Sometimes, songs share characteristics that cause them to blur into one another in my head.

When I woke up this morning, there was a chorus deep in my mind. When I first tried to get it to the surface, I thought it was Sting’s “Fields of Gold,” from the Ten Summoner’s Tales album. A few minutes later, though, I realized I was humming “Uptown Again” from the Afghan Whigs.

I’m not sure which of them it was I woke up with.

I think the element of these two songs that is similar is the cadence of the lyric.

With “Fields of Gold,” Sting sings the first line, “You’ll remember me … when the west wind moves … upon the fields of barley,” and it resembles the pacing of “Uptown Again” when Greg Dulli sings it: “Uptown again … nobody home … feelin’ surrounded … should never left me on my own.”

So I’ve got both songs running, in parallel, this morning. Who said I couldn’t multitask?