Songs That Get Stuck In Your Head

Did you ever get a song stuck in your head?

A song that you hate?

A song that would make you risk breaking your finger when you poke it at the radio to change the station?

It happened to me the one night, in the worst way.

I was in a hotel room in Houston Texas.

It was ten something when I went to bed with a full tank of Guinness.

I had to be up at 3 am to get picked up by the shuttle so I could fly home.

I was so worried that I'd over-sleep, that I couldn't really sleep at all.

The clock on the bedstand had these big red digital numbers.

I would sleep for 15 minutes, look at the clock, sleep for a few more minutes, then look at the clock again.

Somewhere in there... the song, "MY EYES ADORED YOU," by Frankie Vallie, popped into my booze riddled, sleep-deprived head.

12:47

"MY EYES ADORED YOU... THOUGH I NEVER LAID A HAND ON YOU..."

1:10

"LIKE A MILLION MILES AWAY FROM ME, YOU COULDN'T SEE HOW I ADORED YOU."

JESUS! I HATE THAT FRIGGIN SONG!!!!"

1:28 "LIKE A MILLION MILES AWAY FROM ME..."

ARGHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

I got up and took a leak.

While returning my rented beer, or "un-drinking," as I call it, I realize that I'm humming... "CARRIED YOUR BOOKS FROM SCHOOL..."
(how do I know all the words to a song I can't stand?)

I get back to bed, sleep for a little while, and I'm friggin' DREAMING THE FUGGING SONG!

YOU WERE 16, I WAS SIX..." or whatever the fuggin words are....

I HATE that song!

But it wouldn't leave me alone!

Somewhere around 2 AM I began praying to God, "DEAR GOD! PLEASE! MAKE IT STOP!!!"

I fell back to sleep, and woke up at 2:18.

Clear as a bell in my head, I could hear Frankie Vallie go into "SWEARING TO GOD."

I felt like killing somebody. I never did get back to sleep.

I got into the shuttle and the driver had the radio on. He was listening some oldies station, and I made him turn it off.

I truly belive that if a Frankie Vallie song came on, I might have killed him.