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Lincoln
by They Might Be Giants
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Overall Rating:
3.1681
Avg. Critic Score:
3.6000
Lincoln Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
- Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
- To the name of this town in a desk-top 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
- And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence
- Listen Ana hear my words
- They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you
- All alone at the '64 World's Fair
- Eighty dolls yelling ";Small girl after all";
- Who was at the Dupont Pavilion?
- Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?
- Or the time when the storm tangled up the wire
- To the horn on the pole at the bus depot
- And in the back of the edge of hearing
- These are the words the voice was repeating:
- Ana Ng and I are getting old
- And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence
- Listen Ana hear my words
- They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you
- When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge:
- ";I don't want the world, I just want your half";
- They don't need me here, and I know you're there (don't need me)
- Where the world goes by like the humid air (world goes by)
- And it sticks like a broken record
- Everything sticks like a broken record
- Everything sticks until it goes away (it goes home)
- And the truth is, we don't know anything (don't know)
- Ana Ng and I are getting old
- And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence
- Listen Ana hear my words
- They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you
- Ana Ng and I are getting old
- And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence
- Listen Ana hear my words
- They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you
- Ana Ng and I are getting old
- And we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence
- Listen Ana hear my words
- They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you
- I'm going down to Cowtown
- 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
- The yellow Roosevelt Avenue leaf overturned
- The ardor of arboreality is an adventure we have spurned, we've spurned
- A new leaf overturned
- It's a new leaf overturned
- And so I'm going down to Cowtown
- 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
- We yearn to swim for home, but our only home is bone
- How sleepless is the egg knowing that which throws the stone
- Foresees the bone, the bone
- Our only home is bone
- Our only home is bone
- And so I'm going down to Cowtown
- 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
- Yes I'm going down to Cowtown
- 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
- Yes I'm gonna see (I'm gonna see)
- The cow (the cow)
- Beneath the sea
- Lie still, little bottle, and shake my shaky hand
- Black coffee's not enough for me, I need a better friend
- One pill at the bottom is singing my favorite song
- I know I must investigate
- I hope that I can sing along
- There's no time for metaphors cried the little pill to me
- He said, ";Life is a placebo masquerading as a simile";*
- Well, I knew that pill was lying
- Too gregarious, too nice
- But as he walked I had to sing this twice
- Lie still, little bottle
- Don't twist, it ain't twistin' time
- With every move you make you just disintegrate my ever-troubled mind
- Lie still, little bottle, and shake my shaky hand
- Black coffee's not enough for me, I need a better friend
- One pill at the bottom is singing my favorite song
- I know I must investigate
- I hope that I can sing along
- Lie still, little bottle
- Lie still
- Lie still, little bottle
- Lie still
- Lie still
- Lie still
- 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
- Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down
- (Purple toupee when summer brings you down)
- Purple toupee and gold lame will turn your brain around
- (Purple toupee and gold lame)
- Chinese people were fighting in the park
- We tried to help them fight, no one appreciated that
- Martin X was mad when they outlawed bell bottoms
- Ten years later they were sharing the same cell
- I shouted out, ";Free the Expo '67";
- Till they stepped on my hair, and they told me I was fat
- Now I'm very big, I'm a big important man
- And the only thing that's different is underneath my hat
- Purple toupee will show the way when summer brings you down
- (Purple toupee when summer brings you down)
- Purple toupee and gold lame will turn your brain around
- (Purple toupee and gold lame)
- Purple toupee is here to stay after the hair has gone away
- The purple brigade is marching from the grave
- We're on some kind of mission
- We have an obligation
- We have to wear toupees
- 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
- Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
- And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do
- 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 that you'll never be discovering
- You're free to come and go or talk like Kurtis Blow
- But there's a pair of eyes in back of your head
- Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders
- What the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of
- 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?
