| They Might Be Giants – Ana Ng Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| What's interesting to me is that this song was written before the rise of the Internet and the proliferation of the Long-Distance Relationship. | |
| They Might Be Giants – Nightgown of the Sullen Moon Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Whatever it's untimately about, it's not a drug trip iself. As the lyrics state, it's something that is being compared to a drug trip. | |
| They Might Be Giants – Particle Man Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The lyrics and rhythm of the song are an obvious play on the old Spiderman cartoon theme song. "Spiderman, Spiderman, Does whatever a spider can. Spins a web, any size, Catches thieves just like flies..." And so on. |
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| They Might Be Giants – Cowtown Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I agree with Malkavian. So much (but not all) of TMBG's imagery is just for the sake of wordplay, for the image itself. It doesn't necessarily have to be a metaphor for anything, and any connotation is applied arbitrarily by the listener, like an auditory Rorschach. | |
| They Might Be Giants – Experimental Film Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| I don't think that the Experimental Film is a metaphor for anything, I think the song is a sendup of the typical fim student's experimental film and the type of meaninglessly surreal and pseudo-intellectual images that are used in them. This is seen in the H*R cartoon that quite blatantly parodies one of these films. | |
| They Might Be Giants – Twisting Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| As I described in "Birds Fly", the refrain of this song is a prime example of the bait-and-switch game that TMBG seems to enjoy playing with their imagery. It starts out with a seemingly joyous exclamation that "she wants to see me again", but then it's followed by a backspin. She wants to see him again, "slowly twisting in the wind". | |
| They Might Be Giants – Birds Fly Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| As for the line "birds fly, into my windshield", it is a good example of the kind of bait-and-switch game TMBG likes to play with their imagery. It's characterized by a positive image (Birds fly), sometimes followed by a pause but then followed by a twist (...into my windshield). See the song "Twisting In The Wind" for another good example of this. | |
| They Might Be Giants – Birds Fly Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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(("And the microscope reveals the scope of my very best intentions"-If you look close you see he is not trying to write bad stuff. "Yes, the tiny light shines twice as bright on the only nice part of me"- and you will find that is a nice guy.)) An interesting interpretation, but this part doesn't fit the lyrics. At all. If a microscope shows the entirety of somebody's best intentions, there can't be very many good intentions there. And if a tiny light can shine brightly on the only nice part of him, the singer of this song must not have very much of a nice part. |
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