I’m enjoying They Might Be Giants’ new album “The World is to Dig”, though it’s a mixture of tracks I can take in after just one casual listen, and others where I need to sit down and read the lyrics from the song sheet and follow every word.
But this sweet, slightly unsettling song, with a video like a fragment of a Lynchian dream, was one of my instant favourites.
hi ho, hi ho, into the canyon we go
the ruts in the road won’t guide us back home
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75-1ipEs59c
Greg Egan
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