- Where your eyes don't go a part of you is hovering
- It's a nightmare that you'll never be discovering
- You're free to come and go or talk like Kurtis Blow
- But there's a pair of eyes in back of your head
- Where your eyes don't go a filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms
- And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do
- 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
- Piece of dirt, that is all I'm standing on today
- Piece of dirt, the whole world has slipped away
- I would climb the highest mountain just to jump into a fountain
- Or to fly, I'd fly away
- A woman's voice on the radio can convince you you're in love
- A woman's voice on the telephone can convince you you're alone
- But I set my sails so long ago they've revoked my sailor's badge
- Said I should be content and happy on this ink spot where I stand
- Piece of dirt, that is all I'm standing on today
- Piece of dirt, the whole world has slipped away
- I find myself haunted by a spooky man named me
- I wish that I could jump out of my skin
- 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
- 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
- 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
- He ended up sad
- He ended up sad
- He ended up really, really, really sad
- He ended up sad
- He ended up sad
- He ended up really, really, really sad
- He ended up sad
- He ended up sad
- He ended up really, really, really sad
- He ended up sad
- He ended up sad
- He ended up really, really, really sad
- The possible dream
- Finale of seem
- The moment that some call eternal that some call insane
- Now helmets on each head awaiting the first lead
- The pageant is named the pencil rain
- The infantry stands
- And holds out its hands
- The marshal's binoculars focus and skyward they train
- They're searching the yonder blue
- They look out for number two
- The heraldry of the pencil rain
- And now hear the roar that none can ignore
- The thunderous clatter of splintering wood and lives that are claimed
- And none who have witnessed all
- Can think of a nobler cause than perishing in the pencil rain
- The pencil rain
- The pencil rain
- The pencil rain
- I know you deceived me, couldn't sleep last night
- Now my tear stains on the wall reflect an ugly sight
- I can see your secrets
- No need to confess
- Everyone looks naked when you know the world's address
- The world's address
- A place that's worn
- A sad pun that reflects a sadder mess
- I'll repeat it for those who may not have already guessed
- The world's address
- Life's parade of fashion just leaves me depressed
- Under every garment I can see the world's address
- Call the men of science and let them hear this song
- Tell them Albert Einstein and Copernicus were wrong
- The world's address
- A place that's worn
- A sad pun that reflects a sadder mess
- I'll repeat it for those who may not have already guessed
- The world's address
- Call the men of science and let them hear this song
- Tell them Albert Einstein and Copernicus were wrong
- The world's address
- A place that's worn
- A sad pun that reflects a sadder mess
- I'll repeat it for those who may not have already guessed
- The world's address
- A place that's worn
- A sad pun that reflects a sadder mess
- I'll say it one more time for those who may not have already guessed
- The world's address
- Get out of the car
- Put down the phone
- Take off that stupid looking hat you wear
- I'm going to die if you touch me one more time
- Well I guess that I'm going to die no matter what
- Love people are there
- The smell of love is everywhere
- You think it's always sensitive and good
- You think that I want to be understood
- I've got a match
- Your embrace and my collapse
- Beat up the cat if you need someone else on the mat
- I put a rock in the coffee in your coffee mug
- Which one of us is the one that we can't trust?
- You say that I think it's you but I don't agree with that
- Love people are there
- The smell of love is everywhere
- You think it's always sensitive and good
- You think that I want to be understood
- I've got a match
- Your embrace and my collapse
- even when we get along
- I've got a match
- Your embrace and my collapse
- Love people are there
- The smell of love is everywhere
- Why can't you be sensitive and good
- Why don't you want to be understood
- I've got a match
- Your embrace and my collapse
- I've got a match
- Your embrace and my collapse
- Once a year my friend puts on a red suit
- And hangs around with me and my wife
- Now I can't help but feeling jealous each time she climbs on his knee
- And she stands beneath the mistletoe screaming
- For him to stand beneath the mistletoe screaming
- Now I can't help but feeling jealous each time she climbs on his knee
- Why must she climb on his knee?
- I saw my baby wearing Santa's beard
- She kissed him once and whispered in his ear
- I saw my baby wearing Santa's beard
- I wish he would go
- He's breaking up my home
- She always had this twisted side to her*
- But she'd never drag my name around town
- But lately she's been humming cheating songs
- And I don't like that fat guy around
- No, I don't like that fat guy around
- I saw my baby wearing Santa's beard
- She kissed him once and whispered in his ear
- I saw my baby wearing Santa's beard
- I wish he would go
- He's breaking up my home
- I saw my baby wearing Santa's beard
- Thrilling Christmas, trembling fear
- I saw my baby wearing Santa's beard
- I wish he would go
- He's breaking up my home
- 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
- You'll miss me with effigies
- Lighting up your house like Xmas trees
- As tears roll down below your knees
- You'll miss me with effigies
- Go find a man to fit my shoes
- 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
- You'll see my teeth in the stars above
- Every tree a finger of my glove
- And every time push comes to shove
- You'll see my teeth in the stars above
- Your money talks but my genius walks
- Morticians wait with a shovel and a fork
- As detectives trace my hands with chalk
- Your money talks but my genius walks
- You'll miss me so
- You will miss me
- It must be raining because a man ain't supposed to cry
- But I look up and I don't see a cloud
- 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
- To pick the broken ruins up again
- To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain
- Lad's gal is all he has
- Gal's gladness hangs upon the love of lad
- The love of lad
- Some things gal says to lad aren't meant as bad
- But cause a little pain
- They cause him pain
- 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
- To pick the broken ruins up again
- To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain
- 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 a 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
- Lad looks at other gals
- Gal thinks Jim Beam is handsomer than lad
- He isn't bad
- Call off the wedding band
- Nobody wants to hear that one again
- Play that again
- 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
- To pick the broken ruins up again
- To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain
- They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
- They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
- They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
- They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
- They'll need a crane
- 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
- Because he knows there's no such thing
- He asks a girl if they can both sit in a chair but he doesn't get nervous
- She's not really there
- He wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth
- Because he knows there's no such thing
- Tour the world in a heavy metal band
- But they run out of gas
- The plane can never land
- 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
- Because he knows there's no such thing
- What's the sense in ever thinking about the tomb
- When you're much too busy resorting to the womb?
