Song of the Day: Marrow - St Vincent

St. Vincent

Marrow

I heard this song on KRCL's World Cafe program this morning. The host David Dye's interview with Annie Erin Clark of St. Vincent was fascinating. She said she wrote Marrow as an interpretation of how she thought The Wizard of Oz would sound when it went technicolor. She also said she had the voices of the Oz characters in mind. I wasn't able to listen to the entire program, but I'm going to guess that St. Vincent had the Tin Man in mind when she wrote this song

When I was first dating my husband, I remember one of his cousins telling me that he and a group of cousins used to pretend they were characters from The Wizard of Oz: C. was Dorothy in search of a way back home, M. was Lion in search of his courage, G. was Scarecrow in search of a brain, and my husband was Tin Man in search of his heart.

Now that I know all of them well, I would say the characters match them exactly.

Check out the lyrics and see if they remind you of anyone you know.
Marrow

Muscle connects to the bone
And the bone to the ire and the marrow
I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron

Mouth connects to the teeth
And teeth to the loves and curses

Honey
Can you reach the spots that need oiling and fixing?

H-E-L-P
Help me, help me

H-E-L-P
Help me, help me

Muscle connects to the bone
And the bone to the ire and the marrow

So I pretend these aren't ten strings attached to all ten of my fingers.

H-E-L-P
Help me, help me

If you could only go somewhere else

H-E-L-P
Help me, help me

H-E-L-P
Help me, help me

H-E-L-P
Help me, help me