This file includes song titles about actual and metaphorical boxes, chains, circles, lines, shapes, squares, straight, triangles, and wire.
Songs about Boxes
- Animal Crackers in Cellophane Boxes - Gene Pitney (1967)
- Blue Mail Box - Starfish (2008)
- Box it Came in, The - Wanda Jackson (1966)
- Box of Candy and a Piece of Fruit, A - Bob Gibson (1980)
- Box of Chocolates - Billy Connolly (1986)
- Box of Old Roses - Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels (1972)
- Box of Rain - Robert Hunter (1980)
- Burgundy Box - Michael Crittenden (2007)
- Crackerbox Palace - George Harrison (1977)
- Dead Letter Box - Jack Casady (2003)
- Dog on a Toolbox - James Bonamy (1995)
- Eight Letters in the Mailbox - Raymond Scott Orchestra (1942)
- Empty Old Mailbox - Don Rigsby (2000)
- Flip-Top Box - Dickie Doo and the Don'ts (1958)
- I'd Be Better Off in a Pine Box - Doug Stone (1990)
- I'm Gonna Tear Down the Mailbox - Wilf Carter (1948)
- Jack in the Box - The Music Explosion (1968)
- Keepsake Box - The New Hep Cats (2008)
- Key's in the Mailbox, The - Tony Booth (1972)
- Little Boxes - Pete Seeger (1964)
- Lost Lunch Box - Roy D. Mercer (2000)
- Lunch Box - Doll Factory (2002)
- Mailbox Blues - Slim Harpo (1968)
- P.O. Box 19 - Johnny Cole (1959)
- P.O. Box 9847 - Boyce and Hart (1968)
- Pandora's Box - BJ Wilson (1975)
- Pencil Box - Wil Burns (2004)
- Route 10, Box 782 - Special Consensus (2002)
- Rural Box A - Jasper Stone (1999)
- Toolbox - Ian Gillan (1991)
- Back on the Chain Gang - The Pretenders (1983)
- Ball and Chain - Paul Overstreet (1991)
- Blackjack County Chain - Willie Nelson (1967)
- Chain Around My Neck - Barney Dine (2008)
- Chain Gang - Sam Cooke (1960)
- Chain Lightning - Cornelius Bumpus (2000)
- Chain of Emotion - Champ Hood (2002)
- Chain of Fools - Aretha Franklin (1968)
- Chain of Love - Clay Walker (2000)
- Chain Reaction - Carolyn Franklin (1970)
- Chained to a Memory - Durwood Haddock (1995)
- Chained to a Promise - Margie Singleton (1962)
- Chained to Your Heart - Bobby Moore and the Rhythm Aces (1967)
- Chained to Your Memory - Dr. Hook (1982)
- Chains - Chris Darrow and Robb Strandlund (2006)
- Chains Around My Heart - Gene Wyatt (1968)
- Chains of Gold - Sweethearts of the Rodeo (1987)
- Chains of Love - Mickey Gilley (1977)
- Chains of Regret - Josh Logan (2004)
- Chainsaw Juggler - The Four Postmen (2001)
- Daisy's Chain - Red Sovine (1975)
- Gold Watch and Chain - Mother Maybelle Carter (1960)
- Greenback Dollar, Watch and Chain - Ray Harris (1957)
- I'll Never Break These Chains - Tommy Overstreet (1973)
- Leave a Little Play in the Chain of Love - Bob Jennings (1964)
- Long Chain - Jimmie Driftwood (1963)
- My Gold Watch and Chain - Emmylou Harris (1980)
- Platinum Chains - Serengeti (2005)
- Pull My Chain - Toby Keith (2001)
- Shackles and Chains - Montana Slim (1949)
- Sound of My Man Working on a Chain Gang, The - Theola Kilgore (1960)
- Take These Chains From My Heart - Lee Roy Parnell and Ronnie Dunn (1994)
- There Ain't No Good Chain Gang - Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings (1978)
- Unchain My Heart - Ray Charles (1962)
- Unchained Melody - LeAnn Rimes (1996)
- You Can't Break the Chains of Love - Jimmy Wakely (1949)
- By the Circle on Your Finger - Mack White (1973)
