From: epeterso@encore.com (Eric Peterson)
Subject: Re: TMBG Quote Generator
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 14:26:19 GMT
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Mcirvin (mcirvin@husc8.harvard.edu) wrote:

| Cool... thanks.  Though I thought the lines were
| "A furry hat, elastic mask, a pair of shiny marble dice" and
| "Baby, wait, I didn't mean to say 'nightmare.'"

"You are correct, sir."  At the time I wrote the quote generator, I was
transcribing all of the lyrics directly off of the tape, since my copies
of _TMBG_ and _Lincoln_ do not have the lyrics printed in them.

Enclosed below is my current quote database, which includes all five of
the TMBG releases as well as a few sundry other songs (such as "Why Does
the Sun Shine?" and "Stormy Pinkness").  Enjoy!

Eric

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Everything right is wrong again, just like in The Long, Long Trailer
All the dishes got broken and the car kept driving
And nobody would stop to save her.
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Wake me when it's over, touch my face
Tell me every word has been erased.
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Don't you want to know the reason why the cupboard's not appealing?
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You're a weasel overcome with dinge.
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Every five and dime's been gained and spent.
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And now this song is over now, and now this song is over now
And now this song is over now, this song is over now.
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Yes, it's sad to say that you will romanticize
All the things you've known before.
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As you take a bath in that beaten path, there's a pounding at the door.
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If the pup-pup-pup-pet head was only bu-bu-bus-ted in
It would be a better thing for everyone involved
And we wouldn't have to cry.
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Quit my job down at the car wash, didn't have to write no one a goodbye note
That reads: "That check's in the mail and I'll see you in church
And don't you ever change."
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If the pup-pup-pup-pet head was only bu-bu-bus-ted in
I'll see you after school ...
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Memo to Myself: "DO THE DUMB THINGS I GOTTA DO -- TOUCH THE PUPPET HEAD"
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Don't, don't, don't let's start.
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Don't don't don't let's start, this is the worst part
To believe for all the world that you're my precious little girl.
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Don't don't don't let's start, I've got a weak heart
And I don't get around how you get around.
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When you are alone, you are the cat, you are the phone, you are an animal
The words I'm singing now mean nothing more than "meow" to an animal.
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Don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound.
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D, world destruction
Over an overture
N, do I need
Apostrophe T, need this torture?
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No one in the world ever gets what they want, and that is beautiful
Everbody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful.
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Hide away, folk family, or else someone's gonna get you
Someone's gonna get you.
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And sadly the cross-eyed bear's been put to sleep behind the stairs
And his shoes are laced with irony.
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"Hello, this is Leslie Downes with the Daily Home Astrology Report.
 TAURUS: Contemplate domestic turmoil.
 AQUARIUS: Abandon hope for future plans."
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There's only two songs in me and I just wrote the third
Don't know where I got the inspiration or how I wrote the words
Spent my whole life just digging up my music's shallow grave
For the two songs in me and the third one I just made.
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A rich man once told me, "Hey, life's a funny thing"
A poor man once told me that he can't afford to speak
Now I'm in the middle like a bird without a beak
Since there's just two songs in me, and I just wrote the third ...
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So I went to the president and I asked ol' what's-his-name
Has he ever gotten writer's block or something like the same?
He just started talking like he was on TV
"If there's just two songs in you boy, whaddya want from me?"
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So I bought myself some denim pants and a silver guitar
But I politely tell the ladies he'll still have to call me "Sir"
And I have to keep my self respect 'cause I'll never be a star
Since there's just two songs in me and this is Number Three.
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What's the reason?  Why'd she go?
Where's my baby?  I don't know
Thirty-two footsteps? Counted 'em myself, thirty-two footsteps.
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Thirty-two footsteps leading to the room where the paint doesn't wanna dry
Thirty-two footsteps running down the road where the dirt reaches the sky.
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Thirty-two feathers in my brand new Indian headdress
Thirty-two new moons shining in thirty-two skies ...
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Thirty-two lies my ears never saw when the floorboards gave way
Thirty-two walls come tumbling down and the night turns to day.
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Thirty-two infantry men running in place
Thirty-two box cars, all of them have your face.
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What's the reason? Why'd she leave?
Don't you know we're on the eve of
Thirty-two footsteps? Counted 'em myself, thirty-two footsteps.
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Thirty-two footsteps? Counted 'em myself, thirty-two footsteps.
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In the mornin' sun 'round 7:00 the parking lot fills 'round Toys-R-Us
And my little girl, she will get away, ridin' her bike down Toddler Hiway.
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Rabid Child stays at home and talks on her CB
Truckers pass calling out their handles to the kid.
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If you pass the Rabid Child, say "Hammer down!" for me.
