Help. There's a song trapped in my head!

@megamatt (14290)
United States
November 11, 2011 8:29am CST
And I don't know what it is. There are times where I get songs stuck in my head but it's just bits and pieces. Perhaps the same fifteen or twenty seconds playing over and over. I can't for the life of me remember what it might be. Isn't that the most frustrating thing? I had to have heard that song but only a bit or a piece keeps looping and keeps driving me utterly and totally insane. A whole song at least I know what I'm dealing with but a part of a song that I don't know what it is, drives me even more insane.
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@phillyguy (3005)
• Philippines
18 Nov 11
oh no! megamatt! I already forgot about and give up on my same problem like this and then I read your discussions. There is this one song I heard on the radio once and I really like it but I don't know the title, the artist and I can't remember any part of the lyrics, I only remember the sound of it. I really don't know how can I find this song, for almost a month the sounds keep playing in my head and it's really annoying because I really can't remember any part of the lyric. Eventually I forgot about it but I'm still hoping that I will hear this song again and I will ffing write the lyrics this time so I could search in the net the title and artist of that song!
@megamatt (14290)
• United States
18 Nov 11
Not having any lyrics to go on is a very unfortunate thing to say the very least. There are times where even a line or two is better than nothing. It can be a bit of a nightmare when you just hear the lyrics and really nothing more. It is just one of those things where it continues to haunt you time and time again. Driving you to new and improved levels of frustrating. Hopefully the song returns to your head or you have a chance to hear it again. Of course, that could be a one and a million shot to say the very least, but it is a better shot than absolutely nothing. Hopefully you have something to go on. If at nothing else, than to be at peace. Or at least more will return later. Thanks for responding. Its appreciated. Have a nice day.
@phillyguy (3005)
• Philippines
19 Nov 11
Yeah I have find some songs that I heard and remembered just a few words of the lyrics through searching the internet but this time I really can't remember any single word at all. And worse the radio station where I heard this particular song is now off air they stop broadcasting just months after I heard the song so my chance of hearing it again is really small.
• China
15 Nov 11
I have came across this sitiation.Unless you find the song name,your mind will be stuck by it.If you try to think it more ,its memory is less than before ,which make you want to think more about it.But if you release yourself ,one day the whole song will come into your mind.
@megamatt (14290)
• United States
18 Nov 11
It did come thankfully and now I'm at mostly what could be considered peace. I think that the fact that I didn't really enjoy the song and just want to know what it was, was the thing that was the most frustrating about the entire situation. There are times where the most absurd songs get trapped right in the recesses of my mind, just waiting break out. There are just faded notes, jammed right in between the caverns of the mind. Just waiting to break out. I managed to find a way to figure out what the song was, through trying to collect all it was, forgot what it was after I knew it but the song had disappeared. It is all about clarity. Thanks for responding. Its' appreciated. Have a nice day.
@cher913 (25781)
• Canada
11 Nov 11
i am so the same way as you. my cure for thta is to pop on some other music.
@megamatt (14290)
• United States
18 Nov 11
Indeed I think that listening to some other song that is catchy is a counter measure a lot of the time. Of course, it does rather lead to you getting the other song being trapped in your head. However, when doing that, any measure to get the said song in our head out, is good. I think that the mystery of what song when it is in fragments. Since solved and it was one of the more absurd songs to get stuck in my head. There are just many times where it does frustrate and obviously there is a need to get the music right out of my head. Thanks for responding. Its appreciated. Have a nice day.
@sid556 (30953)
• United States
12 Nov 11
Hi Megamatt, Yes..these kind of things will drive you nuts but I don't give up until I figure them out if it is something that I am sure I've heard. A while back my boss was trying to think of a song he'd heard years before that he liked. All he knew was it was either pop or rock and that it contained the line, " I'm dancing" and there was a strong accent. It took me a few days but I got it. It was "Come Dancing" by the Kinks. I'm dancing wasn't even in the lyrics. So tell me the words you know. If it's rap or country...I probably wouldn't know.
@mariahhh (1327)
• United Arab Emirates
13 Nov 11
That happens to me too. I will be so frustrated because I can't remember the song, and I would try to remember it for the whole day. I also hate it when I know the song and it keeps on replaying in my head. Especially if that song is my favorite. At the end of the day, I would be totally so over it and it won't be my favorite anymore.
@jtj_hello (627)
• Philippines
12 Nov 11
That is actually nerve wrecking. It's what they call last song syndrome. You can't move on until you are able to sing it. Why don't you try to type the lyrics that you can remember on the net then start searching. Sometimes it will give you the song itself. Once you have it, sing it until you are satisfied so that you can move on to whatever it is that you want to do and be bother by the song keep playing in your mind.
@megamatt (14290)
• United States
18 Nov 11
I've long since figured out what it was but it is going to be bound to happen to end. And as I kind of feared, it was some song from a person that I knew I wasn't that big of a fan of. I really am glad though that I found it though and could move on with my life, all appalling aside. Of course, it was days ago and I'm now straining to remember what it was, but at least it's no longer in my head, so that's a victory. Still closure is really one of those things that allows us peace of mind. Even if this is a moderate thing to have some closure on, it is still is something that bares mention. It will likely happen again, perhaps something that I hear kind of in the background on the radio, perhaps something that I hear on a commercial on television as I'm in the other room, it's funny how these things pop into our minds. Thanks for responding. Its appreciated. Have a nice day.
@jaiho2009 (39140)
• Philippines
11 Nov 11
This happens to me years ago. There is a song that I really like that keeps haunting me for a long time. The melody suddenly came to my mind and it gives me so bad mood when I want to asks anyone about the song...I can't remember a line or any of it's tune. But when I am alone it haunts me. Believed me, it takes a decade before I came to know the title of that song and it's lyrics when my son sing it one day
@megamatt (14290)
• United States
11 Nov 11
It does seem to happen to many people. There are just times where a song can really go into your head and play over and over again. But where did we hear it? What's it called? I'm not going to say that I'll go absolutely insane over a simple song but there are just times where I really want to know. Where I won't be able to rest until I find out everything that I can about that song. I think that sometimes it is going to come to me in a burst of inspiration. And in other times, I know the inspiration is there. I just need to really be pushing around the inside of my head, to try and figure out that song and really find out what it is going to be. It can really be a brain racking exercise sometimes but that's the price I pay for my obsession. Thanks for responding. Its appreciated. Have a nice day.
• United States
11 Nov 11
I hate when you hear a good song that gets stuck in your head and you can't figure out the name of it! I usually end up searching the lyrics I know, and then finding the name of the song. I think we get songs stuck in our head for a reason at certain times. Maybe it's God/The Universe trying to tell us something!