Body Parts
From This Might Be A Wiki
Songs mentioning different parts of the body. Heads and other common body part themes have their own pages.
Central theme
- The Bloodmobile - Heart, lungs, small intestine, limbs, liver, kidney.
- Brain Problem Situation
- Chess Piece Face
- Contrecoup - Details a type of brain injury
- Don't Break The Heart
- Heart Of The Band
- Haunted Floating Eye
- I've Got A Fang
- Montana - "Montana was a leg"
- My Man
- Narrow Your Eyes
- Nothing's Gonna Change My Clothes - "Protective rubber skin", "Dancing skeleton". Also the "furry hat", "elastic mask" and the "marble dice" might be hair, skin and eyes
- Number Two - "Two arms to hold ya, two legs for walkin'", as well as ears, feet, hands, eyes, hips, lips, knees, shoulders, and cheeks
- Pleather - "The backs of my legs sticking to the Pleather"
- President's Daughter
- Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head
- Reptiles Eat With The Bones We Hear With
- Shoehorn With Teeth
- Somebody Took My Eyeball
- Triops Has Three Eyes - Eyes and legs
- You Are Old, Father William - Brain, limbs, jaw, eyes
Briefly mentioned
- 2082 - "Familiar posture, recast in skin and bone", "As the ancient one cranes his head to look, you see his hand's been replaced with a hook"
- The Army's Tired Now - "Tired of swinging its giant arms"
- Austin - "What're we gonna do with these bones?"
- Authenticity Trip - "I just wanted my big toe in the soft, soft sand/Now I'm neck deep in the quick, quick"
- Bangs - "I'm only holding your hand so I can look at your bangs"
- Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth - "He's got bugness in his veins", "thoughtful human brains"
- Birds Fly - "And cats dance under my feet"
- The Bloodboat - "A boat is like a beating heart"
- Canajoharie - "Grabbed me by my arm"
- Cast Your Pod To The Wind - "Extend your limbs"
- Cloisonné - "Giving me back rubs", "That's your heart attack"
- Coffee Table Of Love - "... on your arm"
- Concrete And Clay - "The concrete and the clay beneath my feet", "You're in my arms so tenderly"
- Doom Doom - "And its pointed at your eyesocket", "With a cap for your brain pocket", "Put your thumb in the wall socket"
- Other Father Song- "She's as cute as a button in the eyes of everyone who ever laid their eyes on Coraline"
- Countdown Intro - "Your ten fingers reach into the air", "You wiggle your nine toes in anticipation."
- Cupid - "Why, I'd... break his legs!"
- Destination Moon - "Hanging down the leg"
- The Devil Went Down To Newport - "Satan was hindered by his cloven feet"
- Dinner Bell - "Shoulder, bicep, elbow, arm. Forearm, thumb, wrist, knuckle, palm. Middle, pinky, index, ring."
- Don't Let's Start - "Don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound"
- The Everlasting Vibe - "We'll wave our arms and cry"
- Experimental Film - "face implodes"
- Feign Amnesia - "Hers are the brains"
- Four Of Two (Demo) - "Like stare at the wall and grind my teeth", "I put my hands around my neck and started to strangle myself", "And my breathing ceased and my heart no longer beat, my eyes stayed open lifelessly"
- Get By With A Little Help - "I promise not to have stinky feet"
- Hot Cha - "Everybody's eyes are closed"
- How Much Cake Can You Eat? - "Are you sitting on your feet?"
- How Now Dark Cloud? - "I got a lazy eye"
- I Am A Paleontologist - Fossilized jaws and wings and bony things
- I Wanna Be Sedated - "I can't control my fingers, I can't control my brain"
- I'm Impressed - "When that gorilla beats his chest"
- In The Middle, In The Middle, In The Middle - "Use your eyes to look up, use your ears to hear"
- Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Brownsville Mix) - "White tornado my foot"
- Kids Go! - "Move your legs and raise up both of your arms", "Stand on one leg and then stand on the other leg and then pick up both legs"
- The King Of Wingo - "It was conflicted by two contrary hearts"
- The Lady And The Tiger - "Do you surmise it's wise to have laser beams emitting from your eyes?"
- Louisiana - "I know you're out there with your hands around my neck"
- Maine - "Relaxing on my hands and knees / Relaxing on my face"
- Marshie - "Don't you have any legs?"
- Michigan - "We must eat Michigan's brains"
- New Haven - "Flies hangin' out on my tongue thing"
- Ooh La! Ooh La! - "Stick out your tongue and wiggle like a noodle"
- Reprehensible - "When morning comes at last I rub my eyes"
- Santa Cruz - "It doesn't cost anything to poke your eye out"
- Save Your Life - "And wipe that smile from your eyes"
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future - "She shot the beam of a laser into my heart"
- Spoiler Alert - "My leg is so short that I can't reach the break", "It's like I've got two extra pairs of hands... one to cover my eyes", "Maybe I should lie back and cover my eyes"
- The Statue Got Me High - "The monument of granite sent a beam into my eye"
- Steps - "My elbows up high"
- They'll Need A Crane - "To mend her heart"
- Thunderbird - "Man o man my throat is dry"
- Tiny Doctors - "Swimming in my veins"
- Too Plus 3 R One - "Get underneath my massive brain"
- Towson - "I slammed my finger in the car door by accident", "My leg is in a bear trap"
- Tryptophane- "By the leg of the bird"
- Unrelated Thing - "Please explain the expression on your face"
- Vestibule - "That my skeleton's between doors"
- Welcome 2 Hell - "Right between the eyes"
- We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime - "Different from the eyebrows up"
- Withered Hope - "And he cut out a paper heart, pinned it to his arm"
- Your Own Worst Enemy - "I get paid in the brain"
Honorable mention
- Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants - The cover shows an ant on a finger
- Man, It's So Loud In Here (EP) - Cover art features an exploded diagram of a mannequin, showing how the parts fit together.
