Exquisite Dead Guy

Exquisite dead guy
Rotating in his display case
Exquisite dead guy
Swear I saw his mouth move
 
Exquisite dead guy
Outside my high rise apartment
Exquisite dead guy
Hanging from a skyhook
 
How am I supposed to let you know the way I feel
About you
 
How am I supposed to let you know the way I feel
About you


Quoth the Johns:

A song of admiration for a departed hero. The title is inspired by the name of a parlor game of the Surrealists, "The Exquisite Corpse," in which players take turns constructing a sentence word by word without seeing what has already been written.

—John Linnell and John Flansburgh
[source: "A Guided Tour of Factory Showroom," TMBG Info Club Newsletter, Holiday 1996 edition]



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