The Mesopotamians - They Might Be Giants

We’ve been driving around

From one end of this town to the other and back

But no one’s ever seen us driving our Econoline van

And no one’s ever heard of our band

We’re the Mesopotamians:

Sargon, Hammurabi, Ashurbanipal

And Gilgamesh

And they wouldn’t understand a word we say

So we’ll scratch it all down into the clay

Half believing there will sometime come a day

Someone gives a damn

Maybe when the concrete has crumbled to sand

The Mesopotamish sun is beating down

And making cracks in the ground

But there’s nowhere else to stand

In Mesopotamia, no one’s ever seen us

The kingdom where we secretly reign

(And no one’s ever heard of our band)

The land where we invisibly rule

This is my last stick of gum

I’m gonna cut it up so everybody else gets some

Except for Ashurbanipal who says my haircut

Make me look like a Mohenjo Daroin

Hey Ashurbanipal!

Hey man, I thought that you were dead

I thought you crashed your car

No, man, I’ve been right here this whole time

Playing bass guitar

For the Mesopotamians