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Hammer down ... Rabbit ears!
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What's gonna happen to Chess Piece Face?
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All I know could be defaced by the facts in the life of Chess Piece Face.
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All the people are so happy now their heads are caving in
Well I'm glad they are a snowman with protective rubber skin.
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But every little thing's a domino that falls on different dots
And crashes into everything that tries to make it stop.
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A furry hat, elastic mask, a pair of shiny marble dice
Some people call 'em snake-eyes but to me they look like mice.
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And nothing's smelling like a rose
But I don't care if no one's coming up for air
'Cause I know nothing's gonna change my clothes ever anymore.
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Nothing's gonna change my clothes ever anymore.
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Why, why did they send her over anyone else?  How should I react?
These things happen to other people ... they don't happen at all, in fact.
@
When you're following an angel, does it mean you have to
Throw your body off a building?
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I hear they have a space program
When you sing you can't hear, there's no air
Sometimes I think I'd kind of like that and
Other times I think I'm already there.
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Gonna ask for my admission, gonna speak to the man in charge
The secretary says he's on another line, can I hold for a long, long time?
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Youth culture killed my dog.
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Youth culture killed my dog, and I don't think it's fair.
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But the night lights and my dog's life weren't exactly one and the same.
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The hip-hop and the white funk just blew away my puppy's mind.
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She's got her ear to the walls, and she's tapping the calls
If you've got a secret, boy -- FORGET ABOUT IT!
'Cause she's a Hotel Detective.
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She says she likes my face!
She says she owns the place ...
FORGET ABOUT IT!
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In a world we call our own there's lots of room to roam
Plenty of time to turn mistakes into rhyme.
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There's a place for those who love their poetry
It's just across from the sign that says, "Pros Only".
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So if you like a band with a chick singer,
Say your cup of tea is a wall of trombones
If you dig Menudo or MDC, we salute you the way we know.
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For every one with dollar signs in his eyes there must be hundreds that look
at you as if you're some kind of rhythm section want ad.
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Hats off to the new age hairstyles made of bones
Hats off to the use of hats.
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"Do you sing like Olive Oyl on purpose?"
"You guys must be into the Eurythmics!"
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I've got to get a job, I've got to get some pay
My son's gotta go to art school, he's leaving in three days.
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And the TV's in Esperanto -- you know that that's a bitch.
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But alienation's for the rich and I'm a-feelin' poorer every day.
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Well, I ain't feeling happy about the state of things in my life
But I'm working to make it better with a six of Miller High Life.
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Sometimes I feel like being wispy
And once in a while I feel like being dry
But we're doomed and we're drowned by this feeling we surround
So I hope that I get old before I die.
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It's a long, long rope they use to hang you, soon I hope
And I wonder why it hasn't happened, why Why WHY?
And I think about the dirt that I'll be wearing for a shirt
So I hope that I get old before I die.
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Clear off the kitchen table darling, for on the kitchen table I must lie
I'm just tired for my wife just served the banquet of my life
And I hope that I get old before I die.
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They day Marvin Gaye and Phil Ochs got married
The trees all waved their giant arms
And happiness bled from every streetcorner
And biplanes bombed with fluffy pillows.
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I was trying to get somewhere but now I'm following
The traces of your fingernails that run along the windshield
On the boat of car.
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I took my boat for a car -- I took that car for a ride.
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I was born in a lighthouse, my mother was the sea
I crawled to school each morning when it occurred to me
That life's just a mood ring we're not allowed to see
And this is what it said to me ...
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My room is comfortably small with rubber lining the walls
And there's someone always calling my name.
@
He calls when I'm alone and he calls when I'm not home
And he calls when I'm stuck out in the rain.
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I'm INSANE, I'm INSANE ...
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Now, listen, all you swingers, don't you try to tag along.
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Put a dime in my jukebox, you'll only hear this song
And it won't be fun for long.
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Make a hole with the gun perpendicular
To the name of this town in a desktop globe
Exit wound in a foreign nation
Showing the home of the one this was written for.
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Ana Ng and I are getting old
But we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence.
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All alone at the '64 World's Fair
Eighty dolls yelling "Small world after all"
Who was at the DuPont pavillion?
Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?
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"I don't want the world, I just want your half."
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Everything sticks until it goes away
And the truth is we don't know anything.
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I'm going down to Cow Town, the cow's a friend to me
Lives beneath the ocean and that's where I will be
Beneath the waves, the waves, and that's where I will be
I'm gonna see the cow beneath the sea.
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The yellow Roosevelt Avenue leaf overturns
The ardor of arboreality is an adventure we have spurned, we've spurned
A new leaf overturned.
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Lie still, little bottle, shake my shaky hand
Black coffee's not enough for me, I need a better friend.
