Lay Me Down (The Dirty Heads song)

"Lay Me Down"
Promotional CD cover.
Single by The Dirty Heads featuring Rome Ramirez
from the album Any Port in a Storm
Released	March 23, 2010
Format	Digital download
Recorded	2009
Length	3:35
Label	Fontana/Universal
Writer(s)	The Dirty Heads, Rome Ramirez
Producer(s)	The Dirty Heads, Rome Ramirez, Lewis Richards
The Dirty Heads singles chronology
"Stand Tall" (2008) "Lay Me Down" (2010) "Check the Level" (2010)

"Lay Me Down" is a 2010 single by reggae rock band The Dirty Heads featuring Rome Ramirez of Sublime with Rome. The song appears as a bonus track on the band's album Any Port in a Storm, and has peaked at number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart.

Billboard's Connor McKnight wrote in April 2010 that the song is a "solid contender" for song of the summer. 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". 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". The song was included on Rolling Stone's "Hot List" in early 2010.

In March, the single entered the Billboard Alternative Songs chart at number 24. It reached number one in May, 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". "Lay Me Down" peaked at number 93 on the U.S. Hot 100 and number 76 on the Canadian Hot 100 chart. The Dirty Heads performed the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on May 13.