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The World Is To Dig, 2026
Written by John Linnell and John Flansburgh
This song was originally written for the 2009 animated film Coraline, but was shelved and remained unreleased until 2026. It's a classic Giants track that would have fit well on John Henry. Lyrically, the song is a message of carpe diem (exhorting us to "make hay in the sun"), to experience life in all its vagaries, even though "you'll never know" what the mystery is all about. I love the internal rhyme in the verses: "Xylophones made of bones / That you loaned from a boneyard / Play you out with a galliard / Whistle along by the boneyard." The galliard is an athletic dance, characterized by leaps, jumps, and hops, popular in Renaissance Europe.
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