# Help me identify this song, it's driving me nuts **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740 "2014-03-15T02:06:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/1 "2014-03-15T02:06:00Z")
I’ve had a vague memory of a song play in my head at random times over the past month or so, and like all earworms I’m convinced I can cure it by just listening it again for real. I must do so before not knowing what the hell that song is drives me insane. If I could remember the lyrics, I’d Google it, but I don’t, so I can’t. Here are the facts : - single female vocalist, probably white girl, melodic singing over minimalist instruments (soft piano ? Maybe a lone accoustic guitar ? A capella a distinct possibility) - bit of wobbly tremolo at times, sort of plaintive tone. Think Alanis Morisette, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan ballads. - slow tempo - I’m convinced I heard it as the soundtrack to a TV series, but not sure which. Likely candidates : _Sons of Anarchy_, _House_,\* The West Wing\* - lyrics I think go something like : May your something something something, may your thing always be thing May your something SOMETHING something neeeeener neeneeeer na May your something something something, may your thing something somethiiiiing Foreeeevermore Help. Please. I beg of y’all. ---
**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/2 "2014-03-15T02:12:48Z")
From the lyrics it seems like it has to be a cover of Bob Dylan’s “[Forever Young](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDdq9t_DHIY)”, although I don’t think I know the version you describe. ETA: I see there’s a version by Norah Jones on [YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jEKY-3eNZc), so that’s a possibility. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/3 "2014-03-15T02:23:16Z")
Is it “I Hope You Dance” by LeeAnn Rimes or some such? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/4 "2014-03-15T02:28:41Z")
The lyrics you gave are kinda vague but I’m almost positive it’s [Rio by Duran Duran](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3W6yf6c-FA). ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/5 "2014-03-15T03:08:45Z")
Katie Herzig [Forevermore](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8vgHCY2eUs)? ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/6 "2014-03-15T03:29:11Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > The lyrics you gave are kinda vague but I’m almost positive it’s [Rio by Duran Duran](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3W6yf6c-FA). Please. It’s pretty obviously “Reap the Wild Wind”. https://www.youtube.com/embed/pR5cjfllaDA?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/7 "2014-03-15T03:45:19Z")
Use Shazam or something. I’m intrigued though the lyrics sound like every song ever written by those 4. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/8 "2014-03-15T03:47:37Z")
Must be [Forever Young-Audra Mae from “Sons of Anarchy”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2p84Xdx8ck) ---
**Author:** ![Pixel\_Dent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Pixel\_Dent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixel_Dent)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/9 "2014-03-15T03:55:10Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > From the lyrics it seems like it has to be a cover of Bob Dylan’s Forever Young Joan Baez famously covered it as well. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/10 "2014-03-15T04:50:07Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > Is it “I Hope You Dance” by LeeAnn Rimes or some such? Lee Ann Womack. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/11 "2014-03-15T04:56:01Z")
I think it’s "[Never Alone" by Lady Antebellum](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4yRsT_fPic&feature=kp). ---
**Author:** ![bldysabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@bldysabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bldysabba)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/12 "2014-03-15T05:32:21Z")
Michelle Featherstone’s Coffee and cigarettes? [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/a8VfdaY8xNs/hqdefault.jpg "Michelle Featherstone - Coffee & Cigarettes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8VfdaY8xNs) ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2014, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song-its-driving-me-nuts/683740/13 "2014-03-15T07:26:28Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Must be [Forever Young-Audra Mae from “Sons of Anarchy”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2p84Xdx8ck) That’s the one ! Thank you so very much. And thank everybody else too, of course, 'cause now I’ve got plenty more music to listen to 🙂