Whistling In The Dark Lyrics

"Whistling in the Dark"
by They Might be Giants
  from Flood (c)1990

A woman came up to me and said  
"I'd like to poison your mind 
with wrong ideas that appeal to you 
though I am not unkind"  

she looked at me, I looked at something 
written across her scalp 
and this is what it faintly said 
as I tried to call for help: 
"There's only one thing 
that I know how to do well 
and I've often been told that you only can do what you know how to do well 
and that's be you, 
be what you're like, 
be like yourself, 
and so I'm having a wonderful time 
but I'd rather be whistling in the dark." 

There's only one thing that I like 
and that is whistling in the dark. 
A man came up to me and said
"I'd like to change your mind 
by hitting it with a rock," he said 
"though I am not unkind." 
We laughed at his little joke 
and then I merrily walked away 
and hit my head on the wall of the jail 
where the two of us live today.