Sold My Mind to the Kremlin

from Phone Power by They Might Be Giants

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What is PHONE POWER?
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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Apophenia | I Love You for Psychological Reasons | To A Forest | I Am Alone | Say Nice Things About Detroit | Trouble Awful Devil Evil | ECNALUBMA | Daylight | Sold My Mind to the Kremlin | It Said Something | Impossibly New | I’ll Be Haunting You | Got Getting Up So Down | What Did I Do to You? | Shape Shifter | Bills, Bills, Bills | Black Ops Alt | I Wasn't Listening

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With no place in the processional
And no seat in the convention hall
I sold my mind to the Kremlin on the Fourth of July
I was wearing a Yoda mask
You were talking like Lou Ferrigno
A hat made of paper. A vest made of ugly
An intercom with just one button
"This bag is almost empty"
That was your sole communication
From unimproved roads on the Fourth of July
Fishing holes don't exist and country music with all those lists
Of things from yesterday you can no longer get
Let's talk about Patti Hearst, Skeletor and Charles Manson
Reagan closed the hospitals for the mentally ill
Train stations filled up with the mentally ill
And I'm singing into a tape recorder
Trapped in this thing that I can’t get away from
"This bag is almost empty"
That was your sole communication
From unimproved roads on the Fourth of July
With no place in the processional
And no seat in the convention hall
I sold my mind to the Kremlin on the Fourth of July
With no place in the processional
And no seat in the convention hall
I sold my mind to the Kremlin on the Fourth of July

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