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On The Drag

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song nameOn the Drag
artistThey Might Be Giants
albumWorking Undercover For The Man EP, Man, It's So Loud In Here (EP), They Got Lost, tmbg.com Free Tunes, TMBG Clock Radio
year2000
first playedMar. 14, 1996 (62 known performances)
run time2:18
sung byJohn Flansburgh

[edit] Trivia/Info

  • From tmbg.com, "You might remember this one from the live show. We recorded a version of this for Factory Showroom but it sounded kind of generic. At a later session at Coyote for something else we pulled this one out and the track came back to life."
  • At a show in 2002, the band ripped into this song, only to stop halfway through the first chorus for a shouted apology from Flans: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry! OK. Let's try that again. Lemme tell ya, F# is one of the most elusive keys on the guitar, hiding somewhere between the people's key of F... and the angry people's key of G." They then finished the song, and it was awesome, natch.
  • Early versions have the first and second stanzas switched. The song thus starts with "You're only happy when you're sad" instead of "I won't die until I'm dead".

[edit] Song Themes

Friendship, Geography, Letters Of The Alphabet, New York City, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Streets, Time, Transportation

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