Edd Henry - "Your Replacement Is Here"

By any standard, Edd Henry is a cold-hearted bastard. "Your Replacement Is Here" is addressed to a woman Henry is dumping and describes in excruciating specificity another woman with whom he is in love. Yikes. Henry has only good things to say about his new girlfriend and he spares his jilted soon-to-be-ex no detail in enumerating her replacement's many attributes and her own plentiful shortcomings. Trust Henry to find the exactly inappropriate musical backdrop for his ill-conceived love song: a jubilant jamboree; a promise that if the to-be-replaced were to suddenly die, Henry would Mash Potato all over her grave. [Buy]

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The Staple Singers - "This May Be The Last Time"

It seems highly improbable that a family with as much soul as the Staple Singers could simply sit down and eat a meal together. It's a sad fact, but one significantly incanted "paaassss the peeeaaas" and dinner would be ruined: Dad capsizing gravy boats with his earth-shaking tremolo guitar, Mom scuffing the varnished wood table's surface with her brushes, Bro-baby and Sister Big Voice emptying their mouths of food as they fill them up with harmony. Though famished, the Staples have no choice but to heed the Talking Heads' imperative and stay hungry. [Buy]