Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Dark And Metric - They Might Be Giants

Dark And Metric - They Might Be Giants
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Long Tall Weekend, 1999
Written by John Flansburgh and John Linnell

This short and vaguely sinister song depicts a person in a small quiet town where nothing happens, but he feels like he's drowning.  There are no taxis, no adventures with a night in jail, not even a fancy car ("No spoiler, no windscoop / No mag wheels in back / No hydraulic shocks, no privacy glass").  The metric part of the title might be nothing (I read that John Linnell just came up with cool-sounding titles first to write lyrics to), or maybe the small town is in Canada or Europe?
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