They Might Be Giants - The Statue Got Me High video free download

Darktan2112

It's about the monolith from 2001: Space Odyssey. I can't believe no one's said that yet. It's not actually, but the Space Odyssey's monolith and the statue Linell describes are perfect parallels. 

Dash Spaceski

Just a thought 420 meeting statue, Kids smoking after school? Well a lot of coicidences. But if Linnell says otherwise I believe.

Guest Mann

I don't know why, I just really felt like hearing the Johns' voices.

TriForce Matias

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Corey

The stone didn't call to one person. Shame!

Lee Lemon

I first heard this song when I was still a Christian so I thought it was about being sucked into demonic possession. As an atheist, this song makes much more sense and I thought, "Oh, it's about someone becoming obsessed with something to the point that it engulfs him." Thanks for posting this.

Michael Lubin

All hail the savior statue!

Beck436

Pretty much, but again, they've explained their songs here and there over the years when asked. In fact, they actually made a song by song explanation of their album "Factory Showroom" called "A Guided Tour of the Factory Showroom". Anyway, they have really a long history of writing songs about how they perceive fans and critics viewing them, an example being their 'theme', the song titled "They Might Be Giants".

dudly82

You mean like everyone did with this song?

Beck436

Flansburgh clarified that specifically it's about over-analyzing art and reading more into it than is there; The speaker has his mind blown by something simple and unimportant "like a park statue in the middle of town or something", because he's read way more into it than there actually is to say about the statue.

Madnoodler

Crack statues?

Samuel Quinn Morris

Isn't it, though?

Fin Taylor

That's better than Doctor Who, I think

jeb albert

u guys realize this song is about smoking crack, riiight?

Samuel Quinn Morris

Linnell has said that it's about this dude that's looking at a statue whose head then explodes.

wayfaringlass2

@sking8: Blink is an episode of Doctor Who with these creatures called Weeping Angels, and the episode is called Blink. The Weeping Angels are statues, that if they touch you, they send you back into another time, and you can never get back to your own time. You're as good as dead.

sking8

@WayfFromOYAN What?

Anne Phipps

This makes me think of a pot head going into a starring contest with a weeping angel (looking into their eyes long enough turns you into a weeping angel)

Friedegger

A great number: danceable and unfathomable.

cimbalok

This Slavic freak loves TMBG. Apollo 18 is one of the few non-Slav albums I listen to!

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