Body Parts

Songs mentioning different parts of the body (heads and other common body part themes have their own pages).

Central theme

• 3 Chords, 2 Teeth, 1 Eye
• The Bloodmobile - Heart, lungs, small intestine, limbs, liver, kidney
• Brain Problem Situation
• Chess Piece Face
• Chip The CHiP - "If you drive too fast he'll eat your face", etc.; "Life in prison would be better than the teeth / Of the CHiP"; "...wait for his skin to regenerate", "So if your eye offends you poke it out"
• Clap Your Hands
• Contrecoup - Details a type of brain injury
• Don't Break The Heart
• Good To Be Alive - The narrator contemplates his mind, hands, eyes, and legs after waking up
• Heart Of The Band
• Haunted Floating Eye
• I Am A Human Head
• I Can't Hide From My Mind
• I Left My Body
• I've Got A Fang
• Montana - "Montana was a leg"
• My Man
• Narrow Your Eyes
• The Neck Rolls Aren't Working
• 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
• Plain As The Lie On Your Lips - also, mouth and heart
• Pleather - "The backs of my legs sticking to the Pleather"
• President's Daughter - "She's got a brain! / Let's take it out!"
• Push Back The Hands
• Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head
• Reptiles Eat With The Bones We Hear With
• Shoehorn With Teeth
• Sold My Mind to The Kremlin
• Somebody Took My Eyeball
• Something Grabbed Ahold Of My Hand
• Stand On Your Own Head
• Till My Head Falls Off
• Upside Down Frown - All about the narrator's face--i.e., "But there's something about my face / That always keeps you coming back"
• Where Your Eyes Don't Go
• You Are Old, Father William - Brain, limbs, jaw, eyes
• You Probably Get That A Lot - Head

