Lyric discussion by gradgirl 

Cover art for Hovering Sombrero lyrics by They Might Be Giants

Once again, TMBG has done it again by giving us deep messages in the guise of arbitrary objects.

The deep themes are self esteem written in the lyrics:

"When you take yourself for granted feel rejected and unwanted, know youre never just a hat, youre never only just a hat you know."

There is also another theme of growing old and feeling nostalgia about years gone written in the following lyrics:

'Time is flying like an arrow And the clock hands go so fast they make the wind blow And it makes makes the pages of the calendar go Flying out the window one by one 'Till a hundred years are on the front lawn And the old familiar things are mostly all gone"

But then we hear that the old sombrero just keeps hovering on; we identify with the object and all sing,

"Hovering sombrero hover on!"