A User's Guide to They Might Be Giants lyrics

Make a hole with a 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

My apartment looks upside down from there
Water spirals the wrong way out the sink
And her voice is a backwards record
It's like a whirlpool and it never ends

Ana Ng and I are getting old

Bangs
Above your eyes your hair hangs.
Blow my mind your royal flyness I dig your bangs.
Bangs to drape across your forehead
To swing concordant angles as you incline your head.
Once with a girl I fell in love some time ago no she had
Bangs are that on which the world hangs.
I'm only holding your hand so I can look at your bangs.

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 ...

I taught you how to cyclops rock and then you turn around and break my heart
And waste my cyclops time and mess up my cyclops mind.
I'm sick like Chuckie was sick, my defeated heart keeps beating on.
I won't die, like Chuckie won't die, but I'm not here to socialize.
Gotta find a new place to hang out, because I'm tired of living in hell.

They call me Dr. Worm,
Good morning, how are you? I'm Dr. Worm.
I'm interested in things,
I'm not a real doctor but I am a real worm,
I am an actual worm,
I live like a worm.

I like to play the drums.
I think I'm getting good, but I can handle criticism.
I'll show you what I know and you can

Tell me if you think I'm getting better on the drums
I'll leave the front unlocked 'cause I can't

Chorus:
Don't Don't Don't let's start
This is the worst part
Could believe for all the world
That you're my precious little girl
But 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

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

Evil, evil is his one and only name
Evil, in his mind there is no other game!

When your name is Evil, that is good or so you think,
but you're so very wrong.
It's evil!
But being wrong is right, so then you're good again,
wich is the evilest thing of all...

Do you find his sudden ways, invite you? does he excite you?
If his contradictions should atract you, should he distract you?

You're older than you've ever been
and now you're even older
and now you're even older
and now you're even older.
you're older than you've ever been
and now you're even older,
and now you're older still.

Time!...is marching on,
and time...is still marching on.

This day will soon be at an end
and now it's even sooner
and now it's even sooner
and now it's even sooner

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
I remember the book depository where they crowned the king of Cuba
Now that's all I can think of, but I'm sure there's something else
Way down inside me I can feel it coming back

As your body floats down Third Street
With the burn-smell factory closing up
Yes it's sad to say you will romanticize
All the things you've known before
It was not not not so great
It was not not not so great
And as you take a bath in that beaten path
There's a pounding at the door
Well It's a mighty zombie talking of some love and posterity
He says "The good old days never say good-bye

I met someone at the dog show
She was holding my left arm
But everyone was acting normal so I tried to look nonchalant.
We both said, "I really love you,"
The Shriners loaned us cars
We raced up and down the sidewalk twenty thousand million times

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

Love sees love's happiness
But happiness can't see that love is sad
That love is sad
Sadness is hanging there
To show love somewhere something needs a change
They need a change

They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
To take the house he built for her apart
To make it break it's gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain
They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane

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