The Roots - Make My
Time: 1:37
Tryin' to control the fits of panic
Unwritten and unraveled, it's the dead man's pedantic
Whatever, see it's really just a matter of semantics
pedantic
bookish; marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects
Heard in 20 songs (1.5M+ combined views) — most famously in "Make My" by The Roots.
Updated August 7, 2026
Songs Featuring “pedantic”
Lou Reed - Halloween Parade
Time: 1:27
Especially when I see you're not around
There's no Peter Pedantic saying things romantic
In Latin, Greek or Spic
Switchfoot - Easier Than Love
Time: 1:45
Our banner waves with a neon glow
War and love become pedantic
We wage love with a mistletoe
Alvvays - Pressed
Time: 0:28
Not long ago, you read to me
Pedantic poetry and I would smile
And if I could retrace it
Harrison Gordon - Things Will Get Worse
Time: 0:44
Well you probably never will
Your pedantic grabs at compassion
Come up shorter ever still...
Bahamadia - Innovation
Time: 0:32
like Pack Jam once I record - "n-o-v-a-shun" the first, to influx
information no relation to wackness instead pedantic - combating prose
with passionate passages surpassing the realm of gun to-ting savages
Tove Lo - Suburbia
Time: 1:18
Will I still get my sleep?
Will you be less pedantic?
No fake grass, no fake friends
wishlane - string theory
Time: 2:57
I bite down on some lead
It might sound a bit pedantic but I'm not your fucking friend
I'm only an equal if you say so
Rufus Wainwright - Romantical Man
Time: 1:44
Romantical man
Can't be pedantic
(If you gotta look it up, the definition)
Vacations - Midwest
Time: 1:33
I don't mean to be pedantic
I'm hopeless, but maybe romantic
The Fall - Tempo House
Time: 3:00
His chairs are weeping
God damn the pedantic Welsh
Pro-rae, pro-rae
Ugolino - Early Hours
Time: 0:58
Fucking hopeless, a true romantic
Pure pedantic, bittersweet to know it
Over-expressive, restless
Baths - Eyewall
Time: 0:55
Some shit to say about everything
You're pedantic
It's sanctioned
Sun Cut Flat - Groundskeeper To The Shrine
Time: 1:23
Like a time lapse mechanic
Why are my tracks pedantic?
Why I stack up the damage
Princess Superstar - Do It Like a Robot
Time: 0:44
Let me be candid
I'm pedantic, you might not understand it (what?)
I attack but play like man
Shawn Phillips - Moonshine
Time: 2:53
Safe and secure in maudlin commodities
Smug and pedantic into their lives
Stupidity can never make answers
KILLFI$h - i place the sky within your eyes
Time: 0:56
The old romantics
How pedantic
Ten ghosts and they lie to my face
Beth Nielsen Chapman - 4leafclover
Time: 0:35
I'm deep-fried now and crazy
Once I was just a painted background, so pedantic
You take me straight into the spotlight, and it's magic
Brdgs - I Think I Loved You
Time: 0:27
Cotton breezes drifting over from the Atlantic
First and last of you and me just felt so pedantic
Something magic
YaYu - where there's smoke...
Time: 0:33
Financial in my logic, it's business in my family
Essentialist corruption, duality pedantic
Watch the clock in vain, ya'll be scrolling through your panic
