Personification
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Songs in which an item is given or referred to with human characteristics such as emotions, or an animal is anthropomorphized.
This list excludes hypothetical creatures (e.g. "Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head"'s zombie and the ghost of "Turn Around") which would be sentient, and excludes the long dead (e.g. James Ensor).
Central theme[edit]
- All Alone - A space-exploring germ
- Alphabet Lost And Found
- The Army's Tired Now
- Asheville - "Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm the Orange Peel"
- Birdhouse In Your Soul - A soothingly neurotic anthropomorphic nightlight
- Can You Find It? - Letters (partially narrated)
- D & W - Letters (partially narrated)
- Dead - The narrator comes back as a bag of groceries
- Dirt Bike - A dirt bike
- Diving Board - The diving board and swimming pool are consciously aware of their surroundings
- The Drinky Crow Show Theme - Alcoholic crow
- E Eats Everything - Letters
- The Day That Love Came To Play - Love
- The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) - A space-exploring lion
- Hovering Sombrero - A shy sombrero
- I'm A Little Airplane - A little airplane, nyyyow
- I'm Just A Note - A musical note
- I Am A Grocery Bag - A grocery bag
- I Am A Human Head - A dissipating head
- I Am Not Your Broom - An uppity broom
- It Said Something - A mystery object that normally would never speak
- It's Getting Late - Talking clock parts: "Little hand said to the big hand..."
- The Lady And The Tiger - A talking tiger
- Lie Still, Little Bottle - A talking pill
- Louisiana - Allegedly its devious hands and breath are palpable
- Mrs. Train - A train
- Nonagon - Lots of shapes having a party
- Particle Man - Arguably, everything besides Person Man is a personified object
- Pictures Of Pandas Painting - "P" animals
- Q U - Letters
- Snail Shell - A grateful snail
- Stomp Box - A satanic stomp box
- Stone Cold Coup D'État - Various inanimate things revolting
- Thermostat - Parts of a car gain consciousness and fry their driver
- Tumbleweed - Tumbleweed as little man
- The Vowel Family - Letters
- Withered Hope - A very sad sack, a picture, and a motorbike all fall in love with each other and Withered Hope
- Whence That Wince - "A ladle who was once my Valentine"; video includes talking taxidermy heads and a talking trophy
- Where Your Eyes Don't Go - A taunting scarecrow
- Whirlpool - An adventure-seeking mass of water
Briefly mentioned[edit]
- Albany - "When will it hatch?"
- Ant - An ant that might be president
- Brainwashing Our Fighting Boys - "This nation stands / With its arms akimbo"
- Cells - Gives biological cells unearned self-awareness
- Cloisonné - A raindrop
- Fibber Island - A talking dog
- Hello Mrs. Wheelyke - "Lions will cheer"
- The House At The Top Of The Tree - Planning mice
- I Love You For Psychological Reasons - "Cheese and chalk do not talk But their eyes synchronize with a secret rhythm", "The dream is a fable with feeble wings", "Why does the mouse share the house with the louse? / They won't say, but they feel their feelings"
- Lines Upon A Tranquil Brow - "Watching the tomtit warble 'Hello'"
- Lost My Mind - "Floating down a lazy river is my mind / Circling an unknown baggage carousel is also my mind"
- Microphone - the title object "doesn't seem to know / That it's owned"
- Mink Car - "Driven by a guitar"
- No Answer - A portrait and a taxidermist's diorama
- Sensurround - In the first verse, the narrator speaks as his zygote self
- The Shadow Government - "The moon was following me"
- Unpronounceable - "Time stopped when you said hello / When you left the clock began to breathe again"
