Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Best song lyrics ever
I've decided after thinking it over for a few minutes that "Don't Let's Start," by They Might Be Giants, in fact boasts the best song lyrics in the history of recorded music.
Check the link if you think I am just jerking you around here. --waiting-- OK. Are we not in agreement? Let's break it down.
First-- most profound lines ever written:
No one in the world ever gets what they want
And that is beautiful
Everybody dies frustrated and sad
And that is beautiful
Good god, so true. And so succinct. And still, this is paired with:
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
You laugh, and yet-- when cats listen to us, what do they hear? Right. Meow. Think about it. This is deep, people.
I am quite sure no song you come up with could possibly match this one.
I've decided after thinking it over for a few minutes that "Don't Let's Start," by They Might Be Giants, in fact boasts the best song lyrics in the history of recorded music. Check the link if you think I am just jerking you around here. --waiting-- OK. Are we not in agreement? Let's break it down.
First-- most profound lines ever written:
No one in the world ever gets what they want
And that is beautiful
Everybody dies frustrated and sad
And that is beautiful
Good god, so true. And so succinct. And still, this is paired with:
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
You laugh, and yet-- when cats listen to us, what do they hear? Right. Meow. Think about it. This is deep, people.
I am quite sure no song you come up with could possibly match this one.
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¶ 10:35 AM
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I'm trying to think of a better one but I'm coming up blank. Thinking...thinking...
Huh. I think you're right.
Huh. I think you're right.
# posted by 
: June 27, 2007 at 4:50 PM
: June 27, 2007 at 4:50 PM
Even though they refused to sign my homemade TMBG shirt because they had "punched out" for the night (yes, I can still hold a grudge 15 years later), you still have to hand it to their lyrics. I even did an analysis of the lyrics to "Ana Ng" for an english class in college.
"When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge. 'I don't want the world, I just want your half.'" - good stuff.
I think it might be time to crank some They Might Be Giants...
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"When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge. 'I don't want the world, I just want your half.'" - good stuff.
I think it might be time to crank some They Might Be Giants...
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