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June 29, 2009
Touch Me Where It Counts
Continuing with the doctor-patient relationship theme, here’s a song in which the patient becomes more aggressive. I think it’s a nice change of tone from the other songs, which tend to be more cautiously pathetic. This song lays it all out on the examining table — an ultimatum perhaps.
The instruments in this song are flute, bass clarinet, drum set, piano, violin, and cello. Musically, I’ve been a little more conservative with this song, incorporating a lot of doubling (many of the instruments playing the same material at the same time) and less rhythmic independence. But the singer’s part is perhaps more iconoclastic than any of the other songs, pushing against the instruments most of the time. I hope it works…
Touch Me Where It Counts
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Our chronically platonic
Doctor-patient relationship
Is an immense source of tension
Seven individual physicals
Five urgent emergencies
What will it take to get your attention
Why don’t you touch me where it counts
Shove your ounce of compassion
Into a hundred forty pounds of satisfaction
It’s no fictional condition
My presumptive consumption
Yet it strikes you as outrageous
You tell me you can’t help me
You insist that you won’t miss me
But your incredulity is contagious
Why don’t you touch me where it counts
Shove your ounce of compassion
Into a hundred forty pounds of satisfaction
How impressively aggressive
Is your delusional conclusion
That I do nothing but malinger
Do you really not believe me
Or are you deceptively deceptive
I see no wedding ring on your finger
Why don’t you touch me where it counts
Shove your ounce of compassion
Into a hundred forty pounds of satisfaction
Originally posted by coreyneardeath from Thirteen Near-Death Experiences, ReBlogged by newmusicrebloggers on Jun 29, 2009 at 11:12 PM