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Anatomy Assessment

from Turn to the Left by The Sinister Turns

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Based on the type of poem I was exposed to by Free Union/Freedom to Love by Andre Breton - a cataloguing of a woman's body parts. I forget the name of that type of poem.

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My eyes the fold over in half
'Cause I can't bear to look
My ears the fold and bend down to your sound
Your holy hook

My hands are ink
There's so much written on them I cannot read my palms
My knees are weak
I haven't prayed enough, I haven't played enough

My stomach's numb from all the kicking
Of my heart, but it's still ticking
And my teeth are red from all the shame
My cheeks passed on to save my name
And I didn't know what we create
Has a ghost that comes too late
To resurrect our former state

My legs are scratched
From breaking my bad habits, I started new ones
My hair is brushed
That's ten minutes more I could have spent on this song

My stomach's numb from all the kicking
Of my heart, but it's still ticking
And my teeth are red from all the shame
My cheeks passed on to save my name
And I didn't know what we create
Has a ghost that comes too late
To resurrect our former state

Being nice was a restraint
But now I'm chipping off the paint
And assessing my anatomy
To see the damage I did to me

And my stomach's numb from all the kicking
Of my heart, but it's still ticking
And my teeth are red from all the shame
My cheeks passed on to save my name
And my feet are slow so I can't catch
What I want most, my supermatch
And my hips are sore from all my standing
Waiting for you, so demanding
And I didn't know what we create
Has a ghost that comes too late
To resurrect our former state

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from Turn to the Left, released November 20, 2006
Thanks, Surrealism professor!

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The Sinister Turns are a four-piece independent pop-rock band based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, playing richly-orchestrated piano-driven pop influenced by Okkervil River, Mirah, the Organ, and Salvador Dali sliced eyes.

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