She's better built, that's how

One of my favorite Frank Black songs, Speedy Marie from Teenager of the Year. Man, this is a song and a half! Super catchy, super bouncy, and the word "juxtaposed" even appears in the lyrics. It's a great song to have on while you're driving. I used to think the song was about a car, but I was never really sure. The song came on over the weekend and I poked around a bit (it wasn't that hard to do a search) and discovered it's actually about his (now ex-) wife, who was something of an actress. The first letters of the last 14 lines of the song spell out the name, Jean Marie Walsh. Pretty neat, huh? I love the last couple lines, she is that most lovely art/happy are my mind and my soul and my heart; sounds like pure bliss. Check out the rest of the lyrics and the song.

Had a bit part
An endless reel
It always played in slo-mo
But now it's fast
A spinning wheel
I know the dynamo
My heart
Is cast

Speedy Marie
Ahead of the now
She's better built that's how
She's built for speed
Speedy Marie
Speedy Marie

Oh, yes indeed
I said to me
And so I sing this romaunt
It's not enough
My liberty
There is a thing I want
I need
I love

Speedy Marie
Ahead of the now
She's better built that's how
She's built for speed
Speedy Marie
Speedy Marie

Juxtaposed in each moment's sight
Everything that I ever saw
And my one delight
Nothing can strike me in such awe
Mouth intricate shapes the voice that speaks
Always it will soothe
Rarer none are the precious cheeks
Is the size of each sculpted tooth
Each lip and each eye

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought
And softest neck where always do I
Lay my clumsy thoughts
She is that most lovely art
Happy are my mind and my soul and my heart

Frank Black > Speedy Marie