Ostomy Memories of a Song in my Head

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HenryM

It has happened to you, I know. You’re going about your day and all of a sudden you hear it, the song in your head. Perhaps it was playing in the restaurant where you just had breakfast. Maybe you heard it at home before you left for work. It might even have been some guy whistling a fair rendition of it when he passed you in the hall.

DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE?
I’VE BEEN AWAY SO LONG, I MAY GO WRONG & LOSE MY WAY

It can last for days, replaying itself without prompting from you, a musical automaton, a song in your head. Once generated it becomes a winding tape with periodic pauses, sounding out at odd times and odd places, the tune and the lyrics powered by some inner echo.

LA IS A GREAT BIG FREEWAY
PUT A HUNDRED DOWN & BUY A CAR
IN A WEEK, MAYBE TWO, THEY’LL MAKE YOU A STAR

It’s out of control after awhile, beyond your ability to stop it, to turn it off. In the kitchen, suddenly, you realize that it’s playing in your head again. You try to escape it. Perhaps if you can just get another song in your head.

WEEKS TURN INTO YEARS. HOW QUICK THEY PASS
AND ALL THE STARS THAT NEVER WERE
ARE PARKING CARS & PUMPING GAS

I know that I heard the Dionne Warwick song somewhere, but I’m not even sure where. I listen to classical music all day! How did this happen? It was even playing last night at 3 AM when I got up to go to the bathroom. Argghh.

DREAMS TURN INTO DUST & BLOW AWAY
AND THERE YOU ARE WITHOUT A FRIEND
YOU PACK YOUR CAR & RIDE AWAY.

The last time this happened to me it was “Ring of Fire” by Johnny Cash. That rolled through my head for weeks. If only I spoke Italian, maybe I could get Placido Domingo doing “E lucevan le stelle” into my head for awhile.

I’VE GOT LOTS OF FRIENDS IN SAN JOSE
DO YOU KNOW THE WAY TO SAN JOSE
CAN’T WAIT TO GET BACK TO SAN JOSE

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xnine

Earworms, I never know all the words.

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HenryM


I don't either, xnine, but the tune keeps cycling thru over & over.  It's as if you want to change stations but the radio dial is frozen.

Ritz

Geez, thanks Henry... now I cannot rid my brain of... Raindrops keep falling on my head la la la la Never gonna stop the rain by complaining, 'cause I'm freeeeee, nothing's worrying me da da da da...

Ritz

Bill

Hello HenryM.

There is a repetitive tune that reverberates through my head most days, but in the main, I am quite thankful for it. This tune/rhythm is what accompanies my rhymes and motivates me to write on a variety of subjects. Needless to say I have also written about the tune itself so, I’ll share two of these rhymes with you so that it might replace those tunes that are taking up your present mindspace.

Best wishes
Bill

DI-DAH RHYTHM.

I needed rhythm for my rhyme
di-dah, di-dah gives me the time.
It has a cute and lilting beat
to help the verses sound complete.

It sounds just like a beating heart
and that’s where rhyming verses start.
They’re emotional, it is true
and that’s why they get through to you.

Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah
is not the same as blah-di-blah!
Blah-di-blah sounds too dismissive
di-dah-di-dah supports my missive.

Di-dah-di-dah is opportune
because it sounds just like a tune.
And with tunes I think you’ll find
they tend to stick within the mind.

So after all the words are gone
the background beat will linger on.
And for ‘forgetters’ just like me
there is less need for poetry.

When I resolve a conundrum
I’ll tap this beat upon a drum.
This gives me structure so I may
resolve things in a different way.

Sometimes I feel it’s so absurd.
struggling just to find a word.
For me it might be best by far
to use the tune di-dah, di-dah.

Then when I want to block things out
I could sing or I could shout.
Either blah-di-blah-di-blah.
or di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah!

                                           B. Withers 2012

Di-DAH, Di-DAH.

What I need is a catchy tune
and if I work it might come soon.
Then I could put words to my song
and everyone can sing along.

If you don’t know what the words are
sing along with di-dah-di-dah.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.

Once we have got the rhythm right
just sing along with all your might.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.

Now everybody here can see
the rhythm of my poetry.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.

Go with the flow you can’t go wrong
so why not try to sing along.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.

If you can sing, it makes you smile
and then the song will be worthwhile.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.

And if the words get on your wick
I’m pretty sure the tune will stick.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.

Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.
Di-dah, di-dah, di-dah, di-dah.

                                        B. Withers 2012

Alternatively, There is another long-standing ditty that keeps recurring in my mind and can be nostalgically irritating as it has little relevance to me except as a reminder of my brothers who used to sing it in the school playground many years ago.

WHY PI ?

For all the world, I can’t see why.
I would ever remember Pi.
A witty ditty, etched on my mind.
Pi equals three point one four one five nine.

A law, a cannon and a theme.
A nightmarish recurring dream.
What possessed me to learn this line.
Pi = 3.14159.

It’s an obsession, a compulsion.
Invoking in me some repulsion.
Remove it from this memory of mine.
Pi = 3.14159.

I’ve come to think I was a fool.
To have learnt this thing in school.
What use was it, all this time.
Pi = 3.14159.

A circle’s area might be fine.
For Pi = 3.14159.
But there’s no formula yet designed.
For Pi made circles in my mind.

Circling, surfacing, spiralling round.
Repressing, depressing, getting me down.
Show me the skills to disentwine.
From Pi = 3.14159.

Who taught me this, I’ll kill the swine.
Pi = 3.14159.
Now all is gone - or in decline.
Except for Pi = 3.14159.

It’s not even right, nor is it true.
At the end of the nine, there should be a two.
Repeating on and on- a non rhyme too.
Pi = 3.14159 2 → 141592 →141592→to infinity.

                                                 B. Withers (2000)

 
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ron in mich

Hi all, I turn the radio on when I'm eating breakfast and watching the chickadees on the feeder. Sometimes I get a song stuck in my head for a while, but the oddest thing is when I lay down at night, that darn song pops back in. So I lay there trying to remember the words. The most recent was Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence".

HenryM

That's a good one.

Ritz


Good tune 

Maried

Venture Highway by America, an oldie but a great song that sits in my head many days toward the end of the workday.

lovely

I had that happen to me this morning. It really started last night when I got up to go to the bathroom and continued part of the day today. I could only remember two lines to start with. As the day progressed, I would remember another line, and then later another one. It was a Christian song we sing at church. Best wishes and stay safe.

bowsprit

I shared a flat in London with a cousin, a committed Francophile. There was a lot of French ambiance music to be heard. One tune that has stayed with me was by Baccara, 'Parlez-Vous Francais'. There was an English version too, that went:

"Parlez-vous Francais?

If you do, it will be okay, if not, it's all right, coz baby tonight

L'amour will teach you what to say".

Très jolie chanson, vous ne trouvez pas?

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