elude

to escape the perception, understanding, or grasp of

Heard in 48 songs (32M+ combined views) — most famously in "Black Heart Inertia" by Incubus.

Updated September 26, 2026

Songs Featuring “elude”

Incubus - Black Heart Inertia

Time: 2:04

I'm a child lost in the woods

A lit path eludes me

And I think...

Incubus - Black Heart Inertia

Opeth - To Bid You Farewell

Time: 7:26

♪

Devotion eludes

And in sadness I lumber

Opeth - To Bid You Farewell

Rush - Red Barchetta

Time: 0:53

Before the "Motor Law"

And on Sundays I elude the eyes

And hop the turbine freight

Rush - Red Barchetta

DJ Quik - Quik Is the Name

Time: 1:05

Hoochies all over my tip because I screwed 'em

One-time can't lock me up, 'cause I elude 'em

And bubblegum rappers can't fade me 'cause I chewed 'em

DJ Quik - Quik Is the Name

A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

Time: 1:31

♪

Where to begin eludes me

♪

A Perfect Circle - Eat The Elephant

Cattle Decapitation - Forced Gender Reassignment

Time: 2:39

And stapled it to her pubis

In order to elude tissue rejection

For seven days she must avoid erections

Cattle Decapitation - Forced Gender Reassignment

Black Moon - Who Got da Props

Time: 3:23

Straight from Crooklyn, better known as Brooklyn

Elude the hook and, your whole beat's tookin'

Must take charge, bomb guard, I'm the man

Black Moon - Who Got da Props

Walk the Moon - Eat Your Heart Out

Time: 2:21

What eludes you now will come to you in time

♪

Walk the Moon - Eat Your Heart Out

Purity Ring - Stranger Than Earth

Time: 2:34

Pity seek what we might lose

But in a week might our weakness elude

There was a stagger that shifted my hips

Purity Ring - Stranger Than Earth

Mariah Carey - You Got Me

Time: 2:01

Boy, I'm entangled up in you

These feelings I just can't elude

'Cause you're so captivating

Mariah Carey - You Got Me

The Smiths - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby

Time: 0:01

If you're wondering why all the love that you long for eludes you

And people are rude and cruel to you

The Smiths - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet, Baby

Drowning Pool - Enemy

Time: 1:29

Labeled malcontent, by bastards of decent,

excuse this place I stand, words are to elude you

Make me sick 'till I can't breathe

Drowning Pool - Enemy

Death Grips - Linda's In Custody

Time: 1:23

Must admit shit's not luck how we

Manage to elude locked up in county

Every chance a fuck gets I'm counting

Death Grips - Linda's In Custody

Dark Tranquillity - Her Silent Language

Time: 2:21

Encounters in silence

Words elude the fading night

Wish I could fathom

Dark Tranquillity - Her Silent Language

Indigo Girls - Mystery

Time: 1:45

does it mean it was never true?

and to exist it must elude,

is that why i think these things of you,?

Indigo Girls - Mystery

King's X - Lost in Germany

Time: 2:28

Germany. Lost in Germany

Shooting at a target that eludes me.

Hammering on a nail that just won't go in.

King's X - Lost in Germany

The Raveonettes - Apparitions

Time: 1:00

Where apparitions are the sinful spell

Elude the harsh reality of our lands

We saw tears and tragedy

The Raveonettes - Apparitions

Helmet - Renovation

Time: 0:09

I'll follow what comes easy

Elude the human race

Discover what still feeds me

Helmet - Renovation

Seether - Tongue

Time: 1:20

Will to change this circumstance eludes me still

Should I grow another shell in which to live?

Seether - Tongue

Public Enemy - Resurrection

Time: 3:41

Moods are insiduous

Baffels and eludes those who label the God being anti-social

Chose not to apply their third eye

Public Enemy - Resurrection

Of Mice & Men - Flowers

Time: 0:43

The present evades (the present evades)

The spirit eludes (the spirit eludes)

The body decays (the body decays)

Of Mice & Men - Flowers

Death Cab for Cutie - Pepper [Acoustic]

Time: 0:24

Sergeant Pepper with the faces of friends

But the names all elude you in the end

Kiss me just this one last time

Death Cab for Cutie - Pepper [Acoustic]

Dan Fogelberg - The Last to Know

Time: 1:08

Tell you too late you've been victimized

Freedom is near but seems to elude you

Trying to change your dreams into what your needs allow

Dan Fogelberg - The Last to Know

Sodom - Nothing Counts More than Blood

Time: 1:21

Can't decide my vic selection

The final captures can't elude

Above destructive attitudes

Sodom - Nothing Counts More than Blood

At the Gates - The Fevered Circle

Time: 0:25

Life looks upon you with scorn

Hopes flee, visions elude

As your feeble breath is torn

At the Gates - The Fevered Circle

Anvil - Winged Assassins

Time: 1:00

Defying detection at low altitude

Penetrate, attack, evade and elude

Soaring death - Taking lives

Anvil - Winged Assassins

Aterciopelados - Reacio

Time: 1:23

Polarizas mi magnetismo

Eludes mi acción paralizante

Nunca vi a nadie tan reacio

Aterciopelados - Reacio

Rylo Rodriguez - SRT

Time: 0:15

Every young nigga in my city having motion

I'm ready to elude, can you tell me where the folks went?

