Hip-Hop: 0-B | C-E | F-K | L-O | P-S | T-Z | Jazz & Blues: 0-L | M-Z
Rock & Metal: 0-C | D-G | H-L | M-P | Q-S | T-Z | Pop & Others: 0-D | E-L | M-R | S-Z
Artist/Band: Taking Back Sunday – American rock group.
From: Yo Gabba Gabba!, (program tv) 2011
Title: We All Love Our Pets
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
Soft ones like chinchillas, and hard ones like turtles
Artist/Band: Terrorgruppe – German punk rock band, founded in 1993.
From: Blechdose, 2002
Title: A.C.A.B.
Why in the database: There is a reference to Ninja Turtles
Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Batman
Artist/Band: Test – Polish rock group, precursor of polish hard-rock.
From: Test , 1992 (reedycja)
Title: Żółw na Galapagos
Why in the database: Turtle in the title, also the whole song is about turtles.
Żółw na Galapagos
Żyje wieki dłużej
Nigdzie się nie spieszy
Słońcem się nacieszy
Chciałbym chociaż sto lat
Pożyć w jego skórze
Artist/Band: The Mother Hips – American rock band.
From: Back to the Grotto, 1992
Title: Turtle Bones
Why in the database: Turtle in the title and in the lyrics.
And I don’t know about no turtle bones or airplane rides
Artist/Band: Tommy Mars – See: Chapter 1: The Porcupine from Hambrook
Artist/Band: The 99ers – See: Cut Across Shorty
Artist/Band: The Band – Canadian-American rock band, founded in 1967 by four canadians and one american.
From: The Band, 1969
Title: Rag Mama Rag
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
I ask about your turtle
And you ask about the weather
Artist/Band: The Beautiful South – English pop rock group, founded in 1988.
From: Painting It Red, 2000
Title: Final Spark
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
Kept him sitting waiting there
To show the tortoise middle-age
Cause you never back an animal that struggles on two legs
Artist/Band: The Beta Band – Scottish music group, founded in 1996.
From: Heroes to Zeros, 2004
Title: Liquid Bird
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned, “spinning in space”, which can be considered a reference to Gamera.
Is this the legend of the liquid brain?
You’re just a turtle, spinning in space
You’re just a turtle, spinning in space
You’re just a turtle, spinning in space
Artist/Band: The Creatures – English post-punk band, founded in 1981.
From: Boomerang, 1989
Title: Venus Sands
Why in the database: A baby turtles are mentioned.
Down on the flats, baby turtles race
For safety of the big deep
And white caps come crashing in
Indifferent to tender flesh
Artist/Band: The Darkness – British group that performs hard rock and heavy metal music, founded in 2000.
From: Pinewood Smile, 2017
Title: Stampede Of Love
Why in the database: Tortoise shell is mentioned.
You wear your house like a tortoise shell
Artist/Band: The Dave Travis Bad River Band – See: Cut Across Shorty
Artist/Band: The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – See: Deep Dark Truthful Mirror
Artist/Band: The Everly Brothers – American duo singing rock and roll, folk rock and country rock.
From: Chained to a Memory: 1966-1972, 2006
Title: Survival of the Fittest
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
Infant turtles racing to the sea
Seagulls screeching hungrily
Twisting, kicking, jerking in their craws
Oh wonder why God made these kind of laws
Artist/Band: The Ex – Dutch punk rock band.
From: –
Title: The Turtle the Hare
Why in the database: In the title there is a reference to the Tortoise and the Hare), it is an instrumental song, without lyrics.
Artist/Band: The Four Postmen – American rock band.
From: –
Title: The Lobster Quadrille
Why in the database: There is a reference to Alice in Wonderland/Mock Turtle..
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
Artist/Band: The Head Cat – See: Cut Across Shorty
Artist/Band: The Lemonheads – American alternative rock group, founded in 1986.
From: Lick, 1989
Title: Come Back D.A.
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned, a reference to slowness.
Blind as a bat
Slow as a turtle
I give up to you right now my lord
Artist/Band: The Madd – Dutch rock band.
From: Ongeneeslijk Beat, 2007
Title: Tortoise
Why in the database: Turtle only in the title, not in the lyrics.
Artist/Band: The Monterays – American rock band, founded in 1962.
From: Strictly Instrumental, Vol. 10, 2008
Title: Turtle (Instrumental)
Why in the database: Turtle is mentioned only in the title, it is an instrumental song, without lyrics.
