Lyrics:Battle For The Planet Of They Might Be Giants
| Battle For The Planet Of They Might Be Giants |
| By: They Might Be Giants |
| Year: 2001 |
JF: Ladies and gentlemen! Born in a graveyard, Now back at his drums... ...We've done this song a bunch of times where the microphone actually wasn't on in the- in the audience, y'know, so it was just like plugged in, looks right- and there was like the big build up- and then Dan hits it- and it's like, we can't even hear it. Pitiful. So uhm, here's a song where we a-actually have to ask each and every member of the audience to uh, basically be the spine, the "Rhythm Section", the Dan Hickey portion of the song. We used to do this song called Battle for the Planet of the Apes- Audience cheers. BUT WAIT! But wait, there's more disappointment ahead. People liked it so much that we stopped doing it, but now we're doing this different thing, it's kind of exactly the same, only instead of uh- the way we did it before, the way we do it now, we've- divided the band among uh- the way people are named. Everybody in the band named "Dan" plays on the first section, that's Mr. Dan Miller on the guitar, Dan Hickey on the drums, Danny Weinkauf on the bass And Dan "The Machine" Levine on the trombone. WHILE the Dan's are playing, we ask you to raise your left fist in the air In the traditional rock position and chant the word Dan as loud as you possibly can, sort of like this: "DAN! DAN! DAN!" Audience: DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! DAN! JF: Pretend it's like 4 in the morning, at the bitter end, the band's not coming back but you really want them to come back. And you're- and you're like wicked drunk. Oh. No flash photography for this- portion of the show. So um, and then uh- the second thing that happens is uh- John Linnell and I, John Flansburg are going to play- We ask to raise your right fist in the and chant the word (softly) "John, John John" while we play. There will be no other uh- rhythm accompaniments so we're counting on you to keep a steady beat. And then, uh- the third- is going to be uh- Mr. Jim O'Connor all by himself. We ask you to chant the word "Jim" in steady rhythm while Jim plays. Now, we know this is a uh- all ages show so we're counting on you guys uh- having their shit together. -Not being too drunk and can keep a steady beat, so here we go, save the drunk part for later, with the fake ID. Here we go, left fist in the air, it starts with the Dan's, then it's the Johns and then it's Jim O'Connor on the trumpet, all by himself, here we go. ONE, TWO, THREE Audience: DAN! DAN! DAN! JOHN! JOHN! JOHN! JIM! JIM! JIM! DAN! DAN! DAN! JOHN! JOHN! JOHN! JIM! JIM! JIM! JOHN! JOHN! JOHN! JIM! JIM! JIM! JF: We have a winner ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jim O'Connor on the trumpet! Audience cheers. JESUS fuckin' Christ. It's not just New Year's Eve, it's Halloween, he's scaring everybody! |