SRT truck, pipe it up

Rylo Rodriguez - SRT

Belle - Do It for Your Country

Time: 2:02

Flowing through your veins

Desperate that it would elude you

Let me wish you peace, store it, you may need it

Belle - Do It for Your Country

Queensrÿche - Falling Behind

Time: 0:41

We find faith and strength in the most unlikely places

And love sometimes eludes us but we try

We keep searching and one day we find

Queensrÿche - Falling Behind

INXS - Soul Mistake

Time: 1:15

♪

Honesty eludes one and all

Like some gypsy's search for gold

INXS - Soul Mistake

Kirsty MacColl - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby

Time: 0:05

If you're wondering why

All the love that you long for eludes you

And people are rude and cruel to you

Kirsty MacColl - You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby

Cryptopsy - Equivalent Equilibrium

Time: 0:33

One false move

Precautions elude

Tumble in the mood

Cryptopsy - Equivalent Equilibrium

They Might Be Giants - The World Before Later On

Time: 0:42

Where's my jet pack?

Where's the font of acquired wisdom that eludes me now?

We're trapped in a world before later on,

They Might Be Giants - The World Before Later On

The Birthday Party - The Dim Locator

Time: 0:10

Inanimational items elude i, and

In-an-emotional-motion i swallow my

The Birthday Party - The Dim Locator

Black Label Society - Fields of Unforgiveness

Time: 1:15

♪

You thought you'd elude life's sorrow

Emptiness and grief

Black Label Society - Fields of Unforgiveness

Ani DiFranco - Boots Of A Soldier

Time: 2:36

And the mysteries that abound

Elude and confound you

All the stories you'll never know

Ani DiFranco - Boots Of A Soldier

Prefab Sprout - Here on the Eerie

Time: 2:09

And avoid the specifics, that might ruin the mood

A universal prescription... continues to elude

Love becomes you, a happy burden

Prefab Sprout - Here on the Eerie

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Low Feels Blvd.

Time: 0:09

Waiting and chasing

Moments that elude

Why can't I escape

The Dillinger Escape Plan - Low Feels Blvd.

Jonatha Brooke - Made of Gold

Time: 1:50

♪

And what you want most will elude you

What you want most will elude you

Jonatha Brooke - Made of Gold

Carole King - Do You Feel Love

Time: 3:31

In your racy lacy underwear you long for love

But love eludes you every day

All the old suspicions well up in your mind

Carole King - Do You Feel Love

Drive-By Truckers - Grievance Merchants

Time: 0:37

Grievance when it ain't like what they thought

When money and respect seem to elude him

And being white alone don't make the ladies swoon

Drive-By Truckers - Grievance Merchants

Xhuzer - Más Flows (feat. Zaiklon)

Time: 1:11

Como Zaik no pudieron igualar mi talento

Sé que la gente me pide que yo continúe, aunque la mente elude

To' lo negativo en el comienzo

Xhuzer - Más Flows (feat. Zaiklon)

Third Eye Blind - Dao of St. Paul

Time: 2:08

'Til one of us dies. (x2)

Well I confess that so far happiness eludes me in my life.

You better hurry up if its ever to be mine.

Third Eye Blind - Dao of St. Paul

The Trews - The Pearl (More Than Everything)

Time: 0:28

The ocean will part the clearness of blue

Though the pearl eludes me

While I'm sinkin still there's no finer thing

The Trews - The Pearl (More Than Everything)

Frank Zappa - The Adventures of Greggery Peccary

Time: 11:11

Giving strong evidence of hostile aggression

To elude them, Greggery takes the short forest exit off the expressway

They zoom after him in all manner of cars, trucks, garishly-painted buses, and motorcycles

Frank Zappa - The Adventures of Greggery Peccary

Vaughn Monroe - High On A Windy Hill

Time: 1:25

When will I see your face?

Why do you just elude me

And leave me in this lonely space?

Vaughn Monroe - High On A Windy Hill

Radney Foster - Never Gonna Fly

Time: 2:45

Guess it's true that time, it really does slip away

You won't elude the chances you don't take

You wanna feel the wind, you gotta take the ride

Radney Foster - Never Gonna Fly