Carry your cross and I’ll carry mine
Dig your own hole and you’ll be fine
Build your own tower until heavens devour
Your very last hour
You call yourselves the chosen ones
Because you’ve seen his light and soul
Well I’ve got news for you I’m stronger
Because I’ve got rock and roll
You think just 'cause you pray
Your souls’ll be saved at any cost
While I’ll burn 'cause I rock and roll
Well, go one make my day crawl to your cross
So I’ll cherish the old rugged Cross
Till my trophies at last I lay down
I will cling to the old rugged Cross
And exchange it some day for a crown
Christ! You know it ain’t easy
You know how hard it can be
The way things are going
They’re going to crucify me
Why do I crucify myself?
Every day
I crucify myself
Nothing I do is good enough for you
My heart is simply in
Chains
So you’ve had a little trouble in town
Now you’re keeping some demons down
Stop draggin’ my,
Stop draggin’ my,
Stop draggin’ my heart around
She’s the devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress,
Devil with the blue dress on
Devil with the blue dress, blue dress, blue dress,
Devil with the blue dress on
If I had a million dollars
Well, I’d buy you a green dress
(But not a real green dress, that’s cruel)
I’ve got a hundred million reasons to walk away
But baby, I just need one good one, good one
Tell me that you’ll be the good one, good one
Baby, I just need one good one to stay aye eee ayeee
Feeling better now that we’re through
Feeling better 'cause I’m over you
I learned my lesson, it left a scar
Now I see how you really are
You’re no good, you’re no good, you’re no good
Baby you’re no good
It’s just no good anymore since you went away
Now I spend my time just making rhymes of yesterday
Why she had to go
I don’t know
She wouldn’t say.
I said something wrong
Now I long
For yesterday.
And now, now it seems
Those yester-dreams
Were just a cruel and foolish game we used to play
Yester-me,
Yester-you,
Yesterday
We must keep them away
Or pretty soon we’ll pay
And count the cost in sorrow
Sacrifice, the future has its price
And today is only yesterday’s tomorrow
A song not for now you need not put stay
A tune for the was can be sung for today
The notes of the does not will sound as the does
Today you can sing for the will be that was
Why are the ocean levels rising up?
It’s a brand new record for 1990
They Might Be Giants’ brand new album:
Flood
Lord, here comes the flood
We’ll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent and any still alive
It’ll be those that gave their islands to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you’re running dry.
When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck
Saying, “Fellas, it’s too rough to feed ya.”
At seven PM a main hatchway caved in
He said, “Fellas, it’s been good to know ya.”
The captain wired in he had water comin’ in
And the good ship and crew was in peril
And later that night when his lights went out of sight
Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Seen the lights go out Broadway
I saw the Empire State laid low
And life went on beyond the Palisades
They all bought Cadillacs and left there long ago
When a Broadway baby says good night
It’s early in the morning
Manhattan babies don’t sleep tight
Until the dawn
Good night, baby
Good night, the milkman’s on his way
Sleep tight, baby
Sleep tight, let’s call it a day
Hey!
And listen to the lullaby of old Broadway!