# Help me identify this song

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 20, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song/349081 "2006-03-20T02:57:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2006, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song/349081/1 "2006-03-20T02:57:53Z")

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It was playing on my local college radio station. (KUCI in Irvine, CA.)

I heard the last thirty seconds of it or so.

Instrumentation was minimalistic, and included piano and cello.

Sung by two female vocalists (or one recorded twice) who couldn’t/weren’t actually singing completely in tune. There was also a male singing in the background in kind of a higher voice.

Tone of song was kind of haunting.

Lyrics repeated several times a phrase something like “The distance between a word and its meaning.”

The song was quite good.

Any help?

-FrL-

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**Author:** ![Ender\_Will](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Ender\_Will](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ender_Will)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2006, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-this-song/349081/2 "2006-03-21T10:15:06Z")

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Talk to the station. If you know what time it was, you can probably either find it from a playlist, or you can ask the DJ what it was. Everyone I know who has DJ’d for a college station would be really stoked to hear from someone who liked their music.

It’s been a while since I’ve been to UCI, but as I recall the station is in a portable and pretty accessable.