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Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song: Letterbox
Album: Flood
Intro: ( E A ) x4
Verse 1:
E A E A
I'll never know what you find when you open up your letterbox tomorrow
E A
Cause the little bird never tells me anything I want to know she's my best
E A
friend she's a sparrow
F#m A
And I'll never never never know what you never never want to know when you know
E A
what you are o
Verse 2:
If I had a pair of eyes in the back of my head for each time
You forgot to take out all the things you forgot to talk about
When you took a bite out of my spine. I would have
Alot of eyes on me by this time whouldn't I? whouldn't that just be fine?
Chorus:
E A B C#m A B
Too late or soon to make noise about love and there's no time for sorrow
C#m A B A Ab F#
Run around in the rain with a hole in the brain till tomorrow
Verse 1:
I'll never know what you find when you open up your letterbox tomorrow
Cause the little bird never tells me anything I want to know she's my best
friend she's a sparrow
And I'll never never never know what you never never want to know when you know
what you are o
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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mike Average |
#1 by mike duncan at Nov 2, 1982 at 8:59 PM EST |
| Throw in that weirdness in the 21st. century, and this guy would be looking in his inbox just waiting to see if that cryptic email would either land in his inbox or his "junk mail"! LOL | |
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Gabe Professional |
#2 by Gabe Hawkins at May 26, 1983 at 12:09 AM EST |
| In a nutshell, this song puts all the fine points on the nature of certain types of dysfunctional relationships. It does this so well, it's inconguous with the fact that someone with this much insight should remain in such a screwed up relationship; hence, the relationship is no more. So actually, it's not insight, it's 20/20 hindsight. The "letterbox" is merely a hint of that new separateness/singularity; for a while anyway, our interface with the world--our new "intimacy"--is the postal system. Certain other phrases are dead giveaways. For example, "take a bite out of my spine," addresses that ugly situation where one person in a bad relationship permits the other to use shabby little expedients (e.g., playing on inner doubts, information withholding, lying) to rob them of fundamental self-worth. The other "giveaway" is that last line of the A section about "And I'll never never...". This is a reference to the fact that when one of the parties to relationships like this finally wakes up, with the resultant breakup, they have to reflect tragically on the fact that there are certain things they'll never be able to resolve in a satisfactory way; notably, why the other partner was so screwed up in the first place. If they knew, change might have been possible and the breakup might not have been necessary. It's one of the ironies of bad relationships. | |
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Conar Wanna Be |
#3 by Conar Gillard at Jan 26, 1996 at 4:55 AM EST |
| ...don't TMBG usually just write stuff that's meant to confuse people? There's no *point,* it's just...weird. With a little bit of meaning thrown in there. | |
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Maarten Average |
#4 by Maarten Wuyts at Jan 5, 1999 at 12:56 AM EST |
| yup (to razajac) | |
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