- He wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth
- People should get beat up for skating like the leafs
- He wants a shoehorn, the kind with teeth
- Because he knows there's no such thing
- 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";
- Stand on your own head for a change
- Give me some skin to call my own
- Stand on your own head for a change
- Give me some skin to call my own
- You made my day, now you have to sleep in it
- Now you have to sleep in it
- I love the world and if I have to sue for custody,
- I will sue for custody
- Stand on your own head for a change
- Give me some skin to call my own
- Stand on your own head for a change
- Give me some skin to call my own
- Stand on your own head
- Stand on your own head for a change
- Stand on your own head
- Avalanche or roadblock
- I was a snowball in hell
- Avalanche or roadblock
- A jailer trapped in his cell
- Money's all broke, and food's going hungry
- If it wasn't for disappointment
- I wouldn't have any appointments
- Side effect or drug trip
- Don't tease me with all of your might
- Side effect or drug trip
- My panacea's in a Xerox shop
- Have a nice day, you want it when?
- Have a nice day, have a nice day
- I didn't expect to find a salesman drinking coffee this late in the morning. How long you been here, Joe?
- Oh, I don't know, I guess thirty, forty-five minutes maybe. Why do you ask?
- You must be making a lot of sales, piling up good income.
- Oh... uh... I'm doing all right. I could do better, but... Ohahaha I get it Paul. Back on that old ";Time is Money"; kick, right?
- Not back on it, Joe, still on it.
- Avalanche or roadblock
- I was a snowball in hell
- Avalanche or roadblock
- A jailer trapped in his cell
- Money I owe, money-iy-ay
- Money I owe, money-iy-ay
- Avalanche or roadblock
- I was a snowball in hell
- Notes
- The Frank O'Toole demo version adds more of the spoken dialogue ad nauseum as follows:
- Okay, okay
- Okay, okay, okay let's
- Okay, okay
- Okay, okay, okay let's
- Okay, okay
- Okay, okay, okay let's
- Avalanche or roadblock
- I was a snowball in hell
- Avalanche or roadblock
- A jailer trapped in his cell
- Money's all broke, and food's going hungry
- If it wasn't for disappointment
- I wouldn't have any appointments
- Did I affect your drug trip
- Don't tease me with all of your might
- Did I affect your drug trip
- You threw my wallet in the wishing well
- Have a nice day, you want it when?
- Have a nice day, have a nice day
- I didn't expect to find a salesman drinking coffee this late in the morning. How long you been here, Joe?
- Oh, I don't know, I guess thirty, forty-five minutes maybe. Why do you ask?
- You must be making a lot of sales, piling up good income.
- Oh... uh... I'm doing all right. I could do better, but... Ohahaha I get it Paul. Back on that old ";Time is Money"; kick, right?
- Not back on it, Joe, still on it.
- Avalanche or roadblock
- I was a snowball in hell
- Avalanche or roadblock
- A jailer trapped in his cell
- Money's all broke, and food's going hungry
- If it wasn't for disappointment
- I wouldn't have any appointments
- Avalanche or roadblock
- Yes, I was a snowball in hell
- I was a snowball in hell
- Not back on it, Joe, still on it.
- Not back on it, Joe, still on it.
- Not back on it, Joe, still on it.
- I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage
- Called the blood of the exploited working class
- But they've overcome their shyness
- Now they're calling me Your Highness
- And a world screams, ";Kiss me, Son of God";
- I destroyed a bond of friendship and respect
- Between the only people left who'd even look me in the eye
- Now I laugh and make a fortune
- Off the same ones that I tortured
- And a world screams, ";Kiss me, Son of God";
- I look like Jesus, so they say
- But Mr. Jesus is very far away
- Now you're the only one here who can tell me if it's true
- That you love me and I love me
- I built a little empire out of some crazy garbage
- Called the blood of the exploited working class
- But they've overcome their shyness
- Now they're calling me Your Highness
- And a world screams, ";Kiss me, Son of God";
- Yes a world screams, ";Kiss me, Son of God";
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