Hollow Bodies

-written by Jeremy Gloff
-appears on Songs About Stupid People (1997)
-"The Booya Remix" originally appeared on Songs About Stupid People

but it is now reissued on the Midnight Blooming CD (1996)

ORIGINAL:

REMIX:


THE STORY:
After one of my most tortured all-nighters I wrote a song.  And then the sun was all the way up and I wrote another song.  That second song is “Hollow Bodies”.  This song was about a boy from Buffalo and my increasing ambivalence regarding sex.    Re: The remix version.  I had great ideas for a performance art piece to go along with that version.  It never happened.

THE LYRICS:

Did you really call?
I know that you did
I wanna do
What I forbid
Blinded by the rain
At least I’m not outside
I go to someone else
When I wanna hide
I kinda wish you were a stranger…

Chorus:
Hollow bodies
Touching…distant
Hollow bodies
Why do I do this to me?

Are cars really made
To drive in this rain?
Are bodies really made
To handle the pain
I cause to myself…thru myself
Undo myself…to please myself

I know you never wanna know me
I know you’re only here to show me
How shallow I can be when I go deep
Does this ever haunt you when you sleep?

Repeat Chorus

Hollow bodies
I can’t breathe…breathing

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