They Might Be Giants - The Experiment Begins lyrics

The experiment begins in the Twin Cities
Of the single state known
As Minnesota specifically
The legendary Minneapolis
Rock club, First Avenue, where the
Artist formerly known as
Public radio's Garrison
Keillor first bathed our world
In the purple madness of songs
Such as, "When Doves Cry"
And "Powdermilk Biscuit Rain" it is
Keillor's legacy of Midwestern
Pledge-drive funk that gives They
Might Be Giants
The idea for it's very first venue song a
Song that shall never be played again

And They Might Be Giants drives
On to Dallas, Texas
And an unassuming roadhouse with
The creepy and enigmatic
Name, Trees the band sets to work on a song
That will capture the promise of that name
It's mystery and strange horror

This is a slightly tweaked
Version unveiled at
The North Six New Years' Eve show
(nb the order of the Venue Songs
Varied from the original setlist
In that Los Angeles and Anaheim
Precede Dallas and Albany
So the libretto for Dallas
Actually occurs later)

Now is the dawn of 2006 but
So that we may understand the
Future days ahead of us, please, sip
From your way back martinis
And join us now in
The past the year is 2004
And They Might Be Giants
Fifteen year veterans of
National club tours
Once again feel the siren
Call of the American road but, this
Time, they will go about it differently they
Create for themselves a musical challenge
To create for each show an original song of
It's very own a song that would
Celebrate the unique character of
Each venue in
Which they perform not all the songs
Created on that now legendary tour will
Be performed tonight but rest assured
People of (town name here)
The less appealing quality of all the
Excluded songs still echo in
This whirlwind sampling of They Might
Be Giants' Venue Songs

And the band drives on to Dallas! And to
A venue with the unlikely name Trees here
Amidst the sacred oak groves
High on mistletoe
And secret potions, TMBG documents, in song
The strange rituals of the Texas druids and
Barely escape being burned
Alive, trapped inside a wicker man but
In the end, the whole band agrees
It is still better
Than playing the Dallas Grand Masonic Lodge
Those fucking cheapskates