Few men even considered the possibility of life on other planets. And yet, across the gulf of space, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us
Fire Water Burn - THE BLOODHOUND GANG (1996)
Lyrics: Yeah, I'm hung like planet Pluto, hard to see with the naked eye But if I crashed into Uranus, I would stick it where the sun don't shine
The Great Beyond - REM
I Didn't Know I Was... - EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL
Lyrics: And now the planets circle around you
Lyrics: And then the whole universe started spinning Around Just like a planetarium God! How beautiful!!!
Planet Earth - DURAN DURAN
Space Oddity - DAVID BOWIE (1969)
Lyrics: For here, am I sitting in a tin can Far, above the world Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do
You, Me & World War Three - GAVIN FRIDAY (1995)
Lyrics: We hurt each other.... we gotta get through We're out there orbiting the planet blue....
plastic
Blurred Lines - ROBIN THICKE feat. T.I. & PARRELL WILLIAMS (2013)
Lyrics: you're far from plastic
Build - THE HOUSEMARTINS (1987)
Lyrics: Treated us like plasticine town They built us up and knocked us down
Lyrics: Treated us like plasticine town They built us up and knocked us down
Goodnight Saigon - BILLY JOEL (1982)
Lyrics: We came in spastic like tameless horses We left in plastic as numbered corpses
Lyrics: We came in spastic like tameless horses We left in plastic as numbered corpses
I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me - NIK KERSHAW (single, 1983 / LP Human Racing, 1984)
Lyrics: Old men in stripy trousers rule the world with plastic smiles
Rebirth Of Slick (Cool Like Dat) - DIGABLE PLANETS (LP Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space), 1993)
Lyrics: If it's the shit, we'll lift it off the plastic The babes'll go spastic, hip-hop gains a classic
Save Me - EMBRACE (2000)
Lyrics: You made a plastiscenic work of art
Set Adrift On Memory Bliss - PM DAWN (1991)
Lyrics: The camera pans the cocktail glass Behind a blind of plastic plants I found the lady with the fat diamond ring Then you know I can't remember a damn thing
Shine On - HOUSE OF LOVE (1990)
Lyrics: In a garden in the House of Love Sitting lonely on a plastic chair
24 Hour Party People - HAPPY MONDAYS (1987)
Lyrics: Twenty four hour party people Plastic face can't smile the white out With the twenty four hour party people Plastic face can't smile the white out
pneymatic
That's Entertainment - THE JAM (LP Sound Affects, 1980)
Lyrics: A police car and a screaming siren Pneumatic drill and ripped-up concrete A baby wailing, a stray dog howling The screech of brakes and lamplight blinking
pneumonia
I’ll Never Fall In Love Again - BOBBIE GENTRY, D. WARWICK, DEACON BLUE
Lost Weekend - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS (LP Easy Pieces, 1985)
Lyrics: It took a lost weekend in a hotel in Amsterdam And double pneumonia in a single room And the sickest joke was the price of the medicine Are you laughing at me now?
Roll Over Beethoven - CHUCK BERRY
poem, poet, poetry
Songs about poems
Blue Jean - DAVID BOWIE (1984)
Lyrics: I'm gonna write a poem in a letter
Can I Kick It? - A TRIBE CALLED QUEST (1990)
Lyrics: right now, Phife is a poem sayer
Incomplete - ALANIS MORISSETTE (2008)
Lyrics: I'll be less afraid & measured outside of my poems
Jungle Love - STEVE MILLER BAND (1977)
Lyrics: I thought I would write you a poem)
Poem Without Words - ANNE CLARK (1987)
(instrumental)
This Picture - PLACEBO (2003)
Lyrics: I wrote a poem that described her world)
Waking Up Alone - PAUL WIILIAMS (1971)
Lyrics: I should have noticed that the years were slipping by Still you're just as lovely as the day we said goodbye Like an old familiar poem that still won't rhyme I could get back to the place but not the time
Songs about poets
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall - BOB DYLAN (1963)
Lyrics: I heard the song of a poet who died in the gutter)
A Special Kind Of Man - ROGER WHITTAKER (1971)
Lyrics: My brother was a poet And a very special kind of man)
Atlantis - DONOVAN (1968)
Lyrics: he poet, the physician, the farmer)
Baby I'm Yours - BARBARA LEWIS (1965)
Lyrics: I'll be yours until the sun no longer shines Yours until the poets run out of rhyme In other words, until the end of time
Lyrics: Poets, priests, and politicians Have words to thank for their positions
Do You Believe In Shame - DURAN DURAN (1988)
Lyrics: And did you have to change All your poet's fire into frozen dust?