Artist/Band: The Moody Blues – British rock group, founded in 1964.
From: A Question of Balance, 1970
Title: Tortoise and the Hare
Why in the database: Title mentions the Tortoise and the Hare, in the lyrics they are not mentioned “by name”, but it is definitely about them.
You know he’s moving fast,
Be he’s still going slow,
He’s ahead in the race,
And there is not far to go,
And your load is so heavy
And your legs want to rest.
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right.
You think he’s way up in front
But he’s so far behind.
He’s asleep in the grass,
And he’s run out of time.
While your load was so heavy
You never wanted to stop.
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right.
Your friend is heavy
But he was ready
And never stopped for a while
And while you were sleeping
He went on keeping the final line in his mind.
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right.
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right.
Your friend is heavy
But he was ready
And never stopped for a while
And while you were sleeping
He went on keeping the final line in his mind.
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right.
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right.
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right.
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right.
It’s all right, it’s all right, it’s all right.
Artist/Band: The National – American rock band.
From: Sleep Well Beast, 2017
Title: Turtleneck
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned in the title and in the lyrics, as name of type of clothing.
Give the gift that fits your head
You have to get this turtleneck
Artist/Band: The Odds – Canadian alternative rock band.
From: Neopolitan, 1991
Title: Family Tree
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
Bobbing up and down in the waves with the moonbeams
They shine like turtles’ backs in bleach, and I…
Artist/Band: The Presidents of the United States of America – American rock group, formed in 1993.
From: These Are the Good Times People, 2008
Title: Poor Turtle
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned, as a symbol of a person forced to live in a trailer.
Poor turtle ready to rock and to roll
Poor turtle got stole
Poor turtle smiling in the summer sun
(…)
I miss my poor poor turtle
I miss my poor poor turtle turtle so much
I miss my poor poor turtle
I miss my poor poor turtle turtle so much
Artist/Band: The Presidents of the United States of America
From: Pure Frosting, 1998
Title: Mobile Home
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
A tiny turtle in a can.
I dig a living room in the sand.
Poke a toe through a hole in the floor.
Artist/Band: The Reason – Canadian rock band, founded in 2003.
From: Problems Associated With Running, 2003
Title: Tortoise
Why in the database: There is a reference to the Tortoise and the Hare.
Once as a hare, forever the tortoise. This head, safe to see this so far. This heart, safe to take this so far. Forever the tortoise. My protective shell protects my insides from all foul attempts to take this passion.
Artist/Band: The Ringo Jets – Turkish rock band, founded in 2011.
From: Quatre, 2016
Title: Snapping-Turtle Turks
Why in the database: Turtle is mentioned only in the title, it is an instrumental song, without lyrics.
Artist/Band: The Roches – American folk rock band.
From: Will You Be My Friend?1994
Title: Will You Be My Friend?
Why in the database: There are mentions of turtles.
I met the most beautiful turtle today
Her head was hid in her shell
Those lovely eyes were peeking at me
Ooo she was scared I could tell
(…)
yeah! then she just happened to smile
Smiling was ok for now
That’s when I knew turtles and toads,
Toads and turtles
Could have fun somehow
Artist/Band: The Sea Turtles – American jazz-rock band.
From: Head Above Water, 2010
Title: Sea Turtle Blues
Why in the database: Turtle is mentioned only in the title, it is an instrumental song, without lyrics.
Artist/Band: The Sugarcubes – An Icelandic rock group that was founded in 1986.
From: Here Today, Tomorrow Next Week!, 1989
Title: Dream T.V.
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
Like a lame turtle I paced the room
Artist/Band: The Wild Angels – See: Cut Across Shorty
Artist/Band: The W’s – American rock and swing band, founded in 1996.
From: Fourth from the Last, 1998
Title: Hui
Why in the database: A guy named Turtle is mentioned.
Met a guy named Turtle and he took him
In boy that’s when he had it made
Artist/Band: Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 – American indie rock group, founded in 1986.
From: Strangers from the Universe, 1994
Title: My Pal the Tortoise
Why in the database: Turtle in the title, whole song lyrics are also about turtle.
My pal the tortoise, how fast does he go?
Oh man, he goes like crazy
What about the cut of his jib?
I think it’s the finest cut you’ll ever find
What does he file at the Hall of Records?
