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Happy to, ah, help. :-)

It's going to be mostly songs from Rust Never Sleeps in my head now that you've mentioned that.

The context is "Least Complicated" (http://www.research.att.com/~jrex/faves/songs/least.html), by The Indigo Girls. I think perhaps part of the reason I remembered that line separate from the rest of the song is that it seems to apply to so much beyond the context of the song. I guess thinking about that line, I keep expecting the scope of the rest of the song to be broader -- like "Closer To Fine" (http://www.thesonglyrics.com/i_song_lyrics/indigogirls_lyric2.html) or the "make you think wider despite the personal focus" effect of "Galileo" (http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/I/Indigo%20Girls/Indigo%20Girls%20-%20Galileo%20lyrics.htm) -- so I've got a cognitive disconnect (not a dissonance so much as a gap) between that line and the verses.

So your connection of that lyric to something in your everyday life makes perfect sense to me -- that's the context I hear it in even when I'm listening to the song it's from.

Of course, a side effect of looking up URLs of lyrics is that now I've got "This Train Revised" (http://www.musicsonglyrics.com/I/Indigo%20Girls/Indigo%20Girls%20-%20This%20Train%20Revised%20lyrics.htm) going through my head, with all the guitar parts and everything. I'm going to have to dig up my copy of Swamp Ophelia and put it back in the CD player after all.

Yeah, I hate it when I get a really short loop.

(Actually it was two lines, but I wasn't sure I'd heard the first one right, so that one sort of hummed itself. Essentially what I had stuck in my head was two lines of melody but one line of lyrics, and I didn't have time to find the CD and play the whole song, 'cause my CDs are all disorganized. But Google found me the rest in less time.)

Nah, have a hit of something in 9/8 (with that oh so catchy two measures of 6 near the end of each verse):

From there I got away,
My spirits never failin'
Landed on the quay
As the ship was sailin';
Captain at me roared,
Said that no room had he,
When I jumped aboard,
A cabin found for Paddy,
Down among the pigs
I played some funny rigs,
Danced some hearty jigs,
The water round me bubblin',
When off Holyhead,
I wished myself was dead,
Or better far instead,
On the rocky road to Dublin.

One, two, three, four five,
Hunt the hare and turn her
Down the rocky road
And all the ways to Dublin,
Whack-fol-lol-de-ra.

There, isn't that going to keep a spring in your step the rest of the afternoon?