Andrew Bird
Fake Palindromes

My dewy-eyed Disney bride
What has tried
Swapping her blood with formaldehyde
Monsters

Whiskey plied voices cried fratricide
Jesus don't you know that you could have died you should have died
What with monsters what talk
Monsters what walk the earth

And shes got red lipstick and bright pair of shoes
And shes got knee high socks what to cover a bruise
She's got an old death kit shes been meaning to use
She's got blood in her eyes in her eyes for you
She's got blood in her eyes for you

Certain fad
Stripes and plaids
Singles adds
they run you hot and cold like a rheostat
I mean a thermostat
So you bite on a towel hope it wont hurt to bad

My dewy-eyed Disney bride
What has tried
Swapping your blood with formaldehyde
What monsters who talk
Monsters who walk the earth

And she says i like long walks and sci-fi movies
If your six foot tall and east coast bred
Some lonely night we can get together
And I wanna tie your ywrists with leather
And I wanna drill a tin hole in to your head
And I wanna drill a tiny hole into your


I chose Andrew Bird's song specifically because, without music, it sounds very sing-songy when you read it to yourself. In the third and sixth stanzas, Bird repeats the words and, she's, got, and wanna, unifying the sound of the lyrics. The repetition gives it the lyrical tone, contrasting with the words, which are extremely dark, creating an effect of all over dark humor.

Also, there is great use of the poetic device of hyperbolic statements. Bird overexaggerates many things in his song (swapping your blood with formaldehyde, drill a tiny hole into your head, etc.) giveing the lyrics a mysterious air. He uses many metaphors, which, in this case, are pretty synonomous with the hyperbolic statements.