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Artist: They Might Be Giants
Song: Turn Around
Album: Apollo 18
Verse 1:
A
I was working all night in my office, when a man I had recently killed
D E
called me up from a phone near my building, so I looked out the window at him
F# Bm A D E
he had the same obsequious manner that was the reason I had him killed
C# F#m E B E
so to calm my nerves I sang this song to him over the phone:
Chorus:
A
Turn around, turn around - there's a thing there that can be found
A A7 A6 A
turn around, turn around - it's a human skull on the ground
D A
human skull on the ground - turn around
Verse 2:
I was out by myself in the graveyard
I was doing an interpretive dance
when I felt something heavy and pointed
strike me in the back of my neck
and then the ghost of my dance instructor
pushed me down into an open grave
and as dirt rained down she played a xylophone
and sang me this song:
Chorus:
Turn around, turn around - there's a thing there that can be found
turn around, turn around - it's a human skull on the ground
human skull on the ground - turn around
Verse 3:
We were waving our arms out the window
of a fast-moving passenger train
acting in an irresponsible fashion
until the engineer whose back had been turned
and who we thought would find us highly amusing
quickly swivelled his head around
and his face which was a paper-white mask of evil
sang us this song:
Chorus:
Turn around, turn around - there's a thing there that can be found
turn around, turn around - it's a human skull on the ground
human skull on the ground - turn around
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Green Day rocks Average |
#1 by Green Day rocks!!!! at Oct 31, 1975 at 10:32 PM EST |
| Oh yea, great song to sing on the subway while wearing obscenely gothic clothes and in an upbeat tone. | |
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Randy Lead Player |
#2 by Randy Lott at Oct 8, 1977 at 10:18 AM EST |
| A fun song to sing quietly to yourself if you want to scare the people around you.... :) | |
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stephen Average |
#3 by stephen warunki at Jun 30, 1987 at 9:10 AM EST |
| I think "Turn Around" is about no matter how you try to be "in control", carefree, or easy-going, there's always something coming up behind you to haunt you...especially death, which is indicated by the skull. | |
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Trent Average |
#4 by Trent Zelasney at Apr 13, 1995 at 3:18 PM EST |
| I've never heard anyone say this, but I think this song has some serious Masonic references. I don't even know if the Johns are Masons. It appears to me to refer to the best known part of the Third Degree Ritual. Where the Master is killed by one of his associates then is Raised. Right down to the fact that when you are raised they have you turn around to look where you were and there is a skull where your head would be. Any way. Any Masons out there? I'm one and see a lot of correlation. I would appreciate a brother to back me up. | |
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