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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#76: Aug 25th 2013 at 5:33:50 PM

Well, couple it with the next line, "Some nights I wish they'd just fall off," and you can interpret them like this:

Some nights I wish that I could just keep on talking and being social and stuff like that
Some nights I wish I could just learn to shut up.

I mean, that's what I get from it. Could be this, though.

edited 25th Aug '13 5:34:53 PM by 0dd1

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chihuahua0 Since: Jul, 2010
#77: Aug 25th 2013 at 7:40:29 PM

Rock Genius' explanation is how I interpret it.

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#78: Aug 25th 2013 at 7:59:16 PM

One for me is Bon Jovi and Jennifer Nettles' "Who Says You Can't Go Home": "Like a blind dog without a bone / I was a gypsy lost in the Twilight Zone"

The hell does that mean?

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#79: Aug 25th 2013 at 8:26:22 PM

It means, "I've been in this business for 20 years now with more and more success as the years go on. I don't even need to keep trying anymore—the public will buy any old crap me and my cowriters put out there!"

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MidnightRambler Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan! from Germania Inferior Since: Mar, 2011
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#80: Sep 8th 2013 at 4:00:07 AM

There's this Ray Charles song, "I Can Make It Thru The Days (But Oh Those Lonely Nights)". He sings about how much he misses his woman. It includes the line, 'And this picture of you just won't do.'

WELL NO OF COURSE A PICTURE WON'T DO FOR YOU MR. RAY CHARLES.

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FingerPuppet Since: Sep, 2012
#81: Sep 8th 2013 at 4:11:59 AM

[up]That made me laugh a lot more than it probably should have.

Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#82: Sep 8th 2013 at 4:50:17 AM

[up]I noticed that a lot with blind singers. For instance, Ronnie Milsap sings "I can't find the love in her eyes anymore" in "Stranger in My House", and he's singing about freaking truck driving in "Prisoner of the Highway", which I'm pretty sure you can't do if you're blind.

0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#83: Sep 8th 2013 at 7:11:04 AM

[up][up][up] & [up], my sides [lol]

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#84: Sep 8th 2013 at 8:41:51 AM

[up][up] "Stranger in My House" also features this in the chorus:

There's a stranger in my house
Somebody here that I can't see

Really? Well, just blow me away.

edited 8th Sep '13 8:43:53 AM by Willbyr

FingerPuppet Since: Sep, 2012
#85: Sep 8th 2013 at 4:59:43 PM

[up][up][up]What I meant was Midnight Rambler's over the top reaction made me laugh more than the irony of the lyric itself. That said, I wasn't aware there were so many blind singers who sang about seeing things.

Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#86: Sep 9th 2013 at 7:25:44 AM

They Might Be Giants specialize in A) childlike exuberance and B) offputting wrongness, but it's still extra-disturbing when they swerve from A to B midsong and almost instantly back again, leaving you with a stomach-churning case of Mood Whiplash and a "did that happen?" feeling:

[Jaunty male voices in unison]
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
[CHORUS]

edited 9th Sep '13 7:26:09 AM by Jhimmibhob

MidnightRambler Ich bin nicht schuld! 's ist Gottes Plan! from Germania Inferior Since: Mar, 2011
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#87: Sep 9th 2013 at 7:28:44 AM

[up] Wow, that's... prosaic.

How does that even fit into any kind of meter?

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#88: Sep 9th 2013 at 8:38:42 AM

[up][up]I dunno, that verse always makes me crack up, but maybe I have a sick sense of humor [lol]

[up]They Might Be Giants doesn't really follow any rules of making music aside from their own. Their writing can be very awkward at times, but uniquely awkward at least.

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Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#89: Sep 9th 2013 at 12:26:48 PM

[up][up]It's done in a syncopated, almost patter-style rhythm, rising a note with every line; and the last three lines involve time changes.

FingerPuppet Since: Sep, 2012
#90: Sep 10th 2013 at 12:53:17 AM

nvm

edited 6th Apr '14 3:48:58 AM by FingerPuppet

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