The Senses

Songs that mention any of the five senses.

Sight

• 32 Footsteps - "32 lies my ears never saw"
• Absolutely Bill's Mood - "Life's just a mood ring we're not allowed to see"
• The Biggest One - "I don't want to see"
• Breaking Glass - "See" is repeated throughout the song
• Certain People I Could Name - "Do I need to point or do you see the one I mean?", "You must see it too"
• Chip The CHiP - "Now the sight of him might gross you out"
• C Is For Conifers - "If you see a Christmas tree", "Or if you see a plant"
• Coffee Table Of Love - "Only you could see"
• Concrete And Clay - "You know, we'll see the mountains crumble", "I see the purple shades of evening"
• Complete Paranoia "Doesn't take a millionaire to see"
• Cowtown - "I'm gonna see the cow beneath the sea"
• Creepy - "She wants to see me again"
• Critic Intro - "What you are about to see is real."
• Darling, The Dose - "No antidote in sight"
• Daylight - "While your eyes strain to see the air"
• Dead - "I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed"
• Destination Moon - "But you see'
• Dig My Grave - "Every time I look in your eyes / I see St. Peter wave"
• Dirt Bike - "You see"
• Diving Board - "He doesn't need to see or touch"
• The End Of The Tour - "I can see myself"
• Fibber Island - "You just close your eyes / Start fibbing in your mind / And see what you can find", "You might need to stare / To see the mittens in our hair"
• Finished With Lies - "They'll see when they look inside", "Can't you see"
• Headless - "But will I see you tonight?"
• Hello Hello - "Although you didn't see me at all?"
• Hot Cha - "Everybody's eyes are closed / I can't see why I miss you so"
• I Can't Remember The Dream - "When I'm awake and I look around me / I can faithfully record everything that I see", "When I'm awake I note all that I see"
• I C U - The letters phonetically spell out "I see you"
• Idlewild - "See the sideshow at Steeplechase Park"
• I Left My Body - "I don’t see anyone"
• I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You - "Now I see that love is all that I'm thinking of"
• I'm Your Boyfriend Now - "I can see it in your eyes"
• Indiana Wants Me - "It hurts to see the man that I've become", "I'll never see the mornin' sun", etc.
• In The Middle, In The Middle, In The Middle - "Use your eyes to look up!", "Until you see the light turn green"
• I Palindrome I - "See that bulletproof dress hanging from the clothesline", "See the medical chart with the random zig-zag", etc.
• It's Not My Birthday - "I'll never see that recipe again"
• I've Been Seeing Things
• Larger Than Life - "You see she's actual size"
• Lazyhead And Sleepybones - "They're too tired to see"
• Louisiana - "They've pulled the wool down over me and I can't see"
• Love Is Eternity - "You see"
• Maine - "I can see you as you aren't"
• Marty Beller Mask - "I can see you through the eye holes of my Marty Beller mask"
• McGyver - "Man, if you can't see, I guess you must be goin' blind"
• Memphis - "I'm going to blind myself tonight so the image I will always retain is of the Gibson Lounge", "When I get my sight back I'll redecorate my living room exactly like it"
• Monsters Of Mud - "Everyone you'd see was so well scrubbed"
• Mrs. Train - "I don't want to be first in line to see Mrs. Train", "I've never seen a train like this before", etc.
• My Brother The Ape - "The sight of everybody stiffly posing under one tent"
• My Evil Twin "My friends have seen him hiding"
• Narrow Your Eyes
• New York City - "The streets are paved with diamonds and there's just so much to see"
• No One Knows My Plan - "I can see that now"
• Now Is Strange - "Have you seen that naughty boy", "Do you see that scribbled word?"
• Now That I Have Everything - "I would have to wait and see"
• Prevenge - "See Pupkin take the stand"
• Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - "I'll see you in church", "I'll see you after school"
• See The Constellation
• S-E-X-X-Y - "Secret agent spy, come to see why"
• Something You'd Like To See
• Save Your Life - "You like what you see", "I've seen this sort before"
• A Self Called Nowhere - "You can't see it there."
• Sensurround - "She might have gone to see Jaws"
• Sleepwalkers - "See them over there / See them moving down the road", "You'll recognize them when you see", "They don't see you"
• Snail Shell - "You see"
• Spiraling Shape - "Everyone wants to see that groovy thing"
• Spy - "I see you from my spy plane, baby", "I see you walking on the ground", etc.
• Stand On Your Own Head - “I see smoke signals coming from them”
• Subliminal - "Hard to see"
• The Statue Got Me High - "Now I see the things the stone has shown to me"
• They'll Need A Crane - "Love sees love's happiness / But happiness can't see that love is sad", "To see a world apart from pain"
• Thunderbird - "You can't see heaven when you're standing tall"
• Till My Head Falls Off - "I see stuff through the glass that I don't recognize at all", "I see a broken figure silhouetted on the wall"
• Triops Has Three Eyes
• Twisting - "She wants to see you again"
• Upside Down Frown - "Are your eyes playing tricks?/Or should you get your glasses fixed?/Well I don't think you're eyesight is to blame."
• Vancouver - "The kind you see in pictures"
• Where Your Eyes Don't Go
• Whole Lot Of Glean - "Keep our objectives in sight"
• Why Does The Sun Shine? - "And even when it's out of sight, the sun shines night and day."
• The World's Address - "I can see your secrets", "Under every garment I can see the world's address"
• You Don't Like Me - "I can see how it is", "I can see the future"

