They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng Lyrics

They Might Be Giants could have made great schoolhouse rock songs!

Just was watching the movie Yes Man and heard this song playing at Norman's Harry Potter costume party. I paused Netflix, opened up YouTube, typed in TMBG and this was the 1st song listed.

Yes! I found it!

I've always thought it was....
" I don't want the world, I just want your hat"... :)

I'm almost 40. I think I may have finally met Ana Ng, you guys.

Great song, great video.. such a terrible shame, such a horrible way to start a song about a Vietnamese woman: “make a hole with a gun perpendicular...exit wound...” whether subconsciously or not it evokes the sickening video of the Vietnamese general shooting the prisoner, perpendicularly on the skull... the exit wound, the blood spurting out... this SOOO didn’t need to be in this random quirky otherwise excellent song... why, john ?

“The song has been well received by numerous critics. Longtime music critic Robert Christgau called it "a beyond-perfect tour de force about a Vietnamese woman they never got to meet."[7]” Wikipedia Ana ng

Bellows shake?

Why would you listen to this when you could listen to the Dead Milkmen???

My parents named me after this song, and they played it a lot when I was young. This song holds a special place in my heart.

(TWO RINGS)
This Is Jim Rockford. Leave a name and message. I'll get back to you..

My Favorite line:
"Why is the bench still warm; who had been there'

This was filmed at the FDNY Academy on Randals Island. Still looks kinda the same.

"Who was at the DuPont Pavilion? Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?"

There is an Ozzie and Harriet Nelson tour of the 1964 World's Fair still floating around.... But only if you believe Natural Gas is the wave of the future...

“I don’t want the world I just want your half” was my email signature in the early 2000s

*Lyrics:*

Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
To the name of this town in a desk-top globe
Exit wound in a foreign nation
Showing the home of the one this was written for
My apartment looks upside down from there
Water spirals the wrong way out the sink
And her voice is a backwards record
It's like a whirlpool and it never ends

Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each others majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you

All alone at the sixty-four World's Fair
Eighty dolls singing small world after all
Who was at the Dupont Pavilion?
Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?
Or the time when the storm tangled up the wire
To the horn on the pole at the bus depot
And in the back of the edge of hearing
These are the words the voice was repeating

Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each others majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you

When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge,
I don't want the world, I just want your half

They don't need me here, and I know you're there (don't need me)
Where the world goes by like the humid air (world goes by)
And it sticks like a broken record
Everything sticks like a broken record
Everything sticks until it goes away (it goes home)
And the truth is, we don't know anything (don't know)

Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each others majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you

Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each others majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you

Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each others majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you

This song always reminds me that there's a possibility the love of my life exists, but I may never meet her because she's all the way on the other side of the world.

Story of my life

I married Anna Ng she,s great.

Delightful

I remember watching this video clip and it blowing my mind. Ah the memories :)

One of those songs that sticks in your mind - stuck in traffic I'm thinking Ana Ana Ng . . . . .

i love how weird these old videos are

This helped me survive the late 80’s and early 90’s. They are giants!

*BEST TEETH IN THE GAME*

The truth is we don't know anything

Make a hole with a gun perpendicular
To the name of this town in a desk-top globe
Exit wound in a foreign nation
Showing the home of the one this was written for
My apartment looks upside down from there
Water spirals the wrong way out the sink
And her voice is a backwards record
It's like a whirlpool and it never ends
Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each others majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you
All alone at the sixty-four World's Fair
Eighty dolls singing small world after all
Who was at the Dupont Pavilion?
Why was the bench still warm? Who had been there?
Or the time when the storm tangled up the wire
To the horn on the pole at the bus depot
And in the back of the edge of hearing
These are the words the voice was repeating
Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each others majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you
When I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge,
I don't want the world, I just want your half
They don't need me here, and I know you're there (don't need me)
Where the world goes by like the humid air (world goes by)
And it sticks like a broken record
Everything sticks like a broken record
Everything sticks until it goes away (it goes home)
And the truth is, we don't know anything (don't know)
Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each others majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you
Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each others majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you
Ana Ng and I are getting old
And we still haven't walked in the glow of each others majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you

who in their right mind dislikes this enough to give it a thumbs down?

