You're walking down the street by yourself...

[InternalDialogue]

You're not listening to music or talking to a companion. Just you and your feet, padding down the concrete.

With nothing but the sound of your feet on the sidewalk in your ears, what song jumps into your head? Is it the same one all the time, or does it change based on what you just heard or how fast you're walking?

For me, lately, it seems to be "The Sound of Silence," and not just part of it repeated over and over, but the whole thing, start to finish. And when I stop walking to wait at a crosswalk or enter a store, the song stops, then starts over again from the start when I get walking again.



...And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls...

[taterguy]

1. Walking Blues

Sometimes the Robert Johnson version

Other times the one by the Hindu Love Gods

Depending on my mood

[Dangerously Amused]

2. Usually it's something I just heard.

Sometimes I can manipulate it (change the song, slow it down, speed it up, eliminate it altogether, listen to just the vocals or just the instrumentals, etc.)... but sometimes not. Like the time in grad school when I was taking my final exam right before Christmas and ALL I could hear in my head, through the entire exam, was Burl Ives singing FROSTY THE MF'ING SNOWMAN because it was the last thing on the radio before I went to the exam. :grr: :nuke: :mad:

[pink-o]

3. Whatever visual reference sticks an earworm in my brain.

If I walk past graffiti I might think of Sounds of Silence. Or a very bleak landscape, like my local BART station (metro) which is trashed and littered, and usually blanketed by dense fog. Something by Evanescence would pop into my head at that point!

[Jamastiene]

4. The Wizard of Oz

Of course, I hear that song a lot in my head, on purpuse, just for the heck of it. I love that song. ;)