They Might Be Giants - A Concrete Shrine lyrics

From Dallas, They Might Be Giants makes
The quick drive to Albany, futuristic
Capital of the State of New York
Lost in the city's downtown
A concrete shrine to Nelson Rockefeller's
Vision of dehumanizing bureaucracy
The band soon find
Themselves confronted by The Egg the Egg
More than just a venue, The Egg is a
Gigantic cement performance orb
Whose smooth
Featureless exterior suggests a worrisome
Lack of fire exit's

From California, They Might Be Giants makes
The quick drive to Albany
Capital of the state of New
York and home to The
Egg, Albany's prize piece of
Eccentric architecture the Egg
Predictably egg-shaped
It stands just under one thousand
Feet tall the Egg, built to
Withstand any form of attack the Egg
Has an outer shell of
Poured concrete and a solid core
Of publicly funded world-beat music
But, is it designed to protect
The world-beat music from us
Or to protect us from the
World-beat music? Either way
The Egg proves incapable of
Containing They Might
Be Giants' ultra-violet shade of rock music