A proclamation of tortoise intentDoes he live the life of a madman?
Yes he lives the life of a madmanWhat falls to his mouth from trees above?
Hot tarts swinging under painted umbrellas
My pal the tortoise, his fortune is boundless
Who does he see on nights by the river?
All the stars he’s ever admired
What does he find in the mud under rivers?
Sweet lumps of honey wrapped in golden gownsDoes he live the life of a madman?
Yes, he lives the life of a madmanWhat does he see when he’s inside his shell?
A long dark bar filled with fishes drinking
A carousel filled with horses on man-backs
A blacktop road subdued by sand dune beautiesDoes he live the life of a madman?
Yes, he lives the life of a madman
Artist/Band: Thought Industry – American band playing progressive/thrash metal, founded in 1989.
From: Mods Carve the Pig: Assassins, Toads and God’s Flesh, 1993
Title: Worms Listen
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
Dad, two sons fish turtle lake.
Artist/Band: Todd Rundgren – American multiinstrumentalist, singer, songwriter and music producer.
From: A Wizard, A True Star, 1973
Title: Just Another Onionhead
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
The blessing of the turtles, the eggs lay on the lawn
Artist/Band: Tori Amos – Real name Myra Ellen Amos, american singer, songwriter and pianist.
From: Under The Pink, 1994
Title: Space Dog
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
Deck the halls
I’m young again
I’m you again
Racing turtles
The grapefruit is winning
Artist/Band: Tortoise – American post-rock band, we have mention about them in note about bands.
From: Millions Now Living Will Never Die, 1996
Title: “Gamera”
Why in the database: Reference in the title to Gamera), it is an instrumental song, without lyrics..
Artist/Band: Toy Dolls – British punk rock group, founded in 1979.
From: Turtle Crazy, 1990
Title: Turtle Crazy!
Why in the database: Turtle in the title, whole lyrics are about Ninja Turtles.
I’ve got a little brother his christian name is Sid,
Ever since he saw the turtles he’s flipped his lid.
He’s always scoffing pizzas just like Leonardo,
Donatello Raphael and Michaelangelo
Turtles, Turtles…
He loves the Teenage Turtles he’s collecting all their stuff,
T-shirts, books and badges he can never get enough.
Spending every penny on all that he can find
If it has a turtle on, he’s going out of his mind….
Turtle crazy, he’s turtle mad,
The turtles they have taken away the little bit sense he had,
In a turtle outfit you really have to laugh,
He wears it every night and day and even in the bath.
He’s acting like a madman, he’s acting like a clown,
The Teenage Mutant Turtles are coming to our town.
He bought a plastic Turtle to keep up with the trend,
He dropped it down the toilet now he’s going round the bend….
Tutles on his dressing gown and on the bedroom wall,
Turtles on his vest and his underpants and all….
Turtle crazy, he’s Turtle mad,
The turtles they have taken away the little bit sense he had.
In a turtle outfit you really have to laugh,
He wears it every night and day and even in the bath….
Artist/Band: Treetop Flyers – English folk rock band.
From: Treetop Flyers, 2018
Title: Art of Deception
Why in the database: A tortoise shell pocket comb is mentioned.
And a tortoise shell pocket comb
Artist/Band: TrrTrrTrr – Finnish rock band, founded in 2002.
From: 89, 2004
Title: 89
Why in the database: There is a reference to Ninja Turtles.
Didn’t we all want to do what the Ninja Turtles did
Artist/Band: TV on the Radio – American indie rock band, founded in 2001.
From: Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, 2004
Title: Dreams
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
Oh warfarin’ terrapin
Artist/Band: Two Crows Joy – American folk rock band.
From: Another Trip Around the Sun, 2018
Title: Another Trip Around the Sun
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
Well I heard Sturgill whining, but them turtles ain’t lining up
Artist/Band: U2 – Irish rock band, formed in Dublin in 1976.
From: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, 2004
Title: All Because of You
Why in the database: There is a mention of an intellectual turtle.
I like the sound of my own voice
I didn’t give anyone else a choice
An intellectual tortoise
Racing with your bullet train
Artist/Band: Vanderbuyst – Dutch heavy metal band, founded in 2008.
From: In Dutch, 2011
Title: Where’s That Devil
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
It’s like that turtle you will never catch
Artist/Band: Varga – Canadian metal band, founded in 1985.
