Link → Exploring Love, Loss and Absurdity Through the Lens of the Body (or Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes)
- Lee
Given Theme:
cause you need to be back
In the arms of a good friend
And I need to be back
In the arms of a girlfriend
- Matthew Sweet, “Girlfriend”
How I Subverted It: Maybe it’s the title, a single line, or the concept, but all these songs deal with body parts. Like arms. Maybe the arms of a good friend. Maybe the arms of a girlfriend.
“In Your Arms Tonight” – Hedwig and the Angry Inch
This is the substantial link to the original theme. After this it starts getting sketch. Really sketch.
“Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” – Stars
The scar is a fleck on my porcelain skin…
“Those Three Days” – Lucinda Williams
Bite through flesh down to the bone…
“Acid Tongue” – Jenny Lewis
So I found myself a sweetheart with the softest of hands…
“Shot in the Arm” – Wilco
Something in my veins bloodier than blood…
“King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1” – Neutral Milk Hotel
Your mom would stick a fork right into daddy’s shoulder…
“Feetlips” – Andrew Bird
Feetlips!
“Death at One’s Elbow” – The Smiths
Because there’s somebody here who’ll take a hatchet to your ear…
“Between My Legs” – Rufus Wainwright
And I’ll shed a tear between my legs…
“Way Over Yonder in a Minor Key” – Billy Bragg and Wilco
She said it’s hard for me to see how one little boy got so ugly…
Everybody Here Wants You – Jeff Buckley
Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss, a singing smile…
“Lover’s Spit” – Feist
They listen to teeth to learn how to quit…
“My Hips Don’t Lie” – Shakira
So be wise and keep on reading the signs of my body…