Edge Of Seventeen - STEVIE NICKS (1981)
with the words of a poet
Escape (The Piña Colada Song) - RUPERT HOLMES (1979)
though I'm nobody's poet
The Fly - U2 (1991)
every poet is a thief
Give It Away - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (1991)
Lyrics: Bob Marley, poet & a prophet
Homeward Bound - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (1966)
I'm sittin' in the railway station Got a ticket for my destination, mmm On a tour of one night stands My suitcase and guitar in hand And every stop is neatly planned For a poet and a one man band
Lyrics: I have only twelve days in Paris, and I'm waiting for life to start I'm setting out my stall behind a sheet of dark hair And you, the hostage of crazed hormones Will be driven to say: 'I am the next poet laurate And she is the cherry madonna And all of the summer is hers.'
Ice Ice Baby - VANILLA ICE (1990)
I'm a lyrical poet
Imitation Of Life - REM (2001)
water hyakinth, named by a poet
In These Arms - BON JOVI (1992)
like a poet needs the pain
Lay Your Hands On Me - BON JOVI (1989)
I'm a fighter, I'm a poet, I'm a preacher
Marrakesh Night Market - LOREENA McKENNITT (1994)
the poets of drumming
One for My Baby (And One More for the Road) - FRED ASTAIRE (1943), FRANK SINATRA (1947)
I'm a kind of poet
Sara - FLEETWOOD MAC (1979)
Sara you're the poet in my heart
Sweet Jane - THE VELVET UNDERGROUND (1970)
all the poets, they studie rules of verse
Talking Back To The Night - STEVE WINWOOD (1982)
A poet in his madness
Telegram Sam - T-REX (1972)
he's a natural born poet
That’s Life - FRANK SINATRA (1966)
I've been a puppet, a pauper, a pirate, a poet, a pawn and a king
Use Somebody - KINGS OF LEON (2008)
Wagin' wars to shape the poet and the beat
War Dance - XTC (LP Nonsuch, 1992)
Lyrics: Yeah, I'm talking about this war dance A patriotic romance And I know all you poets Have seen it all before
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Step It Up - STEREO MC'S (1992)
Lyrics: Curves with destinations Poetic symmetry
Songs about poetry, poesia
Charlotte Street - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS (1984)
I don't need your sympathy I won’t read your poetry, oh sweetness please
Closer Than Close - BEE GEES (1997)
Lyrics: I write a symphony of poetry in motion
Lyrics: Every step is poetry in motion Let the rhythm take your devotion
Diamonds & Rust - JOAN BAEZ (1975)
Lyrics: As I remember your eyes Were bluer than robin's eggs My poetry was lousy, you said Where are you calling from? A booth in the Midwest
I Am A Rock - SIMON & GARFUNKEL (1966)
I have my books & my poetry to protect me
(I’ll Love You) Till the End of the World - NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS (1991)
others a re works of inspiration, of poetry
Kick It In - SIMPLE MINDS (1989)
Love gives me poetry Stays up all night and puts a curse on me)
La Tortura - SHAKIRA feat ALEJANDRO SANZ (2005)
Hey baby, save the poetry
My Bag - LLOYD COLE & THE COMMOTIONS (1987)
my head's swimming with poetry & prose
Poetry In Motion - JOHNNY TILLOTSON (1960)
Shame - EURYTHMICS (1987)
You with yer mother's pride and poetry "Don't you want to feel the shame?"
