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Song lyrics that always come to you in trivial moments
Earlier today I was walking down the road with not a care in the world when I became aware that my shoelace was undone. As I "bent down to tie the laces of my shoes" I found myself singing the line from Dylan's "Tangled Up In Blue". As I had last time this minor inconvenience occurred.
Which reminded me that when I'm hanging out the washing I often relieve the tedium by singing in my best inner Daltrey voice "at least I'll get my washing done..."
Or even "I can see you in the morning time - washing day, the weather's fine" from Manfred Mann's "Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James". Then I usually end up singing "Todays' Monday.....Monday's washing day" etc by The Scaffold. Which is actually an amazingly good George Martin production.
But I digress.
Does anyone else find themselves humming mindless ditties from yesterday on a regular basis as they confront daily chores or regular occurrences?
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from The Bible's 'Graceland', every time the PC gets turned off.
My friend Shev tells me that every morning as he puts the plug in his bathroom sink it dings against the taps and he is compelled to start singing "Our life, together, is special..." which apparently is a lovely way to start the day.
Sadly enough...
...Janie Jones often pops into my head while commuting. I like my (not boring) job, but the commute's a killer.
All the time
None springs to mind right now, but...
'Jet!'
Whenever I pass a Jet petrol station, Wings (or Alan Partridge) belt this one out.
I do not like Wings. So this bothers me greatly.
So you
suffer-a-Jet?
Coat. On.
Bye.
Meetings / Conference calls
Whenever anyone says "where do we go from here ?" (and they often do), I usually want to chip in with "is it down to the lake I fear..."
An IT Director of my acquaintance....
...completely threw my colleagues with that one. I had to "translate" for them. Don't do it, trying to explain who Nick Heyward is to a bunch of middle-aged businessmen is not my idea of fun...
You think that's bad?
You think that's bad? Whenever anyone says "Where Do We Go From Here", in my head I sing "Now that all of the children are grown up". The Alan Parsons bleedin Project.
We started off on Burgundy
But soon hit the harder stuff.
For no particular reason that I can fathom. Maybe I have a drink problem. Or a Dylan probem.
earworms
I use to live near a fire station and a kind of alarm thing used to go of regularly that sounded like the whiny bit at the start of Sloop John B.
So that song was stuck in my napper for long periods.
Thought I was alone in this when I was walking past with a mate one day, alarm goes off and he breaks into said ditty....... sanity restored.
Velvet Goldmine
Pops into my head every morning as I walk along the platform on the way out of the railway station. I have no idea why.
The OP cited Tangled Up in Blue
A major road around where I work is Montague Street and every time a co-worker mentions it I start burbling about there being "Music in the cafes at night and revolution in the air" I'm waiting for someone to reply, "Is there? I must check it out"
Also I can't be the only one who when he he hears the phrase "I'm on my way" always (I mean always) replies "From misery to happiness"
Schiphol airport, Amsterdam
The tannoy announcements are preceded by a five-tone fanfare after which everyone in earshot softly sings "..gie in the wind-ow.."
I used to teach a very thick child
...called Stacey. No prizes for guessing what I used to involuntarily hum at parents' evening.
Often, as I walk into the kitchen
I start singing 'and the wives and their husbands, their husbands don't care' and more from Up in Heaven (Not Only Here) by the Clash. I'd love to know what triggers it.
The cbeebies show, Waybulloo (sp) has some chimes in it - one particular sequence always sets Costello's Beyond Belief spinning on my internal jukebox.
Not all the time
But the sound of a tube train approaching can sometime bring to my mind the 'Get Carter' theme.
If I don't have a book or a Metro to read I am sometimes mentally going 'Boom. Boom boom boom boom boom. Boom. Boom boom boom boom' as it pulls away with me on it.