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"
• Alarm Clock Catastrophe - "I think I pulled a hammy"
• All The Lazy Boyfriends - "Hands in your pockets"
• The Army's Tired Now - "Tired of swinging its giant arms"
• Answer - "Your heart refilled"
• 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"
• The Bells Are Ringing - "Everyone's walking / With arms extended in a trance", "A girl with cotton in her ears", "One thousand eyes are staring"
• Birds Fly - "Hanging on my arm", "And cats dance under my feet"
• The Bloodboat - "A boat is like a beating heart"
• Brainwashing Our Fighting Boys - "This nation stands / With its arms akimbo / Our little legs are danglin' / It's upon its big toe"
• The Bright Side - "The bright side is blinding our eyes"
• Brontosaurus - "I went and stuck my neck out", "Who would have believed skin could be so porous?"
• Buckle Down, Winsocki - "If you break their necks", "Take it on the chin"
• The Bullies - "They won't stop their mumbling / And drawing their faces / On top of your face"
• Burnice - "Your hand is unsteady / Your eyelids rest heavy"
• Cabbagetown - "In one hand"
• Canajoharie - "Grabbed me by my arm"
• Can't Keep Johnny Down - "I don't forget a face", "I'm pointing a finger at my own face"
• Careless Santa - "Landed on my arm and broke it"
• Cast Your Pod To The Wind - "Extend your limbs"
• Certain People I Could Name - "Count the arms, the legs, and heads, and then divide by 5"
• Christmas In The Big House - "I'll be digging past the bones in my tunnel"
• Circular Karate Chop - "So my eyes will stay on target"
• Cloisonné - "Giving me back rubs", "That's your heart attack"
• Coffee Table Of Love - "that thing on your arm"
• Concrete And Clay - "The concrete and the clay beneath my feet", "You're in my arms so tenderly"
• Corrupted Lyle - "His brain is a burning wreck"
• Countdown Intro - "Your ten fingers reach into the air", "You wiggle your nine toes in anticipation."
• Cupid - "Why, I'd... break his legs!"
• Cyclops Rock - "Chucky's arm keeps me company", "My one glass eye"
• Dark And Metric - "Parrot on my arm / Not a man of the world, no patch on my eye"
• Darlin' Allison - "Something she said caught my ear"
• The Darlings Of Lumberland - "Hold my cold dead hand"
• The Day - "The trees all waved their giant arms"'
• Daylight - "While your eyes strain to see the air"
• Definition Of Good - "Arm that stretches around the world and taps your arm", "Looking into your eyes"
• Destination Moon - "Hanging down the leg"
• The Devil Went Down To Newport - "Satan was hindered by his cloven feet"
• Dimension Six Rock - "Bend down to touch your toes"
• Dinner Bell - "Shoulder, bicep, elbow, arm. Forearm, thumb, wrist, knuckle, palm. Middle, pinky, index, ring."
• Dirt Bike - "That bike took me by the hand"
• Disco Lover - "Get down on your knees...", "Get up on your feet..."
• Dog - "Who when presented with his heart's desire / Will turn his nose away"
• Don't Cry - "Dry the tears falling out of your eyes"
• Don't Let's Start - "Don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound"
• Doom Doom - "And its pointed at your eyesocket", "With a cap for your brain pocket", "Put your thumb in the wall socket"
• Drown The Clown - "Your ears are ringing"
• Dr. Sy Fly - Compound eyes, ankle, brow
• Dunkin Of Course Of Course - "Blame the hand"
• ECNALUBMA - "I've got a nose", "I think my hand is broken"
• Elephants - "They've got two tusks up front for fighting"
• Erase - "Finger find the button marked erase", "When your heartbreak overwhelms your heart", "The mermaid's arms"'
• The Everlasting Vibe - "We'll wave our arms and cry"
• Everything Right Is Wrong Again - "Wake me when it's over, touch my face"
• Experimental Film - "face implodes"
• Feign Amnesia - "Hers are the brains"
• Figure Eight - "If you can grab a circle in your hands"
• 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"
• Fritalian - "My mouth can't form these words"
• Fun Assassin - "Look me in the eye and lie"
• Get By With A Little Help - "I promise not to have stinky feet"
• Great - "One hundred dollars in both of your fists"
• Hate The Villanelle - "My hand disappears"
• He's Loco - "Don't even look him in the eye"
• Hot Cha - "Everybody's eyes are closed"
• The House At The Top Of The Tree - "The nose at the end of a snout of a dog", "The empty bag in your hand"
• 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 Am Invisible - Face, eyes, leg, paw
• I Blame You - "Gets back down on his knees"
• I Broke My Own Rule - "No leg on which to, on which to stand"
• I Can Help The Next In Line - "Put your hands where I can see them"
• Icky - The icky guy gets all up in your face.
• I Got My T-Shirt Back - "I found my brain stuck on a pole"
• I Love You For Psychological Reasons - "Their eyes synchronize with a secret rhythm", "My extremities flail and I wail / Though my arms and my legs to the chair are nailed", "The dream is a fable with feeble wings", "Brain in a jar"
• I Palindrome I - "See the hands of my offspring making windmills"
• I Wanna Be Sedated - "I can't control my fingers, I can't control my brain"
• I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar - "In this bar, they could shake their hips"
• I'm Impressed - "When that gorilla beats his chest", "On the one hand"
• In The Middle, In The Middle, In The Middle - "Use your eyes to look up, use your ears to hear"
• Impossibly New - "And their arms are open wide"
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Brownsville Mix) - "White tornado my foot"
• It Said Something - "Look it in the eye"
• It's Fun To Steal - "The day you trade your soul for a heart of stone"
• I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar - "They could shake their hips"
• 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?"
• Last Wave - "My heart is cold"
• Lazy - "My heart is filled with envy"
• Lee Harvey Was A Friend Of Mine - "He stuck a gun into his ribs"
• Less Than One - "I got about six percent of the burrito in my mouth / The rest went on my lap", "I've got part of a brain", "Less than point five of the million times I closed my eyes / I couldn't open them again"
• Let's Get This Over With - "Hand extended, waiting for a shake"
• Lie Still, Little Bottle - "Shake my shaky hand"
• Listless - "To keep my heart alive," "Servo motors that control my arms and legs"
