I need to know what song this is

[Anakin McFly]

Heard this song playing in a mall and decided to google the lyrics because it sounded like some boyband (McFly, whom I listened to purely for the name ) and I wanted to check if I was right, only to realize that Google turned up nothing. NOTHING. And then I got extremely curious and it's driving me crazy, because I've definitely heard it around before and it's not some obscure song. Chorus lyrics I managed to catch:

Youuuu are my shining star
My everything you are
No matter near or far
You're the reason I don't need to leave the light on

Chances are that I misheard some of that, hence the Google searching failure. But now I just need to know what this bloody song is and why I can't find it by googling.

[Unvoiced_Apollo]

Female or male performance?

[Islandmur]

The lyrics are familiar but I can't seem to place them, did you try googling the lyrics you have?

[Derived Absurdity]

You're obviously hallucinating.

[Whitey]

He mentioned googling it like 3 times

[Islandmur]

Yikkes must have missed that part sorry!

[Whitey]

I had to go back and double check that he had in fact mentioned that and that I hadn't made it up!

[Anakin McFly]

Male performer(s?). Boyband type; either late teens or early twenties. It had a nice chord progression.

[Blade Azaezel]

[Anakin McFly]

Nope. That was one of the first I saw.

In all my googling, the only success I had was someone on yahoo answers asking the same question in my OP. Someone answered. It was also wrong.

[CashRules]

[Anakin McFly]

Nope.

[Dr_Liszt]

I tried looking for your song. I second the hallucination part.

Well I found a Backstreet boys one, and a Owl City one and one obscure band one, but I think none of those are the one.

[CashRules]

This was obviously a dream.

[Anakin McFly]

Wait, what's the Owl City one and the obscure band one?

[Dr_Liszt]

I don't think they are it. Because of the lyrics you posted. Also the Owl City one was a typo.

[Anakin McFly]

Nope.

Glitch in the Matrix, then.

[Boomer]

Was it a slow song, or a fast song?

[Dr_Liszt]

If you hum it.

I'll give you extra points.

[Anakin McFly]

It's fairly fast-paced.

I have a music composition program at home. When I'm home from work I'll plug in the chorus and post it here, probably with the countermelody as well.

I probably have some of the lyrics wrong, which is the only possible explanation for this, other than the universe messing with my head.

[Dr_Liszt]

Yeah, if you do that, there's an app that can id songs. So maybe try that??

[Dr_Liszt]

I think this one is awesome. I know it's not it but whatever.

[Boomer]

Maybe an Earth, Wind, and Fire cover?

[Dr_Liszt]

There are a shiton of covers of that song. So maybe that's what he heard.

[Anakin McFly]

Nope, not those either. This is insane.

[Anakin McFly]

IT PLAYED AGAIN AND THIS TIME I RECORDED IT WITH MY IPHONE

http://vocaroo.com/i/s13HjJkQ7kaa

[Whitey]

Have you tried the Shazam app? If you hear it again it might be able to find out what it is. I tried the app with the recording but it didn't work.

[Anakin McFly]

But then I'd be some crazy person hanging around Uniqlo with my phone at the ready, waiting for a song to play.

I'm just utterly baffled that Google isn't turning up anything. I have never had this happen with a song before, even fairly obscure ones, and this one can't be obscure because it was playing alongside famous catchy pop songs.

[Dr_Liszt]

So what happened is, the song died before it got released so its spirit is now haunting the mall. That's why you can't find it on google, if you don't find it on google, then it doesn't exist. Simple.

You just recorded a supernatural incident, my friend, note how it even sounds like it comes from the nether underworld. I recommend an exorcism.

[Derived Absurdity]

^ That is literally more likely than Google not being able to find song lyrics.

[Anakin McFly]

This sounds like the beginning of a great horror thriller.

[Dr_Liszt]

Or... well.. could be one of those songs made specially to advertise something. Like one of my friends bought a cd from the radio and inside there was a song that was made for the station. So maybe it's a special store song, that's why NO ONE has it. Maybe ask the staff next time?

Yes, this song is bothering me a bit too. DAMN YOU!

[Anakin McFly]

8D

I doubt it's a store song. I know I've heard it before, possibly on Spotify or something (so I've been trying to play stuff from there in hopes it might come up and I can solve the mystery at last.)

Maybe this is all a conspiracy. some marketing tactic to remove all traces of the song from google, drive people crazy and ensure they will never forget it.

srsly, the only positive search result I found was from someone else asking what song it was, 6 years ago. So I guess that sort of narrows down the time period. But Google has never failed me before. I have a habit of randomly googling song lyrics to identify songs I hear, and this is the first time it's turned up nothing. This will bother me forever.

[Boomer]

This is really bizarre.

[phe_de]

It is indeed bizarre.

I played your recording to both SoundHound and Shazam, and they both failed to identify it.
Maybe it's a local band only known in your area.
Or maybe the recording quality was not good enough for my smartphone apps.

[Anakin McFly]

It's definitely not a local band. Very likely a recording quality issue, because the sound is crap.