re: my brain
Feb. 14th, 2009 10:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
falcongrrlMy brain...it drives me crazy, but it comes through for me in the end.
me: Hi there. Can I poke you about something that's driving me crazy atm?
friend: Eep?
me: There's a song that's *stuck* in my head, but I can't remember any of the lyrics.
friend: Am I allowed to giggle? A little? :-)
me: It's by one of those kind of whiny boy bands, like The Weakerthans, but I'm pretty sure it's not them. I think the title of it is a one word plural noun. And the chorus is all about how we do something (perhaps with the noun?) and we do something else, and something something something it's okay...
like pretend it's okay, maybe?
I can hear the guy's *voice* but not the words. It's driving me *insane*. I just want to know what the song is.
friend: Ooooof. It very *very* vaguely rings a bell, but...
me: And it keeps meshing with other songs I know that it's not.
friend: Eep.
That always drives me *nuts*. :-)
me: The singer's voice is very distinctive. And kind of whiny like I said. And it's fairly well-known, I think. One word like "Signs," but it's not that. "Rocks" I don't know.
It reminds me a little of "Too Late to Apologize" and "She Will Be Loved" in terms of rhythm, but it's cooler than either of those, I think. But the rhythm is like...
duhduhDAHduhduh....duhduhDAHHHduhduh...duhduhDAHHduhduh...pretend it's okay... (or 'and then it's okay...')
It seems like something you might have heard before.
I may have heard it on the radio or something. I have no idea. Glah. I just want to *find* it and hear it.
It's almost like Rufus Wainwright, but it's not him. But it's got that kind of plaintive sound.
friend: I was thinking maybe Death Cab For Cutie, but nothing off of _Plans_ seems to quite fit that description.
me: Yeah, that's definitely the right sort of sound though.
I'm thinking someone gave me the song, though I may be off base with that.
friend: *nodnod* No idea here, unfortunately.
Have you dug through Plans?
me: No, I'm about to go through my iTunes list. I've already been through my WMP list.
Anyway, thank you for trying to help. *squeeze*
I almost think the one word is for a bad thing, like Clocks, but it's not *that* song.
Something that's interrupting our lives or just always there.
(my god this is driving me NUTS)
friend: *chuckle* for 'Clocks' as a bad thing. :-)
I don't normally think of clocks as bad. Annoying, in some circumstances, but. *giggle*
me: Well, that's just it too though. I think the thing that the song is about is sometimes a minor annoyance - not bad per se, but maybe bad to build a life around it.
I may be making all of this up.
friend: Ahhhh, okay. *nodnodnod*
me: Could it be Radiohead?
friend: It could be; I don't know enough Radiohead to say?
me: *laugh* Me either. I should just give up, I know.
friend: Try and replace it with something else in your brain? :-)
me: it might be a duet
I think I got it.
I think it's called "Pills."
I think it's a duet with Sarah McLachlan.
friend: Yay!
me: Thank GOD. And that was just my brain working on it; I didn't find it. It's in our M drive but not in my stuff.
We need pills to make it through the night, and we need pills to make it through the day...we're not okay.
The thing is, I was right about everything with it.
The band is The Perishers.
I just sent it to you so you can know wtf i was talking about. :-)
friend: Well, there wasn't any pretending. :) But yeah... and *laugh* Thank you.
me: I wasn't sure the pretend part was right though. And pretend we're okay and we're not okay isn't all that far apart.
http://www.moron.nl/lyrics.php?id=86989&artist=The%20Perishers
"One may think we're all right, but we need pills to sleep at night. We need lies to make it through the day. We're not okay."
So the pretend part was there, just not explicit.
*laugh* Umm, happy valentine's day? :_D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perishers_(band)
friend: *laugh*
me: Sarah McLachlan handpicked them to open for her and sings with them live. The version I have is a live version from a Sarah McLachlan CD.
friend: Ooooh, neat.
me: But she does only sing backup, so I didn't connect it with her right off.