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"There is no time for metaphors," cried the little pill to me
He said, "Life is a placebo masquerading as a simile."
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Lie still, little bottle, don't twist -- it ain't twisting time
With every move you make you just disintegrate my ever-troubled mind.
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I remember the year I went to camp
I heard about some lady named Selma and some blacks.
Somebody put their fingers in the president's ears
It wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's Wax.
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Somebody put their fingers in the president's ears
It wasn't too much later they came out with Johnson's Wax.
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I remember the book depository where they crowned the king of Cuba.
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I shouted out "Free the Expo" in '67
'Til they stepped on my hair and told me I was fat.
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Purple Toupee will show the way when summer brings you down
Purple Toupee and gold lame will turn your brain around.
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Chinese people were fighting in the park
We tried to help them fight, but no one appreciated that.
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Somebody's reading your mind -- damned if you know who it is
They're digging through all of your files, stealing back your best ideas.
@
"This is the spawning of the cage and aquarium
 Don't wait a moment too soon
 Used to be different, now you're the same
 Yawn as your plane goes down in flames ..."
@
Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves his broomstick arms
And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do.
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When you turn around to look it's gone behind you
On its face it's wearing your confused expression
Where your eyes don't go.
@
Where your eyes don't go a part of you is hovering
It's a nightmare 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.
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Should you worry when the skullhead is in front of you
Or is it worse because it's always waiting where your eyes don't go?
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I find myself haunted by a spooky man named me
I wish that I could jump out of my skin.
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Once a boy named Mister Me bemoaned a great regret:
"I've floundered in the misty sea but can't abide its mystery
 I wound up sad you bet."
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So take the hand of Mister Me and, Mister, make him glad
To swim the Mister misty sea and cease the Mister mystery
That, Mister, made him sad.
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The marshall's binoculars focus, and skyward they train.
They're searching the yonder blue, they look out for Number 2
The heralding of the Pencil Rain.
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And none who have witnessed all can think of a nobler cause
Than perishing in The Pencil Rain.
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I know you've deceived me, couldn't sleep last night
Now my tear stains on the wall reflect an ugly sight.
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I can see your secrets, no need to confess
Everyone looks naked when you know the world's address.
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Everyone looks naked when you know the world's address.
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The world's address, a place that's worn
A sad pun that reflects a sadder mess.
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Call the men of science and let them hear this song
Tell them Albert Einstein and Copernicus were wrong.
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Beat up the cat if you want someone else on the mat
I put the rock in the coffee in your coffee mug.
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Which one of us is the one we can't trust?
You say I think it's you but I don't agree with that.
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You think it's all sensitive and good
You think that I want to be understood
I've got a match, your embrace and my collapse.
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Why can't you be sensitive and good?
Why don't you want to be understood?
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I've got a match, your embrace and my collapse.
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I saw my baby wearing Santa's beard
I wish he would go, he's breaking up my home!
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You'll always miss my big old body
In its prime and never shoddy
While bloodhounds wait down in the lobby,
You'll eulogize my big old body.
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Go find a man to fit my shoes!
The left one's old and the right one's new
And I bought the right one just for you
Go find a man to fit my shoes!
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You'll see my teeth in the stars above
And every tree a finger of my glove
And every time push comes to shove
You'll see my teeth in the stars above.
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You'll miss me so ... you will miss me
It must be raining 'cause a man ain't supposed to cry
But I look up and I don't see a cloud ...
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Love sees love's happiness, but happiness can't see that love is sad.
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Don't call me at work again, no no, the boss still hates me
I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore
And there's restaurant we should check out
Where the other nightmare people like to go -- I mean nice people
Baby wait, I didn't mean to say "nightmare" ...
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He wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth
People should get beat up for stating their beliefs
He wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth
'Cause he knows there's no such thing.
@
He wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth
'Cause he knows there's no such thing.
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He asks the girl if they can both sit in a chair
But he doesn't get nervous -- she's not really there!
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Tour the world in a heavy metal band
But they ran out of gas -- the plane can never land!
@
What's the sense in ever thinking 'bout the tomb
When you're much too busy returning to the womb?
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I like people, they're the ones who can't stand
They're the ones who can't stand.
@
I see smoke signals coming from them;
They say we are out of furniture.
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You made my day, now you have to sleep in it.
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I love the world and if I have to sue for custody,
Then I will sue for custody.
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Stand on your own head for a change
Gimme some skin to call my own.
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Avalanche or roadblock, I was a snowball in Hell.
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If it wasn't for disappointment, I wouldn't have any appointments.
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Have a nice day ...  You want it WHEN?
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Have a nice day ...  You want it WHEN?
Have a nice day ...  HAVE A NICE DAY!
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I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage
Called the blood of the exploited working class ...
