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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

Comments/Interpretations

by Matt on 6/6/2008 10:02am
They're better than i imagined them to be :)

by kallmekiller on 7/3/2008 6:55am
I effing love tmbg!!!

by Jon on 9/11/2008 11:26pm
Shouldn't that be 'small WORLD after all'?

by Donna Lawliet on 10/19/2008 6:51pm
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

by Might be pregnant on 10/24/2008 6:06pm
Best TMBG song EVUR

by fin on 11/11/2008 9:50am
or maybe its because girl and world are synonyms to him because the girl IS the world to him.

by girl on 11/17/2008 3:36pm
Small girl after all is better, makes more sense to me, I always wondered the lyrics to this song thx

by me on 12/6/2008 10:29pm
Mabey since Ana must be foreign she thought the dolls were saying "small girl after all"

by ng on 12/18/2008 7:18pm
thanx 4 these lyrics. one of my fav. tmbg songs. i agree with Err.. on this song's meaning.

by flippin nuts on 1/2/2009 3:41pm
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!

by HKlawyer on 1/3/2009 7:47am
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.

by misery on 3/16/2009 7:52pm
They wrote most of the song before the chorus and title. They picked Ana Ng by randomly opening a page of the white pages.

by (#@0& on 7/30/2009 7:30pm
Asian girls are small. So are dolls.

by Slippe on 9/9/2009 6:59pm
I love this tune! I heard it today and it brought back such memories and feelings. I'd forgotten I have feelings. Thanks TMBG!

by Dr John on 12/8/2009 2:29pm
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".

by el oro on 3/11/2010 2:22pm
However if it's across the world, and the girl is in Vietnam, then wouldn't the guy be in Ecuador? Not New York?

by Liz on 3/14/2010 8:24pm
he would be in peru

by aggo on 5/13/2010 3:21pm
this song is so clever! the video was a little bit strange though...haha

by ng...is litterally my last name! on 6/21/2010 11:53pm
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

by Ob Vios Lee on 7/6/2011 6:03am
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..

by It is a whirlpool on 1/20/2012 7:42am
Well, it just IS.

by awesome sauce on 6/25/2012 2:41pm
i agree

by jgibs2 on 6/29/2012 10:24pm
Anyone else think with the distortion that they said "heart" instead of "half"?

by Phil on 8/2/2012 12:20pm
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.

by punkymcpunkerson the fourth on 6/8/2013 9:16am
Star Fucking Hipsters did it better.