Though actually, I think seeing her name on the iTunes is what triggered the memory. But it wasn't a conscious thing.
me: Hi there. Can I poke you about something that's driving me crazy atm?
friend: Eep?
me: There's a song that's *stuck* in my head, but I can't remember any of the lyrics.
friend: Am I allowed to giggle? A little? :-)
me: It's by one of those kind of whiny boy bands, like The Weakerthans, but I'm pretty sure it's not them. I think the title of it is a one word plural noun. And the chorus is all about how we do something (perhaps with the noun?) and we do something else, and something something something it's okay...
like pretend it's okay, maybe?
I can hear the guy's *voice* but not the words. It's driving me *insane*. I just want to know what the song is.
friend: Ooooof. It very *very* vaguely rings a bell, but...
me: And it keeps meshing with other songs I know that it's not.
friend: Eep.
That always drives me *nuts*. :-)
me: The singer's voice is very distinctive. And kind of whiny like I said. And it's fairly well-known, I think. One word like "Signs," but it's not that. "Rocks" I don't know.
It reminds me a little of "Too Late to Apologize" and "She Will Be Loved" in terms of rhythm, but it's cooler than either of those, I think. But the rhythm is like...
duhduhDAHduhduh....duhduhDAHHHduhduh...duhduhDAHHduhduh...pretend it's okay... (or 'and then it's okay...')
It seems like something you might have heard before.
I may have heard it on the radio or something. I have no idea. Glah. I just want to *find* it and hear it.
It's almost like Rufus Wainwright, but it's not him. But it's got that kind of plaintive sound.
friend: I was thinking maybe Death Cab For Cutie, but nothing off of _Plans_ seems to quite fit that description.
me: Yeah, that's definitely the right sort of sound though.
I'm thinking someone gave me the song, though I may be off base with that.
friend: *nodnod* No idea here, unfortunately.
Have you dug through Plans?
me: No, I'm about to go through my iTunes list. I've already been through my WMP list.
Anyway, thank you for trying to help. *squeeze*
I almost think the one word is for a bad thing, like Clocks, but it's not *that* song.
Something that's interrupting our lives or just always there.
(my god this is driving me NUTS)
friend: *chuckle* for 'Clocks' as a bad thing. :-)
I don't normally think of clocks as bad. Annoying, in some circumstances, but. *giggle*
me: Well, that's just it too though. I think the thing that the song is about is sometimes a minor annoyance - not bad per se, but maybe bad to build a life around it.
I may be making all of this up.
friend: Ahhhh, okay. *nodnodnod*
me: Could it be Radiohead?
friend: It could be; I don't know enough Radiohead to say?
me: *laugh* Me either. I should just give up, I know.
friend: Try and replace it with something else in your brain? :-)
me: it might be a duet
I think I got it.
I think it's called "Pills."
I think it's a duet with Sarah McLachlan.
friend: Yay!
me: Thank GOD. And that was just my brain working on it; I didn't find it. It's in our M drive but not in my stuff.
We need pills to make it through the night, and we need pills to make it through the day...we're not okay.
The thing is, I was right about everything with it.
The band is The Perishers.
I just sent it to you so you can know wtf i was talking about. :-)
friend: Well, there wasn't any pretending. :) But yeah... and *laugh* Thank you.
me: I wasn't sure the pretend part was right though. And pretend we're okay and we're not okay isn't all that far apart.
http://www.moron.nl/lyrics.php?id=86989&artist=The%20Perishers
"One may think we're all right, but we need pills to sleep at night. We need lies to make it through the day. We're not okay."
So the pretend part was there, just not explicit.
*laugh* Umm, happy valentine's day? :_D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perishers_(band)
friend: *laugh*
me: Sarah McLachlan handpicked them to open for her and sings with them live. The version I have is a live version from a Sarah McLachlan CD.
friend: Ooooh, neat.
me: But she does only sing backup, so I didn't connect it with her right off.
Though actually, I think seeing her name on the iTunes is what triggered the memory. But it wasn't a conscious thing.
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Date: 2009-02-15 03:17 pm (UTC)PS, you missed one spot of replacing the username with "Friend." ("Try and replace it with something else in your brain?")
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Date: 2009-02-15 05:25 pm (UTC)And I was just interested in how I wasn't sure anything I was thinking about the song was correct, but looking back my brain kept giving me clues that were right without being able to quite get the actual song. It makes me really wonder about how the brain accesses information.
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Date: 2009-02-15 05:41 pm (UTC)