8 'shadow' songs we hope the Groundhog puts on his playlist this winter

We're kicking off this playlist with epic violinist Lindsey Stirling who, in the video for her single "Shadows," looks around anxiously as if she herself was about to emerge from a hole with word of wintry weather. Come to think of it, if this winter doesn't let up, we're going to have the same feelings.

"Sometimes solutions aren't so simple..." but don't tell that to the hogs. Still, one of the most touching tracks from rockers Linkin Park, taken from the band's 2007 release Minutes To Midnight, would surely be a favorite. We'd like to think Punxutawney Phil is headbanging to some Linkin Park down below the ground.

You (and the Groundhogs) know this 2019 banger from Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, and Iro from NBC's SONGLAND. "What I am looking for is something that inspires me, that pushes me creatively, that thing that is just so good that the pen starts moving itself," Macklemore said during the episode, and that's exactly what he got.

Yes, Enya had more than one song, although "Orinoco Flow" is also probably on the Groundhog's playlist. Soooo soothing when played underground! If this song doesn't elicit feelings of warmth and sunshine, well, maybe six more weeks of winter are in order.

"I run four deep -- me, myself and I and plus my shadow." If there was a walk-on song for the Groundhog, Atlanta rapper Gucci Mane's "My Shadow" is it, hands down. "When I have no one to talk to, I talk to my shadow!"

Before joining the Foo Fighters, bassist Nate Mendel (and former Foo drummer William Goldsmith) had a little emo band from Seattle called Sunny Day Real Estate. Ask your grandparents, they were the bees knees. Even the Groundhogs like a little sweater-biting breakdown.

"To the center of the city where all roads meet, waiting for you..." Salford lads Joy Division (later New Order), fronted by the late Ian Curtis, likely had no inkling of the odd seasonal celebration of the Groundhog, but they sure did sum up the festivities in the first line of this 1979 classic.

"I know I got a problem, but you know what they say... Smoke 'em if you got 'em." Country star Brett Eldredge has a dark side and he's not sure he can take no more. Maybe Punxutawney Phil could take a cue from Eldredge and step out into the light!

"Okay, campers, rise and shine, and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooold out there today!" It's not Groundhog Day if there's no POLKA! Frank Yankovic's "Pennsylvania Polka" was made famous (over, and over, and over again) in the 1993 Bill Murray flick, Groundhog Day. Let's POLKA!