Song | Number Three |
Artist | They Might Be Giants |
Album | 1985 Demo Tape |
Download | Image LRC TXT |
Vocal:John Flansburgh/John Linnell | |
There's only two songs in me and I just wrote the third | |
Don't know where I got the inspiration or how I wrote the words | |
Spent my whole life just digging up my music's shallow grave | |
For the two songs in me and the third one I just made | |
A rich man once told me | |
'Hey life's a funny thing' | |
A poor man once told me | |
That he can't afford to speak | |
Now I'm in the middle like a bird without a beak 'cause | |
There's just two songs in me and I just wrote the third | |
Don't know where I got the inspiration or how I wrote the words | |
Spent my whole life just digging up my music's shallow grave | |
For the two songs in me and the third one I just made | |
So I went to the President | |
And I asked old what's-his-name | |
Has he ever gotten writer's block | |
Or something like the same | |
He just started talking | |
Like he was on TV | |
'If there's just two songs in ya, boy | |
Whaddaya want from me?' | |
So I bought myself some denim pants | |
And a silver guitar | |
But I politely told the ladies | |
'You'll still have to call me Sir | |
Because I have to keep my self-respect | |
I'll never be a star | |
Since there's just two songs in me | |
And this is Number Three' |
Vocal: John Flansburgh John Linnell | |
There' s only two songs in me and I just wrote the third | |
Don' t know where I got the inspiration or how I wrote the words | |
Spent my whole life just digging up my music' s shallow grave | |
For the two songs in me and the third one I just made | |
A rich man once told me | |
' Hey life' s a funny thing' | |
A poor man once told me | |
That he can' t afford to speak | |
Now I' m in the middle like a bird without a beak ' cause | |
There' s just two songs in me and I just wrote the third | |
Don' t know where I got the inspiration or how I wrote the words | |
Spent my whole life just digging up my music' s shallow grave | |
For the two songs in me and the third one I just made | |
So I went to the President | |
And I asked old what' shisname | |
Has he ever gotten writer' s block | |
Or something like the same | |
He just started talking | |
Like he was on TV | |
' If there' s just two songs in ya, boy | |
Whaddaya want from me?' | |
So I bought myself some denim pants | |
And a silver guitar | |
But I politely told the ladies | |
' You' ll still have to call me Sir | |
Because I have to keep my selfrespect | |
I' ll never be a star | |
Since there' s just two songs in me | |
And this is Number Three' |
Vocal: John Flansburgh John Linnell | |
There' s only two songs in me and I just wrote the third | |
Don' t know where I got the inspiration or how I wrote the words | |
Spent my whole life just digging up my music' s shallow grave | |
For the two songs in me and the third one I just made | |
A rich man once told me | |
' Hey life' s a funny thing' | |
A poor man once told me | |
That he can' t afford to speak | |
Now I' m in the middle like a bird without a beak ' cause | |
There' s just two songs in me and I just wrote the third | |
Don' t know where I got the inspiration or how I wrote the words | |
Spent my whole life just digging up my music' s shallow grave | |
For the two songs in me and the third one I just made | |
So I went to the President | |
And I asked old what' shisname | |
Has he ever gotten writer' s block | |
Or something like the same | |
He just started talking | |
Like he was on TV | |
' If there' s just two songs in ya, boy | |
Whaddaya want from me?' | |
So I bought myself some denim pants | |
And a silver guitar | |
But I politely told the ladies | |
' You' ll still have to call me Sir | |
Because I have to keep my selfrespect | |
I' ll never be a star | |
Since there' s just two songs in me | |
And this is Number Three' |