The Mesopotamians
They Might Be Giants We've been driving around From one end of this town To the other and back But no one's ever seen us Driving our Econoline van And no one's ever heard of our band We're the mesopotamians Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal and Gilgamesh And they wouldn't understand a word we say So we'll scratch it all down into the clay Half believing there will sometime come a day Someone gives a damn Maybe when the concrete has crumbled to sand We're the mesopotamians Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal and Gilgamesh The mesopotamish sun is beating down And making cracks in the ground But there's nowhere else to stand In Mesopotamia (But no one's ever seen us) The kingdom where we secretly reign (And no one's ever heard of our band) The land where we invisibly rule As the mesopotamians… |
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