This Might Be A Wiki:Favorite Lyrics

A growing list of users' favorite lyrics from the songs of TMBG.

You can vote for or against lyrics on this list, by editing this page and adding to the total votes.

Album	Song of Origin	Lyric	Rating
They Might Be Giants (Album)	Don't Let's Start	Everybody dies frustrated and sad, and that is beautiful.	100 out of 100 11 total votes
They Might Be Giants (Album)	Hide Away Folk Family	"...Aquarius, abandon hope for future plans...".	58.33 out of 100 6 total votes
They Might Be Giants (Album)	Absolutely Bill's Mood	Life's just a mood ring we're not allowed to see.	50 out of 100 3 total votes
They Might Be Giants (Album)	Rhythm Section Want Ad	Laugh hard, it's a long way to the bank.	93.75 out of 100 8 total votes
They Might Be Giants (Album)	Rhythm Section Want Ad	Speak softly, drive a Sherman tank.	100 out of 100 1 total votes
Lincoln	Ana Ng	I don't want the world, I just want your half.	100 out of 100 9 total votes
Lincoln	Ana Ng	And the truth is, we don't know anything.	90 out of 100 5 total votes
Lincoln	Where Your Eyes Don't Go	Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of.	100 out of 100 10 total votes
Lincoln	Stand On Your Own Head	You made my day, now you have to sleep in it.	75 out of 100 4 total votes
Lincoln	Snowball In Hell	If it wasn't for disappointment, I wouldn't have any appointments.	100 out of 100 5 total votes
Lincoln	Snowball In Hell	Money I owe, Money I-Ay	100 out of 100 1 total votes
Dial-A-Song	Birdhouse In Your Soul (Demo)	I'd like to cover the earth with a fresh-baked yummy dessert. People couldn't live in it but I think it's worth the money and hurt, 'cause I couldn't tolerate all the empty places in the world.	66.67 out of 100 3 total votes
Flood	Your Racist Friend	You can't shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding.	100 out of 100 1 total votes
Flood	Whistling In The Dark	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.	100 out of 100 3 total votes
Flood	Whistling In The Dark	Whistling, Whistling, Whistling, Whistling, Dark, Dark, Dark, Dark	100 out of 100 1 total votes
Apollo 18	I Palindrome I	"Son, I am able," she said, "though you scare me." "Watch," said I, "Beloved," I said, "watch me scare you, though." Said she, "Able am I, Son."	90 out of 100 5 total votes
Apollo 18	She's Actual Size	She's stuck in my heart now, where my blood belongs	80 out of 100 5 total votes
Apollo 18	My Evil Twin	I know he looks like me, hates work like me, and walks like me. He's even got a twin like me.	100 out of 100 6 total votes
Apollo 18	Narrow Your Eyes	They say love is blind, I don't think you're blind.	75 out of 100 6 total votes
John Henry	I Should Be Allowed To Think	I saw the worst bands of my generation applied by magic marker to dry wall.	87.5 out of 100 4 total votes
John Henry	A Self Called Nowhere	But I'm thinking of a wooden chair in the room at the top of the stair, and I'm looking down the stairwell at the vanishing dot on the map of the spot, let me take you there. The dotted line surrounding the mind of a self called nowhere.	100 out of 100 2 total votes
John Henry	The End Of The Tour	I was bent metal, you were a flaming wreck when we kissed at the overpass.	93.75 out of 100 8 total votes
Long Tall Weekend	Rat Patrol	Wilderness of mirrors shine; floorboards creak and footsteps heard. Headlights turn into the drive, then disappear into the night.	100 out of 100 2 total votes
Long Tall Weekend	Certain People I Could Name	Who is it like? Doesn't it strike you as the very image of someone we know? Isn't it so like certain people? How could anybody miss the obvious and the uncanny and the clear resemblance? Isn't it just like certain people I could name?	100 out of 100 2 total votes
Long Tall Weekend	Counterfeit Faker	Nervous, I walk through windows.	50 out of 100 6 total votes
Mink Car (European release)	Your Mom's Alright	Your ass is grass, and I'm a lawnmower.	50 out of 100 5 total votes
Mink Car	Hovering Sombrero	Don't be burdened by regrets or make your failures an obsession. Know you're never just a hat, you're never only just a hat.	100 out of 100 4 total votes
The Spine	Experimental Film	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	64.29 out of 100 7 total votes
The Spine	Wearing A Raincoat	Turning to drugs to help you sleep will only lead to sleep, and sleeping is a gateway drug to being awake, being awake, being awake again.	100 out of 100 3 total votes
The Spine	Museum Of Idiots	Every piece of me will say "I love you, you, you" Here in the museum of idiots	100 out of 100 1 total votes
The Spine	Renew My Subscription	Refill my prescription to whatever that thing is that makes the carpet stop turning into snakes.	100 out of 100 4 total votes
The Spine Surfs Alone	I'm All You Can Think About	Your apparent nonchalance belies the fact that you can only think of me!	83.33 out of 100 6 total votes
Venue Songs	Memphis	I'm going to blind myself tonight so the image I will always retain is of the Gibson Lounge. When I get my sight back I'll redecorate my living room exactly like it.	100 out of 100 4 total votes
The Else	The Cap'm	My hat looks good on me? I agree, I agree.	75 out of 100 4 total votes
Here Comes Science	Cells	Inside the cell is a tiny double helix--another fancy word for DNA--which could also be a spiral staircase, which could also be a twisted ladder, which could also be a spring, which could also be a spiral staircase, which could also be a twisted ladder or a crazy looking spring.	100 out of 100 2 total votes
Join Us	Old Pine Box	You old pine box with your head full of rocks, sharp like a cracked flowerpot.	83.33 out of 100 3 total votes
Join Us	When Will You Die	And the only way to mitigate would be to know the date you're scheduled to vacate. When are you going to die?	100 out of 100 1 total votes
Nanobots	Stone Cold Coup D'État	What is that certain je ne sais quoi? Aw yeah, it's a stone cold coup d'état!	100 out of 100 2 total votes
Nanobots	9 Secret Steps	Inhume your gloom within a tomb. Confine your mind behind a line.	100 out of 100 1 total votes
Nanobots	Icky	You've got a nice pair of slacks which he takes but will only return one of them.	100 out of 100 2 total votes
Dial-A-Song	We Live In A Dump	I was individualistic They kicked me off the team.	100 out of 100 1 total votes
BOOK	I Can't Remember The Dream	My daily life doesn't interest me It's a never-ending litany of pain and ennui.	100 out of 100 1 total votes