# Help me identify a song lyric
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-song-lyric/534193
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [March 29, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-song-lyric/534193 "2010-03-29T07:33:53Z")
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### Author:  [@ekweizn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekweizn)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2010, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-song-lyric/534193/1 "2010-03-29T07:33:53Z")
Some background:
The Axis of Awesome is an Australian comedy rock group that has a bit called “4 Chords” where they perform snippets of pop songs sung to the same four chords played over and over. I’m writing a [sporcle](http://www.sporcle.com) quiz about it, except there’s one lyric I can’t understand/place. It starts at 3:01 on [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeoW-xtN1gU) (the one I’m using for the quiz) and at 3:12 on [this video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpB_40hYjXU).
What the heck is he singing? My guess is that the lyric ends with something like “I think I want her to stay”, which doesn’t turn up anything when I google it.
PS: For the sake of completeness, here’s the [studio version](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHBVnMf2t7w), which unfortunately gives away all the answers, so I can’t use it for my sporcle quiz.
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### Author:  [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2010, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-song-lyric/534193/2 "2010-03-29T12:38:14Z")
A google of the lyrcs says it’s
Self Esteem performed by Offspring?
Edit: you probably know that.
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### Author:  [@ekweizn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekweizn)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2010, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-a-song-lyric/534193/3 "2010-03-29T19:42:32Z")
> [@Rrose\_Selavy](#):
>
> A google of the lyrcs says it’s
> Self Esteem performed by Offspring?
>
> Edit: you probably know that.
Yeah, sorry about the mix-up; I was looking for the line sung in falsetto(?) right before Self-Esteem starts. Anyway, I changed the quiz into audio only to avoid it. Thanks for your post though!