They Might Be Giants

[fox69]

"Electric Car"
(feat. Robin Goldwasser)

"Electric Car"
(feat. Robin Goldwasser)



Electric car
On roads so dark
To change the end
Rewrite the start
Electric car
So good, so far

Electric car
On verdant green
Invent a turn
Invent a dream
Electric car
The new machine

Let's take a ride in an electric car
To the West Side in an electric car
How can you deny an electric car?
Won't you take a ride with me?
Come on and take a ride with me

Electric car
Beside the tree
Roll past the dock
Roll past the sea
Electric car
Roll silently

Electric car
On roads so dark
To change the end
Rewrite the start
Electric car
So good, so far

Let's take a ride in an electric car
To the West Side in an electric car
How can you deny an electric car
Won't you take a ride with me
Come on and take a ride with me

No diesel, steam, or gasoline
Let's take a ride in an electric car
Happiness resides in an electric car
You can even drive an electric car
Won't you take a ride with me?
Come on and take a ride with me

Let's take a ride in an electric car
To the West Side in an electric car
How can you deny an electric car?
Won't you take a ride with me?
Come on and take a ride with me

 

[fox69]

"Elephants"
(feat. Danny Weinkauf)

"Elephants"
(feat. Danny Weinkauf)



They're not the largest mammals
But they're biggest on the land
So when I say "please step away"
I know you'll understand

They've got two tusks up front for fighting
Or digging in the dirt
So you can see how easily
You'd end up getting hurt

Get out of the way
Get out of the way
The elephants are coming through your town today
Get out of the way
Get out of the way
The elephants are coming through your town today
The elephants are coming through your town
Today

They're great communicators
With waves called infra-sound
Seismically clear, you'd barely hear
Them travel through the ground

And while the cows all stick together
And congregate at home
The bulls go out and walk about
They'd rather be alone

Get out of the way
Get out of the way
The elephants are coming through your town today
Get out of the way
Get out of the way
The elephants are coming through your town today
Elephants are coming through your town today
Elephants are coming through your town
Today

Get out of the way
Get out of the way
The elephants are coming through your house today
Get out of the way
Get out of the way
The elephants are coming through your house today
Elephants are coming through your house today
Elephants are coming through your house
Today

 

[fox69]

"End Of The Rope"

"End Of The Rope"


How thoughtless of me
How dumb can you be?
Hopeless, wasn’t that
What you called me and in fact
It was even more true than you knew

Where did the end of the rope go?
I forget now, did I let go?
After you left me hanging on your words
Which hung down like a rope
Where did the end of it go?
I’ll never know

You’re gone, but I’m still there
Clawing at the air
Now it’s curtains for me
And I’ll spend eternity
Doing joyless cartwheels in the void

Where did the end of the rope go?
I forget now, did I let go?
Long ago you left me hanging on your words
Which hung down like a rope from the sky
Where did the end of it go?
No one can ever know

Where did the end of the rope go?
I forget now, did I let go?
Once upon a time you left me hanging from your words
Which hung down in the ether like a rope from the sky
Wherever did the end of it go?
No one can ever know

 

[fox69]

"Erase"

"Erase"


you and I will be together when we shed our memory
I won’t wear an orange sweater when I get it off of me
when it’s as it someday is it always will have been the case
when your ever searching finger finds the button marked erase

finger find the button marked erase
like a deep sea diver falling into a mermaid’s embrace
put one box on the sidewalk then you return with the next and the first one’s gone
everyone gets on the bus out of town and the lights start going out one by one

button marked erase
when darlings must be murdered
when your heartbreak overwhelms your heart

think of this as solving problems that should never have occurred
please don’t call it strangulation, that is such an ugly word

press erase, ignore the shrill alarms
see the way the deep sea diver falls into the mermaid’s arms
put one box on the sidewalk then you return with the next and the first one’s gone
everyone gets on the bus out of town and the lights start going out one by one

button marked erase
when darlings must be murdered
when your heartbreak overrides the very
thing you can not face
the skeletons that won’t stay down
the mercy kill that can’t be drowned

put. box. sidewalk. then. return. next. first one gone.
everyone. on. bus. out. lights. off. one by one.

finger find the button marked erase
like a deep sea diver falling into a mermaid’s embrace
put one box on the sidewalk then you return with the next and the first one’s gone
everyone gets on the bus out of town and the lights start going off one by one

 

[fox69]

"Escape From The Planet Of The Apes"

"Escape From The Planet Of The Apes"


Escape from the planet of the apes
Well we gotta escape from the planet of the apes
'cause all our friends are on different planet
Yes all my friends are on a different planet now
Gotta escape from the planet of the apes
Gotta escape from the planet of the apes
I've got a starship that will take you to the planet where mick jagger lives
We've gotta escape to the planet of the apes
We've gotta escape to the planet of the apes before we explode.

