They Might Be Giants - Tick Lyrics

So I’ve been wondering for a while if this song is about cicadas. Any other thoughts of what it could be?

This song is going to give me anxiety when I listen to it again in 10 years and think about how all the time that passed between today and that day 10 years from now only exists as a memory in older me's head.
Your past really isnt that much different from your future. Its all in your head.
I wonder if I'll feel differently about it when Im about to die and I know I dont have any future left.
I hope I die before I have to find out.

who's the guy in the video?

So multiply the Tick that has us in this predicament by 3?

A man rag, nag a ram, ran a gam, a ma rang, ma Ragan, Manga Ra

5 people tock

Badass 😃

is very cool !!

Watching the grass grow, the watched pot that never boils, painting a room the same color it was originally,, continuing to cast for the elusive trout.... all ways of passing time while Death comes ever closer. Tick tick tick tick... you're older than you ever were and now you're even older. Are you the kid standing pissed off while all around you the self-satisfied audience is united in applause? Or the thrilled young man who shares his joy with his fellows? No matter what victories you celebrate, you will still be vanquished. The inevitable, the inescapable, getting closer with each tick tick tick...

No wonder I have fitful dreams.

Man, this song and video are GENIOUS.

can we appreciate danny's lines in here? because damn. that's a saucy bass tone

Yep. He's the man.

not a fox That's what I was thinking. He's a genius.

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

They sure like to write songs about the passage of time by the second
and they always seem to be the most unsettling ones too

I really like how well the video goes with this song. The song itself almost feels like an anthem for boring workdays. One of the better DAS 2018 releases so far.

Wait! They added another "tick" to the video title, but the TMBG app doesn't have the extra tick, but the wiki lists it as "Tick Tick Tick Tick". I'm so conflicted. What the tick?

So rockin'. Great song, TMBG!

A great one from them as always.

Pretty sure at one point they showed the women from Monty Python Flying Circus

Linnell’s been writing a lot about the passage of time, “Prepare”, “Push Back The Hands”, now these ticks

wish there were 3 ticks :(

fuckyes

We have ways of making you tock.

You're winding me up.

Graeme Hart All the time.

So freaking good.

"If it wasn't for that tick..."

So happy that this came out on my birthday!

TMBG rule!

Wow... an actual video and not four seconds of some anagram. I'm amazed.

Chris Nemec I think the anagrams are fun

This song is AWESOME!

If it wasn't for that tick we wouldn't be in this predicament.

Never should've walked down to the insect hospital and set those insects free.

Wouldn't be in this predicament that we're in!

okay, but why is it called Tick Tick Tick when they say Tick Tick Tick TICK?

They changed it now.

Mister Apple nice

Great bass line in this! Also digging the instrumental breaks between verses

Very catchy song, caught my attention really well with that great guitar work and bass

what a weird video

Dark yet delicious. I am rather enjoying these regularly delivered shipments of TMBG. If only they were delivered to Spotify where I could put them into a playlist and enjoy them repeatedly until my family tied me up and removed my fingers so I could no longer operate my phone...damn that also got dark. I don't care. I still want them on all on Spotify. I'm sure my family like my fingers attached to me...right?

What a minty beat :D

Fun fact: the tempo of this song means that when "tick" is sung, it's sung exactly once every second.

Excellent!

It’s 2 am what am I doing

listening to great music, obviously.

Not the flowchart!

They had a song called Tick (Nanobots), now they have a song called Tick Tick Tick, but where the hell is Tick Tick?

On the album with Hotel Detective From The Past and Counterfeit Fakee.

And now this song's name is Tick Tick Tick Tick. So, we're missing not only Tick Tick, but also Tick Tick Tick.

It's clear the only solution here is for Amazon to hire TMBG to create songs for the next season of The Tick.

This is Tick Tick Tick Tick, actually

You'll have to wait forever for that tick tick.

Illuminati confirmed

Ok this song is awesome. I love the the winding tubular sound. idk what to call it but I like it

Quintessential TMBG content here!

There are literally no non-white people in this video, editing oversight or obscured political comment?

1:22, a few people possibly of Asian ancestry.

All the white people makes me think this is a WWYD for MAGA.

TheCocoYouKnow probably editing oversight, knowing tmbg's political views.

Oh shut the fuck up.

TheCocoYouKnow Really?

This video is like watching grass dry. And I love it.

Great song, with funny music video with 80s theme.

My phone coincidentally lost connection to wifi briefly at just around 1:55.

SPLENDID

They might never be disappointments. Every note is worthy of savoring.

reminds me of older

Nothing like a recurrent fear of mortality to identify a great band

Is this about Lyme disease?

Actually, I don't want to know.

Make sure you're prepared for when that next tick comes... a second from now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBCVGshPGBk

That got scary at the end, haha. Definitely reminds me of the Telltale Heart.

I hate it when the eyes move first and then the mandibles.

i'm loving this song!! it's so ominous and yet so energetic and catchy, classic giants material. the guitar work is fantastic as well!

One of my favorites so far... hell yes

They Might Be Giant LIARS! I was told at your phenomenal show in Louisville that this week's dial a song would be This Microphone! Oh well, great song by the way.

They Might have a conspiracy on their hands

They do 'I Like Fun' music videos on a biweekly basis, with an Escape Team song the first Wednesday of every month. So my guess is that 'This Microphone' will be next week's Dial-A-Song.