From: Enter the Metal, 2013
Title: Gamera
Why in the database: Title and whole song are about Gamera.
FLYING TOWARDS THE EARTH
HEADING FOR TOKYO TERRITORY
UNIVERSAL FLYING MACHINE
OH WHAT CAN IT BE
MONSTER FROM HELL
TAKEN AWAY
FLOWING TOWARDS YOUSEARCHING, LOOKING FOR NUCLEAR POWER
HE DON’T KNOW, NO HE JUST FLIES
FLYING FOR HOURS
TORMENTING TURTLE FROM HELL
SPINNING FASTER
WILL HE COME BACK
THEY’RE UNDER ATTACK
DEVASTATION!! OOOHH!!CHOMPIN’ DOWN ON POWER LINES
NO CHANCE OF STOPPING IT
THE JAPANESE ARMY TRIES TO KILL IT
BUT THEY WILL NOT SUCCEEDKILLER TURTLE FROM OUTER SPACE
FIRE BREATHING CREATURE…GAMERA
GARGANTUAN SPINNING BEAST
FLYING MONSTER DESTROYS ALL..GAMERA
GAMERA…GAMERA!!!!!GETTING HIT FAST
MISSILE DEMONS
DOES NOT HURT HIM
HE’S HAVING FUN
IT’S TIME TO TAKE DOWN
DESTROY LOTS AGAIN
MILLIONS DEAD ON THIS DAY
TOTAL GAMERA!! YEAH!KILLER TURTLE FROM OUTER SPACE
FIRE BREATHING CREATURE..GAMERA
GARGANTUAN SPINNING BEAST
FLYING MONSTER DESTROYS ALL..GAMERA
GAMERA…GAMERA!!!!
Artist/Band: Varius Manx, Kasia Stankiewicz – Varius Manx, a polish pop-rock band founded in 1989. Kasia Stankiewicz, polish alternative singer and songwriter, in 1996–2000 she was the singer of the Varius Manx band.
From: Ent, 2018
Title: Bardzo miękkie ciało
Why in the database: A very turtle lyrics.
Jak mały żółw
Delikatnie i nieśmiało, lecz
Dziś wychodzę po
Ciepło twoich rąk.
A na twój gest
Reaguję i oswajam się,
I śmiałość też
Jakby większą mam
Moje ciało nie ogrzeje Cię,
Twoje zimno mnie nie zmrozi.
Jak w zwolnionym tempie z moich ust
Słowa znów do Ciebie płyną.
Dotrą, gdzie będę daleko stąd,
Nie dosięgnie mnie Twa myśl.
Pod skorupą coraz twardszą mam
Nadal bardzo miękkie ciało.
Jak mały żółw,
W swej skorupie się zamykam i
Dziś odchodzę,
Bo ciało twoich rąk
Umarło gdy,
Chciałam jednak znów za bardzo i
Przed zachodem słońca
Pochwaliłam dzień.
Moje ciało nie ogrzeje Cię,
Twoje zimno mnie nie zmrozi.
Jak w zwolnionym tempie z moich ust
Słowa znów do Ciebie płyną.
Artist/Band: Venerea – Swedish punk rock band.
From: Losing Weight Gaining Ground, 2001
Title: Woodfall
Why in the database: There is a reference to the Tortoise and the Hare.
The tortoise and the hare, now who’ll care for you
Artist/Band: Vicious Rumors – American heavy/power metal band, founded in 1979.
From: Digital Dictator, 1988
Title: Lady Took a Chance
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
Shark skin jacket with a tortoise in his pocket
Artist/Band: Violent Femmes – American post-punk group.
From: Freak Magnet, 2000
Title: Happiness Is
Why in the database: A chocolet turtle is mentioned.
If I eat a chocolet turtle I’m happy
When the box is empty I’m unhappy
When I get another box
I’m happy again
Artist/Band: Voight Kampff – French techno-thrash band.
From: Substance reve, 2018
Title: Fires of Orc
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
like a turtle on its back in
a desert
Artist/Band: Voo Voo – Polish music band, founded in 1985.
From: Małe Wu Wu, 1988
Title: Chiński murek
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned, a reference to the Forbidden City.
Wieczny Żółw i Złoty Smok.
Artist/Band: Waking Ashland – American rock band, founded in 2003.
From: Telescopes
Title: Tortoise and the Hare
Why in the database: Title refers to the Tortoise and the Hare, in lyrics there is not direct reference.
