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Playing the Body

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lyrics

In this song I could be
Built like Marilyn
Five foot three
I’m all hips I’m all lips
I’m a sexual tyranny

In this song I could be
Idealized hanger
A six-foot tree
Branded and banded
Strapped in heels
I’m all towering
Over me

Write it up and down my legs
But that won’t make it me
My mind it’s running so far ahead
But I become a woman
When I’m playing the body

In this song I could be
National average
One forty three
Quantify me
And sexualize me
As I’m singing
Can you hear my body

There are footsteps in the hall
But you can’t tell the sex of the step
In this neutered tongue
Suis-je belle?
Suis-je belle?
Suis-je belle?
My body stops before my thoughts
If a body’s a woman
Can her head be a man’s?
La tête le corps

In this song I could be
Anything you want me to be
Not a woman I’m not a man
I am textual androgyny

credits

from Playing the Body, released October 4, 2022
Jenn Solheim: lyrics, vocals, bass
James Gillespie: guitar
Chad Lind: drums

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Minim Chicago, Illinois

“Midwestern power post-punk with wit, math rock with sex appeal.”—Monica Kendrick, Chicago Reader

Minim (1996-2003) was Jenn Solheim and James Gillespie, with drummers Eric Mahle, Chad Lind, Tim Daisy, Tom Collier.

Listen to our 7"/EP on Dyslexic Records (1997): dyslexicrecords.bandcamp.com/album/fine-or-superfine-70-lbs-bonus-track

Band web site: www.facebook.com/MinimChicago/
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