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And the world screams, "Kiss me, son of God!"
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I destroyed a bond of friendship and respect
Between the only people left who even look me in the eye ...
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Now I laugh and make a fortune off the same ones that I tortured
And a world screams, "Kiss me, son of God"
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I look like Jesus, so they say, but Mr. Jesus is very far away.
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Now you're the only one here who can tell me if it's true
That you love me and I love me.
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Why is the world in love again?  Why are we marching hand in hand?
Why are the ocean levels rising up?  It's a brand new record for 1990
They Might Be Giants' brand new album: Flood.
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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.
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Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul.
@
Not to put too fine a point on it:
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul.
@
While you're at it, keep the night light on inside the birdhouse in your soul.
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Bluebird of friendliness, like guardian angel, its always near.
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There's a picture opposite me of my primitive ancestry
Which stood on rocky shores and kept our beaches shipwreck free
Though I respect that a lot, I'd be fired if that were my job
After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts.
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My name is blue canary, one not spelled L-I-T-E.
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I lost my lucky ball and chain, now she's four years gone
She's five feet tall and sick of me and all my rattling on.
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Confidentially -- she never called me "Baby Doll"
Confidentially -- I never had much pride
But now I rock a bar stool and I drink for two
Just pondering this time bomb in my mind.
@
As sure as you can't steer a train, you can't change your fate.
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I can shake my tiny fist and swear I wasn't wrong
But what's the sense in arguing when you're all alone?
@
I just stood there whistling "There goes the bride" as she walked out the door.
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This is where the party ends
I can't stand here listening to you and your racist friend.
@
I know politics bore you, but I feel like a hypocrite talking to you
And your racist friend.
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He let the contents of the bottle do the thinking
Can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.
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Istanbul was Constantinople, now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Now a Turkish delight on a moonlight night.
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Every gal in Constantinople lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul.
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Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it, I can't say
People just liked it better that way!
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Why did Constantinople get the works?  That's nobody's business but the Turks.
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I returned a bag of groceries accidentally taken off the shelf
Before the expiration date.
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I came back as a bag of groceries accidentally taken off the shelf
Before the date stamped on myself.
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Now it's over, I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want.
Or I am still alive and there's nothing I want to do.
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I will never say the word "procrastinate" again
I'll never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed.
@
I didn't apologize for when I was eight and I made my younger brother
Have to be my personal slave.
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Particle Man, Particle Man
Doin' the things that a particle can
What's he like?  It's not important
Particle Man.
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Is he a dot, or is he a speck?
When he's underwater does he get wet?
Or does the water get him instead?
Nobody knows, Particle Man.
@
Triangle Man, Triangle Man
Triangle Man hates Particle Man
They have a fight, Triangle wins
Triangle Man.
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Universe Man, Universe Man
Size-of-the-Entire-Universe Man
Usually kind to smaller man
Universe Man.
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He's got a watch with a minute hand
Millenium hand, and an eon hand
And when they meet, it's a happy land
Powerful man, Universe Man.
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Person Man, Person Man
Hit on the head with a frying pan
Lives his life in a garbage can
Person Man.
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Is he depressed, or is he a mess?
Does he feel totally worthless?
Who came up with Person Man?
Degraded Man, Person Man.
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Triangle Man, Triangle Man
Triangle Man hates Person Man
They have a fight, Triangle wins
Triangle Man.
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She set your goldfish free and now she's sighing
Blew out your pilot light and made a wish.
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She wants to see you again, she wants to see you again
Slowly twisting in the wind.
Twisting, twisting in the wind.
@
She's not your satellite, she doesn't miss you
So turn off your smoke machine and Marshall stack.
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She doesn't have to have her db's record back now
But there's not a lot of things that she'll take back.
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She doesn't have to have her Young Fresh Fellows tape back
But there's not a lot of things that she'll take back.
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Minimum wage ... YEAH!
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I'll never know what you'll find when you open up your letterbox tomorrow
'Cause a little bird never tells me anything I want to know
   She's my best friend, she's a sparrow
And I'll never never know what you never never never want to know
   When you know what you are, O.
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If I had a pair of eyes in the back of my head for each time
You forgot to think of all the things you forgot to talk about
   When you took a bit out of my spine
I would have a lot of eyes on me by this time, wouldn't I?
   Wouldn't that just be fine?
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Mr. Horrible!  Mr. Horrible!  Telephone call for Mr. Horrible!
@
Mr. Horrible says, "I don't mind,
 The thing that bothers me is someone keeps moving my chair."
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"Is this Horrible?  Is this Horrible?  It's the ugliness men, Mr. Horrible 
 We're just trying to bug you, we though our dreadfulness might be a thing
 to annoy you with."
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"Would you mind if we balance this glass of milk
 Where your visiting friend accidentally was killed?"
