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They Might Be Giants – They Might Be Giants
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[Intro] / Hang on...hang on tight... / [Chorus 1] / They might be giants (Boy) / They might be giants / They might be rain, they might be heat / They might be frying up a stalk of
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They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse in Your Soul
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Like Many TMBG songs the direct meaning can be debated. This one seems to be one of the more simple cases however. This is a song about a night-light, from the night-light’s point
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They Might Be Giants – [Untitled]
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As John Flansburgh explained:
“Back when very few people called Dial-A-Song the phone machine that played the songs took messages. I came home one day and found the message tape
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They Might Be Giants – Particle Man
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Particle Man is the seventh song off They Might Be Giants' 1990 album Flood. Although it was never released as a single, it has become one of the band’s best known songs, in part
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They Might Be Giants – Ana Ng
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According to John Linnell, Ana Ng was inspired by the New York City phone book.
“I think I was collecting possible song ideas and, for some reason, I ended up looking in the phone
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They Might Be Giants – Answer
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Week 7 of They Might Be Giants' 2015 Dial-A-Song project. A semi-confessional song about an aesthetically unattractive man trying to show his romantic interest why she should be
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They Might Be Giants – Number Two
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If you need a friend, you know what to do / You can count on me,'cause I'm the Number Two / One day at the beach, the next at the zoo / I'm always around, I'm the Number Two / Two
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They Might Be Giants – Good to Be Alive
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On the second track of They Might Be Giants' 2015 album Glean, the Johns take the time to appreciate their bodies and the lives they been given on a softly uplifting track.
John
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They Might Be Giants – Fingertips (One-Track Version)
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“Everything is catching / Yes, everything is catching on fire / (Everything’s catching on fire) / Everything is catching on fire (everything’s catching on fire) / Fingertips
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They Might Be Giants – Don't Let's Start
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Warning
Don’t try to read too much into this song! If you squint at the lyrics for a while, this song seems incredibly depressing. But John Linnell has repeatedly insisted that
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They Might Be Giants – The Day
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The day Marvin Gaye and Phil Ochs got married / The trees all waved their giant arms / And happiness bled from every street corner / And biplanes bombed with fluffy pillows / The
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They Might Be Giants – Black Ops
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[Verse 1] / Black ops, black ops / A holiday for secret cops / Black ops, black ops / Dropping presents from the helicopter / [Chorus 1] / It's been a long year, we've been so far
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They Might Be Giants – Aaa
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“Aaa” is a series of brief vignettes in which an inquisitive protagonist discovers something alarming. The exact nature of their discovery is never disclosed—only their screams of
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They Might Be Giants – We Want a Rock
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The title is a play on the Twisted Sister song “I Wanna Rock.”
In this song, They Might Be Giants use a repetitive, yet unbelieveably catchy, tune to satirize promotions they see
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They Might Be Giants – My Man
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My Man / Muscles from hand to foot / Completely coated in uninterrupted skin / My man / Signals command the leg / To follow orders coming down from headquarters / Why then am I in
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They Might Be Giants – Stuff Is Way
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[Chorus] / Did you just what? Is what you yes? / Did you whatever, whatever you I guess? / The stalking horse was hides the guy / And which the pony is a phony was a lie / [Verse
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They Might Be Giants – Erase
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Week 1 of They Might Be Giants' 2015 Dial-A-Song project.
The band held a music video contest for “Erase,” which was won by Paul Guyet & Christina Bryant, who produced a video
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They Might Be Giants – The Greatest
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They call me the greatest / 'Cause I'm not very good / And they're being sarcastic / They're being sarcastic / Oh, I'm taking names / But I'm not doing much / With the names that I
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They Might Be Giants – Mammal
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Glass of milk / Standing in between extinction in the cold and explosive radiating growth / So the warm blood flows through the large four-chambered heart / Maintaining the very
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They Might Be Giants – Cowtown
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“Cowtown” is one of the earliest TMBG songs written. The song predates the band (having been written for John Flansburgh’s previous band). “Cowtown” is often introduced at shows as
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They Might Be Giants – Replicant
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Doot doot doot doot / Doot doot doot / Doot doot doot doot doot / Doot doot doot doot / Doot doot doot / Doot doot doot / Replicant, replicant, where have you been? / Replicant
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They Might Be Giants – Cloisonné
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One, two, three, four / Mind your business / Mind your business / Mind your never-shut, Quonset hut business / My craft is exploding / It's like I'm making cloisonné / Choking on
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They Might Be Giants – Dead
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“Dead” is the fifth track of lyrically eccentric alt rock duo They Might Be Giants' breakout 1990 record, Flood. D.X. Ferris of Rolling Stone Magazine describes it as “one of TMBG’
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They Might Be Giants – Meet the Elements
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[Verse 1] / Iron is a metal, you see it every day / Oxygen, eventually, will make it rust away / Carbon in its ordinary form is coal / Crush it together, and diamonds are born / [
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They Might Be Giants – Bangs
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Bangs is They Might Be Giants' ode to women who have bangs. It’s the
The song inspired Zadie Smith’s short story, “The Girl with Bangs”, which appeared in McSweeney’s. In 2003
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They Might Be Giants – Infinity
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I can count up to five, I can count to ten / Count on my nose a hundred times, I'd rather not again / Twenty is easy and a hundred, no sweat / But there's one number I just can't
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They Might Be Giants – Dog
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He’s the kind of dog / Who, when presented with his heart’s desire / Will turn his nose away / He’s the kind of dog / Who sees a smiling friend and says / “I need no smiling friend
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They Might Be Giants – Contrecoup
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You know what's wrong with me / You know phrenology / You saw my injury / You can tell just by looking at my skull / Countrecoup, on the rebound / Countrecoup hurt me again / And
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They Might Be Giants – She's an Angel
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The 11th track off TMBG’s first, self-titled album, “She’s An Angel” is about falling in love.
One interpretation is the standard, romantic-comedy, head-over-heels type of love
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They Might Be Giants – Thunderbird
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[Verse 1] / I know, I know, I said that I would quit / All right, I promise, no more after this / You don't know how I tried / To forget what it was like / [Chorus] / I remember
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They Might Be Giants – I C U
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U R N X / U R N X, N I, I M N X / I C T V / I C T V, N I C U / I C U, I C U, N U R O K / U R N X / U R N X, N I, I W / I C A DVD, I C A D V D, N I C U / I C U, I C U, N U R O K / I
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They Might Be Giants – Kiss Me, Son of God
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[Chorus] / I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage / Called the blood of the exploited working class / But they've overcome their shyness / Now they're calling me Your
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