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The Spine
by They Might Be Giants
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Overall Rating:
2.2873
Avg. Critic Score:
2.2622
The Spine Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
- 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
- I've been dragging my feet across my back
- and I've been rubbing my head against my neck
- And I've been walking my fingers through my mind
- and I've been feeling this feeling in my spine
- And I believe I'll be leaving it behind
- When I don't need a spine.
- I'll be in the back, and I don't need the help
- I'm good here in the back
- I'm good all by myself
- I'm busy taking stock of all the things that I've forgot (5 4 3 2)
- And making mental notes of just exactly where I lost the plot (2 2 2 2)
- I stuck around too long feeling sorry for myself
- A disinvited guest rifles through the bathroom shelf
- I'm searching for some disbelief that I can still suspend (5 4 3 2)
- But never mind the furthermore-the plea is self-defense again (2 2 2 2)
- Then the people came to talk me down
- And I got some advice
- Then the people came to talk me down
- But I don't need advice-I'm down
- Later in my car I considered what you said
- I'm good here in my car
- I'm good with what you said
- And I'd be shouting out to you but I was mighty hoarse
- Talk you through the finer points and issues much too small to force
- Then the people came to talk me down
- And I got some advice
- Then the people came to talk me down
- But I don't need advice-I'm down
- Wearing a raincoat is flying around in a plane
- Made of a raincoat
- But when you think of that
- You hurt your mind
- And you'll need a friend
- To talk you down
- Needing a friend to talk you down
- Is food that comes from a pipe
- But when you hate the food
- That comes from a pipe
- You will turn to drugs
- To help you sleep
- Turning to drugs to help you sleep
- Will only lead to sleep
- And sleeping is a gateway drug
- To being awake, being awake, being awake again
- Being awake is swimming around in a lake
- Of the undead
- And the undead are like
- A bunch of friends
- That demand constant attention
- Demanding constant attention
- Will only lead to attention
- And once they have your attention
- They use it to ask for attention
- And once they have that attention
- They use it to ask for attention
- Wearing a raincoat is flying around in a yellow rubber airplane
- Made out of a raincoat, yes but when you think of that
- You hurt your mind
- And you'll need your mind
- For later on
- Needing a mind for later on
- Is a friend that comes at a price
- But when you hate the friend
- That comes at a price
- You will play the drums
- To help you sleep
- Can you tell that I'm planning prevenge?
- Read my mind, yes, I'm planning prevenge
- At the freak show,
- in the front row,
- mi amigo,
- lost in the sound.
- Now you know that the girls are just making it up,
- Now you know that the boys are just pushing their luck
- Now you know that my ride doesn't really exist,
- and my name's not really on that list.
- Can you tell that I'm planning prevenge?
- Read my mind, yes, I'm planning prevenge
- Fully moto
- On the headfo
- Rock the info
- The micro-type king
- Calling Mr. Pupkin
- to join us at the love-in
- Because Pupkin comes alive
- When prevenge is the plan
- See Pupkin take the stand.
- Tired of waiting,
- Tired of watching,
- Negotiating,
- Parading around.
- Now you know that the girls are just making it up,
- Now you know that the boys are just pushing their luck,
- Now you know that my ride doesn't really exist,
- And my name's not really on that list.
- Can you tell that I'm planning prevenge?
- Read my mind, yes, I'm planning prevenge,
- At the freak show,
- In the front row,
- Mi amigo,
- Lost in the sound.
- I know, I know, I said that I would quit
- All right, I promise, no more after this
- You don't know how I've tried
- To forget what it was like
- I remember now
- I remember now
- Why they called it Thunderbird
- Why they called it Thunderbird
- Man, oh man, my throat is dry
- Man, are you thinking what I
- Am? Well what about it then?
- Before you fall, you have to learn to crawl
- You can't see heaven when you're standing tall
- To get the whole sky
- On the ground you have to lie
- I remember now
- I remember now
- Why they called it Thunderbird
- Why they called it Thunderbird
- We like fun, me and my girl
- We'll have fun fun fun until
- T-bird takes her dad away
- I know, I know, I said that I'd desist
- All right, I promise, no more after this
- Not to be what I was like
- Not to soar across the sky
- Spread my thunder wings and fly
- Spread my thunder wings and fly
- I remember now
- I remember now
- Why they called it Thunderbird
- Why they called it Thunderbird
- He says he knows me
- But I don't know that guy
- He's waving at me
- But he looks kind of mad
- Some crazy bastard wants to hit me
- He's waving me over so he can hit me
- But I don't know that guy
- But I'm not going over there
- Some crazy bastard wants to hit me
- How have we come to this pass?
- How can I get to my car?
- Climb in, turn the ignition
- Pull onto the highway
- Where I am free
- Some crazy bastard wants to hit me
- He's waving me over so he can hit me
- And who the hell is he?
- I can't believe this is happening
- That crazy bastard wants to hit me
- I'm trapped in a world before later on,
- I'm trapped in a world before later on,
- Where's my hovercraft?
- Where's my jet pack?
- Where's the font of acquired wisdom that eludes me now?
- We're trapped in a world before later on,
- We're trapped in a world before later on,
- Where's our telray?
- Where's our space face?
- Where are all the complications we won't see around?
- They built this whole neighborhood out of wood, out of wood.
- I guess I'll still be around when they burn, burn it down.
- I will be standing around when they burn it down.
- Here in the Museum of Idiots.
