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Experimental Film Lyrics
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 is
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
After figuring out your face implodes
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--
Even though I can't explain it
I already know how great it is
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 is
Inside an empty glass
I'm squinting my eye
And turning off and on and on
and off the light
Which nobody knows about and which
I'm still figuring out what's going to go
In my experimental film
And even though I can't explain it
I already know how great it is
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
Which nobody knows about but which
After figuring out your face implodes
In my 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 is
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
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 is
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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.
Strong Sad and The Cheat from www.homestarrunner.com made a music video for this http://www.homestarrunner.com/expfilm.html
They did some other stuff with the guys from They Might Be Giants. It's on http://www.homestarrunner.com/toons.html then click puppet stuff then there are 3 puppet jams. ENJOY. :-D
Homestar runner rules! Everybody...everybody.... Check out the DVD, it's awesome!
TMBG is pretty literal in their songs, so I don't think there is some sort of deeper meaning to this, however the chorus does make a pretty good metaphor for life...
yep, you got it... his life is an experimental film. We are all in it because we are part of his life. Your face implodes when you die. The only part that confuses me at all is the first paragraph. I think he's trying to film infinity, and he can't get the lighting to look right lol.
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love this song.
k figured it out.... the color of infinity inside an empty glass.
Let's say your life is an experimental film. What color would everythign in the world look like?
I'm squinting my eyes and turning off and on and on and off the light.
he's trying to adjust his lighting to capture everything that happens in the universe... all the light in the universe would be somewhat bright, so he has to squint his eyes lol. TMBG likes to make jokes about how it's annoying to try to get through the lyrics when really it's so much fun, so they make the joke that they're "turning off" meaning turning people off, and going "on and on" lol
Maybe he liked salvador dali? yeah actually that homestar vidoe made me hear this track, i've been trying to get to listen to some tmbg. thank you homestarrunner!
This is one of the best songs I've heard in a long time. By the way- discovered it on homestar Runner. How cool is that? I agree with the theory of life being an experimental film, both as the song's meaning, and as a real life philiosophy.
~Fledgehog
Hehe i love the first paragrah. It is what it is. Thinking about some pretentious nonesense to film in his experimental film.