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Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song: Finished With Lies
Album: Mink Car
Intro: C
C G7 C F
now I'm telling the truth, I'm finished with
Dm G Dm G
Lies, lies
C Am F G
If you don't believe me now, you'll never
Dm G Dm G
Believe me, now.
C G C F G C
I should have my head examined
Dm F C Am
They'll see when they look inside
Dm F C
I won't have to say a word
Am G7
I'll stop thinking what I shouldn't be thinking
Am G7
I'll make everyone believe me
Starting now, I'm telling the truth
I'm finished with lies, lies
You'll never believe me now,
You'll never believe me now
Dm G
You'll think it's a lie
Dm G7
Couldn't we just put away
Em Am
The ancient history
Bb Gm D G7
Throw up our hands at the unsolved mystery
I'm going to have my head examined
I'll prove you were wrong about me
Move the needle telepathically
I'll turn everything around and confuse you
And talk faster and faster ill I lose you
I'll fix it so you can't remember what was true
And ther'll be nothing to remind you
Starting now I'm telling the truth
I'm finished with lies, lies
You'll never believe me now,
You'll never believe me now
Lies Lies
You'll think it's a lie
You'll think it's a lie
You'll think it's a lie
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Jake Average |
#1 by Jake Bounds at Apr 16, 2004 at 7:34 PM EST |
| Hmm, I think the World War II thing is overinterpeting a bit, but there is more to this song than just a pathological liar wo no one will believe even when he starts telling the truth. The Johns kind of have a tradition of unreliable narrators in their songs, and by the second verse it become pretty clear he's just going to resort to more elaborate ways of lying, such as manipulating lie detector tests, telling the truth but obscuring it in complicated and confusing language, and lying and then manipulating the evidence to his favor after the fact. Well, okay, actually the latter two *do* kind of seem like sardonic nods to the world of politics, World War II or otherwise. | |
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Doolittle Lead Player |
#2 by Doolittle at Jul 16, 2004 at 1:12 AM EST |
| a pathological liar decides to stop lying - but its rather hard to do because no one will believe him, due to the fact that he's such a liar. | |
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alex Rhythm Player |
#3 by alex Smith at Oct 21, 2004 at 8:18 AM EST |
| This is another WWII song. This one is about Goebbels, imagining that after his death Goebbels decides to tell the truth and nobody believes him. The "fix it..." line refers to the way the propagandists deceived so many people. | |
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