I wish them a nice live with a family and kids and then a horrible carcrash that let the whole slowly burn alive.

They Might Be Subhuman Scum.

Makes me want to go to the future and fight aliens!

...I wonder if anyone will get that.

This is so good. I remember listening to this when I was little. I’m still a child of course, but it’s been years

dads mp3?

They are Awesome!

2019 bitches

This video is AMAZING! Its just so interesting and unique

its 2019 and this song is still one of my favorites

Joey kid same

Star Fucking Hipsters cover is much better

Jason Perkins no

@Enfraa this one is growing.on Me though lol

One of the best videos ever made!!!

1:58 What does that mean? Amazing song anyway, though!

Did they shoot JFK?

Sound quality = potato setting

So... I’ll be the first to admit, this video scared the living hell outta me as a little kid because of the way they danced and they walked away at the end as the sun went down.... bruh! 😂😂😂 But you can’t deny this song is freaking amazing!

checkout the sfh version.

Amazingly great song, both words and music!

40 is the new 20 and 80 is the new 50

Timeless. Great song. I love living. I love MAGA

I only recently found out about this band(if that is what they are). I don't have any freaking idea what this video means or what the lyrics mean but I am getting attached to the song as well as the video. Help

That’s the beauty of tmbg

Holy shit I had no idea they 80's, I figured 90's, they were a good decade ahead of everyone else!

I am 96 years old and this is my favorite band!

Christopher Olson at 97 now I hope.

ROOTSCONTRA Lol, what a troll. You shit if you’re well fed, too.

live long

Hats off!

ROOTSCONTRA you’re clearly 12, get some new material. Less boring edgy more funny.

Back in 1992, I was drunk driving on the campus of Humboldt State and I struck and killed a pedestrian with my car. The car was a Ford Taurus. Well it turns out the girl I killed was a student from overseas named Ana Ng. Anyway, I did 3 months in jail and later my friend told me about the song. Is it it's a pretty cool song brings back memories.

Saw them live at the Beacon NYC late 80s early 90s... they rocked it. This song would be great as speed metal !!!

Seriously TMBG sounded so 90s in the 80s

I know I'm over a year late but they kind of sound vaguely like 2000s rock to me

Was like 1988 so close enough

What were the groupies for this band like?

Gay New romantic looking guys mostly

Every time I watch their videos, I spot something different. Are they playing Mille Bornes? They are! 😁

Nope. Touring. Before Mille Bornes. Well, I was close.

coraline brought me here

I don't like it.

I don´t want the world, I just want your half <3

These guys are easily the best live performance I've ever seen... other than drums these two played EVERYTHING, the only other people there were running instruments back and forth... I mean show me someone wearing an accordion playing a trumpet and a keyboard with a guitar on their back... and I guarantee its these guys heh

Most comedic music video.

I fart soooo much

The BEST live band I've ever seen

I could see Asperger kids going apeshit over this...
Maron's wtf brought me here.

Everybody rock out!

Dude. I raised google stock share by over $350 a share each just by being there.

Uber Boss! Love this "Happy" Group!

Deliciously quirky.

How do I put thre EMG pickups into fallout boys Gretchs guitar.

Does anybody with a knack for British game shows think young Flansburg kinda looks like Richard from Pointless?

I’m nowhere near as chancho as you guys but I pull a small crowd.

The bass frequencies suck on this. I tested for mackie. Up the low end plz.

I need your old computer hardware

This is about Vietnam unlike Born In The USA which is about the guy who went to the Vietnamese war to avoid jail and Not about the Vietnam war!

