The Might Be Giants "Don't let's start"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT8cnAeWKZE

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Songs about men who been done wrong by that woman but they keep hanging on:

• - Prince - When U Were Mine
• They Might Be Giants - Out of Jail
• Billy C. Farlow - Cannonball

This post has no mockery or condemnation of the men represented. I have an appreciation for songs in which a man is in love with a woman who isn't "faithful" to him or doesn't "treat him right," yet the man stays devoted to the woman. These songs are from the men's point of view and involve no vindictiveness or even (arguably rational) disconnection from the relationship. Maybe it's a flavor of non-toxic masculinity, a topic frequently on my mind. I don't feel any "cringe" or secondhand embarrassment when I hear these songs; I feel sympathy and want to buy those guys a beer.

For my own clarification, songs in this mental category have these characteristics:

• First-person man singing about a woman
• The woman is not sexually and/or romantically exclusive to the man
• The man wishes she was
• The man shows no vindictiveness
• The man is still in love with her
• The man continues to maintain, pursue, or wish for a relationship with her

The song, therefore, can't just be an "I'm sad because you left" or "because you don't love me back" kind of thing (e.g. Hall & Oates She's Gone and the Marshall Tucker Band's Can't You See? don't quite fit). Asaf Avidan's Baby if You Want Me is really close (and I love love this song) but the narrator sounds pretty OK when he sings "I know that you ain't just mine; that's okay, babe." This category requires clearly feeling the pain of one's ladywoman not being just yours.

I need a shorter label for this category. "Uxorious" is specific to marriage and missing a couple of elements. "P**y whipped" is pretty close, details-wise, but has baked-in hegemonic masculinity, including some misogyny.
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They Might Be Giants released "Sleep's Older Sister" as a preview track for their album, The World Is to Dig.

Musically, this is a mellower song than I would have expected from They Might Be Giants, but I like it. The arrangement has a soothing calmness to it.

Check it out and see what you think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75-1ipEs59c

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Today, "Everything You Know Is Wrong" by Weird Al came on and for the first time I thought it sounded like something They Might Be Giants would have made. It turns out that isn't a coincidence and the song was meant to be a parody of/tribute to TMBG.

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