Lyric discussion by Uso_Evin 

Cover art for Hide Away Folk Family lyrics by They Might Be Giants

i read in a review somewhere that it is about a family being burnt alive. I always got the impression that it was kinda like a frankenstien story, this folk family is seen as strange to others and they are scared of them, and so destroy them. Hide away folk family is kind of like a warning for them to keep hidden because the world won't accept them. It also can kinda reflect the way documentary film makers sometimes go and live with bizare familys and to us there ways are wierd and scary and so we judge them. I think this is basicly saying that folk familys should keep hidden so they are not percecuted. No idea about the bear thing, but with the hymn referance i'm sure whatever it means is very clever!