All Quotes by They Might Be Giants
“Life's just a mood ring we're not allowed to see.”
“Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank.”
“Where your eyes don't go / A filthy scarecrow waves its broomstick arms / And does a parody of each unconscious thing you do / When you turn around to look it's gone beyond you / On its face it's wearing your confused expression / Where your eyes don't go”
“I've built a little Empire / Off some crazy garbage / Called the blood of the exploited working class / But they've overcome their shyness / Now they're calling me 'Your Highness'/ And the world screams 'Kiss me, son of God'”
“I don't want the world, I just want your half”
“A woman came up to me and said / I'd like to poison your mind / With wrong ideas that appeal to you / Though I am not unkind”
“There's only one thing that I know how to do well / and I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well / and that's be you / be what you're like / be like yourself.”
“We can't be silent / 'Cause they might be giants / And what are we gonna do unless they are?”
“Everybody wants prosthetic foreheads / on their real heads.”
“We were once so close to heaven / Peter came out and gave us medals / Declaring us the nicest of the damned”
“You said you were the king of liars / And I believed you and called you 'sire' / But I realize now that I have been deceived.”
“Can't shake the devil's hand / And say you're only kidding.”
“Triangle Man, Triangle Man / Triangle Man hates Particle Man”
“Is he a dot, or he is a speck / when he's underwater, does he get wet / or does the water get him instead?”
“He's got a watch with a minute hand / millennium hand, and an eon hand”
“Standing in my yard / Where they tore down the garage / To make room for the torn-down garage”
“/ applied by Magic Marker to drywall / I should be allowed to shoot my mouth off / I should have a call-in show.”
“They revamped the airport completely / Now it looks just like a night club / Everyone's excited and confused”
“Time is flying like an arrow / And the clock hands move so fast they make the wind blow / And it makes the pages of the calendar go / Flying out the window, one by one”