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Author: They Might Be Giants
Sung by: John Linnell
Length: 2:32
On Albums: They Might Be Giants, One Little Indian, Just Is, Then: The Earlier Years, Selections From The 2-CD Retrospective, Restless Catalog Sampler, Ana Ng, Giants Jubilee, Video Compilation, Live New York City, Don't Let's Start, The Videos 1986-1989, Live!! New York City 10/14/94, One Little Indian Greatest Hits Volume Two, Miscellaneous T: the B Side/Remix Compilation, They Might Be Giants (`1985 Demo Tape')

Don't don't don't let's start
This is the worst part
Could believe for all the world
That you're my precious little girl
But don't don't don't let's start
I've got a weak heart
And I don't get around how you get around

When you are alone you are the cat, you are the phone
You are an animal
The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal
Wake up and smell the cat food in your bank account
But don't try to stop the tail that wags the hound

D, world destruction
Over and overture
N, do I need
Apostrophe T, need this torture?

Don't don't don't let's start
This is the worst part
Could believe for all the world
That you're my precious little girl
But don't don't don't let's start
I've got a weak heart
And I don't get around how you get around

No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful
Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful
They want what they're not and I wish they would stop saying,
Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa
Deputy dog dog a ding dang depadepa

D, world destruction
Over and overture
N, do I need
Apostrophe T, need this torture?

Don't don't don't let's start
This is the worst part
Could believe for all the world
That you're my precious little girl
But don't don't don't let's start
I've got a weak heart
And I don't get around how you get around

I don't want to live in this world anymore
I don't want to live in this world

Don't don't don't let's start
This is the worst part
Could believe for all the world
That you're my precious little girl
But don't don't don't let's start
I've got a weak heart
And I don't get around how you get around

Notes

The demo version of this song has an abbreviated form of the lyrics above. Essentially, it consists of the chorus, the "i don't want to live" bit, and another chorus.