One More Time! : They Might Be Giants....

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
The sun is a mass of incandescent gas,

a gigantic nuclear furnace,

where hyrdrogen is built into helium

at a temperature of millions of degrees!!!!

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  • Reply 1 of 11
    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
    I built a little empire

    Out of some crazy garbage

    Called the blood of the exploited working class.

    But they've overcome their shyness and they're calling me your highness

    And the world screams

    "Kiss me, Son of God!"



    Jeff
  • Reply 2 of 11
    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
    Don't call me at work again

    Oh, no, the boss still hates me

    I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore

    And there's a restraunt 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.



    Jeff
  • Reply 3 of 11
    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
    When the ship runs out of ocean

    And the the vessel runs aground

    Land's where we know the boat is found

    While there's nothing unexpected 'bout the water giving out

    Land's not a word we have to shout.

    But there's something beside the shoreline

    Moving across the beaches

    Heading up from the shipwreck

    Making as if to say...

    Women and men...



    Jeff



    PS-This is a nice distraction from sniper coverage, which I can't seem to tear myself away from...

    <img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
  • Reply 4 of 11
    Minimum Wage! Yah! *whip crack*
  • Reply 5 of 11
    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
    XTC versus Adam Ant

    I can't tell you why

    Even the singer from Bow Wow Wow

    Can't make up her mind!



    Jeff
  • Reply 6 of 11
    a10t2a10t2 Posts: 191member
    Since jeffyboy beat me to "Women and Men" (damn you!)...



    Fogging the view, cupping face to the window,

    in darkness you make out a spiraling shape.

    Putting all reason aside you exchange

    what you've got for a thing that's hypnotic and strange.

    The spiraling shape will make you go insane!
  • Reply 7 of 11
    She's actual size, but she seems much bigger to me



    Words fail

    Buildings tumble

    The ground opens wide

    Light beams down from heaven

    She stands before my eyes



    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...
  • Reply 8 of 11
    and the obvious...



    Particle man, particle man

    Doing the things a particle can

    What's he like? It's not important

    Particle man



    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



    Universe man, Universe man

    Size of the entire universe man

    Usually kind to smaller man

    Universe man



    He's got a watch with a minute hand,

    Millenium hand and an eon hand

    When they meet it's a happy land

    Powerful man, universe man



    Person man, person man

    Hit on the head with a frying pan

    Lives his life in a garbage can

    Person man



    Is he depressed or is he a mess?

    Does he feel totally worthless?

    Who came up with person man?

    Degraded man, person man



    Triangle man, triangle man

    Triangle man hates person man

    They have a fight, triangle wins

    Triangle man
  • Reply 9 of 11
    also... (my favorite)



    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



    Hide underneath the porch

    Hide down behind the furnace

    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

    Your feet won't help you run

    You can't run away

    Out of the hall of heads
  • Reply 10 of 11
    The statue got me high

    The statue got me high

    The monument of granite sent a beam into my eye

    The statue made me die

    The statue made me die

    It took my hand it killed me and it turned 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

    My coat contained a furnace where there used to be a guy



    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 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)



    And as the screaming fire engine siren fills the air

    The evidence will vanish from your charred and smoking chair

    And what they found was just a statue

    Standing where the statue got me high

    And what they'll find is just a statue

    Standing where the statue got you high
  • Reply 11 of 11
    jeffyboyjeffyboy Posts: 1,055member
    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 in bed"

    So onward go and Edward Ho into the bounding main

    Enjoy the show look out below but mind the misty sea

    Or end up sad like Mister Me

    He ended up sad He ended up sad

    He ended up really, really, really sad

    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



    Jeff
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