- Honey, I'm there when you need me, please believe me, please believe me.
- I'll still be right where you left me, if you manage to forget me.
- Where we met is where you may forget.
- Here in the Museum of Idiots.
- If you and I had any brains, we wouldn't be in this place.
- Chop me up into pieces if it pleases, if it pleases.
- And when the chopping is through, every piece will say, "I love you."
- Every piece of me will say "I love you."
- Here in the Museum of Idiots.
- Every piece of me will say "I love you, you you"
- Here in the Museum of Idiots.
- It's kickin' in, yeah! It's kickin' in, yeah!
- It's kickin' in, yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
- Shocked awake in the middle of the day
- In a fight over shadows of the night
- And you wonder why the talk is so bold
- When it's boring and the story's so old
- Panic call to her best friend on the phone
- Won't sit down but she just can't sit alone
- Hard to justify a party band
- To somebody with no party plans
- Stop to appreciate it
- Let's hear the boyfriends say it
- It's kickin' in, yeah! It's kickin' in, yeah!
- It's kickin' in, yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
- Going good up until we shut 'em down
- Bum a ride to the other side of town
- In a restaurant with so much class
- If we'd stop laughing we could almost pass
- The disaffected waitress
- In some fake foreign accent:
- [fake words]
- Spines
- Gonna make you cry
- Gonna make you crawl
- Gonna make you fall in love again
- Spines
- Gonna make you beg
- Gonna make you plead
- Gonna make you fall in love with spines
- David Bowie came to town
- Flying overhead
- "Don't you dig my chops?" he cried
- This is what they said
- Au contraire, Dave
- Quite the opposite, in fact
- As it happens, au contraire
- Au contraire, mon frere
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Knew not what to do
- "This tie clashes with my hat," he cried
- "Don't you think that's true?"
- Au contraire, Delano
- Hate to rain on your parade
- As it happens, au contraire
- Au contraire, mon frere
- Jodie Foster held two pair
- Bach had three of a kind
- Gandhi said, "With my full house,
- I will blow your mind!"
- Au contraire, Mahatma
- Hate to contradict you, but
- As it happens, au contraire
- Au contraire, yes au contraire
- And au contraire, you square
- Wash that notion from your hair
- If you're still there, I must declare
- That au contraire, mon tres
- Bon frere
- Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on! Right on!
- Right on. Right on.
- Right on!
- I'm not much of a natural dancer
- But I've got a friend who's a natural dancer
- You could call her a jumpin' bean
- She's got ants in her pants and she's gonna dance
- I know a girl who's a jumpin' bean
- She's got keys and a token when she hits the scene
- Yeah I know a girl who's got a record machine
- She acts like David Lee Roth when he turned 21
- I know a girl who's a natural dancer
- With a cape and a hat she's a natural dancer
- She coughs and she laughs and she makes a lot of calls
- And all of the people applaud
- As she leaves the store
- As she leaves the store (damn good times)
- All of the people applaud (damn good times) As she leaves the store
- As she leaves the store (damn good times)
- All of the people applaud (damn good times)
- Can she do the karaoke? Yes she can, but she won't
- 'Cause she's highly qualified and she's not a joke
- When it comes to opera, she is ossified
- So all of you operas better step aside
- When my friend got amnesia
- She can't remember the show she saw
- Like the one with the guy with amnesia
- Who got off from the island on a helicopter
- I know a girl who's a natural dancer
- With a cape and a hat she's a natural dancer
- She coughs and she laughs and she makes a lot of calls
- And all of the people applaud
- As she leaves the store
- As she leaves the store (damn good times)
- All of the people applaud (damn good times)
- As she leaves the store
- As she leaves the store (damn good times)
- All of the people applaud. (damn good times)
- 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
- I went for a walk on a stalk, on a stalk of wheat
- And it felt like a trillion feet
- I was looking for a friend at the end, at the end of the line
- And it took me till the end of time
- I was all out of luck like a duck, like a duck that died
- I was all out of juice like a moose, like a moose denied
- I was all out of money like a bunny that's broke
- I was all out of work like a jerk who's a joke
- And I was out of ideas, like I is, like I is,
- Like I is, like I is, I was out of ideas...of ideas
- I once had a dream of a gleam, of a gleam in my eye
- And I'll have it till the day I die
- I had a thought bubble of trouble, of trouble and strife
- And I'll have it for the rest of my life
- I was all out of luck like a duck, like a duck that died
- I was all out of juice like a moose, like a moose denied
- I was all out of money like a bunny that's broke
- I was all out of work like a jerk who's a joke
- And I was out of ideas like I is, like I is,
- Like I is, like I is, I was out of ideas...of ideas...of ideas...of ideas
- I've got my house surrounded
- I know I'm in there
- Come out with both my hands up
- And don't make me come in and get me
- Don't make me come in and get me
- I can't hide from my mind
- Though I try, try, try
- I can't hide from my mind
- And you know why
- Running against the traffic
- To find where I lost you
- I'm catching up to the echos
- And I hear your voice from the buildings
- I hear your voice from the buildings
- I can't hide from my mind
- Though I try, try, try
- I can't hide from my mind
- And you know why
- The bars are in my eyes
- And kisses make you cry
- Smiles turned out misleading
- And memory's a lie
- I've got my house surrounded
- I know I'm in there
- Come out with both my hands up
- And don't make me come in and get me
- Don't make me come in and get me
- Don't make me come in and get me
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