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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 Elissa F on 11/4/2008 6:09am > 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.
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 Err.. on 11/17/2008 3:19am 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.
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 I'm myself too on 12/11/2008 10:29am What difference does it make? We all agree it's a great song, right?
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 Given Willingly on 1/6/2009 6:42pm I agree with Err.. TMBG lyrics are never easy to interpret though.
by Yoshua777 on 1/15/2009 6:11pm Quasi mythical TMBG song. Err - spot on.
by skot on 1/30/2009 8:31pm 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.
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 Dave on 3/18/2009 12:16am 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...
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!

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