Do you know? Do you know how it feels to not know this?

June 6, 2008 2:08 PM

Song in my head for days, sounds very nineties. Singer is female, chorus something like "Do you know/do you know how it feels to be lonely? Do you know/do you know how it feels to be (small?)" No luck with Google. Help?
posted by juniper to Media & Arts (11 answers total)

It isn't Robyn - Do you know what it takes, is it?
posted by OLechat at 2:12 PM on June 6, 2008

This is how it feels by the Inspiral Carpets.
posted by gyusan at 2:17 PM on June 6, 2008

I'm with gyusan. Definitely sounds like This is how it feels.
posted by Jakey at 2:19 PM on June 6, 2008

Response by poster: Oh, so similar (Inspiral Carpets) but not it. Female singer somewhere in the realm of the Sundays.
posted by juniper at 2:22 PM on June 6, 2008

A bit obvious, but it's not Madonna's What It Feels Like for a Girl, is it?
posted by wemayfreeze at 4:47 PM on June 6, 2008

Could it be a cover of Gram Parson's Do You Know How it Feels to be Lonesome"?
posted by david1230 at 6:28 PM on June 6, 2008

Well I really only know the Sundays from that one big hit they had, but might this be it? (To me she sounds more like PJ Harvey, but as I said I'm not up on the Sundays, so maybe it sounds like them, too.)
posted by oddman at 7:21 PM on June 6, 2008

Wait, are we just suggesting songs that happen to have "lonely" in the title? 'Cause I know what mine would be.
posted by intermod at 9:13 PM on June 6, 2008

Response by poster: Heh. Yeah, none of these win.
posted by juniper at 10:40 AM on June 7, 2008

How about Cowboy Junkies "Now I Know" (you can hear the first 30 seconds on this page)? Doesn't even have "lonely" in it, but a similar rhythm to the lines and mid-90's woman singer.
posted by hydropsyche at 12:50 PM on June 7, 2008

Response by poster: Noooo. More dreampoppy and upbeat (despite the lyrics.) I didn't make it up, I swear.
posted by juniper at 12:52 PM on June 8, 2008