Artist: They Might Be Giants

Album: Apollo 18

From: Elektra 1992

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Song: 1 . Dig My Grave

Song: 2 . I Palindrome I

Song: 3 . She's Actual Size

Song: 4 . My Evil Twin

Song: 5 . Mammal

Song: 6 . The Statue Got Me High

Song: 7 . Spider

Song: 8 . The Guitar

Song: 9 . Dinner Bell

Song: 10 . Narrow Your Eyes

Song: 11 . Hall of Heads

Song: 12 . Which Describes How You're Feeling

Song: 13 . See the Constellation

Song: 14 . If I Wasn't Shy

Song: 15 . Turn Around

Song: 16 . Hypnotist of Ladies

Song: 17 . Fingertips

Song: 38 . Space Suit

Lyrics:

Dig My Grave

Dig my grave

Every time I look in your eyes

I see St. Peter wave

Dig my grave

Every time you call my name

I hear the angels say

"Dig my grave"

I Palindrome I

Someday mother will die and I'll get the money

Mom leans down and says, "my sentiments exactly,

you son of a bitch"

I palindrome I

and I am a snake head eating

the head on the opposite side

I palindrome I

see that bulletproof dress hanging from the clothesline

see the medical chart with the random zig-zag

now I'll help it decide

I palindrome I

"Son I am able," she said "though you scare me."

"Watch," said I

"beloved," I said "watch me scare you though." said she,

"able am I, Son."

See the spring of the grandfather clock unwinding

See the hands of my offspring making windmills

Dad palindrome Dad

I palindrome I

She's Actual Size

Words fail. Buildings tumble. The ground opens wide.

Light beams down from heaven.

She stands before my eyes.

She's actual size, but she seems much bigger to me.

Squares may look distant in her rear view mirror

but they're actual size - as she drives away.

Big men often tremble as they step aside.

I thought I was big once. She changed my mind.

She's actual size, but she seems much bigger to me.

I've never known anybody like her.

She's actual size, nationwide, believe.

She's got all the money money couldn't buy.

She's got something special that someone left behind.

She's actual size, but she seems much bigger to me.

Squares may look distant in her rear view mirror

but they're actual size - actual size to her.

Her face hangs in portrait on the post office wall.

She's stuck in my heart now, where my blood belongs.

She's actual size, but she seems much bigger to me.

I've never known anybody like her.

She's actual size - actual size, believe.

My Evil Twin

My evil twin, bad weather friend

He always wants to start when I want to begin

It scares me so, like I scare myself

with that book of Nostradamus up upon my shelf

Playing hangman 'til the morning light

Doing donuts on the neighbors lawn

Then sleep all through the day, get up and start again

I can hear some sirens somewhere but I don't know why

My evil twin runs home again

Search lights look for an alibi, but I'll be home by then

Here he comes again, my evil twin

My friends have seen him hiding underneath my skin

Who cut the arm off the voodoo doll

That resembles a Republican president from long ago

I'd hate to see you leave

'cause I have grown so grateful for the

blame you save me from

I know he looks like my

Hates work like me

and walks like me

He's even got a twin like me

My evil twin, bad weather friend

I know some day I'll meet him

but I don't know where or when

Mammal

Glass of milk

Standing in between extinction in the cold

and explosive radiating growth.

So the warm blood flows

Through the large four-chambered heart,

Maintaining the very high metabolism rate they have.

Mammal, mammal

Their names are called

They raise a paw

The bat, the cat

Dolphin and dog

Koala bear and hog

One of us might lose his hair

But you're reminded that it once was there

From the embryonic whale to the monkey with no tail.