Hearing

• 32 Footsteps - "32 lies my ears never saw when the floorboard gave way"
• Ana Ng - "Listen, Ana, hear my words," "And in back of the edge of hearing"
• Absolutely Bill's Mood - Auditory hallucinations - "There's someone always calling my name"
• Backstabbing Liar - "Hear the scream that the turning subway made, hear the screams of the people in your way."
• The Bells Are Ringing - "They hear the instructions, etc."
• Birdhouse In Your Soul - "So the room must listen to me"
• Butcher's Tale - "But the preacher doesn't hear these guns"
• Cage & Aquarium - "Then you hear a moment too late"
• Car Alarms - "We can't hear your car alarms"
• The Communists Have The Music
• Distant Antenna - "Finally free, they hear and understand."
• Doctor Worm - "I can’t hear the doorbell"
• Everything Right Is Wrong Again - "I know you’ve heard the voice"
• Hearing Aid
• I Can Hear You
• I Hear A New World
• I Hear The Wind Blow
• I Heard A Sound
• I'm All You Can Think About - "Every song you hear reminds you of me as well"
• In The Middle, In The Middle, In The Middle - "Use your ears to hear"
• Lullaby To Nightmares - "Have you ever heard the blackbird's song"
• Man, It's So Loud In Here
• Maybe I Know - "I hear them whispering as I walk by"
• No Stopping A Unicorn - "I know you hear them say"
• Now Is Strange - "Do you hear the wind whispering?"
• Number Two - "Two ears on your head, so you can hear when I'm talkin'"
• Reptiles Eat With The Bones We Hear With
• Santa's Beard "She kissed him once and whispered in his ear"
• See The Constellation "Can you hear what I see in the sky?"
• Sensurround
• Share A Story - "Hey kids and parents, try to listen"
• She's An Angel - "When they sing, you can’t hear"
• Spiraling Shape - "Listen to this warning"
• The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) - "I can't hear the guitar"
• They Got Lost - "They can hear her say their name on the car radio"
• Tippecanoe And Tyler Too - "Oh who has heard the great commotion"
• Unsupervised, I Hit My Head - "I hear the phone ring"

Smell

• Atlanta - "An antiseptic smell"
• Burning Coffee - "Does anybody here smell something burning?"
• Charlottesville - "Hey, what's that smell?"
• Diving Board - "The diving board can smell the pool"
• Don't Let's Start - "Wake up and smell the cat food"
• House of Mayors - "Though the room has a faintly musty smell"
• I'm All You Can Think About - “Everything you smell...”
• I've Got A Match - “The smell of love is everywhere"
• No One Knows My Plan - "Why the smell of burning autumn leaves"
• Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes - "And nothing's smelling like a rose"
• Or So I Have Read - "Animals can smell your dreams"
• Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - "The burn-smell factory"
• Smells Like Teen Spirit
• The House At The Top Of The Tree - "And the mouse in the woods has a smell that's detected / By the nose at the end of a snout of a dog"
• Wait Actually Yeah No - "Odorless guitar chord"

Touch

• Brain Problem Situation - "We touch our nose"
• Dimension Six Rock - "Bend down to touch your toes"
• Diving Board - "He doesn't need to see or touch"
• Everything Right Is Wrong Again - "Wake me when it's over, touch my face"
• I've Got A Match - "I'm gonna die if you touch me one more time"
• Nice Is Good, Mean Is Bad - "Pet my fur, touch my tail / I need you to touch my fur / And to touch my tail"
• Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - "Touch the puppet head"
• When Will You Die - "You wreck everything you touch"

Taste

• Dan Vs. Cog - "He's a thirsty drummer with a taste for human beats"
• John Lee Supertaster
• People Are Wrong - "This is just a taste"
• Savoy Truffle - "I feel your taste all the time we're apart"
• Taste The Bass
• Taste The Fame
• Trucker's Coffee - "We might get a taste of some hippie brew"
• Turtle Songs Of North America - "The blinding taste of sunlight on the hood of a truck"
• We've Got A World That Swings - "Still the taste of wine"
• Words Are Like - "The taste of soap"