She Blinded Me With Science - THOMAS DOLBY (1982)
Lyrics: poetry in motion
Ti Sento - MATIA BAZAR (1985)
Lyrics: Che mi resta di te Della mia poesia? Mentre l'ombra del sonno Lenta scivola via
pole, polar
No Myth - MICHAEL PENN (1989)
Lyrics: Sometime from now you'll bow to pressure Some things in life you cannot measure by degrees I'm between the poles and the equator Don't send no private investigator to find me please
Polar Bear - THE CHARLATANS (1990)
This Is England - THE CLASH
Lyrics: Time on his hands the freezing mohawk strolls He won't go for the carrots Been beaten by the pole Some sunny day confronted by his soul
polemic
Mr. Crowley - OZZY OSBOURNE
Lyrics: Was it polemically sent? I wanna know what you meant
police
All In One Night - STEREOPHONICS (2017)
Lyrics: She can't wait any longer I got to help her come into the world The police try to arrest us But then they see the baby girl
Lyrics: September '77 Port Elizabeth weather fine It was business as usual In police room 619
Bush Doctor - PETER TOSH (1978)
Lyrics: So there'll be no more police brutality No more disrespect for humanityDaft Punk Is Playing At My House - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM (2005)
Lyrics: Well, Daft Punk is playing at my house, my house I waited seven years and fifteen days There's every kid for miles at my house, my house And the neighbors can't call the police
Dear Mama - 2PAC (1995)
Lyrics: And who'd think in elementary, hey I'd see the penitentiary one day? And runnin' from the police, that's right Mama catch me, put a whoopin' to my backside
Girls & Boys - BLUR
Lyrics: Streets like a jungle so call the police
Lyrics: TV news and cameras, there's choppers in the sky Marines, police, reporters ask where, for and why
Lyrics: Crime is (Woo!) increasing Trigger happy policing Panic is spreading God knows where we're heading
Jeanny - FALCO (1985)
Lyrics: Die jüngste Veröffentlichung der lokalen Polizei-Behörde berichtet von einem weiteren tragischen Fall Es handelt sich um ein neunzehnjähriges Mädchen, das zuletzt vor 14 Tagen gesehen wurde Die Polizei schließt die Möglichkeit nicht aus, dass es sich hier um ein Verbrechen handelt
Karma Police - RADIOHEAD (1997)
Ma Baker - BONEY M
Lyrics: "Here is a special bulletin. Ma Baker is the FBI's most wanted woman. Her photo is hanging on every post office wall. If you have any information about this woman, please contact the nearest police station."
Rubber Bullets - 10cc (1973)
Lyrics: Well the band were playing and the booze began to flow But the sound came over on the police car radio Down at Precinct 49 Having a tear-gas of a time
Suburbia - PET SHOP BOYS (1986)
Lyrics: in the distance a police car
That's Entertainment - THE JAM (LP Sound Affects, 1980)
Lyrics: A police car and a screaming siren Pneumatic drill and ripped-up concrete A baby wailing, a stray dog howling The screech of brakes and lamplight blinking
They Don't Care About Us - MICHAEL JACKSON (1995)
Lyrics: I am a victim of police brutality now (Hee)
We Built This City - STARSHIP (1985)
Lyrics: Police have got the chokehold, oh Then we just lost the beat
West End Girls - PET SHOP BOYS (1985)
Lyrics: call the police
What’s Your Name - LYNYRD SKYNYRD (1977)
Lyrics: Back at the hotel, Lord, we got such a mess It seems that one of the crew had a go with one of the guests, oh yes Well, the police said we can't drink in the bar, what a shame Won't you come upstairs, girl, and have a drink of champagne?