Ahh, takes me back to a better time; late 80's/early 90's, listening to WHFS. Good times!

i was legitimately pissed when i found out this song was not about a long-distance relationship. like it describes perfectly the heartache of not always being able to be physically next to your partner, but at the same time being so connected that sometimes you feel like if you just wished hard enough, if you just close your eyes for a second, you'll feel them next to you on the couch, or looking at the sunset and getting butterflies in your stomach over the thought that your partner sees the same sun and probably thinks of you when he looks at the sky - and and the line, 'they don't need me here, and i know you're there' is probably one of the most beautifully simple and sad linnell's ever written,- at least from this point of view of someone who's in a ldr, i think. i just can't get over how incredible these guys are in everything they do. well done, johns. well done.

Just because John was writing it with that in mind doesn't mean it can't be about that.

I had forgotten how old this song is. It still retains its original glory though

Annie, is she ok ? Is she OK Annie ?

Possibly my favorite music video of all time.

why is anthony fantano on the thumbnail

Cute Thing

woooorked like a charm

Don't be rude thing

oh shit. good call

Find someone equally as strange as I am

honestly I want a friendship like the johns

Ana Ng in 2018 anyone?

Gavin Wieland 2019 😊😊👍🏽👍🏽

2019 haha

Shut up.

Sorry it's 2019. Sorry to burst your bubble for 1 year exactly.

She’s probably dead.

What even is this band. (Long-time fan here, honest.)

Brienna, you and I are getting old, and we still haven't walked in the glow of each other's majestic presence.

Is this about the Vietnam war?

When I was 15 in the 90's and getting into "alternative" music...I watched 120 minutes on MTV and POST MODERN MTV every night at midnight...this song was played so much...and I still love it and still love 90s music

Great song, terrible, TERRIBLE NOT FUNNY VIDEO

MrNigel Preston it's not supposed to be funny?

The best...oh the memories

I wonder if it's possible to get sick of this song...

They don't need me here and I know you're there!

This song is about having an asian girlfriend.

Such an unusual but well-crafted chorus. It's just a brilliant song.

playing in brooklyn soon, I can't wait to head up from Baltimore to see em

I called everyday to hear what was on their answering machine. My parents almost killed me because of the long distance charges.

forthe love of god please someone tell me what to say to get my alexa to play this song. SHe has no idea

吴安娜

My dad would always play this song from the short compilation album "Best of the Early Years," primarily when I was a young child. He would only ever play this and Don't Let's Start, however, because the rest of the songs "paled in comparison" (his words, not mine). Nowadays, both songs take me back to when they were still new to my ears; when I was too young to comprehend the lyrics, but still felt a strange combination of perturbation and comfort from the eccentric vocals and unrefined yet unique instrumentals. Both songs have a kind of raw, unfathomable energy that was characteristic of TMBG's earlier years. It might have been part of the reason my dad enjoyed them so much.
It's been about 2 months now since his death. I haven't cried since, and the most I've felt is strong senses of longing and bittersweet memories. I will always remember him when I listen to either this song or Don't Let's Start, from the few times we discussed them or even sang them together- and most of all, for the fact that he was the one who introduced me to them in the first place. They will always have a place in my heart.
I don't know if TMBG themselves will ever read this, but I'd just like to thank them for having an impact of such great emotional value in my life. An impact that makes me so strongly nostalgic for a time when I didn't even exist.
Thank you.

Onion Dogeman i know you posted this comment 2 months ago, but i'm so sorry for your loss, and i hope your family is doing well. my dad introduced me to TMBG when i was younger too. they are a very special band. ❤

bella
I appreciate your response. The comment is just as valid now as it was two months ago. Thank you.

Onion Dogeman
♡

I have the same pair of glasses as him!

this is personal top 5 songs ever material

Sounds like a song I would enjoy for all my life. I gnash my teeth and stomp my feet with the best of them.