Doctor Who: One Song Per Episode
Does pretty much what it says on the tin: one song for every Doctor Who episode, 2005-2013. (Two more songs for the upcoming end-of-year specials may be added later.)
Includes some songs that appeared on the show, but no songs that were *written* for the show- so no Song For Ten etc. There’s rock! There’s pop! There’s musicals! There’s some stuff that probably counts as British telly injokes! There’s something for every Whovian, hopefully.
Are you ready? Every single song title and its lyrics are under these cuts:
Rose – Oh My God (Kaiser Chiefs)
Time on your side that will never end
The most beautiful thing you can ever spend
But you work in a shirt with your name tag on it
Drifting apart like a plate tectonic
It don’t matter to me
‘Cos all I wanted to be
Was a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
The End Of The World – On Top Of The World (Imagine Dragons)
I’ve had the highest mountains
I’ve had the deepest rivers
You can have it all but life keeps moving
I take it in but don’t look down
‘Cause I’m on top of the world, ‘ay
The Unquiet Dead – Thriller (Michael Jackson)
I’ll make you see
That this is thriller
Thriller at night
‘Cause I can thrill you more
Than any ghoul would ever dare try
Aliens of London – I Can’t Stay Away (The Veronicas)
I’m conflicted
I inhale now I’m addicted
To this place
To you babe
I can’t stay away
Can’t stay away
World War III – Mean Green Mother From Outer Space (Little Shop Of Horrors OST)
I’m just a mean green mother from outer space and I’m bad
I’m just a mean green mother from outer space
And it looks like you been had
I’m just a mean green mother from outer space,
So get off my back ‘n get out my face,
‘Cause I’m mean and green and I am bad
Dalek – The Trial Of Monsters (ReVamp)
And we see a proud man fall
Victim’s triumph
Burn it all; every memory he turned black
Every ally turned against
He, the man who reigned them all
Prove his guilt, confirm his fall
The Long Game – Land Of A Thousand Words (Scissor Sisters)
Where it’s smoldering or freezing
It’s never all that easy to decide
This is the land of a thousand words
But it seems so few are worth the breath to say
Except I’ll be looking after my own world
And you just keep on saving the day
Father’s Day – Dance With My Father (Luther Vandross)
If I could get another chance, another walk, another dance with him
I’d play a song that would never, ever end
How I’d love, love, love
To dance with my father again
The Empty Child – Goodnight Children Everywhere (Vera Lynn)
Goodnight, children, everywhere
Your Mummy thinks of you tonight
Lay your head upon your pillow
Don’t be a kid or a weeping willow
The Doctor Dances – In The Mood (The Andrews Sisters)
Mr. What-ya-call-em all you needed was fun
You can see the wonders that this evenin’ has done
Your feet were so heavy ’til they hardly could move
Now they’re light as feathers and you’re right in the groove
You were only hungry for some musical food
You’re positively, absolutely in the mood
Boomtown – Scary Monsters and Super Creeps (David Bowie)
Scary monsters, super creeps
Keep me running, running scared
She asked me to stay and I stole her room
She asked for my love and I gave her a dangerous mind
Now she’s stupid in the street
and she can’t socialise
Bad Wolf – Big Bad Wolves (Walk The Moon)
Honey if you are in danger
Let me know
And I’ll come and save ya
Ooh big bad wolves can try to take you from me
And no matter if they sink their teeth deep into me
I’ll never let you go!
The Parting of the Ways – Use Well The Days (Annie Lennox)
I’m glad that you are here with me,
Here at the end of all things.
Night, too, shall be beautiful,
And blessed, and its fear will pass
I must leave, must cross the sea;
The love you gave is all I take with me.
The Christmas Invasion – Regeneration (The Divine Comedy)
Old worlds seen through new eyes
Just you and I and the sheltering sky
The battle is over but the war’s not yet won
It’s only just begun
We’ll walk the razor’s edge
The highest ledge of the worlds highest window
The first lap is finished but the race isn’t run
It’s only just begun
New Earth – Fresh Feeling (Eels)
You don’t have a clue
What it is like to be next to you
I’m here to tell you
That it is good, that it is true
Birds singing a song
Old paint is peeling
This is that fresh
That fresh feeling
Tooth and Claw – Howl (Florence and the Machine)
Be careful of the curse that falls on young lovers
Starts so soft and sweet and turns them to hunters
A man who’s pure of heart and says his prayers by night
May still become a wolf when the autumn moon is bright
School Reunion – Don’t You Forget About Me (Simple Minds)
Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby
Don’t you forget about me
Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t
Don’t you forget about me
Will you stand above me?
