They Might Be Giants

fox69 · 09.03.2017

"Boss Of Me"

"Boss Of Me"

Yes, no, maybe
I don't know
Can you repeat the question?

You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big

Life is unfair, so I just stare at the stain on the wall where
The TV'd been, but ever since we've moved in it's been empty

Why I, why I'm in this room
There is no point explaining

You're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big

Life is a test, and I confess
I like this mess I've made so far
Grade on a curve and you'll observe
I'm right below the horizon

Yes, no, maybe, I don't know
Can you repeat the question?

You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big

You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now
You're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big

Life is unfair

fox69 · 09.03.2017

"Brainwashin' Our Fighting Boys"

"Brainwashin' Our Fighting Boys"

Somebody's been
Brainwashin' our fighting boys
Somebody's been
Deprogramming them so they won't fight anymore

They're searching for the missing chimp
But they won't find him
The missing chimp is sewing gimp with me
He won't fight because

Somebody's been
Brainwashin' our fighting boys
Somebody's been
Deprogramming them so they won't fight anymore

They're safe and sound
With its arms akimbo
Little legs are danglin'
In the pond, its big toe

Brainwashin' our fighting boys
Somebody's been
Deprogramming them so they won't fight anymore

They've been forced to live
In a land of love
Forced to live
In a land of love

fox69 · 09.03.2017

"Bread Hair"

"Bread Hair"

I'm a wigged-out daddy with bread on top
I dig an easy-bake granny with a whiskey mop
If you love me, you needn't the whole wheat crop
'Cause they had a useless battle and'll never stop

Bread hair, oh boy, oh boy
Bread hair, oh boy, oh boy
Bread hair, oh boy, oh boy
You're drivin' all my hope away

I'm a pumpernickel-do for you, dough you do
Use a yarmulka of hallah bread if you're a Jew
I belong to cayope, I be the wheat for you
Yeast and flour, bake an hour, it's annoying shampoo

Bread hair, oh boy, oh boy
Bread hair, oh boy, oh boy
Bread hair, oh boy, oh boy
Drivin' all my hope away

Bread hair, oh boy, oh boy
Bread hair, oh boy, oh boy
Bread hair, oh boy, oh boy
You're drivin' all my hope away

That's a gone rug, buddy

fox69 · 09.03.2017

"Broke In Two"

"Broke In Two"

You said something before you left
Something I was not to forget

Then
Is when i maybe should have wrote it down
But when I looked around to find a pen
And then I tried to think of what you said

We broke in two
Busted through
Broke in two

I would go back to the top of the day from scratch
If I thought that this thing could be fixed
Though sadly I'd do exactly the same thing as when

We broke in two
Busted through
Broke in two

You said "I'm gonna run you down"
I heard "I'm an orangutan"

Then
Is when i maybe should have wrote it down
But when I looked around to find a pen
And then I tried to think of what you said

We broke in two
Busted through
Broke in two

I would go back to the top of the day from scratch
If I thought that this thing could be fixed
Though sadly I'd do exactly the same thing as when

We broke in two
Busted through
Broke in two
I'm an orang-utan

fox69 · 09.03.2017

"Brooklyn (Celebrate Brooklyn)"

"Brooklyn (Celebrate Brooklyn)"

Greetings everybody, we're They Might Be Giants from Brooklyn, New York.
This next piece of music is called Celebrate Brooklyn.

The scroll unfurls
We hear the voice of Marty Markowitz
Now he's not frontin'
The Funky Bunch
He's Borough President
From the L to the J to the F to the G
Now who knows what that spells?

Let's Celebrate Brooklyn now
Even the Gowanus Canal
Even the Gowanus Canal
Even the Gowanus Canal

fox69 · 09.03.2017

"C Is For Conifers"

"C Is For Conifers"

Most with cones for seeds, most with needles for leaves
C is for conifers, my kind of trees
Large junipers and fir, spruce, cedars and pines
C is for conifers, more then five hundred kinds
If you see a Christmas tree or a stack of newspapers or a 2x4 frame of a house
It's probably made from pine trees and pine trees are conifers, that's what this song is about
Or if you see a plant in the shape of an elephant, or in the shape of a dog
It's probably a shrub, a conifer shrub pruned into that shape by someone
Most with cones for seeds, most with needles for leaves
C is for conifers, my kind of trees
Large junipers and fir, spruce, cedars and pines
C is for conifers, more then five hundred kinds

Spoken: There are so many different kinds of conifer trees.
This is just a few of them: Spruce,
Hemlocks, larch, cyprus, juniper,
Fir, Douglas fir, cedar, yew,
Pine, the dwarf conifer,
And the great California sequoia redwood.

