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Now That I Have Everything

from Then: The Earlier Years by They Might Be Giants

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[Flansburgh intro:] Hi, this is John of They Might Be Giants. Ya know, a lot of people ask us, "What was the first song on your first demo?" Well, we like to say, "It was entitled 'Now That I Have Everything.'" And then often they say, "Where can I hear this song that was the first song on your first demo?" And we say, "Well, there's only one place." And that place has to be They Might Be Giants's Dial-A-Song service - 25 hours a day, 6 days a week, dial music at the end of the tunnel for a new generation. Brooklyn's ambassadors of love - They Might Be Giants performing their very first tape, their very first song on their very first demo, and it was called "Now That I Have Everything" - coming up live on They Might Be Giants's Dial-A-Song service.


The mirror on the wall
Won't talk to me at all
Now that I have everything
The place inside the frame
Just doesn't look the same
Now that I have everything
I wasn't always so fortunate
But I knew what I had to do to be well-to-do
And it had to do with the things
I had to do
And I don't want anything
I don't want anything
Now that I have everything
I can't tell things apart
I don't know where they start
Now there's everything
Don't remind me of yesterday
Put down that surfboard, no
Please don't say all the things I think I know that you're about to say
Everything is everything
Is what you're just about to say
There was a program
Sort of an inquiry
Into what would be just the thing for me
If it came to be
I would have to wait and see
And I don't want anything
I don't want anything
Now that I have everything
I can't tell things apart
I don't know where they start
Now that I have everything
And the mirror on the wall
Won't talk to me at all
Now that I have everything
The place inside the frame
Just doesn't look the same
Now there's everything
Don't remind me of yesterday

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from Then: The Earlier Years, released May 1, 2020

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