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Updated with more silly details ...
OK, this is a sort of mental exorcism. Have you ever had a song you can't identify just stuck right there in your brain? It happens to me from time to time. This most recent occasion was particularly annoying and painful because it was only a scrap of a song ...
If you've seen the Geico commercials with the cavemen there is one where the fellow is in an airport and on a movable sidewalk. It's the airport music that got stuck in my head. What's the whole song? Who is singing?
A big thanks to my main music source, Jennifer! The song is Remind Me, by Royksopp, vocals by Norwegian Erlend Oye. There are, of course, multiple mixes of the song. I like this video best (an English "day in the life") although the mix is kinda old techno. The Geico mix is a bit lighter and is in this video. It features the gratuitous use of expensive cars. Why?
Anyway, here is a lyric sample ...
It's only been a week,
The rush of being home in rapid fading.
Prevailing to recall
What I was missing, all that time in England
Has sent me aimlessly,
On foot or by the help of transportation,
To knock on windows where
A friend no longer live, I had forgotten.
(chorus)
And everywhere I go,
There's always something to remind me
Of another place and time
Where love that travelled far had found me.
We stayed outside til two,
Waiting for the light to come back,
But hid in talk I knew,
Until you asked what I was thinking.
(chorus)
Brave men tell the truth,
A wise man's tools are analogies and puzzles,
A woman holds her tongue,
Knowing silence will speak for her.
