Detachable Penis

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Detachable Penis is the best-known song by the band King Missile. The track, a rock composition featuring comical, spoken word-style lyrics, appears on the 1992 album Happy Hour. Its music centers around a distorted, delay-treated guitar riff backed by organ and drum grooves with brief lead guitar improvisation. For the duration of the track, the song title is sung with an interval of approximately 4 seconds.

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"Detachable Penis" is narrated by the unnamed owner of the eponymous member. Apparently residing in Manhattan's East Village, he wakes up with a bad hangover to discover that his detachable penis is missing. After searching his apartment, calling the location of the party he attended the night before, and querying all his friends, the narrator is unable to locate his penis.

Depressed, the narrator goes to the Kiev Restaurant for breakfast, and afterwards, while walking "toward St. Mark's Place," discovers his penis for sale "on a blanket next to a broken toaster oven". The man selling the penis asks $22 for it, but the narrator is able to talk him down to $17. The narrator then takes his penis home, washes it off, and puts it on. With his penis back in place, the narrator says he is happy again. The song ends with the narrator declaring, "Even though sometimes it's a pain in the ass, I like having a detachable penis."