When Did Your Heart Go Missing - ROONEY (LP Calling The World, 2007)
Lyrics: I'm gonna call the police Call the investigator, the heart investigative team Forensic unit Come find that heart of yours Search fingerprints
policeman
Hey Matthew - KAREL FIALKA
Lyrics: I want to be a policeman
How Bizarre - OMC (1996)
Lyrics: Pele preaches words of comfort, Sina just hides her eyes Policeman taps his shades, "Is that a Chevy '69?"
I Predict A Riot - KAISER CHIEFS (2005)
Lyrics: A friend of a friend he got beaten He looked the wrong way at a policeman
Suburbia - PET SHOP BOYS
Lyrics: where’s a policeman when you need one
policy
Bad Boy - BEYONCE (2003)
Lyrics: Certified quality A dat di gyaldem need and dem cry fi everyday without apology Buck dem di right way, dat a my policy
politician, political, politics
Always The Sun - THE STRANGLERS
it’s not unlike politicians
The Beat(en) Generation-THE THE
by the greedy hands of politics
Lyrics: Poets, priests, and politicians Have words to thank for their positions
Drop the boy-BROS
I’d like to be in politics
Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) - BAZ LUHRMANN (1998)
Lyrics: Accept certain inalienable truths: prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old-- and when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders
Lyrics: Politicians argue sharpening their knives Drawing up their bargains, trading baby lives
Hey Matthew - KAREL FIALKA
political publicity stund
Hooverville - CHRISTIANS
oh Mr. Politician open up your eyes
Ich Bin Ein Auslander - POP WILL IT ITSELF (LP Dos Degos Mis Amigos, 1994)
Lyrics: Welcome to a state where the politics of hate Shout loud in the crowd Watch 'em beat us all down There's a rising tide on the rivers of blood
Lyrics: Welcome to a state where the politics of hate Shout loud in the crowd Watch 'em beat us all down There's a rising tide on the rivers of blood
If I Ever Lose My Faith In You - STING
Lyrics: You would say I lost my belief in our politicians They all seem like game show hosts to me
Motorcycle Emptiness - MANIC STREET PREACHERS
Lyrics: Your joys are counterfeit This happiness, corrupt political shit
No Clause 28 - BOY GEORGE
Lyrics: Don't talk to me about political choice I don't like your tone and I don't like your voice
One Better World - ABC
Lyrics: politicians preaching on TV
Lyrics: And all my promises are lies, all my love is hate I am the politician and I decide your fate
Our Last Summer - ABBA (1980)
Lyrics: you talked of politics, philosophy And I smiled like Mona Lisa
Piano Man - BILLY JOEL (1973)
Lyrics: And the waitress is practicing politics As the businessmen slowly get stoned Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinkin' alone
The Politics Of Dancing - RE-FLEX (1983)
Lyrics
Russians - STING (LP The Dream Of The Blue Turtles, 1985)
Lyrics: How can I save my little boy From Oppenheimer's deadly toy? There is no monopoly of common sense On either side of the political fence
Lyrics: How can I save my little boy From Oppenheimer's deadly toy? There is no monopoly of common sense On either side of the political fence
Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves - EURYTHMICS (LP Be Yourself Tonight, 1985)
Lyrics: The "inferior sex" got a new exterior (yeah) We got doctors, lawyers, politicians too - oo
Sowing The Seeds Of Love - TEARS FOR FEARS (LP The Seeds Of Love, 1989)
Lyrics: Politician granny with your high ideals Have you no idea how the majority feels?
Lyrics: Politician granny with your high ideals Have you no idea how the majority feels?
The Sweetest Girl - SCRITTI POLITTI (1981)
Lyrics: The weakest link in every chain I always want to find it The strongest words in each belief Find out what's behind it Politics is prior to The vagaries of science She left because she understood The value of defiance
Time After Time - BELOVED
Lyrics: politics & romance
Up On The Catwalk - SIMPLE MINDS (1984)
Lyrics: Up on the catwalk there's street politicians That crawl in from Broadway, say "Then who are you?"
