So here is the first in my personal series of "bands that you can learn from"... They Might Be Giants... enjoy! :)
And if you want to find more TMBG lyrics, try TMBG.org... they've got LOTS!
Everything right is wrong again.
And now this song is over now.
Memo to myself: Do the dumb things I gotta do. Touch the puppet head.
A poor man once told me that he can't afford to speak.
The words I'm singing now mean nothing more than meow to an animal.
No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful.
Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful.
And the one thing you can't hide is all the fear you feel inside as the fuse is spelling out these words.
If you pass the rabid child, say "hammer down" for me.
But every little thing's a domino which falls on different dots, and crashes into everything that tries to make it stop.
But the night lights and my dog's life aren't exactly one and the same.
All I know could be defaced by the facts in the life of Chess Piece Face.
But alienation's for the rich and I'm feeling poorer every day.
In a world we call our home there's lots of room to roam, plenty of time to turn mistakes into rhyme.
Everything sticks like a broken record.
Everything sticks until it goes away.
And the truth is we don't know anything.
We yearn to swim for home, but our only home is bone.
Life is a placebo, masquerading as a simile.
Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down.
Purple toupee and gold lame will turn your brain around.
We're on some kind of mission. We have an obligation. We have to wear toupees.
Somebody's reading you mind, damned if you know who it is.
Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves his broomstick arms and does a parody of each unconscious thing you do.
Where your eyes don't go a part of you is hovering, it's a nightmare that you'll never be discovering.
Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of.
A woman's voice on the radio can convince you you're in love.
A woman's voice on the telephone can convince you you're alone.
I find myself haunted by a spooky man named me.
The pageant is named the pencil rain.
And none who have witnessed all can think of a nobler cause than perishing in the pencil rain.
Everyone looks naked when you know the world's address.
I'm going to die if you touch me one more time. Well I guess that I'm going to die no matter what.
Morticians wait with a shovel and a fork.
He wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth, cuz he knows there's no such thing.
What's the sense in ever thinking about the tomb when you're much too busy returning to the womb?
I love the world and if I have to sue for custody, I will sue for custody.
If it wasn't for disappointments, I wouldn't have any appointments.
I'm your only friend, I'm not your only friend, but I'm a little glowing friend, but really I'm not actually your friend but I am.
Filibuster vigilantly.
Sure as you can't steer a train, you can't change your fate.
Istanbul was Constantinople, now it's Istanbul not Constantinople.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam.
Now it's over I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want, or I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do.
If anything was broken I'm sure it could be mended.
Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.
Triangle man hates particle man.
Triangle man hates person man.
Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around.
Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.
The thing that bothers me is someone keeps moving my chair.
More coffee for me boss, 'cause I'm not as messed up as I want to be.
I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well.
And so I'm having a wonderful time but I'd rather be whistling in the dark.
Fondue forks for everybody.
We can't be silent 'cause they might be giants, and what are we gonna do unless they are?
I could never sleep my way to the top, cuz my alarm clock always wakes me right up.
Forever is a long time.
Well the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid, and my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent.
It's not my birthday so why do you lunge out at me?
I am not the only dust my mother raised.
Flowers die and so will I.
And I am a snake head eating the head on the opposite side.
Squares may look distant in her rear view mirror.
He always wants to start when I want to begin.
One of us might lose his hair, but you're reminded that it once was there.
The statue got me high.
Spider. He is our hero.
In the spaceship, the silver spaceship, the lion takes control.
You can't run away, out of the hall of heads.
But your lie doesn't rhyme with the word overseas.
You won't remember why you liked him.
Everything is catching, yes, everything is catching on fire.
I found a new friend underneath my pillow.
What's that blue thing doing here?
Stare into the subliminal for as long as you can.
It's Nyquil driving time.
I should be allowed to think.
And I should be allowed to blurt the merest idea if by random whim one occurs to me.
There's no word in English for my style.
You can try to copy me but you'll fail.
No one understands, no one knows my plan.
Here comes the dirt bike. Beware of the dirt bike.
All hail the dirt bike. Philosopher dirt bike.
There's a thermostat that regulates the temperature that may not be reliable that should be disconnected.
So we'll meet at the end of the tour.
Have some respect for someone more forgetful than yourself.
I want to raise my freak flag higher and higher. I want to raise my freak flag and never be alone... never be alone.
Every seashell has a story to tell if you're listening.
XTC versus Adam Ant. There is no right or wrong.
The spiralling shape will make you go insane.
You said love was just a lie, but I could tell that you were lying.
They are persuaded by the music of the bells. They're not responsible for anything they do.
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas.
No, John, I will not sweep for you, for I am not your broom.
You're older than you've ever been, and now you're even older, and now you're even older, and now you're even older.
© 2002 by Dawn/Anneke