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They'll Need a Crane Lyrics

Artist: They Might Be Giants
Album: Lincoln

Love sees love's happiness
But happiness can't see that love is sad
That love is sad
Sadness is hanging there
To show love somewhere something needs a change
They need a change

They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
To take the house he built for her apart
To make it break it's gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain
They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
To pick the broken ruins up again
To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain

Lad's gal is all he has
Gal's gladness hangs upon the love of lad
The love of lad
Some things gal says to lad aren't meant as bad
But cause a little pain
They cause him pain

They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
To take the house he built for her apart
To make it break it's gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain
They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
To pick the broken ruins up again
To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain

Don't call me at work again no no the boss still hates me
I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore
And there's a restaurant we should check out where
The other nightmare people like to go
I mean nice people, baby wait,
I didn't mean to say nightmare

Lad looks at other gals
Gal thinks Jim Beam is handsomer than lad
He isn't bad
Call off the wedding band
Nobody wants to hear that one again
Play that again

They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
To take the house he built for her apart
To make it break it's gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain
They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
To pick the broken ruins up again
To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain

They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane
They'll need a crane

Comments/Interpretations

by Todd on 6/16/2008 7:53pm
Bad ass song

by alex on 7/12/2008 11:04pm
good song, kinda sad, but still good

by mr. smith on 2/14/2010 1:42am
very sad song. but extremely brilliant

by it.aint.over.yet on 6/10/2010 6:21pm
i <3 this song! it sounds happy-ish but if you think about the story, it's so sad. they might be giants are so clever!

by Katie... on 10/22/2010 6:58pm
wow... this song makes so much sence. :to you. you know who you are. Thanks for showing me this band i geuss, this one song in particular... geez...

by tgood on 12/9/2010 5:21pm
best band ever

by ana.ng on 10/17/2011 8:14pm
One of my favorite breakup songs. The best part is the line that starts, "I mean nice people." The whole song epitomizes how routines and long relationships come to define people, so that both sides lose some of their identity in the demolition that is, literally, "breaking up".

by bub on 5/15/2015 3:25pm
Double meanings everywhere:

"To show love somewhere something needs a change
They need a change" Both "somewhere" and "something" need a change, hence the use of the word "they", as shown by "sadness", but this also means something somewhere needs a change...
"Gal's gladness hangs upon the love of lad": "lad" is a word hidden in "gladness" which one could interpret as "ladness"? lol, ok I'm just reaching now...