SOLVED: Dark mid or late 90s song (I think) that ends with a female humming

As the title suggests, I'm looking for a song that I heard in the mid to late 90s which ends with a female vocalist humming. I wouldn't be able to totally explain the hum, but if I were to try to spell it out it might look like this:

Hmm hm-hmmmmmm hmm-hm,

Hmm hm-hmmmmmm hmm-hm

I don't know how to write music or scales but the first three hms, including the long one, start pretty low and go a little upwards in pitch, then drop, then go up again. Sort of like "one two threeeee, one three, one two threeee, one three".


My memory is that it's a haunting song, or at least that hum at the end (which I think might also be the chorus) is. I'm almost totally sure that the song is not rap, hip-hop or metal but likely alternative. The hum suggested dark, morose subject matter.

The only other thing I can think to compare it to is The Memory Remains and Not An Addict. It's neither of those, but the humming parts of those songs kind of resemble it.

May be something by Natalie Merchant, Alanis Morissette, Dido or Edie Brickell?

Hmm, those are some good names to start with. I'm not sure about Alanis or Dido (unless they've got some more "serious" stuff that I wasn't familiar with) but Natalie Merchant strikes me as a possibility.

I've checked a bunch of songs by those artists and keep coming up empty.

Maybe this song:

"Zombie" by The Cranberries
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts

Hmmm, you never know: Enya - Boadicea .

Originally Posted by RobbyT

Hmmm, you never know: Enya - Boadicea .

Yes!!! This is the song!!! It's funny, I tried quite a few by Enya and didn't find anything similar. I started to check her off the list because I figured "her songs are fluffy and uplifting, it's obviously not one of hers". Turns out that's exactly what it was. Thank you all for trying to help, and thank you in particular Robby for providing the answer I was looking for!

You are welcome, glad you found it :-)