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McCafferty's Bib

from I Like Fun by They Might Be Giants

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    Why is the world in love again? They Might Be Giants have released I Like Fun, a remarkable 15-track album.

    I Like Fun jumps with surprises, vitality, and the startling point of view of these Brooklyn originals. Over a year in the making, songwriters and band founders John Linnell and John Flansburgh draw on themes of dread, death, and disappointment and set them to their driving, hyper-melodic music. The results will leave even the most heavy-hearted among us with a renewed sense of wonder. Fresh and sonically adventurous, the band’s command of the studio and the song is in rare form from beginning to end.

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lyrics

If only there were some way to shut out
All this noise in my head
Oh wait there already is
It's called McCafferty's Bib
I used to have eleven problems
Then they all went away
When I added one more
Called McCafferty's Bib
Now the gray, gray clouds
Have arrived and the gray, gray clouds
Have decided to stay with us from now on
I ate the whole bottle of pills
And wondered what I had swallowed
And I saw that
the label said McCafferty's Bib
And then all the scenery melted away
And in back of it
The only thing left
Was McCafferty's Bib
And the gray, gray clouds
Have arrived and the gray, gray clouds
Have decided to stay with us from now on
In cities all over the world
All the people are suddenly struck
By the same idea
They're massing in public squares
And they're singing a note
That rises from low to high
With one hand they're holding up
signs of Bob Hope, in the other
Hand, everyone's
Waving McCafferty's Bib
The toothpaste won't go back in the bottle
since it granted our wish
And we will never be rid
Of McCafferty's Bib

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from I Like Fun, released January 19, 2018

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