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"Would it be okay with you if we wrote a reminder of things we'll forget
 To do today otherwise, using a green magic marker, if it's all right,
 on the back of your head?"
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Everybody wants a rock to wind a piece of string around.
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Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads on their real heads.
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Where was I?  I forgot the point that I was making.
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I said if I was smart that I would save up for a piece of string
And a rock to wind the string around.
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Throw the crib door wide, let the people crawl inside
Someone in this town is trying to burn the playhouse down.
They want to stop the ones who want a rock to wind a string around.
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Throw the crib door wide, let the people crawl inside
Someone in this town is trying to burn the playhouse down.
They want to stop the ones who want prosthetic foreheads on their heads.
@
Throw the crib door wide, let the people crawl inside
Someone in this town is trying to burn the foreheads down
They want to stop the ones who want a rock to wind a string around.
@
More coffee for me, Boss, 'cause I'm not as messed up as I'd like to be.
@
Frosty the Supervisor lives by himself
Sometimes I feel sorry for him, usually I can't.
@
Some say the electric chair's not good enough for king-lazy-bones like myself.
@
I've turned off my hearing aid
Some say the electric chair's not good enough for king-lazy-bones like myself.
@
A woman came up to me and said "I'd like to poison your mind
With wrong ideas that appeal to you though I am not unkind."
@
A man came up to me and said "I'd like to change your mind
By hitting it with a rock," he said, "though I am not unkind."
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There's only one thing that I know how to do well
And I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well
And that's be you, be what you're like, be like yourself
And so I'm having a wonderful time but I'd rather be whistling in the dark.
@
I'm having a wonderful time but I'd rather be whistling in the dark.
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Hot Cha, where are you?  Everybody's eyes are closed.
@
Hot Cha, where are you?  Everybody's eyes are closed.
I can't see why I miss you so
So Hot Cha, where are you?
@
First time Hot Cha went away, a floating island was his home
Then the phone rang off the hook and Hot Cha had to come back home.
@
Second time he went away, left the bathtub running over
Stereo on and cooking bacon, never came back to tell us why.
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We're in a road movie to Berlin, Can't drive out the way we drove in.
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We were once so close to heaven that Peter came out and gave us medals
Declaring us the nicest of the damned.
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Time won't find the lost, it'll sweep up our skeleton bones
So take the wheel and I will take the pedal.
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Hang on, hang on TIGHT!
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They might be giants -- BOY!
@
They might be rain, they might be heat
They might be frying up a stalk of wheat.
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They might be brain, they might be washed
They might be Dr. Spock's backup band.
@
They might be bald, they might be snow
They might be something else in the snow.
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They might be fake, they might be lies
They might be big, big, fake, fake lies.
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We can't be silent 'cause they might be giants
And what are we gonna do unless they are?
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To make the merry-go-round go FASTER
Everyone needs to hang on TIGHTER
Just to keep from being THROWN TO THE WOLVES ...
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Tabloid footprints in your hair, tabloid footprints everywhere.
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When the ship runs out of ocean, and the vessel runs aground
That's where we know the boat is found.
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But there's something beside the shoreline, coming up from the shipwreck
Moving across the beachhead, making as if to say: Women & Men, Women & Men.
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Women and men, women and men.
@
Women & Men have crossed the ocean, they now begin to pour
Out from the boat and up the shore
Two by two they enter the jungle and soon they number more
Three by three as well as four by four.
@
Bullets from a revolver, bullets from a gun.
Bullets through the atmosphere -- here they come.
@
Sapphire bullets, bullets of pure love.
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John, I've been bad and they're coming after me
Done someone wrong, and I fear that it was me.
@
I could never sleep my way to the top
'Cause my alarm clock always wakes me right up.
@
I said, "I'd like this song to be number one"
He said, "I'd really really like to help you my son"
And then I knew that I would have him to thank
Because he asked me how much I had in the bank.
@
He said to think long-term investment
And that all the others had forgiven themselves
He said the net reward would justify
The colossal mess it made of their lives.
@
Hey, Mr. DJ, I thought you said we had a deal
I thought you said, "You scratch my back and I'll scratch your record"
And I thought you said we had a deal.
@
Hey, Mr. DJ, I thought you said we had a deal.
@
He said the record wouldn't have to be hot
And no one ever seemed to care if it's not.
@
Well, I told you 'bout the world (it's address)
I wonder when they're gonna clean up the mess
You know the Rabid Child is still tuning in
Chess Piece Face's patience must be wearing thin.
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Tramp!
@
Birds fly into my windshield, thoughts fall from my thoughts.
@
This good luck charm hanging off of my arm was left here by the police.
@
Words fall out from my pocket, and cats dance under my feet.
