through one's head
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Most of all, one is reminded, with the score of “Hamilton” running relentlessly through one’s head, that all of the players in this drama are again alive because a remarkable artist made them live again.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 10, 2016
Yes, the new popular song with the taking melody sings through one's head day and night, asleep and awake, till one is a wreck.
From What Is Man? and Other Essays by Twain, Mark
Especially if one has a helpful lilt, rhythmic to dust-cloth's stroke or needle's swing, throbbing like a strain of music through one's head: Cosmos—Cosmos!—Cosmos—Cosmos!
From Missy by Gatlin, Dana
They were like the streams of silly words that run through one's head in a fever, or half-way along the road to sleep; and it was an eternity before they meant anything.
From The Professor's Mystery by Hastings, Wells
What a plague it sometimes is to be hag-ridden by a tune, racing through one's head, with a never-ending always-beginningness, as though a thousand imps were singing it in one's ears.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
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