- Changes, Circles Spinning - Moby Grape (1969)
- Circle - Edie Brickell (1989)
- Circle, The - Erin Hay (2001)
- Circle for a Landing - Don Preston (1969)
- Circle in the Sand - Belinda Carlisle (1988)
- Circle is Small, The - Gordon Lightfoot (1977)
- Circle Me - Dee Mullins (1973)
- Circle of Fire - Sam Phillips (1994)
- Circle of Friends - David Ball (1996)
- Circle of Life - Elton John (1994)
- Circle of Love - The Steve Miller Band (1982)
- Circle of Silence - Henry Paul Band (1982)
- Circle of Your Arms - Sawyer Brown (2002)
- Circles - Bob Malach (1997)
- Dance in Circles - Tim Ryan (1990)
- Draw Me a Circle - Sandy Stewart (1964)
- Endless Circle - Lee Mallory (2003)
- Family Circle - Mighty Clouds of Joy (1962)
- Full Circle - Byron Berline Band (2001)
- Full Circle Song - Gene Clark (1972)
- Goin' in Circles - Bobby Smith (1981)
- Going in Circles - The Friends of Distinction (1969)
- Like a Circle Never Stops - Nancy Wilson (1975)
- Magic Circle - Brian Connolly (1985)
- Movin' in the Same Circles - Michael Johnson (1977)
- Outside of a Small Circle of Friends - Phil Ochs (1967)
- Rings and Circles - LaCosta (1974)
- Sittin' in Circles - The Steve Miller Band (1968)
- Song For a Small Circle of Friends - Larry Norman (1976)
- Square Inside a Circle - Juliana Meyer (2008)
- Squares and Circles - Gale Trippsmith (2005)
- Squares in Circles - Red Letters the Less (2008)
- Walking in Different Circles - The Castaways (1968)
- Will it Go Round in Circles? - Billy Preston (1973)
- Will the Circle Be Unbroken? - Marshall Tucker Band (1999)
Songs about Lines
- Almost Over the Line - Joe Sun (1988)
- Atlantic Coastal Line - Charley Pride (1965)
- Battle Lines - John Wetton (1995)
- Between the Lines - Bobby Braddock (1979)
- Blue Water Line - The Brothers Four (1962)
- Borderline - Chris de Burgh (1997)
- Busy Line - The Billy Williams Quartet (1951)
- Cadillac Assembly Line - Albert King (1976)
- Coastline - Neil Young (1980)
- County Line - Stefan Grossman (1970)
- Cross the Line - Greg Wilson (1998)
- Don't Pretend, Just Lay it on the Line - Maye and Lynn (1965)
- Double Yellow Line - Music Machine (1967)
- Down the Line - Mickey Gilley (1965)
- Draggin' the Line - Tommy James (1971)
- Drop Me a Line - The Hollywood Flames (1963)
- End of the Line - Asleep at the Wheel (1999)
- Fault Line Tremor - Johnnie Johnson (1991)
- First in Line - Karen Collins (2004)
- Forrest County Line - 4Runner (2003)
- Frisco Line - Guy Mitchell (1968)
- He's Got Me, Hook, Line and Sinker - Dorothy Collins (1956)
- Headline News - Edwin Starr (1966)
- Headlines - Ian McLagan (1979)
- Heart on the Line - Dean Dillon (1991)
- High Above the Power Lines - John Cowan (2000)
- Hold the Line - Toto (1978)
- Hook, Line, and Sinker - Art Neville (1966)
- Hot Line - The Sylvers (1976)
- I Can Read between the Lines - John Hartford (1979)
- I Can Walk the Line (if it Ain't Too Straight) - Joe Diffie (1993)
- I Got a Line on You - Spirit (1969)
- I Walk the Line - Johnny Cash (1956)
- I'm Laying My Heart on the Line - The Checkmates, Ltd (1977)
- In Between the Lines - Michael Stanley Band (1982)
- Infinite Line, The - Jimmy Dormire (2007)
- Inside the Lines - The Wilkinsons (2005)
- Just Over the Line - Penny Jay (1963)
- Keep it Between the Lines - Ricky Van Shelton (1992)
