I Palindrome I

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song name	I Palindrome I
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	Apollo 18, I Palindrome I (EP), Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants, A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants: Melody, Fidelity, Quantity
year	1992
first played	Feb. 1, 1992 (132 known performances)
run time	2:22
sung by	John Linnell; John Flansburgh sings backgrounds, including all letter-palindromes.

"Son I am able she said, though you scare me. Watch, said I, beloved, I said, watch me scare you though. Said she, able am I, Son." is a palindrome which uses words as units instead of letters. Speaking in a literary sense, this configuration of wording is called chiasmus.
Palindromes include "Man o nam" and the classic palindrome, "Egad, a base tone denotes a bad age".
Michael McKean read this songs lyrics like a poem in the extras of Gigantic
The length of this track is 2:22, which is a palindrome itself.
Flans often apologizes to his mother before playing this song at live concerts.
Linnell reports on WNYC in May 2001 that he wrote this after attending a poetry reading by Hal Sirowitz. Sirowitz is known for his book of dark verse called, "Mother Said."

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