Number Three Lyrics by They Might Be Giants

Number Three Lyrics

    There's only two songs in me and i just wrote the third
    Don't know where i got the inspiration or how i wrote the words
    Spent my whole life just digging up my music's shallow grave
    For the two songs in me and the third one i just made

    A rich man once told me
    "hey life's a funny thing"
    A poor man once told me
    That he can't afford to speak
    Now i'm in the middle like a bird without a beak 'cause

    There's just two songs in me and i just wrote the third
    Don't know where i got the inspiration or how i wrote the words
    Spent my whole life just digging up my music's shallow grave
    For the two songs in me and the third one i just made

    So i went to the president
    And i asked old what's-his-name
    Has he ever gotten writer's block
    Or something like the same
    He just started talking
    Like he was on tv
    "if there's just two songs in ya, boy
    Whaddaya want from me?"

    So i bought myself some denim pants
    And a silver guitar
    But i politely told the ladies
    "you'll still have to call me sir
    Because i have to keep my self-respect
    I'll never be a star
    Since there's just two songs in me
    And this is number three"

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