We Didn't Start The Fire - BILLY JOEL (1989)
Lyrics: British politician sex
Working With Fire & Steel - CHINA CRISIS
Lyrics: I couldn’t think political blue
polygamy
Like Smoke - AMY WINEHOUSE feat. NAS (LP Hidden Treasures, 2011)
Lyrics: The good Samaritan, hood thespian Like a polygamist, with a twist Will I marry again? Maybe, I guess
polygon
Hi Hi Hi - WINGS (1972)
Lyrics: Well, well, take off your face Recover from the trip you've been on I want you to lie on the bed Getting ready for my polygon
porno
Californication - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (1999)
Lyrics: Pay your surgeon very well to break the spell of aging Celebrity skin, is this your chin, or is that war you're waging? Firstborn unicorn Hardcore soft porn
Fight For Your Right - BEASTIE BOYS
Lyrics: your mom threw away your best porno mag
Hate Me - BLUE OCTOBER (2006)
Lyrics: I have to block out thoughts of you so I don’t lose my head They crawl in like a cockroach, leaving babies in my bed Dropping little reels of tape to remind me that I’m alone Playing movies in my head that make a porno feel like home
pornography
I Want Your Sex - GEORGE MICHAEL
Lyrics: what do you call pornography
No Clause 28 - BOY GEORGE
Lyrics: to show pornography the door
Pornography - THE CURE (1982)
Lyrics:
Lyrics:
practice, practical
Coffee & TV-BLUR
Lyrics: practically floored
Genetic Engineering - OMD (1983)
Lyrics: Efficient, logical, effective, and practical Using all resources to the best of our ability
Hey DJ - THE BEATMASTERS feat. Betty Boo
Lyrics: practice
I Can Make You Feel Good - SHALAMAR
Lyrics: Cause unlike other guys I won't waste your time I just wanna practice what I preach
I Get A Kick Out Of You - COLE PORTER, FRANK SINATRA
Lyrics: My story is much too sad to be told But practically everything leaves me totally cold
The Logical Song - SUPERTRAMP
Lyrics:
The Puppet - ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN
Lyrics: practice
Lyrics: Children hurt, and you hear them cryin' Can you practice what you preach?
prehistoric
Nemesis - SHRIEKBACK (LP Oil & Gold, 1985)
Lyrics: Priests and cannibals, prehistoric animals Everybody happy as the dead come home Big black Nemesis, parthenogenesis No one move a muscle as the dead come home
prism
Lyrics: I chase the wind of a prism ship To taste the sweet and sour
problem
Appetite - PREFAB SPROUT (1985)
Lyrics: here she is with two small problems
Body Language (En La Carretera) - EZRA COLLECTIVE feat. SASHA KEABLE (2025)
Lyrics: Baby let's right into it Tell me all your problems I think we could solve them you watching my body language
Breaking Away - JAKI GRAHAM (LP Breaking Away, 1986)
Lyrics: You're just a man with a modern problem Can rest his heart, has to be so far away So far away, so far I'm losing all belief
Bizarre Love Triangle - NEW ORDER (LP Brotherhood, 1986)
Lyrics: Every time I think of you I feel shot right through with 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
C’mon Everybody - EDDIE COCHRAN (1958)
Lyrics: I'm gonna take two weeks Gonna have a fine vacation I'm gonna take my problem To the United Nations
Confide In Me - KYLIE MINOGUE
Lyrics:
Downtown - PETULA CLARK
Lyrics: let your problems surround you
Every Time You Go Away - PAUL YOUNG
Lyrics: If we can’t solve any problems
Farfalina - LUCA CARBONI
Fast Car - TRACY CHAPMAN
Lyrics: my old man’s got a problem
Fight For Ourselves - SPANDAU BALLET
Lyrics: so many problems
Free - CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT
Lyrics: problems we can share
I Don't Think That Men Should Sleep alone - RAY PARKER Jr.
