Heads

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Heads seem to be a recurring theme in TMBG songs.

1 Central theme
2 Briefly mentioned
3 Honorable mentions
4 See also

[edit] Central theme

Asbury Park - "I got kicked in the head"'
Bangs
Contrecoup
Hall Of Heads
Headless
I Am A Human Head
Mrs. Train - "I don't want to be first in line to see the missing head"
My Man - The brain can't give signals, and the brain is in the head.
Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head
Stand On Your Own Head
There's A Light Coming Out Of My Head
Till My Head Falls Off
Turn Around - "There's a human skull on the ground" (see also Skulls)
Unsupervised, I Hit My Head
We Want A Rock - Second half is about foreheads (prosthetic ones, at least... see also Artificial Body Parts)

[edit] Briefly mentioned

A Self Called Nowhere - "The sunken head that lies in the bed"
Am I Awake? - "Something else besides my hair is growning from my head.."
Ant - The ant crawled into the person's head.
Anyone Can Fill My Shoes - "She'll pick a partner and turn his head around"
The Bells Are Ringing - "They tilt their heads so they won't miss what it will say"
The Big Big Whoredom - "There's plenty more heads of hair for us out there"
Certain People I Could Name - "Count the arms, the legs and heads, and then divide by five"
Dead - "Did a large procession wave their torches as my head fell in the basket"
Experimental Film - "I already know the ending it's / the part that makes your face implode"
Finished With Lies - "I should have my head examined"
Flying V - "You've got to tilt your head to see"
Four Of Two - "I lay my head down on the sidewalk"
The House At The Top Of The Tree-"Dog with his head out the window"
House Of Mayors - "And turn their heads and blink their eyes"
I Palindrome I - "I am a snake head eating the head on the opposite side"
I'm Impressed - "My head's nodding 'yes'"
I'm Your Boyfriend Now - "listening to voices in my head"
I've Got A Fang - "Her head exploded like a atom bomb"
Lazyhead And Sleepybones - Lazyhead
Letterbox - "If I had a pair of eyes in the back of my head for each time"
Mink Car - "It's all in your head"
Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon - "Fire alarms go off in your head"
Number Two - "Two ears on your head, so you can hear when I'm talkin'"
Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes - "Their heads are caving in"
Particle Man - "Hit on the head with a frying pan"
Pencil Rain - "Now helmets on each head"
Prevenge - "On the headfo"
Rhythm Section Want Ad - "The New Age hairstyle made of bones" sounds like a reference to skulls, unless this is some bit of cultural minutae I'm not up on....
Robot Design - "Rest your head on the chopping block"
Rocket Ship - "Head in the way of the viewers"
Sally Boy Candy Bar - "Ya got a heart for a head"
Savoy Truffle - "The sweat is going to fill your head"
S-E-X-X-Y - "Wig on her head"
See The Constellation - "I lay my head on the railroad track"
Sensurround- "When I was only a zygote, I still remember the time... when there was nothing to know or to think about except the sound of my mind."
Sketchy Galore - "Sketchy Galore is scratching his head with a flashlight"
Sleeping In The Flowers - "He showed me how to spin my head round and round"
Somebody's Body - "What's the writing on your forehead say?"
Someone Keeps Moving My Chair - "...on the back of your head?"
South Carolina - "It crushed my head"
Tucson - "No head on my body"
Violin - "George Washington's head"
What Bothers The Spaceman - "The teeth in his head"
When Tornadoes Take Over The World - "Your friends will be swirling right above your disembodied head"
Where Your Eyes Don't Go - "There's a pair of eyes in back of your head", "When the skull head is in front of you"
Whistling In The Dark - "And hit my head on the wall of the jail"
Withered Hope - "Gave her everything he was holding in his head"
Your Racist Friend - "My head can't tolerate this bobbin' and pretendin'", "Listen to some bullet-head and the madness that he's sayin'"

[edit] Honorable mentions

John Henry and Back To Skull album covers.
She Thinks She's Edith Head - the song is about Edith Head, the person, not Edith's head, so including it may be considered cheating....

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