- Kern County Line - The Ventures (1970)
- Lay it on the Line - Jimmy Hughes (1970)
- Lines of Longitude - Chris and Meredith Thompson (2004)
- Lines of Longitude and Latitude - Eric Romine (2007)
- Lines on the Paper - Kate Wolf (1977)
- Long Line of Empties - Darrell McCall (1980)
- Long Line of Love - Michael Martin Murphey (1987)
- Long White Line - Bill Napier and Charlie Moore (1965)
- Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes - The Fifth Dimension (1971)
- Manhattan Skyline - A-Ha (1987)
- Mendocino County Line - Willie Nelson and Lee Ann Womack (2002)
- Muddy Mississippi Line - Bobby Goldsboro (1969)
- Nacogdoches County Line - Mitchell Torok (1952)
- Nashville Skyline Rag - Earl Scruggs (1970)
- Next in Line - Conway Twitty (1968)
- No Tan Lines - Pavement (2008)
- Oklahoma Borderline - Vince Gill (1985)
- Oklahoma-Texas Line - Rascal Flatts (2004)
- One Step Over the Line - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (1990)
- One Thin Line - Steve Hill (2000)
- Online - Brad Paisley (2007)
- Only Daddy That'll Walk the Line - Waylon Jennings (1968)
- Our Love is on the Faultline - Crystal Gayle (1983)
- Out of Line - Ginny Wright and Tom Tall (1955)
- Outside the Lines - Cory Morrow (2002)
- Parallel Lines - The Little River Band (1991)
- Party Line - Mac Curtis (1975)
- Pickup Trucks and Pickup Lines - Samantha Lynn Hart (2008)
- Pipeline - The Chantays (1963)
- Pipeliner Blues - Adolph Hofner (1962)
- Psychic Hot Line - Gwen McCrae (1996)
- Read Between the Lines - Hanna-McEuen (2005)
- Rock Island Line - Ken Colyer (1956)
- She Lays it on the Line - Ronee Blakley (1975)
- Sign on the Dotted Line - Jack Earls (1956)
- Silence on the Line - Henson Cargill (1980)
- Skyline - Stephen Housden (1997)
- Somewhere Down the Line - Marshall Crenshaw (1991)
- That Long White Line - Smiley Burnette (1954)
- There's Love on the Line - Ronna Reeves and Sammy Kershaw (1992)
- Thin Line - The Impressions (1973)
- Timberline - The Psycho Sisters (1994)
- Tired of Toein' the Line - Rocky Burnette (1980)
- Waitin' in Your Welfare Line - Buck Owens (1966)
- Walk Between the Lines - Russ Taff (2005)
- Walk Outside the Lines - The Marshall Tucker Band (1993)
- Wheels on the Line - Southern Pacific (1988)
- White Line - Emmylou Harris (1985)
- White Line Fever - Flying Burrito Brothers (1980)
- Wichita Lineman - Glen Campbell (1969)
- You Read Between the Lines - Billy Parker (1978)
- Your Line is Busy - Ron Holden (1960)
- Your Love's on the Line - Earl Thomas Conley (1983)
- Bend Me, Shape Me - American Breed (1968)
- Heart Shaped Like Texas, A - Sammy Sadler (2007)
- In the Shape of a Heart - Jackson Browne (1986)
- No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's in - The T-Bones (1965)
- Shape of Things to Come - Davie Allan and the Arrows (1998)
- Shape Up or Ship Out - Leon McAuliffe (1964)
- Shape You Left Me in, The - Gene Simmons (1961)
- Shapes of Things - The Yardbirds (1966)
- California Girl and the Tennessee Square - Glaser Brothers (1969)
- Four Square Miles - Telluride (2008)
- Long-Hair, Unsquare Dude Called Jack - Hollywood Argyles (1965)
- Rose of Washington Square - Clancy Hayes (1964)
- Square Car - Cynthia Barber (2002)
- Square From Delaware - Fats Waller (1940)
- Square from Nowhere - Bunny Sigler (1959)