• Long White Beard - "And eyebrows most surprisingly long", "I woke up with a ten foot tail"
• Lost My Mind - "A finger pointing at the other one", "A glassy-eyed stare"
• Louisiana - "I know you're out there with your hands around my neck"
• Lucky Ball And Chain - "When she'd sit and hold me in her arms"
• Lullabye To Nightmares - "Glass in hand"
• Madam, I Challenge You To A Duel - "Oh please, don't burst a lung"
• Maine - "Relaxing on my hands and knees / Relaxing on my face"
• Marshie - "Don't you have any legs?"
• McCafferty's Bib - "With one hand", "In the other hand"
• Meet James Ensor - "Dig him up and shake his hand"
• Michigan - "We must eat Michigan's brains"
• Miniature Sidewalk Whirlwind - "Hit in the leg"
• Moles, Hounds, Bears, Bees And Hares - "Walk with their nose to the ground / The joy in their eyes"
• Mr. Hughes Says - "Tell the boxer and the fist"
• Mr. Mischief Night - "In my sweaty mitts"
• Mr. Tambourine Man - "My toes too numb to step"
• Mrs. Train - Hand
• My Evil Twin - "Who cut the arm off the voodoo doll"
• Nanobots - "See the tiny figures stretching their limbs"
• New Haven - "Flies hangin' out on my tongue thing"
• New York City - "I held your hand, and you held mine'"
• Nice Is Good, Mean Is Bad - "Hold my hand"
• Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon - "With your hand on the knob," "With your hand in the air"
• Now I Know - "Hat in hand", ""I could reach my hand into the past"
• NVNC AVT NVMQVAM - "Where I first saw your face"
• Ooh La! Ooh La! - "Stick out your tongue and wiggle like a noodle"
• 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"
• Other Father Song - "She's as cute as a button in the eyes of everyone who ever laid their eyes on Coraline"
• Planet Of The Apes - "In a world of simians I'm waiting for my thumbs"
• Prepare - "Adjust your chair and clear your throat"
• Prevenge - "Read my mind"
• Protagonist - "A gloved hand"
• Push Back The Hands - "You would give up your right arm to go back / To when you had a right arm"
• Reminder - "All the lines upon his forehead / Adjust the string around his finger"
• Replicant - "You've got his eyes, same exact smile"
• Reprehensible - "When morning comes at last I rub my eyes"
• Rock Club - "Put your hands together"
• Santa Cruz - "It doesn't cost anything to poke your eye out"
• Save Your Life - "And wipe that smile from your eyes"
• Savoy Truffle - "Pineapple heart"; "But you'll have to have them all pulled out / After the Savoy truffle" refers to teeth being pulled after the formation of cavities
• Say Nice Things About Detroit - "Private words and holding hands"
• Sensurround - "Sensible to ear and sternum"; "To shake the womb when it should"
• S-E-X-X-Y - "Cookie in one hand"
• (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future - "She shot the beam of a laser into my heart"
• Sleepwalkers - "Their arms held out ahead" , "Cry out loud, or stamp your feet" , "Swing their feet down" , "You'll recognize them when you see their ruffled hair and stalking feet"
• Snail Shell - "Sir hand / Or is it ma'am?"; "How may I lend you a hand"
• Spiraling Shape - "Cupping face to the window", "Put out your hands"
• 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"
• Starry Eyes
• Tele-Tele-Telephone - "Eating up my face"
• The Statue Got Me High - "The monument of granite sent a beam into my eye", "It took my hand, it killed me, and it turned me to the sky"
• Steps - "My elbows up high"
• Stone Cold Coup D'État - "And the son sees the secret signal on his sister's face"
• The Summer Breeze - "He saw with his own eyes"
• Theme From Flood "Why are we marching hand-in-hand?"
• There Will Be Sad - "When the chest is overcome with emotion..."
• They Might Be Giants (1989 Rough Mix - "Ah, smells like human skin burning... I think I smell some human skin!"
• They'll Need A Crane - "To mend her heart"
• Thinking Machine - "Tape has brightening arm connect", "Weld crat tonsil speep enact", "Cash fog Ansel Adams' mouth"
• This Is Only Going To Go One Way- "She's considered punching his face in", "She's felt her hand discreetly moving for the kitchen knife"
• Thunderbird - "Man o man my throat is dry"
• Tick Tick Tick Tick - "Legs have fallen asleep", "Heart rate down to a crawl", mandibles
• Tiny Doctors - "Swimming in my veins"
• To A Forest - "Something punched my mind in the face"
• 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"
• Tractor - The chorus mentions hearts, and the bridge mentions eyes, stomach, and spines. There is also a mention of turning one's face away.
• Trouble Awful Devil Evil - "My unconscious face smiles", "Bat wings flapping just over my bed", "Arms folded 'cross my chest"
• Trucker's Coffee - "And I couldn't believe what I saw with my eyes"
• Tryptophane- "By the leg of the bird"
• Turn Around - "When I felt something heavy and pointed strike me in the back of my neck", "We were waving our arms out the window"
• Unrelated Thing - "Please explain the expression on your face"
• Unsupervised, I Hit My Head - "You could count on me with just one hand"
• Vestibule - "That my skeleton's between doors"
• Walk On Water - "You may have me behind the throat"
• Walking My Cat Named Dog - "Searching for the sound of people / Swinging their feet"
• Welcome 2 Hell - "Right between the eyes"
• Welcome To The Jungle - "Put your hand in my hand", "Put your hand near the bug"
• We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime - "Different from the eyebrows up"
• What Did I Do To You? - "Unloved, resentful appendages", "Though my pounding heart nearly drowns it out"
• When The Lights Come On - "With what remains of my left hand", "The bandage where my kidney used to be"
• Will You Love Me In December As You Do In May? - "The glow on my cheek", "Will your arms still entwine and caress me?"
• Withered Hope - "And he cut out a paper heart, pinned it to his arm"
• You'll Miss Me - "You'll see my teeth in the stars above / Every tree a finger of my glove"
• Your Own Worst Enemy - "I get paid in the brain"
• You Probably Get That A Lot - "Cradled in his arms"
• Your Racist Friend - "Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding"

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

See also

• Artificial Body Parts
• Eyes
• Hair
• Hands
• Heads
• Spines
• Skulls