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Ana Ng Lyrics
Artist: They Might Be Giants
Album: Lincoln
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 other's 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 '64 World's Fair
Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl 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 other's 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 other's 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 other's 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 other's majestic presence
Listen Ana hear my words
They're the ones you would think I would say if there was a me for you
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Comments/Interpretations
They're better than i imagined them to be :)
I effing love tmbg!!!
Shouldn't that be 'small WORLD after all'?
Jon - No, if you listen closely, it says "Small girl after all." I know it doesn't make much sense...it's not supposed to
Best TMBG song EVUR
> Shouldn't that be 'small WORLD after all'?
I think the song conveys a sense of disconnection, fright, confusion for a foreign-born girl, all alone at the '64 World's Fair. This interpretation is given by her misunderstanding the lyrics that 80 dolls are shouting at her.
or maybe its because girl and world are synonyms to him because the girl IS the world to him.
Not really.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's conveying the semi-desperate concept that this guy's one true love could be some random girl in Vietnam that he'll never get to meet. He's saying that he'd rather sacrifice his life here than live his life without this One True Love that he's not sure exists.
Small girl after all is better, makes more sense to me, I always wondered the lyrics to this song thx
Mabey since Ana must be foreign she thought the dolls were saying "small girl after all"
What difference does it make?
We all agree it's a great song, right?
thanx 4 these lyrics. one of my fav. tmbg songs. i agree with Err.. on this song's meaning.
I agree with Err.. on this one, but i'd like to add that i think the reference to the 64 worlds fair was trying to point out that perhaps he might have come real close to meeting this person, so close in fact that the seat was still warm from her having just sat there. Also the bridge thing, its like saying the grass is always greener on the other side. But then again i'm flippin nuts!
The Johns both were present at the '64 Worlds Fair before they ever met each other. Presumbly the misunderstanding of that the dolls were saying comes from the perception of the children they were at the time.
I agree with Err..
TMBG lyrics are never easy to interpret though.
Quasi mythical TMBG song.
Err - spot on.
nope.
A long time ago John imagined there was a girl out there that was a perfect fit for him - not necessarily a romantic fit - a polar 'same' if you will. He imagined her upside down, in an asian-pacific country exactly a half world away and wondered if he'd ever get to meet her.
He believes they came very close to running into each other (the still warm bench) but now he is starting to despair that they are both getting older and that life is of a very finite duration (a realization that many 30 somethings can understand all too much.)
It's a sad song, really.
They wrote most of the song before the chorus and title. They picked Ana Ng by randomly opening a page of the white pages.
haha I absolutely love these concepts of what the song could be about...
At a concert TMBG said they just found it really funny to do a song about Ana Ng, which was a really popular name in the NY phone directory. They figured they would do a song all about this person they have and never will meet and figured it'd be kinda funny.
good old TMBG. twistedly goodnessingly...
Asian girls are small. So are dolls.
I love this tune! I heard it today and it brought back such memories and feelings. I'd forgotten I have feelings. Thanks TMBG!
How about a "bridge" (song segment linking other segments) about a bridge? And a lyric about a "broken record" which repeats like, well, a broken record?
Always thought the bridge line and the one about the little voice on the horn were evocative, but never sure why.
Greatness. The writing is brilliant in its throw-away casual attitude.
For more on the semi-desperate concept of there being One True Love on the other side of the world, see Wreckless Eric's "The Whole Wide World".
However if it's across the world, and the girl is in Vietnam, then wouldn't the guy be in Ecuador? Not New York?
he would be in peru
this song is so clever! the video was a little bit strange though...haha
actually err... its cantonese(chinese) and its weird cuz my still single aunt's name is ana but we arent like in china or something we are in the united states.lol n her last name is ng too! i hope its her so she can finally get married!lol
Dude- its a song written by a peruvian that caught a glimpse of the Vietnamese Ana Ng and fell in love with her at the '64 worlds fair inside the 'It's a small world attraction, but when he went to say hi she had already left him and headed back to her country, never to see him again. Right? Of course right. TMBG practically say so..
It's not Whirlpool.
It's like a MOVIE and it never ends.
Well, it just IS.
i agree
Anyone else think with the distortion that they said "heart" instead of "half"?
Sounds like a guy singing about a girl from another dimension that is right on top, or maybe right under our own. Some how he has glimpsed this other world and imagines that one of its inhabitants is right for him because no one in this dimension is.
Star Fucking Hipsters did it better.