Stuck Song Syndrome

Chorus

One bar on a loop inside my skull

Four notes chewing through the night

I never asked for this song

I never asked for this song

Same bar on a loop inside my skull

Same four notes chewing through the night

It never shuts up

It never shuts up

Verse 1

Woke at four to a phantom hook

Something twanging in the bone

A corn worm parked in my ear canal

Burrowing through like a landlord

My sister hummed it by the kettle once

Now it won't clock out

I claw at my temples scratch my scalp

Nothing digs it out

Pre-Chorus

I tried a new tune

I tried a loud room

I tried counting sheep

It hums along to that too

Chorus

One bar on a loop inside my skull

Four notes chewing through the night

I never asked for this song

I never asked for this song

Same bar on a loop inside my skull

Same four notes chewing through the night

It never shuts up

It never shuts up

Verse 2

My coworker whistled half of it

Now I'm grinding my teeth

I bought a drone a white noise machine

The worm just harmonized underneath

It's not even a good song

That's the part that stings

A jingle for a mattress sale

Lodged in my softest things

Pre-Chorus

I could try a new key

I could move overseas

I could cut my ears off

It would hum in the surgery

Chorus

One bar on a loop inside my skull

Four notes chewing through the night

I never asked for this song

I never asked for this song

Same bar on a loop inside my skull

Same four notes chewing through the night

It never shuts up

It never shuts up

Bridge

Six-legged tenant won't pay rent

Won't sign nothing won't leave

It crawls from my ear to the crops

Eats the field eats the field

Little fucker eats the field

Chorus

One bar on a loop inside my skull

Four notes chewing through the night

I never asked for this song

I never asked for this song

Same bar on a loop inside my skull

Same four notes chewing through the night

It never shuts up

It never shuts up

Chorus

One bar on a loop inside my head

Four notes gnawing through the dark

Nobody taught me this tune

Nobody taught me this tune

Same bar on a loop inside my head

Same four notes gnawing through the dark

It won't let me sleep

It won't let me sleep