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Author: They Might Be Giants
Sung by: John Linnell
Length: 2:53
On Albums: Flood

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I    re-  turned a  bag  of   groceries ac-  ci-  dent-ly   ta-  ken  off  the

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shelf be- fore the  ex-  pi-  ra-  tion date

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I    came back as a bag  of   groceries ac-  ci-  dent-ly   ta-  ken  off  the

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shelf be- fore the  date stamped on my- self

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    did a large  proces- sion wave their tor- ches as  my   head fell in   the

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bas- ket    and was every-    bo-  dy   dan- cing on   the  cas-      ket

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 now it's over  I'm dead and I haven't  done anything that I want   or   I'm

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still alive and there's nothing I want to do


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So   I    won't     sit  at   home      any-      more      and  you  won't

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See  my   head in   the  win- dow       and  I    won't     be   a-   round

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Ever      any-      more and  I'll be   up   there on  the  wall      at   the

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store

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