Finished With Lies (Nicolo Demo)

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song name	Finished with Lies
artist	They Might Be Giants
releases	Dial-A-Song, Podcast 56
year	1999
run time	3:11
sung by	John Linnell

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Trivia/Info

• This version was recorded during sessions with Joe Nicolo of the Butcher Brothers for a new rock album in 1999^[1], but was shelved after the sessions collapsed^[2]. It is a studio recording of the initial live arrangement, which was described by John Flansburgh as a "slow, hypnotic march" in a 2003 interview^[3]. Flansburgh would later mention the Butcher Bros. sessions on Tumblr in 2024^[4]: "Those sessions were essentially a demo for his label deal, and when that didn’t come through we motored on."
• Compared to the faster arrangement recorded for Mink Car, this recording features various lyrical differences. These include:
  • The absence of the lines "I'll talk faster and faster 'till I lose you" and "There'll be nothing to remind you".
  • "Move the needle with my mind" instead of "Move the needle telepathically".
  • The inclusion of the line "Everybody's going to dig me", which was removed for the Mink Car recording.

Song Themes

Denial, Forgetting And Remembering, Heads, Lies And Deception, Mind Control, Hypnotism, Oxymorons, Paradoxes, And Contradictory Statements, Paranoia, Questions, Supernatural

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