@
This colorful spell under which I live protects me from all I write.
@
And a microscope reveals the scope of my very best intentions.
@
Oh, yes, the tiny light shines twice as bright on the only nice part of me.
@
"Scotty, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that thing, then?"
@
"SOMEONE IN THE CLUB TONIGHT HAS STOLEN MY IDEAS ..."
@
"Feel free to raise your hand at any moment ..."
@
"PAGING MR. SAXOPHONE!"
@
You live in the nightgown of the sullen moon.
@
You live in the nightgown of the sullen moon
How the windows lean in to the room.
@
Drug trip, it's not a drug trip so you feel a bit insulted.
@
Space walk, it's like a space walk with the corresponding weight loss.
@
There's a feeling of boredom of the big whoredom
Following dressing up in the nightgown of the sullen moon.
@
Your head is on the moon.
@
It's not necessary to breathe.
@
Forever is a long time.
@
I'll sink Manhattan right under the sea
I'll find the sweetest spot to watch as it goes away.
@
You were so happy with the things that you said
Like, "He's my lower half", you laughed, but you're going to cry.
@
A river of tiny tears flow fro your crocodile eyes
Too late to apologize, I say, as flood waters rise.
@
I'll sink Manhattan, I'll sacrifice friends
I think they'd understand my plan, I'll never be sure.
@
Burn your forget-me-nots, admit that true love can die
No, I won't apologize, my love, just kiss me goodbye.
@
Well the rain falls down without my help, I'm afraid
And my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent.
@
When this gray world crumbles like a cake, I'll be hanging from the hope
That I'll never see that recipe again.
@
As I walk, I think about a new way to walk
As I think, I'm using up the time left to think.
@
And this train keeps rolling off the tracks,
Trying to act like something else
Trying to go where it's been uninvited.
@
It's not my birthday, it's not today.
@
It's not my birthday, it's not today
It's not my birthday so why do you lunge out at me?
@
When the word comes down, "Never more we'll be around"
Though I'll wish we were there, I was less than we could bear
And I'm not the only dust my mother raised.
@
Hello?  Hello?  Hello?
@
A claw is a claw and nobody has seen a talking claw
Unless that claw is the famous Mr. Klaw.
@
Mr. Vanity Klaw, Mr. Lightning Bulb
Mr. Vanity Klaw, Mr. Dental Flaw
Mr. Vanity Klaw.
@
"So, what do you make out of that recording?  Some kind of singing?"
@
"I don't know, Gloria, I just don't --"
@
"'INTELLECTUALS, MEET WITH OTHER INTELLECTUALS -- SPEAK ANOTHER LANGUAGE'"
@
"He don't make any money, right?  Then he's a nut, right?"
@
"THERE MUST BE GIANTS"
@
"THERE MAY BE GIANTS"
@
"THEY MAY BE GIANTS"
@
"Look in the paper; don't blame me if the guy's a nut."
@
I've got no one to blame but my fat self.
@
No, no, not I, I will survive right down here on my knees.
@
"There has been a spacecraft sighted
 Flying high above the skies
 Sirens declare there's one among us from Venus."
@
"Volunteers!  We need volunteers!"
@
"I will date the girl from Venus
 Flowers die and so will I
 I would kiss the girl from Venus for science."
@
"I'm so great, I'm so great, I'll be their love slave."
"He's so great, he's so great, he'll be our love slave forever."
@
The famous person wears the same size water skis as me
She's got three cars, as many years I've lived in this city
Her hair is blonde and mine is brown, they both start with a "B"
But when the phone inside her rib cage rings, it's not for me.
@
There's a knock at the door that I adore
There's a face at the window, a smiling yellow face
There's a knock at the door and if I were at home they'd find me there ...
@
When it rains, it snows ... I wonder why.
@
There's a nut with a shotgun, bang bang bang
There's a doctor, a waitress, a fireman with a hat
There's a nut with a gun
There's enough so they'll never know which one.
@
Hi, we're the Replacements, and we're playing in a rock-n-roll band.
@
We're havin' a good time, rock-n-rollin' til the break of dawn.
@
Hi, we're the Replacements!
@
Hey, where's Tommy?  Someone find Tommy!  We're out on the road
Moving equipment -- where's the equipment?  Soon we're going home.
@
Stormy pinkness set me thanklessly free.
@
Human weakness fills my jolly cup with gloom.
@
The things we cherish are small indeed.
@
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas, a gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium at a temperature of millions of degrees.
@
Yo ho! It's hot! The sun is not a place where we could live
But here on Earth there'd be no life without the light it gives.
@
We need its light, we need its heat, we need its energy
Without the sun, without a doubt, there'd be no you and me.
@
We need its heat, we need its light, the sunlight that we see
The sunlight comes from our own sun's atomic energy.