So the warm blood flows

with the red blood cells, lacking nuclei

Through the large four-chambered heart

Maintaining the very high metabolism rate they have

Mammal, mammal

Their names are called

They raise a paw

The bat, the cat

Dolphin and dog

Koala bear and hog

Placental the sister of her brother Marsupial

Their cousin called Monotreme

Dead uncle Allotheria

Mammal, mammal

Their names are called

They raise a paw

The bat, the cat

Dolphin and dog

Koala bear and hog

The fox, the ox

Giraffe and shrew

Echidna, caribou

The Statue Got Me High

The statue got me high

A monument of granite sent a beam into my eye

The statue made me die

It took my hand it killed me and it threw me to the sky

The stone it called to me

(and now I see the things the stone has shown to me)

A rock that spoke a word

(an animated mineral it can be heard)

And though I once preferred a human being's company

they pale before the monolith that towers over me

The statue got me high

The truth is where the sculptor's chisel chipped away the lie

The statue made me fry

My coat contained a furnace where there used to be a guy

The stone it called to me

(and now I see the things the stone has shown to me)

A rock that spoke a word

(an animated mineral it can be heard)

And as the screaming fire engine siren filled the air

the evidence had vanished from my charred and smoking chair

and what they found was just a statue

standing where the statue got me high

And now it is your turn

(your turn to hear the stone and then your turn to burn)

The stone it calls to you

(you can't refuse to do the things it tells you to)

And as the screaming fire engine siren fills the air

the evidence will vanish from your charred and smoking chair

and what they found was just a statue

standing where the statue got me high

and what they'll find is just a statue

standing where the statue got you high

Spider

The Guitar

Hey

Who's that playing

Hey

The guitar?

Is it Jim?

I don't know

Is it Jim?

I don't know

In the spaceship, the silver space ship, the lion takes control

Hush my darling, be still my darling,

the lion's on the phone

Hush my darling, be still my darling,

the lion's on the phone

Turn it up

the guitar

I can't hear

the guitar

In the spaceship, the silver space ship, the lion waves good-bye

Dinner Bell

I've been leaving on my things

so in the morning when the morning bird sings

there's still dinner on my dinner jacket

'til the dinner bell rings

Experimental dog

Salivating dog

Good dog

dinner bell dinner bell do the bell thing

dinner bell dinner bell ring

shoulder, bicep, elbow, arm

forearm, thumb, wrist, knuckle, palm

middle, pinky, index, ring

dinner bell dinner bell ding

I don't want a pizza, I don't want a piece of

peanut brittle, I don't want a pear.

I don't want a bagel I don't want a bean I wouldn't like

a bag of beef or a beer or a

cup of chowder, corn, cake, or creamed cauliflower cause I'm

waiting for the dinner bell to do the bell thing

dinner bell dinner bell ring

I don't know whether I'd rather be having a bottle of vinegar

I don't know whether I'd rather be having an egg.

I don't know whether I'd rather be having an order of bacon

or whether I'd rather be having a basket of garlic bread.