Look my way, never love me
The Girl In The Fireplace – Parasol (Tori Amos)
Then the Seated Woman with a Parasol
May be the only one you can’t betray
If I’m the Seated Woman with a Parasol
I will be safe in my frame
Rise of the Cybermen – The Robots (Kraftwerk)
Ja tvoi sluga,
(I’m your slave)
Ja tvoi Rabotnik
(I’m your worker.)
We are programmed just to do
Anything you want us to
We are the robots
The Age of Steel – Everybody’s Changing (Keane)
Try to understand that I’m
Trying to make a move just to stay in the game
I try to stay awake and remember my name
But everybody’s changing
And I don’t feel the same
The Idiot’s Lantern – The Sun Always Shines On TV (A-Ha)
Touch me
How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on TV
Hold me
Close to your heart
Touch me
And give all your love to me
The Impossible Planet – Devil Laughing (Benny Profane)
The stench of decay
Just wave it away
With that sickly sweet smile
And I swear I heard that devil laughing
The Satan Pit -Guarded (Disturbed)
Well now, it seems once again that I’ve lost another
One of the one’s that have broke through the wall
Damned
Fate won’t compromise
I have sold my soul,
And now the devil’s laughing
You did decide
Love and Monsters – Mr Blue Sky (ELO)
Mister blue sky please tell us why
You had to hide away for so long
Where did we go wrong?
Fear Her – I Believe In A Thing Called Love (The Darkness)
I believe in a thing called love
Just listen to the rhythm of my heart
There’s a chance we could make it now
We’ll be rocking ’til the sun goes down
I believe in a thing called love
Army of Ghosts – Ghostbusters (Ray Parker Jr)
If there’s something weird
and it don’t look good
Who ya gonna call?
Ghostbusters!
Doomsday – One Moment More (Mindy Smith)
Oh, please don’t go
Let me have you just one moment more
Oh, all I need
All I want is just one moment more
You’ve got to hold me and keep me
The Runaway Bride – Believe (Josh Groban)
Believe in what you feel inside
And give your dreams the wings to fly
You have everything you need
If you just believe
Smith and Jones – Have You Met Miss Jones (John Barrowman)
Have you met Miss Jones
Someone said as we shook hands
She was just Miss Jones to me
Then I said Miss Jones
You’re a girl who understands
I’m a man who must be free
The Shakespeare Code – Sonnet (The Verve)
Yes, there’s love if you want it
Don’t sound like no sonnet, my lord
Yes, there’s love if you want it
Don’t sound like no sonnet, my lord
My lord
Gridlock – Shining (Kristian Leontiou)
Who am I to break this young girl’s heart
How the mighty rise and fall
I will not be beaten
You have yet to see me shining, shining
I will not be beaten
Daleks in Manhattan – New York I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down (LCD Soundsystem)
New York, I Love You
But you’re bringing me down
New York, you’re safer
And you’re wasting my time
Our records all show
You are filthy but fine
Evolution of the Daleks – I Won’t Back Down (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers)
Well I won’t back down, no I won’t back down
You could stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won’t back down
The Lazarus Experiment – Monster Mash OK (Bobby ‘Boris’ Pickett)
I was working in the lab late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For my monster from his slab began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise
He did the mash
He did the monster mash
42 – Space Oddity (David Bowie)
Though I’m past one hundred thousand miles, I’m feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows
Ground control to major Tom, your circuit’s dead, there’s something wrong
Human Nature – Only Human (Tides Of Man)
I need to eat your wisdom and become secure again.
I need to regain and ascertain.
I see I am only human, there’s so much I can retain.
The Family of Blood – If I Had A Heart (Fever Ray)
If I had a heart I could love you
If I had a voice I would sing
After the night when I wake up
I’ll see what tomorrow brings
Blink – Anthem of the Angels (Breaking Benjamin)
White walls surround us
No light will touch your face again
Rain taps the window
As we sleep among the dead
Utopia – The Man Who Sold The World (Nirvana)
We spoke of was and when
Although I wasn’t there
He said I was his friend
Which came as a surprise
I spoke into his eyes
I thought you died alone
A long long time ago
The Sound Of Drums – Voodoo Child (Rogue Traders)
You’re like Voodoo baby
Your kisses are cold!