- Square Inside a Circle - Juliana Meyer (2008)
- Square One - Tom Petty (2006)
- Square Peg in a Round Hole - Randall Hall Band (2007)
- Square Room - Vic Chesnutt (1998)
- Square Root of 576 - The Bob Szajner Triad (2008)
- Square Root of Two, The - Two-Man Gentlemen Band (2008)
- Square Wheel - Joel Rakes (2008)
- Squares and Circles - Gale Trippsmith (2005)
- Squares in Circles - Red Letters the Less (2008)
- Town Square - Floyd Cramer (1966)
- Triangles and Squares - Eddie Bush (2002)
- Unsquare Dance - The Dave Brubeck Quartet (1961)
- Very Square Dance - Steve Allen (1955)
- Washington Square - Village Stompers (1963)
- You're So Square, Baby I Don't Care - Joni Mitchell (1982)
- Cowboys Don't Shoot Straight Like They Used To - Tammy Wynette (1981)
- Crabs Walk Sideways and Lobsters Walk Straight - The Wayfarers (1963)
- Give Me a Straight-Shootin' Cowboy - Patsy Montana (1938)
- I Came Straight to You - Jon Randall (1995)
- I Can Walk the Line if it Ain't Too Straight - Joe Diffie (1993)
- It's No Use Being a Fast Draw if You Can't Shoot Straight - McGhee (1997)
- Kentucky Straight - Johnny Cash (1972)
- Let's Straighten it Out - Latimore (1974)
- Shootin' Straight - Hot Licks (2001)
- Straight Ahead - Jorma Kaukonen (1979)
- Straight and Narrow - Wild Rose (1991)
- Straight Arrow - Spirit (1968)
- Straight as an Arrow - The Todds (1959)
- Straight As the Crow Flies - Kim Richey (1997)
- Straight from My Heart - Sylvia (1986)
- Straight from the Heart - Allman Brothers Band (1981)
- Straight Life, The - Sonny Curtis (1968)
- Straight, No Chaser - The Ginger Baker Trio (1994)
- Straight Skirt - Gene Summers and His Rebels (1958)
- Straight Tequila Night - John Anderson (1992)
- Straight to Helen - Sue Thompson (1967)
- Straight to the Heart - Crystal Gayle (1987)
- Straight to You - MC Potts (1996)
- Straight-Laced Breakdown - Rod Price (2003)
- Straight-Shootin' Woman - Steppenwolf (1974)
- Straighten Up and Fly Right - The DeJohn Sisters (1958)
- Walk a Little Straighter - Billy Currington (2003)
- Drawing Triangles - Lizzy Picciallo (2007)
- Eternal Triangle - Mark Elf (1988)
- Game of Triangles - Norma Jean, L. Anderson and B. Bare (1966)
- I Narrowed This Triangle Down to Two - Leona Williams (1969)
- Red Triangle - The Bamboos (2010)
- Triangle - Janie Grant (1961)
- Triangles - Kingdom Come (1972)
- Triangles and Squares - Eddie Bush (2002)
- Yellow Triangle - Christy Moore (2006)
Songs about Wires
- 25 Miles of Barbwire - Mark McLay and the Dustdevils (2008)
- Barbed Wire - Megan Conner (2011)
- Barbed Wire and Roses - Pinmonkey (2002)
- Barbed Wire Fence - Plainsong (2005)
- Barbed Wire Halo - Aaron Watson (2009)
- Barbwire - Nora Dean (2011)
- Barbwire Angel - D. Scott Williams (2012)
- Barbwire Fence - Nick Josephs (2007)
- Barbwire Halo - Jimmy Baldwin (2008)
- Barbwire Heart - The Mystic Cowboys (2007)
- Bare Wires - John Bunzow (2004)
- Bird on the Wire - Tim Hardin (1971)
- Bouquet of Barbed Wire - David Chambers (2011)
- Hot-Wired - Brent Mason (1997)
- Live-Wire Suzie - The Robins (1960)
- Old Barbwire - 100 Damned Guns (2009)
- Time Like Your Wire Wheels - Wendy Waldman (1982)
- Western Union Wire - Jimmy Payne (1972)
- Wind in the Wire, The - Ian Tyson (1989)
- Wired for Sound - Cliff Richard (1981)