# Help ID a song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822 "2013-11-13T15:29:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![chowching](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chowching](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowching)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822/1 "2013-11-13T15:29:23Z")
So I was looking at some sad pictures and a song I have been wanting to know for so long came back to mind. Unfortunately all I can recall is the tune in the intro. I can’t remember the lyrics because the voice (female) in the song was very soft. The song sounded like a chant and brought an atmosphere of gloominess that is somewhat divine when I first heard it. I think it goes like this: (sort of humming/chanting) den-den-den-denenenenen/denenenenen/denenenenen/ den-den-den-denenenenen/denenenenen-on the inside– I think there’s the phrase ‘on the inside’ in the end of the intro. I’ve heard this song during a silent moment in a retreat. I may have heard it in a video showing some emotional pictures. Sorry if the description is very vague. I could record myself humming the intro but I don’t want to embarrass myself. :smack: Hope you guys could help! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2013, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822/2 "2013-11-13T15:52:34Z")
Shot in the dark, but is this it? : [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ3TAAV4Z70) ---
**Author:** ![chowching](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chowching](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowching)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822/3 "2013-11-14T00:47:48Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Shot in the dark, but is this it? : > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ3TAAV4Z70](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ3TAAV4Z70) Nope. that’s not it. Here is a short clip I made. [http://picosong.com/qxYF/](http://picosong.com/qxYF/) Sorry for the quality. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![minlokwat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minlokwat/32/2844_2.png) [@minlokwat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minlokwat)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822/4 "2013-11-14T01:07:16Z")
Sounds a little like **Danke Schoen** to my ears. Did you hear an altered cover version of the song I wonder? [Wayne Newton Version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m_giioppT4) ---
**Author:** ![chowching](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chowching](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowching)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822/5 "2013-11-14T02:57:58Z")
> [@minlokwat](#): > > Sounds a little like **Danke Schoen** to my ears. > > Did you hear an altered cover version of the song I wonder? > > [Wayne Newton Version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m_giioppT4) Not this also. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822/6 "2013-11-14T03:10:18Z")
I really don’t have a guess, but was it [this type](http://www.spasounds.com.au/c-8-vocals-spiritual-chants.aspx) of song? (Kind of a new agey easy listening.) That might help narrow it down. ---
**Author:** ![chowching](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chowching](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowching)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822/7 "2013-11-14T05:13:57Z")
The intro has lyrics and is not actually just a humming or a chant but its sounds like one. The clip I’ve added is just me trying to make the tune in the intro. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822/8 "2013-11-14T05:21:33Z")
Curses, now you have me listening to _I Can’t See New York_ (Tori Amos – no link, not your song, more chilling than sad). ---
**Author:** ![Gabing\_Gaboing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b38774/32.png) [@Gabing\_Gaboing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gabing_Gaboing)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822/9 "2013-11-14T11:48:59Z")
Your clip sounds like Only Time by Enya to me. Sorry, I don’t know how to post links…😕 ---
**Author:** ![chowching](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@chowching](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowching)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2013, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822/10 "2013-11-14T12:39:42Z")
> [@Gabing\_Gaboing](#): > > Your clip sounds like Only Time by Enya to me. > > Sorry, I don’t know how to post links…😕 That’s it! Thank you! 🙂 It is not ‘–on the inside’ but ‘–only time’.:smack: Wonderful song. Only Time By Enya [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/upkYQqbrjSc/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGGIgYihiMA8=&rs=AOn4CLCuJRpMNtOxAPns3Sk94DhLxXGFGg "Enya - Only Time Lyrics") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upkYQqbrjSc) Cheers! ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822/11 "2013-11-15T18:23:50Z")
The song is pretty but it brings back memories. At some point may years ago NBC used it to advertise one of its sitcoms, I want to say it was the Friends finale but that may not be it, an it song was everywhere for a few weeks. It was so maudlin and serious for a comedy show it was really really annoying. I haven’t thought of that in years but hearing it brought it all back. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2013, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-a-song/673822/12 "2013-11-19T22:18:02Z")
“Only Time” had been out only a few weeks before 9/11. I had a sense that it would become the anthem, for lack of a better term, of 9/11, the way “What a Wonderful World” was the anthem for the first Gulf War. [And indeed it did.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXz-NfPQYLw)