Most with cones for seeds, most with needles for leaves
C is for conifers, my kind of trees
Large junipers and fir, spruce, cedars and pines
C is for conifers, more then five hundred kinds

fox69 · 09.03.2017

"Cabbagetown"

"Cabbagetown"

I was laying on the porch
As the bus drove by
Just talking to the dog
About thinking to myself
There are so many big ideas
We could talk about
But nothing that gets said
Gets us out of Cabbagetown

Oh, Cabbagetown
Oh, Cabbagetown
I will leave and I'll return
Oh, Cabbagetown

I talked to my old granddad
As he fell into the sea
He said time and tide are one thing
That no one understands
I talked to my uncle Jack
As he tried to talk to me
With a bottle in one hand
And another in the other*

Oh, Cabbagetown
Oh, Cabbagetown
I will leave and I'll return
Oh, Cabbagetown

Oh
Oh

Oh, Cabbagetown
Oh, Cabbagetown
I will leave and I'll return
Oh, Cabbagetown

fox69 · 09.03.2017

"Cage & Aquarium"

"Cage & Aquarium"

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
You cover your windows with lead
Even keeping the pets outside
Then you hear a moment too late this sound coming over the phone

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
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

fox69 · 09.03.2017

"Call You Mom"

"Call You Mom"

I think I'd like to call you Mom
'Cause you remind me of my mom
I'm gonna go put on my sailor suit
And we'll go out on the town

Why don't you let me call you that?
You're acting so much like my mom
She didn't like it when I called her name
You and her are the same

When we go out
You'll know someone is there
You will feel someone staring at you
You're on my mind
As I dream of the game
Where I'm rolling a hoop
And I turn around to find that you are gone

Which was exactly like my mom
And I will go hang up my sailor suit
And lie face-down on the lawn

When we go out
You'll know someone is there
You will feel someone staring at you
You're on my mind
As I dream of the game
Where I'm rolling a hoop
And I turn around to find that you are gone

Which was exactly like my mom
And I will go hang up my sailor suit
And lie face-down on the lawn

I see you moving towards the door
'Cause you don't trust me anymore
I need to find someone who's nice to me
The way that you used to be

And then I'm gonna call her You
'Cause she'll remind me of you
I'm gonna dress her in a sailor suit
That would look very cute

When we go out
She'll know someone is there
She will feel someone staring at her
She's on my mind
As I dream of the game
Where she's rolling a hoop
And she turns around to find that I am gone

Which was exactly like her mom
And she will go hang up her sailor suit
And lie face-down on the lawn

fox69 · 09.03.2017

"Can You Find It?"

"Can You Find It?"

Can you find the hidden 'H'
Where it's hiding?
Is it on the ground
Or in the sky
Or part of something here?
Does it fit somehere inside?
Is there somewhere it can hide?

[Chorus:]
Can you find it?
Can you find it?
Can you find it?
There it is

Where's the secret 'R'?
Can you see it?
Is it in the train
Or on the tracks
Or at the station-house?
Is the 'R' inside the tree?
Where oh where can it be?

[Chorus]

Where is the 'L'?
Is it under the chair?
Is it growing in the hair?
Where could it be?
We have looked everywhere
And I'm sorry to say
That it's part of the 'H'
Which isn't fair

[Spoken:]
[W:] Now where are you hiding, D?
[D:] Oh, you're never going to find me. But my question to you is, W, where are you hiding?
[W:] I have no idea. I've been looking everywhere.

Where is the 'M'?
Is it invisible?
Or is that against the rules?
Where can it be?
Well, it's right in front of you
And I'll give you a clue
It's an upside-down 'W'

There are letters everywhere in this picture
There's a 'B', an 'F', a 'Z', an 'X', a 'P', an 'O', a 'Y'
There's a sideways letter 'Q'
The aforementioned 'W'

Can you find them?
Can you find them?
Can you find them?
Can you find them?
Can you find them?
Can you find them?
Can you find them?
Here they are