@
THE SUN IS HOT:
   The sun is so hot that everything on it is a gas -- aluminum, copper
   iron, wood, and hair.
@
THE SUN IS LARGE:
   If the sun were hollow, a million earths could fit inside, and yet,
   it's only a medium-sized star ...
@
THE SUN IS FAR AWAY:
   IT'S ABOUT 93 MILLION MILES AWAY!  That's why it looks SOOO small ...
@
The sun is hot, the sun is large, the sun is far away
But even when it's out of sight, it shines both night and day
@
Scientists have found that the sun is HUUUGE atom-smashing machine.
@
The heat and light from the sun are caused by the nuclear reaction
between hydrogen, helium, oxygen, estrogen, and hair.
@
Dig my grave.
@
Every time I look in your eyes, I see St. Peter wave
Dig my grave.
@
Every time you call my name, I hear the angels say,
"Dig my grave."
@
Someday mother will die and I'll get the money
Mom leans down and says, "My sentiments exactly, you son of a bitch"
I palindrome I.
@
I palindrome I.
@
And I am a snake head eating the head on the opposite side
I palindrome I.
@
"Son, I am able," she said, "though you scare me." "Watch," said I
"Beloved," I said, "watch me scare you though." Said she, "able am I, Son."
@
See the spring of the grandfather clock unwinding
See the hands of my offspring making windmills.
@
Dad palindrome Dad
I palindrome I.
@
Words fail.  Buildings tumble.  The ground opens wide.
Light beams down from heaven.  She stands before my eyes.
@
"We take you to Brooklyn ..."
@
She's actual size, but she seems much bigger to me.
@
She's actual size, but she seems much bigger to me
Squares may look distant in her rear-view mirror
But they're actual size as she drives away.
@
I thought I was big once -- she changed my mind.
@
My evil twin, bad weather friend
He always wants to start when I want to begin.
@
Here he comes again, my evil twin
My friends have seen him hiding underneath my skin.
@
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 high metabolism rate they have.
@
Mammal, mammal.
@
One of us might lose his hair, but you're reminded that it once was there
From the embryonic whale to the monkey with no tail.
@
So the warm blood flows with the red blood cells, lacking nuclei,
Maintaining the very high metabolism rate they have.
@
Placental, the sister of her brother Marsupial
Their cousin called Monotreme
Dead uncle Allotheria.
@
The bat, the cat, dolphin and dog
Koala bear and hog, the fox, the ox
Giraffe and shrew, echidna, caribou.
@
The statue got me high.
@
The statue got me high, the statue got me high
A monument of granite sent a beam into my eye.
@
The statue made me die.
@
The statue made me die, the statue made me die
It took my hand, it killed me, and it threw me to the sky.
@
The stone it called to me
(And now I see the things the stone has shown to me)
A rock that spoke a word
(An animated mineral it can be heard).
@
And though I once preferred a human being's company
They pale before the monolith that towers over me.
@
The statue got me high, the statue got me high
The truth is where the sculptor's chisel chipped away the lie.
@
The statue made me fry.
@
The statue made me fry, the statue made me fry
My coat contained a furnace where there used to be a guy.
@
And as the screaming fire engine siren filled the air
The evidence had vanished from my charred and smoking chair
And what they found was just a statue
Standing where the statue got me high.
@
And what they found was just a statue
Standing where the statue got me high.
@
And now it is your turn
(Your turn to hear the stone and then your turn to burn)
The stone it calls to you
(You can't refuse to do the things it tells you to).
@
"Ladies and gentlemen!"
@
SPIDER ...
@
"He is our hero!"
@
"Must stop!"
@
"Step on Spider!"
@
"We love you, Spider!"
@
"I promise not to kill you ..."
@
"Get rid of SPIDER ..."
@
Hey, who's that playing the guitar?
@
Hey, who's that playing the guitar?
Is it Jim?  I don't know.
@
In the space ship, the silver space ship, the lion takes control.
@
Hush my darling, be still my darling, the lion's on the phone.
@
In the space ship, the silver space ship, the lion waves goodbye.
@
Turn it up, I can't hear the guitar.
@
I've been leaving on my things
So in the morning when the morning bird sings
There's still dinner on my dinner jacket 'til the dinner bell rings.
@
Dinner bell, dinner bell, do the bell thing
Dinner bell, dinner bell ring.
@
Dinner bell, dinner bell ring.
@
Shoulder, bicep, elbow, arm
Forearm, thumb, wrist, knucle, palm
Middle, pinky, index, ring
Dinner bell, dinner bell ring.
@
I don't want a pizza, I don't want a piece of peanut brittle, I don't want a
pear.  I don't want a bagel, I don't want a bean, I wouldn't like a bag of beef
or a beer or a cup of chowder, corn, cake, or creamed cauliflower.
