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Piece Of Dirt

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song namePiece of Dirt
artistThey Might Be Giants
releasesLincoln, Then: The Earlier Years
year1988
first playedDec. 31, 1987 (19 known performances)
run time2:00
sung byJohn Flansburgh

Trivia/Info

  • At the 1995-03-15 show, Flansburgh said of Piece of Dirt, "Here's a song that I was looking through the files about a year after we released the Lincoln album I found another set of lyrics that were really a lot better, so I suppressed them. And we're just going to have to deal with the traditional lyrics." The crowd then gave out a collective "aww."
  • An alternate verse of the song was included in Lincoln's liner notes and reads as follows: "Piece of dirt, I made it prettier today, piece of dirt, it was that or just complain."

Song Themes

Loneliness, Love, Me, Mind Control, Hypnotism, Problems with Liner Notes, Sailing, Telephony

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Piece Of Dirt is currently ranked #396 out of 846. (82 wikians have given it an average rating of 8.41)