Canajoharie-They Might Be Giants

[ti:Canajoharie] [ar:They Might Be Giants] [al:Join Us (Album)] [offset:0] [00:00.75]Through the overgrowth [00:03.19]Of the underbrush [00:05.13]Shone a fossil tooth [00:07.44]That I must have dropped [00:09.57]Very long ago [00:11.63]Which reminded me [00:13.44]How we wound up where we are now [00:17.89]Right through those trees [00:20.51]I'm not insane [00:22.89]That's where we came [00:25.14]Into this place [00:27.33]And if you squint [00:29.56]If you squint your brain [00:31.93]I'll get my paints [00:33.04]And I'll try to paint [00:34.67]Canajoharie [00:39.11]Canajoharie [00:43.48]Where a frog flipper first evolved on the day [00:47.60]When a daring mudskipper dragged itself away [00:52.22]Out of Canajoharie [00:56.83]Canajoharie [01:01.14]Call me sentimental [01:03.08]But I want to go back [01:05.01]And commemorate the place [01:07.31]With a historical plaque [01:09.75]It's as if a fin [01:14.06]Reaching from the swamp [01:16.25]Grabbed me by my arm [01:18.30]Tried to pull me in [01:20.68]But my arm was strong [01:22.80]And the fin was an [01:24.61]Inaccurately reconstructed fake [01:27.99]It was right through those trees [01:31.71]I'm not insane [01:33.89]That's where the fin [01:36.01]Tried to drag me in [01:38.39]Don't look at me [01:40.59]Look at where I'm pointing [01:43.07]Close your eyes [01:44.06]See what I see [01:45.75]Canajoharie [01:50.12]Canajoharie [01:54.44]I get the creeping feeling [01:56.38]All my old friends are gone [01:58.74]And that this baby tooth [02:00.73]No longer fits in my skull [02:03.56] [02:22.00]If you can draw [02:25.13]It in the air [02:27.37]Or write it down [02:29.49]Then you weren't there [02:31.79]What's gone is mute [02:33.92]Someone changed the truth [02:36.02]They swapped the proof [02:37.36]And there's nothing left of [02:39.37]Canajoharie [02:43.36]Canajoharie [02:47.98]Where a frog flipper first evolved on the day [02:51.84]When a daring mudskipper dragged itself away [02:56.39]Where a rocket ship [02:57.95]Experiment went awry [03:00.69]When the prototype [03:02.38]Exploded on the launching site [03:05.14]Like in Canajoharie [03:10.11]Canajoharie [03:14.49]Call me sentimental [03:16.31]But I want to go back [03:18.38]And commemorate the place [03:20.88]With a historical plaque