Feel your poison running through me
Let me never grow old
The Last Of The Time Lords – These Boots Are Made For Walking (Nancy Sinatra)
You keep saying you’ve got something for me.
something you call love, but confess.
You’ve been messin’ where you shouldn’t have been a messin’
and now someone else is gettin’ all your best.
These boots are made for walking, and that’s just what they’ll do
one of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
Voyage of the Damned – Two Hearts (Kylie Minogue)
Should I shout for a rescue
Oh, oh, oh, don’t let go
Oh, oh, oh, don’t let go
Two hearts are beating, together.
I’m in love (woohoo)
Partners in Crime – Life Less Ordinary (Carbon Leaf)
Live a life less ordinary
Live a life extraordinary with me
Live a life less sedentary
Live a life evolutionary with me
The Fires of Pompeii – Skyfall (Adele)
Let the sky fall
When it crumbles
We will stand tall
Face it all together
At skyfall
That skyfall
Planet of the Ood – Avalanches (A Fine Frenzy)
Don’t be scared of avalanches
Tucked up in my snowy branches
I will keep you safe
The sun is overhead and you lift your face
Up to the sky, you sing this place
The sweetest song
It’s ever known
The Sontaran Stratagem – London Calling (The Clash)
London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
The Poison Sky – Invincible (OK Go)
When they finally come to destroy the earth, they’ll have to go through you first
I bet they won’t be expecting that
When they finally come to destroy the earth, they’ll have to deal with you first
The Doctor’s Daughter – Lullabye (Billy Joel)
The water’s dark and deep
Inside this ancient heart
You’ll always be a part of me
Goodnight, my angel
Now it’s time to dream
The Unicorn and the Wasp – Magical Mystery Tour (The Beatles)
Roll up, roll up for the mystery tour
Roll up and that’s an invitation, roll up for the mystery tour.
Roll up to make a reservation, roll up for the mystery tour.
The magical mystery tour is coming to take you away,
Coming to take you away
Silence in the Library – Whistling In The Dark (They Might Be Giants)
There’s only one thing that I know how to do well
And I’ve often been told that you only can do
What you know how to do well
And that’s be you,
Be what you’re like,
Be like yourself,
And so I’m having a wonderful time
But I’d rather be whistling in the dark
Forest of the Dead – Just Haven’t Met You Yet (Michael Buble)
I might have to wait, I’ll never give up
I guess it’s half timing, and the other half’s luck
Wherever you are, whenever it’s right
You’ll come out of nowhere and into my life
And I know that we can be so amazing
And, baby, your love is gonna change me
Midnight – No Church in the Wild (Kanye West/Jay-Z feat Frank Ocean)
Human beings in a mob
What’s a mob to a king?
What’s a king to a god?
What’s a god to a non-believer?
Who don’t believe in anything?
We make it out alive
All right, all right
No church in the wild
Turn Left – Save The Hero (Beyonce)
I lay alone awake at night
Sorrow fills my eyes
But I’m not strong enough to cry
Despite of my disguise
I’m left with no shoulder
But everybody wants to lean on me
The Stolen Earth – With A Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles)
What do I do when my love is away.
(Does it worry you to be alone)
How do I feel by the end of the day
(Are you sad because you’re on your own)
No, I get by with a little help from my friends
Journey’s End – The Light Behind Your Eyes (My Chemical Romance)
If I could be with you tonight
I would sing you to sleep
Never let them take the light behind your eyes
One day I’ll lose this fight
As we fade in the dark
Just remember you will always burn as bright
The Next Doctor – Mystery Man (Gnarls Barkley)
I may be a mystery
But I’m mostly a man.