Lyrics: I admit I’ve got a problem
Land Of Confusion - GENESIS
making too many problems
Live Together - LISA STANSFIELD
we’ve got to solve the problem
Lovefool - THE CARDIGANS
Love Will Save The Day - WHITNEY HOUSTON
your problems are too deep
Loving The Alien - DAVID BOWIE
Palestine a modern problem
Masterpiece - GAZEBO (1983)
Lyrics: I'm not a robot without emotions, I'm not what you see I've come to help you with your problems, so we can be free
Never Can Say Goodbye - COMMUNARDS
People Hold On - COLDCUT
nobody’s solving the problem
Perfect Day - LOU REED
Play That Funky Music - WILD CHERRY (1976)
Lyrics: I never had no problems, yeah Burning down the one-night stands
Running Up That Hill - KATE BUSH (1985)
Lyrics: Be runnin' up that hill With no problems
Superwoman - KARYN WHITE (1988)
Lyrics: I'm convinced I know the problem, you don't love me the same
The Things We Do For Love - 10cc (1977)
Lyrics: Communication is the problem to the answer
Town Without Pity - GENE PITNEY (1961)
Twist In My Sobriety - TANITA TIKARAM (1988)
Lyrics: All God's children need travelling shoes Drive your problems from here
You Keep It All In - BEAUTIFUL SOUTH
you know your problem
Disappear - INXS
all the problems
Fall On Me - REM
There’s a problem
I Can’t Escape Myself - SOUND
all my problems are larger than life
program
I.G.Y. - DON FAGEN
Lyrics:
Too Much Too Young - THE SPECIALS (1980)
Lyrics: Ain't you heard of the starving millions? Ain't you heard of contraception? You really want a program of sterilization? Take control of the population boom!
prophet
Can I Play With Madness - IRON MAIDEN (1988)
Lyrics: the prophet stared at his crystal ball
China In Your Hand - T’PAU
Lyrics: a prophecy for a fantasy
E=mc2 - BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE
Lyrics: Ritual ideas, relativity Holy buildings, no people prophecy Time slide, place to hide, nudge reality
Give It Away - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS (1991)
Lyrics: Bob Marley, poet & a prophet
One Of Us - JOAN OSBOURNE
Lyrics:
Rock The Casbah - THE CLASH (1982)
Lyrics: By order of the prophet We ban that boogie sound
Sound Of Silence - SIMON & GARFUNKEL
the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
Small Talk - SCRITTI POLITTI
Lyrics: we’re tired of prophesying
They Don't Care About Us - MICHAEL JACKSON (1995)
Lyrics: You're rapin' me of my pride, oh, for God's sake I don't like havin' to fulfill this prophecy Set me free
2 Wicky - HOOVER (1996)
Lyrics: Prophet six zero zero nine one This is the flight number of our galactic sun
protagonist
Vivo Per Lei - ANDREA BOCELLI & GIORGIA (1995)
Lyrics: Vivo per lei al margine Ogni giorno una conquista La protagonista Sarà sempre lei
protein
Space Oddity - DAVID BOWIE (1969)
Lyrics: Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
protocol
Lyrics: I load lead inside my engine Lead and alcohol On the radio depending I sign the protocol
Lyrics: Old men with their protocol Lead us off to war Sometimes we don't even know What we're fighting for Marching to the beat of their drum
prototype
Here We Go - STAKKA BO
Lyrics:
psyche
Californication - RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS
Lyrics: Psychic spies from China try to steal your mind's elation
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It - REM
Lyrics: Dummy with the raptured and the revered and the right, right You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light Feeling pretty psyched
Pressure-BILLY JOEL
psyche 1, psyche 2
psychedelic
Eyes Without A Face - BILLY IDOL (LP Rebel Yell, 1983)
Lyrics: I'm on a bus on a psychedelic trip Reading murder books, trying to stay hip
Love Is Psychedelic (Bob Sinclar Mix) - FANTASTIC PLASTIC MACHINE (2001)
Space Cowboy - JAMIROQUAI (1994)