@
I don't know whether I'd rather be having a bottle of vinegar
I don't know whether I'd rather be having an egg
I don't know whether I'd rather be having an order of bacon
Or whether I'd rather be having a basket of garlic bread
I don't know whether I'd rather be having some pie or saving my appetite.
@
Dinner bell, dinner bell, DING DING DING!
@
I don't want to change your mind
I don't want to think about your mind.
@
They say love is blind
I don't think you're blind.
@
I just can't bear to tell you some lies
And narrow your eyes.
@
Narrow your eyes.
@
But when I think of all your advice,
I narrow my eyes.
@
Now lets toast the sad cold fact our love's never coming back
And we'll race to the bottom of a glass
So narrow your eyes.
@
Here in the Hall of Heads, you look through the keyhole.
@
This is the Hall of Heads, one step through the doorway.
@
Roll out that special head
This is our favorite one.
@
Please don't try to leave
Don't leave the Hall of Heads.
@
You can't get away, you can't really hide
Once you hear the call, the song of the Hall of Heads.
@
You can't run away out of the Hall of Heads.
@
Which describes how you're feeling all the time.
@
There's this guy in the sky and he makes you want to want to sigh
Like the time when you felt like you're feeling all the time.
@
You said, "I'm feeling fine", but it didn't really rhyme.
@
It describes how you're feeling.
@
Which describes how you're feeling all the time
When you lie that your life's unappealing all the time.
@
Overseas there's this guy who describes how you're feeling all the time
In his mind he can find how you're feeling all the time.
@
I lay may head on the railroad track
Stare at the sky all painted up
Your train is gone, won't be coming back.
@
See the constellation ride across the sky
No cigar, no lady on his arm
Just a guy made of dots and lines.
@
See the constellation ride across the sky.
@
I was in the sky all dressed in black.
@
Can you hear what I see in the sky?
@
If I wasn't shy, if I wasn't shy.
@
If I wasn't shy, if I wasn't shy
I'd burn all the uniforms, I'd burn all the "Ask Me" buttons
I'd burn all the intercoms, I'd burn all the time clock cards.
@
If I wasn't shy, if I wasn't shy
I'd steal somebody's Cadillac, I'd steal anything I lack
I'd steal all the microphones from all the masters of ceremony.
@
If I wasn't shy, if I wasn't shy
I'd ask you, if you don't mind, to kiss you a hundred times.
@
I was working all night at my office when I man I had recently killed
Called me up from a phone near my building, so I looked out the window at him.
@
He had the same obsequious manner that was the reason I had him killed
So to calm my nerves I sang this song to him over the phone.
@
Turn around, turn around, there's a thing there that can be found
Turn around, turn around, it's a human skull on the ground.
@
Human skull on the ground, turn around.
@
Turn around, turn around.
@
I was out by myself in the grave yard, I was doing an interpretive dance
When I felt something heavy and pointed strike me in the back of my neck.
@
And then the ghost of my dance instructor pushed me down into an open grave
And as dirt rained down she played a xylophone and sang me this song.
@
We were waving our arms out the window of a fast-moving passenger train
Acting in an irresponsible fashion until the engineer whose back had been
  turned 
And who we thought would find us highly amusing
Quickly swiveled his head around.
@
And his face which was a paper-white mask of evil sang us this song.
@
He's a hypnotist, hypnotist of ladies.
@
You're getting very sleepy.
@
He's a hypnotist, hypnotist of ladies
Never had a pocket watch, never counted backwards.
@
You won't remember why you liked him.
@
Everything's catching, yes, everything's catching on fire.
@
.. Fingertips ... Fingertips ...
@
I hear the wind blow, I hear the wind blow
It seems to say, "Hello, hello, I'm the one who loves you so."
@
Hey now everybody now
Hey now everybody
Hey now everybody now.
@
Who's that standing out my window?
@
I found a new friend underneath my pillow.
@
Come on and wreck my car!
@
Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye?
@
Please pass the milk, please.
@
Leave me alone, leave me alone!
@
Who's knocking on the wall?
@
All alone, all alone, all by myself.
@
What's that blue thing doing here?
@
Something grabbed a-hold of my hand
I didn't know what had my hand
But that's when all my troubles began.
@
I don't understand you, I just don't understand you.
I don't understand the things you say, I don't understand a single word
I don't understand you, I just don't understand you.
I cannot understand you, I don't understand you.
@
I heard a sound, I turned around,
I turned around to find the thing that made the sound.
@
Mysterious whisper.
@
The day that love came to play.
@
I'm having a heart attack.
@
Fingertips! Fingertips! FINGERTIPS!
@
I walk along darkened corridors
And I walk along darkened corridors.
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