| "Lay Me Down" | ||||
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| Single by The Dirty Heads | ||||
| from the album Any Port in a Storm | ||||
| Released | 2010 | |||
| Format | Digital download | |||
| Genre | Reggae rock Acoustic rock Rap rock |
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| Length | 3:35 | |||
| Label | Fontana/Universal | |||
| Writer(s) | The Dirty Heads, Rome Ramirez | |||
| Producer | The Dirty Heads, Rome Ramirez, Lewis Richards | |||
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"Lay Me Down" is a 2010 single by reggae-rock band The Dirty Heads featuring Rome Ramirez of Sublime with Rome. The song appears on the band's album Any Port in a Storm (Special Edition), and has peaked at #1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart.
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Billboard's Connor McKnight wrote in April 2010 that the song is a "solid contender" for song of the summer.[1] McKnight compared the song's opening to that of "Hope" by Jack Johnson, and said the song "lifts the energy with chugging guitar riffs, a freewheeling chorus and feel-good lyrics delivered with rhythmic punch".[1] David Hall of The Orange County Register listed it among the band's "positively charged, island-influenced tunes ... which ride on the coattails of similar acts like 311 and Slightly Stoopid".[2] The song was included on Rolling Stone's "Hot List" in early 2010.[3] In March, the single entered the Billboard Alternative Songs chart at number 24.[4] It reached number one in May,[4] and nine weeks later it established a record as the song with the longest stint atop the chart for an independently released title, surpassing the previous mark set in 1999 by Everlast's "What It's Like".[5] "Lay Me Down" peaked at number 93 on the U.S. Hot 100 and number 76 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart.[4] The Dirty Heads performed the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on May 13.[6]
| Chart (2010) | Peak position[4] |
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| Canadian Hot 100[7] | 76 |
| U.S. Billboard Hot 100[8] | 93 |
| U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs[9] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Rock Songs[10] | 1 |
| U.S. Billboard Adult Pop Songs[11] | 37 |
The song contains the line "You're my green eyed girl" a reference to the western film 3:10 to Yuma in which the main villain has an affinity for women with green eyes.