And if i can’t do what you want me to
Then just let me do what I can
Planet of the Dead – Don’t Look Back Into The Sun (Libertines)
Yeah! Don’t look back into the sun
Now you know that your time has come
And they said it would never come for you oh oh oh
The Waters of Mars – Cruel All By Myself (Euzen)
True to different sides of myself I will let someone down,
Self-destructiveness feels more or less like the jewel in my crown…
Trust is hard to find when not trusting yourself…
Still I don’t want to be somebody else
The End of Time – Viva La Vida (Coldplay)
It was the wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn’t believe what I’d become
The End of Time part two – Time of your life (Green Day)
Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist, directs you where to go
So make the best of this test, and don’t ask why
It’s not a question, but a lesson learned in time
It’s something unpredictable, but in the end is right,
I hope you had the time of your life
The Eleventh Hour – My Imaginary Friend (Reel Big Fish)
My imaginary friend didn’t come through in the end
So now I have to find a real one
Didn’t answer when I called
Well I guess it’s just because
He was never there at all
The Beast Below – Kaleidoscope (Kate Havnevik)
You cut me out in little stars
And place me in the sky
I lose my sense
Of time
You know me
How troubled I can be
But through your kaleidoscope
I let go
Victory of the Daleks – I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire (The Ink Spots)
I don’t want to set the world on fire
I just want to start
A flame in your heart
The Time of Angels – What Are You Afraid Of (West Indian Girl)
I lost myself inside someone else
I couldn’t see the lines between her and me
On a darker road, the fear I’ve shown
With eyes of stone, he walks alone
Flesh and Stone – Angels On The Moon (Thriving Ivory)
Don’t tell me if I’m dying
‘Cause I don’t wanna know
If I can’t see the sun, maybe I should go
Don’t wake me ’cause I’m dreaming
Of angels on the moon
Where everyone you know
Never leaves too soon
Vampires of Venice – The Power Of Love (Frankie Goes To Hollywood)
I’ll protect you from the hooded claw
Keep the vampires from your door
When the chips are down I’ll be around
With my undying, death-defying love for you
Envy will hurt itself
Let yourself be beautiful
Sparkling, love, flowers and pearls and pretty girls
Amy’s Choice – It Is You I Have Loved (Dana Glover)
There were times I ran to hide
Afraid to show the other side
Alone in the night without you
But now I know just who you are
And I know you hold my heart
Finally this is where I belong
It is you I have loved all along
It’s no more mystery
It is finally clear to me
The Hungry Earth – Reptile (Church)
Another month or so you’ll be poisoning me
With your lovely smile
I see you slither away with your skin and your tail,
Your flickering tongue and your rattling scales
Like a real reptile
Cold Blood – Nobody’s Hero (Bon Jovi)
When all faith is gone
I will pray for you
Just keep holding on
I’ll be there for you
I’m nobody’s hero
But for you I’d lay down my life
Vincent and the Doctor – Vincent (Don McLean)
Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer’s day
With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
The Lodger – Kiss The Girl (Brian Wilson)
Looks like the boy’s too shy
Ain’t gonna kiss the girl
Shalalalala
Ain’t that sad it’s such a shame
Too bad, you’re gonna miss the girl
Go on and kiss the girl
The Pandorica Opens – The Wizard (Bat For Lashes)
Wants to feel you shake and shooting
He will be our leader
Wants to feel you shake and shooting
He will be our leader
Trembling midnight lands
I travel with the wizard
The Big Bang – Never Tear Us Apart (INXS)
We could live
For a thousand years
But if I hurt you
I’d make wine from your tears
I told you
That we could fly
‘Cause we all have wings
But some of us don’t know why
A Christmas Carol – When Love Is Gone (The Muppets Christmas Carol OST)
There comes a moment in your life
Like a window
And you see
Your future there before you
And how perfect life can be
The Impossible Astronaut – American Pie (Don Mclean)
So bye-bye, Miss American Pie
Drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry
And them good old boys were drinkin’ whiskey and rye
Singin’ “This’ll be the day that I die
This’ll be the day that I die”
Day of the Moon – The Sound of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel)
Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
The Curse of the Black Spot – You Are A Pirate (Alestorm)
Yar har, fiddle di dee,
Being a pirate is all right with me!
Do what you want ’cause a pirate is free,
You are a pirate!
Yo Ho, ahoy and avast,
Being a Pirate is really badass!
The Doctor’s Wife – You Sexy Thing (Hot Chocolate)
I believe in miracles, where you from
You sexy thing (you sexy thing-you)
I believe in miracles since you came along
You sexy thing.
Where did you come from baby?
How did you know I needed you?
The Rebel Flesh – Nobody Move, Nobody Gets Hurt (We Are Scientists)
My body is your body
I won’t tell anybody
If you want to use my body
Go for it, yeah
Go for it, yeah
If no one moves, then nobody’s going to get hurt
Don’t move ’cause nobody wants to get hurt
The Almost People – Leave My Body (Florence and the Machine)
I’m gonna leave my body
(moving up to higher ground)
I’m gonna lose my mind
(History keeps pulling me down)
A Good Man Goes To War – Sweet Child Of Mine (Guns and Roses)
She’s got a smile that it seems to me
Reminds me of childhood memories
Where everything
Was as fresh as the bright blue sky
Oh, oh, oh sweet child of mine
Let’s Kill Hitler – ET (Katy Perry)
You’re so hypnotising
could you be the devil, could you be an angel
your touch magnetizing
feels like going floating, leave my body glowing
They say be afraid
you’re not like the others, futuristic lovers
Night Terrors – Fear No Darkness (Timo Raisanen)
I shall comfort you, so fear no evil, as you know
I shall guide you. I will lead you
Fear no darkness, promised child
Fear no evil, promised child
Don’t be scared, sweet promised child
Fear no darkness
The Girl Who Waited – Young and Beautiful (Lana del Ray)
Will you still love me
When I’m no longer young and beautiful?