 

[fox69]

"Even Numbers"

"Even Numbers"


2, 4, 6, 8

Even numbers, even numbers
Every other number is an even number

2, 4, 6, 8
Who do we appreciate?
10, 12, 14, 16
Skip all the numbers in between

Skip all the numbers that are not even
Leave out the odd ones
Leave out the odd; you're left with the even
Skip all the odd ones

Skip the first number and the second one's even
Skip the third and the next one's even as well
Skip the next, take the next, skip the next
Take, skip, take

You like French fries
But you don't like French fries
You've got socks on
But you don't have socks on
You're a girl, but you're a boy
Girl, boy, girl

16, 14, 12, 10
Skip our way back down again
8, 6, 4, 2
You, but not you, but you

Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no, yes, no, red, green
Red, green, red, green, red
She loves me, she loves me not, she loves me
She loves me not, she

(1) 2
(3) 4
(5) 6
(7) 8
(9) 10
(11) 12
(13) 14
(15) 16

 

[fox69]

"Everything Right Is Wrong Again"

"Everything Right Is Wrong Again"


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

Wake me when it's over, touch my face
Tell me every word has been erased
Don't you want to know the reason
Why the cupboard's not appealing
Don't you get the feeling that

Everything that's right is wrong again
You're a weasel overcome with dinge
Weasel overcome but not before the damage done
The healing doesn't stop the feeling

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

And now the song is over now
And now the song is over now
And now the song is over now
The song is over now

Everything right is wrong again
Every movement false, every four is waltz again
Every five and dime's been gained and spent
Tell me that you like my float upstream
Draw the line dividing laugh and scream
You know everything that I know so I know
You've heard the voice that makes the silent noise
That says that

Everything that's right is wrong again
You're a weasel overcome with dinge
Weasel overcome but not before the damage done
The healing doesn't stop the feeling

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

And now the song is over now
And now the song is over now
And now the song is over now
The song is over now

 

[fox69]

"Experimental Film"

"Experimental Film"


The color of infinity
Inside an empty glass
I'm squinting my eye
And turning off and on and on
and off the light

It's for this experimental film
Which nobody knows about and which
I'm still figuring out what's going to go
In my experimental film

Yeah, you're all gonna be in this experimental film
And even though I can't explain it
I already know how great it's

I already know the ending
It's the part that makes your face implode
I don't know what makes your face implode
But that's the way the movie ends

And in my experimental film
Which nobody knows about but which
I'm still figuring out your face implodes
At my experimental film

Yeah, you're all gonna be in this experimental film
And even though I can't explain it
I already know how great it--
Even though I can't explain it
I already know how great it's

The color of infinity
Inside an empty glass
It's for this experimental film
Which nobody knows about and which
I'm still figuring out what's going to go
In my experimental film

Yeah, you're all gonna be in this experimental film
And even though I can't explain it
I already know how great it's gonna--
Yeah, you're gonna be in this experimental film
And even though I can't explain it
I already know how great it--
Even though I can't explain it
I already know how great it's

 

[fox69]

"Exquisite Dead Guy"

"Exquisite Dead Guy"


Exquisite dead guy
Rotating in his display case
Exquisite dead guy
Swear I saw his mouth move

Exquisite dead guy
Outside my high rise apartment
Exquisite dead guy
Hanging from a skyhook

How am I supposed to let you know the way I feel
About you

How am I supposed to let you know the way I feel
About you

 

[fox69]

"Extra Savoir-Faire"

"Extra Savoir-Faire"


When I walk down the street, most guys look like elves
I don't mean to put them down but they do
It's hard to understand me from the language I use
There's no word in English for my style

What's a man like me supposed to do
With all this extra savoir-faire
What is left for me to prove, dear

I know just what to do when the ladies come 'round
You can try to copy me but you'll fail
Now, you might think you're different but time will prove me right
When you wake up from your dream I'll be gone

What's a man like me supposed to do
With all this extra savoir-faire
What is left for me to prove, dear