I "heard" a song in my mind two weeks before I heard it with my ears

So a few weeks ago, out of nowhere, a line of music popped into my head. Specifically: ♫ "...and everything else will be fine, fine, fine "♬. But I couldn't place the song title or artist.

I knew I've heard this song, but not for many years -- decades, even. It certainly wasn't the obvious answer (Alanis Morisette, "One Hand in My Pocket"); the songs in my head had a *very* different melody.

I tried to google the lyrics... but nothing correct came up (just Alanis and some other songs that the one in my head certainly wasn't). I even posted to r/tipofmytongue (including a short audio clip of me signing it). But to no avail -- no one interacted with my post. (Maybe I should have cross posted to a few other similar subs?)

Since I wasn't finding anything online, I thought maybe it was from something relatively obscure. Maybe an old TV commercial jingle. Or a song from an 80s or 90s kids tv show. Or like a song I sang at summer camp. Anything that maybe Google wouldn't be able to easily point to.

But it was driving me crazy! Did I make up this lyric and melody? Was my brain mushing together notes and words from a variety of songs, making some new "Frankenstein" song that only existed in my mind?

Then, a few days ago, I was at a used bookstore, and they had a copy of Cyndi Lauper's True Colors CD for $5. I said to myself, "Hey! I used to have this album on cassette! I'd love to hear it again!" So I bought the CD.

Fast forward to today -- I'm listening to the album for the first time in decades... and *there it is." Track 9: "911." The chorus goes:

I'm dialing up 911
I'm on the brink of trouble again
If you could change the time a little
Then everything else would be fine, fine, fine

What are the freaking odds that my brain would fart the memory of a line from a song that I haven't heard in probably 25+ years, and only a couple of weeks later I would buy a CD with this song on it???

And thank God I know have the answer to the mystery of what that song was.