Will you still love me
When I got nothing but my aching soul?
I know you will, I know you will
I know that you will
The God Complex – Hotel California (The Eagles)
Mirrors on the ceiling, the pink champagne on ice
And she said “We are all just prisoners here, of our own device”
And in the master’s chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can’t kill the beast
Closing Time – Are Friends Electric (Gary Numan)
And it hurts and I’m lonely
And I should never have tried
And I missed you tonight
So it’s time to leave
The Wedding Of River Song – Time Is Running Out (Muse)
You’re something beautiful
A contradiction
I want to play the game
I want the friction
You will be
The death of me
The Doctor, The Widow and the Wardrobe – I’ll Be Home For Christmas (Bing Crosby)
I’ll be home for christmas
You can plan on me
Please have snow and mistletoe
And presents on the tree
Asylum of the Daleks – Hold On To What You Believe (Mumford and Sons)
I ran away
I could not take the burden of both me and you
It was too fast
Casting love on me as if it were a spell I could not break
When it was a promise I could not make
But what if I was wrong
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship – Walk the Dinosaur (Was Not Was)
A shadow from the sky, much too big to be a bird
A screaming, crashing noise louder than I’ve ever heard
It looked like two big silver trees that somehow learned to soar
Suddenly a summer breeze and a mighty lion’s roar
I killed a dinosaur
A Town Called Mercy – The Beast In Me (Johnny Cash)
The beast in me
Has had to learn to live with pain
And how to shelter from the rain
And in the twinkling of an eye
Might have to be restrained
God help the beast in me
The Power of Three – Three is a magic number (Blind Melon)
The past, the present, the future,
Faith, and hope, and charity,
The heart, the brain, the body,
Will give you three,
It’s a magic number
Angels Take Manhattan – C’est la Mort (The Civil Wars)
Swan dive down eleven stories high
Hold your breath until you see the light
You can sink to the bottom of the sea
Just don’t go without me
The Snowmen – Walking in the Air (Aled Jones)
We’re walking in the air
We’re floating in the moonlit sky
The people far below are sleeping as we fly
I’m holding very tight
I’m riding in the midnight blue
I’m finding I can fly so high above with you
The Bells of St John – The Girl I Knew Somewhere (The Monkees)
You tell me that you’ve never been this way before
You tell me things I know that I’ve heard somewhere
You’re standing in the places and you’re
Staring down through faces, that bring to mind traces
of a girl, a girl that I knew somewhere
The Rings of Akhaten – The Lost Child (Anathema)
A child sings to me
The mists rise blinding me
I can’t find a way out of here
And the sound of angel dreams
The stars fall into the sea
Cold War – Cold As Ice (Foreigner)
Cold as ice
You know that you are
Cold as ice
As cold as ice to me
Hide – Ghosts That We Knew (Mumford and Sons)
So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light
Cos oh they gave me such a fright
But I will hold as long as you like
Just promise me we’ll be alright
Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS – Trapped in a Box (No Doubt)
My mind rides and slides as my circuits are fried
No room for thought, use the box as my guide
Trapped in a box
Ooh trapped in a box
Watch the world as it flocks
To life’s paradox
And we’re all trapped in a box
The Crimson Horror – Beautiful Freak (Eels)
You’re such a, beautiful freak
I wish there were more just like you
You’re not like all of the others
And that is why I love you
Beautiful freak, beautiful freak
That is why I love you
Nightmare in Silver – Oh No (Marina and the Diamonds)
I know exactly what I want and who I want to be
I know exactly why I walk and talk like a machine
I’m now becoming my own self-fulfilled prophecy
Oh, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no
The Name of the Doctor – Blood on my Name (The Wright Brothers)
When the fires, when the fires are consuming you
And your sacred stars won’t be guiding you
I’ve got blood, I’ve got blood
Blood on my name