I Love You for Psychological Reasons

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Bookend the Glean experience with this killer set of new tracks from TMBG! We’ve taken the best of the second six months of They Might Be Giants’ year-long Dial-A-Song project and made a brand new album! It includes show-stoppers like Trouble Awful Devil Evil, I Love You for Psychological Reasons and a transcendent version of Destiny Childs' Bills, Bills, Bills.

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Bookend the Glean experience with this killer set of new tracks from TMBG! We took the best of the second six months of They Might Be Giants’ year-long 2015 Dial-A-Song project and made a brand new album! It includes show-stoppers like Trouble Awful Devil Evil, I Love You for Psychological Reasons and a transcendent version of Destiny Childs' Bills, Bills, Bills.

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Lately I've taken to vacantly making repetitive movements
Mistakenly seen as improvements
Nearing perfection but wisely electing to shun my reflection
Preferring instead shoe inspection
Cheese and chalk do not talk
But their eyes synchronize with a secret rhythm
Which is a way one could say that
I love you for psychological reasons
Mumbling failure in jail my extremities flail and I wail
Though my arms and my legs to the chair are nailed
Under the table unwilling unable the torture's medieval
The dream is a fable with feeble wings
Why does the mouse share the house with the louse?
They won't say but they feel their feelings
Doesn't subtract from the fact that
I love you for psychological reasons
Reasons I can't really go into now
Reasons we should probably not get into right now
I'm ashamed to admit I'm afraid of assuming the blame
For my lame abnegation of braveness and fame
Brain in a jar in a car in reverse I'm rehearsing
The way I'll replay how to say how to be where you are
Flammable undiagrammable sentiments
Pass between animal beings
Hard to explain but it's plain that
I love you for psychological reasons
Why does the mouse share the house with the louse?
They won't say but they feel their feelings
Doesn't subtract from the fact that
I love you for psychological reasons
Reasons I can't really go into now
Reasons we should probably not get into right now

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from Phone Power, released May 1, 2020

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