[Topiarysurvivor]

I've been processing a lot lately , and feeling good about it. But this afternoon and evening I've had a song in my head that won't go away . A musician friend calls these ear worms - they get in your ear and live there.

Sometimes mine get really annoying , and I've found that if I go work on a tune ( fiddle ) it goes away faster. But this was a song, with words. I laughed when I sang it out loud , because the lyrics were so telling . Remember the Monkees? It was Giant Step - here's part of the lyrics, " remember the feeling as a child, when you woke up and morning smiled, its time you felt like that again. There is no percentage in remembering the past, it's time to learn to live again at last . Come with me , leave yesterday behind , and take a giant step outside your mind."

Minds are wonderful, scary things. From now on I might think of the ear worms as a sound track for the drama in my life.

[AllyIsHopeful]

That is a great lyric. It is a very good depiction of therapy! I often have issues with "ear worms" myself. I love music though, so it is impossible not to!

[Jordy]

I've had something similar lately... the lyrics were: "I try to outrun all the memories, but I keep falling down... I keep falling down"

Yeah pretty telling if you ask me!

[WikidPissah]

I know this is a serious thread, but since I hear the Captain and Tennille got divorced this week, I've had Muskrat Love in my head.

Get it out!!!

[A Red Panda]

The songs that get stuck in my head pretty much never have any relevance what so ever.

They might be loosely inspired by working with kids as I'm a teacher. But they're never songs the kids would sing. For example, this past week I went about two days singing "do your ears hang low, do they wobble to and fro, can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow?..." and the themesong to Toopy and Binou.

WHHHHHY must my brain torment me so?

[Topiarysurvivor]

Well, kind if a serious thread. Red panda, why are your ears hanging low? Wikki - can you sing it?mdo you know the lyrics - that's what I talking about, I have to notice what it is about, then I try to learn the tune or the lyrics and it disappears.

I work in schools too, but this is the song that was stuck in my head for a week until I worked it out:

Its a Hap Palmer song.

This is a story about Sammy, his father sent him out to buy bread
But Sammy dudn't feel like walking ,he wished he could fly instead.
He sang if I was a bird I could fly to the store, fly to the store. If I were a bird I could fly to the store for my father. Two more verses where kids wish they coukd do things they can't , then last verse - then Sammy and his friends remembered the bread, and knew they must move along . They smiled as they walked and made up a brand new song -
I'm glad I'm me and .I'm walking to the store, walking to the store.....

Another sound track for me during the moments when I know I'm okay .

[A Red Panda]

All it means is that I was in a good mood. That's it. I never put much stock in lyrics and thigns for me are all about the sound of it. Both sounds are bubbly kid songs that can be sung quicker or slower depending on how I felt at the moment. Not that I wanted to be singing them in my head, but the tempo would change throughout the day.

[thestarsaregone]

I've had this song called "Oblivion" by Bastille stuck in my head for the last couple of weeks. Actually had it on repeat before I went into my session, then played it for my T before we started, and we ended up talking about the song's significance and what it meant for us.

When you fall asleep with your head upon my shoulder.
When you're in my arms but you've gone somewhere deeper.

Are you going to age with grace?
Are you going to age without mistakes?
Are you going to age with grace,
Or only to wake and hide your face?

When oblivion is calling out your name,
You always take it further than I ever can.
-Bastille

[Topiarysurvivor]

I like that stars .

I was about to concede to Panda, because the song stuck in my head right now is the Gummy Bear song - the lyrics, gummy bear, gummy bear, gummy,gummy,gummy,gummy bear .....you get the jist. Then I realized I associate that song with only place I've heard it, which is in classroom of a woman who used to be very warnm toward me - but seems to avoid me now. I haven't actually heard the song since last year . I wonder if tgere is any research done on this .......

[stopdog]

I do use music to help sooth or gear me up, but I don't pay much attention to lyrics.