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ELI5: What is happening in my brain when I'm trying to remember something and I feel myself getting close?

I was trying to remember a song lyric. Typically I take moments like these as a challenge, refusing to look it up until I'm absolutely frustrated. When I get close I can often sense that I'm right on the edge of remembering. What is happening cognitively? Or am I just weird?
gpt
Memory is really complicated and we still don't really fully understand the process.

To our knowledge what is happening is, when your brain receives a cue it will pull out information relating to that cue that it received. When you get something "on the tip of your tongue" it is usually due to an inadequate mental cue to retrieve the information you are looking for.