I don't know whether I'd rather be having some pie or

saving my appetite 'cause I'm

waiting for the dinner bell to do the bell thing

dinner bell dinner bell ring

Narrow Your Eyes

I don't want to change your mind

I don't want to think about your mind

They say love is blind

I don't think you're blind

You don't want to understand

and I don't want to shake your father's hand

and walk in the sand

and act like a man

I get on the bus

and ride past our stop

and though I'm late

I can't get off

I just can't bear to tell you some lies

and narrow your eyes

narrow your eyes

We'll take back every thing we said

Split up all the things and move ahead

Forgot how you said

to split your side off the bed

I get on my bike

Ride down our block

Ride through the world

Thru the green lights

But when I think of all your advice

I narrow my eyes

narrow my eyes

Now let's toast the sad cold fact

Our love's never coming back

and we'll race to the bottom of a glass

so narrow your eyes

narrow your eyes

Hall of Heads

Here in the hall of heads

You look through the keyhole

This is the hall of heads

One step through the doorway

Roll out that special head

This is our favorite one

Please don't try to leave

Don't leave the hall of heads

Hide underneath the porch

Hide down behind the furnace

You can't run away

Your feet won't let you run

You can't get away

You can't really hide

Once you hear the call

The song of the hall of heads

You can't run away

Your feet won't let you run

You can't run away

Out of the hall of heads

Which Describes How You're Feeling

Which describes how you're feeling all the time

Which describes how you're feeling all the

feeling all the time

There's this guy in the sky and he makes you want to

want to make you sigh, like the time

when you felt like you're feeling all the time

and you cried at the cracks in the ceiling all the time

you said "I'm feeling fine" but it didn't really rhyme

it didn't rhyme, overseas

Which describes how you're feeling all the time

It describes how you're feeling

Which describes how you're feeling all the time

when you lie that your life's unappealing all the time

but your lie doesn't rhyme with the word overseas

overseas there's this guy

who describes how you're feeling all the time

in his mind he can find how you're feeling all the time

from behind distant lines

even straighter than his spine

which is fine

and describes how you're feeling all the time

See the Constellation

I lay my head on the railroad track

Stare at the sky all painted up

Your train is gone, won't be coming back

See the constellation ride across the sky

No cigar, no lady on his arm

Just a guy made of dots and lines

Two years ago - moved from my town

I was looking up past the city lights

But the city lights got in my way

I found my mind on the ground below

I was looking down - it was looking back

I was in the sky all dressed in black

Can you hear what I see in the sky?

If I Wasn't Shy

I'd burn all the uniforms

I'd burn all the "Ask Me" buttons

I'd burn all the intercoms

I'd burn all the time clock cards

I'd steal somebody's Cadillac

I'd steal anything I lack

I'd steal all the microphones

from all the masters of ceremony

I'd ask you, if you don't mind,

to kiss you a hundred times

Turn Around

I was working all night in my office

when a man I had recently killed

called me up from a phone near my building

so I looked out the window at him

he had the same obsequious manner

that was the reason I had him killed

so to calm my nerves I sang this song

to him, over the phone

Turn around, turn around

There's a thing there that can be found

Turn around, turn arcound

It's a human skull on the ground

Human skull on the ground

Turn around

I was out by myself in the graveyard

I was doing an interpretive dance

when I felt something heavy and pointed

strike me in the back of the neck

and then the ghost of my dance instructor

pushed me down into an open grave

and as dirt rained down she played a xylophone

and sang me this song

We were waving our arms out the window

of a fast moving passenger train

acting in an irresponsible fashion

until the engineer whose back had been turned

and who we thought would find us highly amusing

quickly swiveled his head around

and his face which was a paper-white mask of evil

sang us this song

Hypnotist of Ladies

He's a hypnotist, hypnotist of ladies

You're getting sleepy, very sleepy

He's a hypnotist, hypnotist of ladies

Never had a pocket watch, never counted backwards

You won't remember why you liked him

Fingertips

Everything's catching on fire

Yes, everything's catching on fire

Fingertips

I hear the wind blow

It seems to say: "Hello, Hello,

I'm the one who loves you so."

Hey now everybody now

Hey now everybody

Hey now every body now

Who's that standing out my window?

I found a new friend

underneath my pillow

Come on and wreck my car (repeat)

Aren't you the guy who hit me in the eye? (repeat)

Please pass the milk, Please (repeat)

Leave me alone, leave me alone

Who's knocking on the wall?

All alone all alone

all by myself

What's that blue thing doing here?

Something grabbed ahold of my hand

I didn't know what had my hand

but that's when all my troubles began

I cannot understand you

I don't understand you

I don't understand the things you say

I can't understand a single word

I don't understand you

I just don't understand you

I cannot understand you

I don't understand you

I heard a sound, I turned around

I turned around to find the thing

that made the sound

Mysterious whisper (repeat)

The day that love came to play

I'm having a heart attack

I'm having a heart attack (repeat)

Fingertips

I walk along darkened corridors

and I walk along darkened corridors (repeat)

Space Suit