lecture

speech; a speech that is open to the public

Heard in 32 songs (251M+ combined views) — most famously in "Gimme the Light" by Sean Paul.

Updated March 6, 2025

Songs Featuring “lecture

Sean Paul - Gimme the Light

Time: 0:29

Every man around dem waan turn yuh inspector

But yuh nuh let dem sweat ya, nah grill you wid nuh lecture

But dem power drill or dem fuel injector

Sean Paul - Gimme the Light

Redman - Da Rockwilder

Time: 0:27

Uh, uh, yo, uh

Microphone checka, swingin' sword lecture

Closin' down the sector, supreme neck protector

Redman - Da Rockwilder

Dave - Streatham

Time: 0:22

I don't wanna do you and I

Like I'm in Leicester, skippin' my lectures

We used to ride 'round all reckless

Dave - Streatham

Dr. Dre - Nuthin' But a G Thang

Time: 0:29

Unfadeable, so please don't try to fade this (hell, yeah)

But uhh, back to the lecture at hand

Perfection is perfected, so I'ma let 'em understand

Dr. Dre - Nuthin' But a G Thang

Drake - Look What You've Done

Time: 0:18

And your back hurt, and your neck hurt, and you smoking heavy

And I sit next to you, and I lecture you because those are deadly

And then you ash it, and we argue about spending money on bullshit

Drake - Look What You've Done

Time: 1:45

I acted like an ass, I'd

Ditch my lecture to watch the girls play soccer

Is my picture still hanging in her locker?

blink-182 - Going Away To College

Skillet - It's Not Me It's You

Time: 1:19

I don't care so why pretend?

Wake me when your lecture ends

You tried to make me small

Skillet - It's Not Me It's You

Christina Aguilera - Infatuation

Time: 1:56

Not to rush love with another

She said, "I'm not trying to lecture

I just care about my daughter"

Christina Aguilera - Infatuation

The Style Council - Speak Like a Child

Time: 0:49

You're cool and hard, never sound like a lecher

It's probably true but at least there's no lecture

I really like it when you speak like a child

The Style Council - Speak Like a Child

Jamie Foxx - Fall for Your Type

Time: 3:13

That's why I'ma take you anywhere you wanna go

Let you meet my friends so they can lecture me again about

About how reckless I have been

Jamie Foxx - Fall for Your Type

Lil Uzi Vert - Chips and Dip

Time: 0:55

I'm that nigga 'round in my sector

She gave me brain all way to the lecture (whoa)

Millions of bands, reload it, I did on my doly

Lil Uzi Vert - Chips and Dip

New Order - All the Way

Time: 0:14

It doesn't take a genius to tell me what I am

Or lecture me with poetry and tell me that I can

I don't remember what happened yesterday

New Order - All the Way

Yeat - THE COSTËS

Time: 0:11

White tee, plain jane, diamonds on my neck, sure

Sit down, shut the fuck up when you talk, this my lecture (yeah)

If my neck could talk to me, all he would say is, "Brr" (woo)

Yeat - THE COSTËS

George Thorogood & the Destroyers - If You Don't Start Drinkin' (I'm Gonna Leave)

Time: 2:00

I'm gonna leave

Don't give me no lectures

'Bout stress and strife

George Thorogood & the Destroyers - If You Don't Start Drinkin' (I'm Gonna Leave)

Weezer - Byzantine

Time: 0:21

This is how his songs are supposed to be heard

No more lectures on fidelity

I don't believe in mysticism

Weezer - Byzantine

Lil Wayne - I'm So Over You

Time: 0:18

No regrets at all, I'm high and I hope you catch the fall

Welcome to my lecture hall, you can't shake my infection off

Take me to your leader and, I promise I will be the man

Lil Wayne - I'm So Over You

Manic Street Preachers - Archives of Pain

Time: 1:09

A drained white body hangs from the gallows

Is more righteous that Hindley's crotchet lectures

Pain not penance, forget martyrs, remember victims

Manic Street Preachers - Archives of Pain

Joanie Sommers - Johnny Get Angry

Time: 0:32

Oh, Johnny get angry, Johnny get mad

Give me the biggest lecture I ever had

I want a brave man, I want a cave man

Joanie Sommers - Johnny Get Angry

Seether - Master of Disaster

Time: 0:47

All these promises

Lectures and bold face lies

All these promises

Seether - Master of Disaster

Warren Zevon - Detox Mansion

Time: 2:02

Outside the rubber room

We get therapy and lectures

We play golf in the afternoon

Warren Zevon - Detox Mansion

Barbra Streisand - If a Girl Isn't Pretty

Time: 1:16

To have temporary nausea

Do I have to hear a lecture such as that?

Is a nose with deviation such a crime against the nation?

Barbra Streisand - If a Girl Isn't Pretty

Prince - Sea Of Everything

Time: 0:39

I see your picture wherever I go

I'm not here to lecture, just letting you know

I know you're busy, the world's calling you

Prince - Sea Of Everything

The Pogues - The Body of An American

Time: 1:07

But 15 minutes later we had our first taste of whiskey

There was uncles giving lectures on ancient Irish history

The men all started telling jokes and the women, they got frisky

The Pogues - The Body of An American

Rancid - The Wars End

Time: 0:23

Went into his room and smashed his Billy Bragg record

Didn't want him to hear that communist lecture

Little Sammy was a punk rocker

Rancid - The Wars End

Busta Rhymes - Sugar

Time: 1:46

And how it might affect us

Tired of the lectures

A piece to tell me to chill

Busta Rhymes - Sugar

Bad Religion - Submission Complete

Time: 0:13

Hope is pointless when you're stuck in the trawl

Fuck the freshman lectures and brandishments

They just betray impoverished accomplishments

Bad Religion - Submission Complete

Frank Sinatra - I Loved Her

Time: 0:27

She was crepe suzette, I was pie

She was lectures, I was movies, but I loved her

Frank Sinatra - I Loved Her

Ringo Starr - $15 Draw

Time: 1:55

would be the one to take his place.

and when he tried to lecture me,

i'd sit and pick and sing and let him nag,

Ringo Starr - $15 Draw

Frank Zappa - Promiscuous

Time: 0:21

He looked in the camera and fixed his specs

And gave a fascinating lecture 'bout anal sex

Anal sex

Frank Zappa - Promiscuous

Tom Lehrer - Bright College Days

Time: 1:13

Let us drink a toast to all we love the best

We will sleep through all the lectures

And the cheat on the exams

Tom Lehrer - Bright College Days

Ella Fitzgerald - Boy! What Love Has Done to Me!

Time: 2:00

And yet his highness

Lectures me day and night

Oh, where was my sense

Ella Fitzgerald - Boy! What Love Has Done to Me!

The Black Crowes - She Gave Good Sunflower

Time: 2:05

I won't abuse my anger

I promise you no lecture

Come be the sun bursting through my clouds

The Black Crowes - She Gave Good Sunflower