This is a rollicking fun song. I think my favorite rendition is a live rendition with the Clancy Brothers where one of them comes out on the stage and says "We're going to do Finnegan's wake but before we start Tommy is going to read the entire novel by James Joyce." Then Tommy starts reading what sounds like gibberish and I had to check that this is indeed how the novel starts!
This is a fun little song but what really caught me was the many times repeated lyric "I know I'm not the center of the universe, but you keep spinning round me just the same." My first dance teacher would often tell the men/leaders that in many of the moves they should be trying to stay in much the same spot and their partners were the ones who truly moved. "Your partner is a moon orbiting around you." Seeing this repeated in Heavy tickled my fancy. So it's a rare song that I paid for! Songs back in the day had simple overall structures ababa or aabbaa or something, but Heavy is more of a novel with beginning middle and end. Just enough repitition to hold it together.
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