Slow wins the race, but I’m always rushing
Artist/Band: Walter Becker – See: Mock Turtle Song
Artist/Band: Wand – American psychedelic rock band.
From: Laughing Matter, 2019
Title: Tortoise
Why in the database: Turtle is mentioned only in the title, it is an instrumental song, without lyrics.
Artist/Band: Ween – American rock group, founded in 1984.
From: 12 Golden Country Greats, 1996
Title: You Were The Fool
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
You can speak with a turtle just by flippin’ him around
Artist/Band: Whispered – Finnish power metal band, founded in 2001.
From: Shogunate Macabre, 2014
Title: Kappa
Why in the database: Title and whole song are about Kappa.
Screams from deep bellow,
the foul air smells of death
The townsfolk gathered to pray
for the last hours of their livesAs the night falls, fear grows
locked doors won’t hold back
the one who craves for
fresh human blood and your newborn childrenThe sacrifices weren’t enough,
to keep it in its watery realm
judging the fate of all,
this being twisted now arisesWhen the night falls demise of man
cannot be put aside
No mercy upon our kind,
when the skin scaled is upon sight, the time has come to dieFrom the depths of the waters, the child of river will rise
Lifeless eyes of the creature reflect the dark of the night
Bring yourselves for the Kappa, the ancient lord of black waters
Bring your children for Kappa, fresh human blood for the KappaThe last ones running like hell,
hunted, scattered and scared
The ground is stained red,
as it pursues forth to killSavaging the last of the women,
crunching remains of the men
Ripping remaining pieces of their flesh
leaving living ones choking on their own bloodFrom the depths of the waters, the child of river will rise
Lifeless eyes of the creature reflect the dark of the night
Bring yourselves for the Kappa, the ancient lord of black waters
Bring your children for Kappa, fresh human blood for the Kappa
Artist/Band: Whoop-Szo – Canadian rock band.
From: Warrior Down, 2019
Title: 2CB
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
There’s a turtle
Artist/Band: Wind Rose – Italian heavy metal band, founded in 2009.
From: Stonehymn, 2017
Title: Fallen Timbers
Why in the database: There is a mention of an Indian chief, Little Turtle.
This is the song of Little Turtle
The war-chief of men, called Michikinikwa
Artist/Band: Wine Guardian – Italian heavy metal band.
From: Onirica, 2017
Title: Grapes of Wrath (Onirica III)
Why in the database: Turtle is mentioned, song is based on book Grapes of Wrath.
Old Joad died, a man who lived
A turtle crossing the road
Artist/Band: Wooden Elephants – British math rock band.
From: Strings, 2021
Title: Tortoise
Why in the database: Turtle is mentioned only in the title, it is an instrumental song, without lyrics.
Artist/Band: Woo Boo Doo – Polish jazz-rock group.
From: Ja mam fijoła / Znowu nic , 1985
Title: Ja mam fijoła
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned.
Machiny czasu budzi mnie huk
Przychodzi do mnie kosmaty żółw
Artist/Band: Yak – English rock band, founded in 2014.
From: Atlas Complex, 2019
Title: There’s a Turtle in My Soup
Why in the database: Turtle in the title and in lyrics.
There’s a turtle in my soup, waiter
Throw it out the old front door
If I ask for turtle soup later
Throw my out the old front door
Don’t you like our turtle soup, no?
Throw it out the old front door
Artist/Band: Yellowjackets – American jazz-rock band.
From: Politics , 1988
Title: Tortoise & the Hare
Why in the database: Title refers to the Tortoise and the Hare, it is an instrumental song, without lyrics.
Artist/Band: Zacier – Polish music group, founded in 1984.
From: Psychodeliczne menu, 2000
Title: Psychodeliczne menu
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned, the following line is repeated twice.
Zupa z żółwia drepcze pod łóżkiem
Artist/Band: Zee Avi – Malaysian pop-rock singer and guitarist.
From: Ghostbird, 2011
Title: The Book of Morris Johnson
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned, a reference to slowness.
The turtle moves slowly and is happy with his pace of life
Artist/Band: Zmaza – Polish punk band.
From: Owszem, 2006
Title: Idol
Why in the database: A turtle is mentioned, a reference to the “Lokomotywa” poem by Jan Brzechwa.
“Najpierw powoli jak żółw ociężale
