# Need help figuring out what this song is **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754 "2012-01-17T01:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/1 "2012-01-17T01:59:08Z")
Okay, I don’t have much to go on. But I thought if anyone here could help, it’s you guys. All I have, lyrics-wise, is “Never let me go.” It’s sung by a female. And it reminds me of the song “Eternal Flame” by the Bangles. That’s all I got… ---
**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/2 "2012-01-17T02:06:12Z")
Also, I hear it all the time playing at the local supermarket. ---
**Author:** ![pohjonen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pohjonen/32/423_2.png) [@pohjonen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pohjonen)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/3 "2012-01-17T02:09:18Z")
try googling your phrase, in quotes, with the word lyrics. I once found an old 70’s song that way when the only part of the words I remembered was “my emotions.” I’d been trying to remember it for literally years. I was very proud of myself. (ha) ---
**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/4 "2012-01-17T02:18:56Z")
> [@pohjonen](#): > > try googling your phrase, in quotes, with the word lyrics. I once found an old 70’s song that way when the only part of the words I remembered was “my emotions.” I’d been trying to remember it for literally years. I was very proud of myself. (ha) I did that and after 10 pages of not finding what I was looking for, I came here. My search has been futile, unfortunately. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/5 "2012-01-17T02:29:05Z")
[Make Me Lose Control](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zajTU5h_YGM) ---
**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/6 "2012-01-17T02:30:03Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > [Make Me Lose Control](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zajTU5h_YGM) Good song, but that’s not it…especially considering Mr. Carmen isn’t a female. ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/7 "2012-01-17T02:30:07Z")
Can you give us some more details? Is that the chorus? What type of music? Old or new? ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/8 "2012-01-17T02:33:38Z")
[Never Let Me Go](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMgyKNr-Vbk) by Judy Bridgewater ---
**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/9 "2012-01-17T02:54:27Z")
> [@Sparky812](#): > > Can you give us some more details? Is that the chorus? What type of music? Old or new? Sounds relatively new-ish, which means anything from about the mid-80s to today. I don’t think it’s the chorus, though at one point the singer belts it out. “Never let me gooooooooooooo”. It’s not the Judy Bridgewater/Jane Monheit song, that’s one of the one’s I found in my searches as well. ---
**Author:** ![Janetda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@Janetda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janetda)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/10 "2012-01-17T03:09:20Z")
Maybe this? [Never Let Me Go - Chris Reece & Jennifer Needles - YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2rg-BV17ow) ---
**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:** [January 17, 2012, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/11 "2012-01-17T03:20:17Z")
I’m gonna guess Beyonce’s [End Of Time](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgAFD_5baLg), since you said it sounded recent and you’re hearing it in a grocery store. ETA: If you has said it sounded like an old song, I’d have guessed Rachel Portman’s [Never Let Me Go](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwtdHsly3VE). ---
**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:** [January 17, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/12 "2012-01-17T03:33:38Z")
I know you said female, but I think he sounds like a girl so… Justin Bieber’s “[Never Let You Go](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmURLZZwKNQ)”? I’m assuming you’ve already checked out Florence and the Machine’s “Never Let Me Go.” ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/13 "2012-01-17T04:32:36Z")
If you mistook Peter Cetera of Chicago for a woman, he sings “never let _you_ go” in the song “Hard For Me to Say I’m Sorry,” and the song does sound a bit like “Eternal Flame.” ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/14 "2012-01-17T04:48:41Z")
Dinah Washington? [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VWU296/ref=dm\_dp\_trk8?ie=UTF8&qid=1326775658&sr=8-2](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VWU296/ref=dm_dp_trk8?ie=UTF8&qid=1326775658&sr=8-2) ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_A.Robrin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sam_a.robrin/32/14497_2.png) [@Sam\_A.Robrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_A.Robrin)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2012, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/15 "2012-01-17T04:58:39Z")
First song that came to my Baby Boomer mind was this knocked-out nifty of the past (as the WIBG–Philadelphia DJs used to put it): [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frCQfKTykzM) I don’t think Mel Carter sounds feminine, but his voice is on the high side, so someone else might. ---
**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/16 "2012-01-24T14:43:42Z")
I finally tracked it down. It’s called “Strange Thing” by Sophie B. Hawkins. Or maybe it’s called “Walking In My Blue Jeans.” One of those two. Unfortunately the lyrics I gave you are from _another_ some I’ve been trying to figure out. ---
**Author:** ![CheeseDonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@CheeseDonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheeseDonkey)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/17 "2012-01-24T14:55:55Z")
Man, isn’t this crazy? After trying to figure out what these two songs are for the longest time, thinking they were one in the same and/or constantly getting them confused, I just figured out the other one. It’s called “Lose Your Way” and coincidentally it too is by Sophie B. Hawkins. _This_ is the one that, for whatever reason, reminds me of “Eternal Flame” and this is the one that has the phrase “never let me go.” ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-help-figuring-out-what-this-song-is/609754/18 "2012-01-24T15:35:11Z")
I started a thread here once posting just a few lines of a song I’d heard a friend perform in public once. Who did the original, I asked? Turns out, it was my friend’s own song that _he wrote_. :facepalm: