Bones
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Songs mentioning bones, skulls, skeletons, and other related objects.
Bones[edit]
- 2082 - "Familiar posture, recast in skin and bone"
- Austin - "What're we gonna do with these bones"
- The Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space) - "Named him Copernicus and threw him a bone"
- Bone Chilling Message
- Christmas In The Big House - "I'll be digging past the bones"
- Cowtown - "Our only home is bone"
- The Famous Polka - "But when the phone inside her ribcage rings, it’s not for me"
- I Am A Paleontologist
- I Might Be Giant, Too - "Bones lain with silence"
- Impossibly New - "Made of bones and wood so ancient"
- Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine - "He stuck a gun into his ribs"
- The Mexican Drill - "We're surrounded by bones"
- Or So I Have Read - "The reason clouds are white is that they're made out of bone, and when I found out, I slapped my own face, for now I know why skeletons are up in outer space"
- Reptiles Eat With The Bones We Hear With
- Rhythm Section Want Ad - "Hats off to the new age hairstyle made of bones"
- Road Movie To Berlin - "It'll sweep up our skeleton bones"
- Sensurround - "Sensible to ear and sternum"
- Skullivan
- What You Get - "Xylophones made of bones that you loaned from a boneyard"
- You Are Old, Father William - "Yet you finish the goose, with the bones and the beak"
Skeletons[edit]
- Back In Los Angeles - "Put me down for skeleton removal"
- Erase - "The skeletons that won't stay down, the mercy skull that can't be drowned"
- Money For Dope - "Preserved barn owl skeleton"
- Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes - "And the mirror, it reflects a tiny dancing skeleton"
- Vestibule - "That my skeleton's between doors"
Skulls[edit]
- By The Time You Get This - "But our skulls are smiling still at the thought of things to come"
- Canajoharie - "This baby tooth no longer fits in my skull"
- Contrecoup
- Old Pine Box - "On your skull full of bats"
- Tesla - "Under an X-ray of Mark Twain's skull"
- This Land Is Your Land - "From the redwood forests, to the skull-and-crossbones"
- Turn Around - "There's a human skull on the ground"
- Where Your Eyes Don't Go - "Should you worry when the skullhead is in front of you?"
Spines[edit]
- I Need Some Lovin' - "Tears running down my spine"
- Letterbox - "When you took a bite out of my spine"
- Spine
- The Spine Surfs Alone
- Spines
- This Damn Band - "They're crushing my spine"
- Tractor - "And the spine of a vending machine"
- Which Describes How You're Feeling - "Even straighter than his spine"
Honorable mentions[edit]
- Back To Skull - On the cover art, a child throws a skull into the air
- Damn Good Times - Multiple skulls appear in the music video
- Experimental Film - Homestar Runner music video features a skull with arms on a penny farthing
- John Henry - Has a similar artwork as Back To Skull; features the same skull held by a child in the back cover art, and on the ground in the disc label
- Old Pine Box - Track artwork depicts a skull in a helmet
- The “2060 Comeback Tour” shirt features John Flansburgh and John Linnell in the form of skeletons holding a guitar and accordion respectively