| 100% | CLOSINGTIME | 11 | Semisonic hit with the lyrics "You don't have to go home / But you can't stay here" |
| 58% | MATILDA | 7 | Single on 37-Across with the lyric "You don't have to go home" |
| 49% | GOHOME | 6 | "You don't have to ___, but you can't stay here" |
| 44% | STAYWITHME | 10 | 2014 hit with the lyric “I don’t want you to leave, will you hold my hand?” |
| 42% | TRAGEDY | 7 | 1979 #1 hit with the lyrics "When the feeling's gone and you can't go on" |
| 41% | MYLIFE | 6 | Billy Joel hit with the line "I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home" |
| 40% | EATIT | 5 | Hit with the lyric "I don't care if you're full" |
| 40% | IMAMAN | 6 | 1967 hit with the repeated lyric "Yes I am / And I can't help / But love you so" |
| 40% | YMCA | 4 | 1978 hit with the lyric "You can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal" |
| 40% | HOTELCALIFORNIA | 15 | 1977 Eagles hit with the lyric “You can check out any time you like / But you can never leave” |
| 39% | GETHERE | 7 | Oleta Adams hit with the lyrics “You can make it in a big balloon / But you better make it soon” |
| 39% | AMILLI | 6 | 2008 Lil Wayne hit with the lyric "Okay, you're a goon, but what's a goon to a goblin?" |
| 38% | IAMWOMAN | 8 | 1972 hit with the lyric "You can bend but never break me" |
| 38% | CECILIA | 7 | 1970 hit with the lyric "I'm down on my knees, / I'm begging you please to come home" |
| 38% | HELLO | 5 | Adele hit song with the lyric "When I call, you never seem to be home" |
| 38% | BOOTYLICIOUS | 12 | 2001 Destiny's Child #1 hit with the lyric "I don't think you ready for this jelly" |
| 38% | INTO | 4 | "You don't have to go ___ all the details" |
| 36% | ROXANNE | 7 | 39-Across song with the line "You don't have to put on the red light" |
| 36% | SOMETHING | 9 | Beatles song by George Harrison on 48-Across with the lyrics "I don't want to leave her now / You know I believe and how" |
| 36% | BESTSONGEVER | 12 | 44-Across hit single with the lyrics "We knew every line, now I can't remember / How it goes but I know that I won't forget her" (3 wds.) |
| 36% | HEREWITHME | 10 | 2019 hit song by 17-Down featuring Chvrches with the lyrics "You're saying the words that I want you to say / There's a pain in my heart and it won't go away" (3 wds.) |
| 36% | BADMOONRISING | 13 | Creedence Clearwater Revival hit song with the lyrics "Don't go 'round tonight / It's bound to take your life" (3 wds.) |
| 36% | BADIDEARIGHT | 12 | 2023 Olivia Rodrigo hit with the lyric "I know I should stop, but I can't": 3 wds. |
| 35% | JOLENE | 6 | #1 Dolly Parton country hit with the lyric "I'm beggin' of you, please don't take my man" |
| 35% | IMONFIRE | 8 | Springsteen hit with the lyric "Only you can cool my desire" |
| 35% | LONE | 4 | 1994 Live hit with the lyric "And the greatest of teachers won't hesitate / To leave you there, by yourself" |
| 35% | PRESSURE | 8 | 24-Down single with the lyrics "But here you are in the ninth / Two men out and three men on / Nowhere to look but inside" |
| 35% | DEJA | 4 | "___ Vu" (Beyonce hit with the lyric "Seem like everywhere I go, I see you") |
| 35% | ELLIMAN | 7 | Yvonne with the 1978 #1 hit "If I Can't Have You" |
| 35% | GIVEMEONEREASON | 15 | Tracy Chapman hit with the lyric “This youthful heart can love you” |