Certain People I Could Name

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Illustration from the Long Tall Weekend liner notes

song name	Certain People I Could Name
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	Long Tall Weekend, They Got Lost, TMBG Clock Radio
year	1999
first played	Mar. 14, 1996 (6 known performances)
run time	3:30
sung by	John Linnell

From tmbg.com, "A piano driven song with subtle charm from the Factory Showroom era. Don't really know how this got put aside, but I suspect it was probably more due to its mid-tempo than its high quality."
In early live versions, the line is "As a lizard eats a helpless creature on TV" instead of "stalks a helpless creature." Instead of the line "eyes with no expression watch the unsuspecting prey" Linnell would sing "as the camera moves a close up on the reptile's mouth" in concert.
The recording of this song on Long Tall Weekend was first present on the leaked cassette known as the The Complete Factory Showroom Sessions in 1996.

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