Lyrics: A man with psychedelic picture frames Of happiness to shade his eyes
psychiatrist
19 - PAUL HARDCASTLE (1985)
Lyrics: According to a Veteran's Administration study, half of the Vietnam combat veterans suffered from what psychiatrists call Post-traumatic stress disorder
psychic
Clint Eastwood - GORILLAZ (2001)
Lyrics: You like it? Gun smokin', righteous with one toke Get psychic among those, possess you with one dose
psycho, psychotic
Be - LENNY KRAVITZ (LP Let Love Rule, 1989)
Lyrics: psychotic
Gettin' Jiggy With It - WILL SMITH (LP Big Willie Style, 1998)
Lyrics: I go psycho
I Can Only Dissapoint U - MANSUN (2000)
Lyrics: The queens they all loved you, the tall, the short, the fair The sailors, the psychos, always
Love Missile F1-11 - SIGUE SIGUE SPUTNIK (LP Flaunt It, 1986)
Lyrics: psycho maniac
Psycho Killer - TALKING HEADS (LP Ealking Heads: 77, 1977)
Lyrics: Psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est? Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, fa, better Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away
Somebody’s Watching Me - ROCKWELL (LP Somebody's Watching Me, 1984)
Lyrics:
We Didn't Start The Fire - BILLY JOEL (1989)
Lyrics: Chubby Checker, Psycho Belgians in the Congo
psychological
Drama! - ERASURE
Lyrics: just one psychological drama after anothe
Word Up - CAMEO
Lyrics: no time for psychological romance
psychopomp
Pyschopomp - THE TEA PARTY (1997)
Lyrics:
pylon
Goodbye To The Village - KILLING JOKE (1986)
Lyrics: Forests of pylons built, the scaffolding is raised And how the men pursue their work They act convinced of freedom
pyramid
Hanna Hanna - CHINA CRISIS (1984)
Lyrics: Tape recorder and telephone Conversations in pyramids alone
Nights Over Egypt - THE JONES GIRLS (1981)
Lyrics: There's a star in the east Over pyramids at Giza
Pyramid Song - RADIOHEAD (LP Amnesiac, 2001)
Lyrics: Out of nowhere comes this sound This melody that keeps spinning 'round & 'round Pyramidal locomotion From a mystic unknown zone
The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) - THE DOORS (LP LA Woman, 1971)
Lyrics: We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping This is the land where the Pharaoh died
pyre (πυρ / fire)
Blazing - ALEX SID & QUASAMODO (2023)
Lyrics: This love was a phoenix on fire This love was a luminous pyre
Mothers Τalk - TEARS FOR FEARS (LP Songs From The Big Chair, 1985)
Lyrics: Given that you pay the price We can keep you young and tender Following the footsteps of a funeral pyre You were paid not to listen now your house is on fire
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Pandora
Pandora's Box - OMD (1991)
Philadelphia
Streets Of Philadelphia - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN (1994)
Lyrics: On the streets of Philadelphia
Tribute (Right On) - THE PASADENAS (LP To Whom It May Concern, 1988)
Lyrics: Sound of Philly The Jackson 5 All these sounds are still alive
Philip
Alexander The Great - IRON MAIDEN (1986)
Lyrics: Near to the east, in a part of ancient Greece In an ancient land called Macedonia Was born a son to Philip of Macedon The legend, his name was Alexander
Plato
The Magnificent Seven - THE CLASH (1981)
Lyrics: Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin Who's more famous to the billion millions?
Pluto
Fire Water Burn - THE BLOODHOUND GANG (1996)
Lyrics: Yeah, I'm hung like planet Pluto, hard to see with the naked eye But if I crashed into Uranus, I would stick it where the sun don't shine
Prometheus
Black Sun - DEAD CAN DANCE (1990)
Lyrics: Give me 69 years Another season in this hell It's all sex and death As far as eyes can tell Like Prometheus we are bound Chained to this rock of a brave new world Our god-forsaken lot
Sphynx
Do The Strand - ROXY MUSIC
Lyrics:
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