Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song The Mesopotamians
Album: The Else
Verse 1:
We've been driving around
From one end of this town to the other and back
But no one's ever seen us (No one's ever seen us)
Driving our Econoline van (And no one's ever heard of our band)
And no one's ever heard of our band
Chorus:
D D Bm
We're the Mesopota- mi - ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh
Bridge:
D D Bm Bm G
Then they wouldn't understand a word we say,
So we'll scratch it all down into the clay
Half believing there will sometime come a day someone gives a damn
Maybe when the concrete has crumbled to sand
Chorus:
We're the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh
Bridge:
The Mesopotam-ish sun is beating down
And making cracks in the ground
But there's nowhere else to stand
In Mesopotamia, (No one's ever seen us)
The kingdom where we secretly reign (And no one's ever heard of our band)
The land where we invisibly rule
Chorus:
As the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh
Bridge:
This is my last stick of gum
I'm going to cut it up so everybody else gets some
Except for Ashurbanipal who says my haircut makes me look like aMohenjodaroan
Hey, Ashurbanipal,
Chorus:
I'm a Mesopota-mi -an
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh
We're the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbani -pal, and Gilgamesh
Bridge:
"Hey, man, I thought that you were dead
I thought you crashed your car"
"No, man, I've been right here this whole time playing bass guitar
For the Mesopotamians"
Chorus:
We're the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh
We're the Mesopota-mi -ans
Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal, and Gilgamesh