| Song | They'll Need A Crane |
| Artist | They Might Be Giants |
| Album | Then: The Earlier Years |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| Vocal:John Linnell | |
| Love sees love's happiness | |
| But happiness can't see that love is sad | |
| That love is sad | |
| Sadness is hanging there | |
| To show love somewhere something needs a change | |
| They need a change | |
| They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane | |
| To take the house he built for her apart | |
| To make it break it's gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain | |
| They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane | |
| To pick the broken ruins up again | |
| To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain | |
| Lad's gal is all he has | |
| Gal's gladness hangs upon the love of lad | |
| The love of lad | |
| Some things gal says to lad aren't meant as bad | |
| But cause a little pain | |
| They cause him pain | |
| They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane | |
| To take the house he built for her apart | |
| To make it break it's gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain | |
| They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane | |
| To pick the broken ruins up again | |
| To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain | |
| Don't call me at work again no no the boss still hates me | |
| I'm just tired and I don't love you anymore | |
| And there's a restaurant we should check out where | |
| The other nightmare people like to go | |
| I mean nice people, baby wait, | |
| I didn't mean to say nightmare | |
| Lad looks at other gals | |
| Gal thinks Jim Beam is handsomer than lad | |
| He isn't bad | |
| Call off the wedding band | |
| Nobody wants to hear that one again | |
| Play that again | |
| They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane | |
| To take the house he built for her apart | |
| To make it break it's gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain | |
| They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane | |
| To pick the broken ruins up again | |
| To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain | |
| They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane | |
| They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane | |
| They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane | |
| They'll need a crane, they'll need a crane | |
| They'll need a crane |
| Vocal: John Linnell | |
| Love sees love' s happiness | |
| But happiness can' t see that love is sad | |
| That love is sad | |
| Sadness is hanging there | |
| To show love somewhere something needs a change | |
| They need a change | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| To take the house he built for her apart | |
| To make it break it' s gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| To pick the broken ruins up again | |
| To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain | |
| Lad' s gal is all he has | |
| Gal' s gladness hangs upon the love of lad | |
| The love of lad | |
| Some things gal says to lad aren' t meant as bad | |
| But cause a little pain | |
| They cause him pain | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| To take the house he built for her apart | |
| To make it break it' s gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| To pick the broken ruins up again | |
| To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain | |
| Don' t call me at work again no no the boss still hates me | |
| I' m just tired and I don' t love you anymore | |
| And there' s a restaurant we should check out where | |
| The other nightmare people like to go | |
| I mean nice people, baby wait, | |
| I didn' t mean to say nightmare | |
| Lad looks at other gals | |
| Gal thinks Jim Beam is handsomer than lad | |
| He isn' t bad | |
| Call off the wedding band | |
| Nobody wants to hear that one again | |
| Play that again | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| To take the house he built for her apart | |
| To make it break it' s gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| To pick the broken ruins up again | |
| To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| They' ll need a crane |
| Vocal: John Linnell | |
| Love sees love' s happiness | |
| But happiness can' t see that love is sad | |
| That love is sad | |
| Sadness is hanging there | |
| To show love somewhere something needs a change | |
| They need a change | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| To take the house he built for her apart | |
| To make it break it' s gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| To pick the broken ruins up again | |
| To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain | |
| Lad' s gal is all he has | |
| Gal' s gladness hangs upon the love of lad | |
| The love of lad | |
| Some things gal says to lad aren' t meant as bad | |
| But cause a little pain | |
| They cause him pain | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| To take the house he built for her apart | |
| To make it break it' s gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| To pick the broken ruins up again | |
| To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain | |
| Don' t call me at work again no no the boss still hates me | |
| I' m just tired and I don' t love you anymore | |
| And there' s a restaurant we should check out where | |
| The other nightmare people like to go | |
| I mean nice people, baby wait, | |
| I didn' t mean to say nightmare | |
| Lad looks at other gals | |
| Gal thinks Jim Beam is handsomer than lad | |
| He isn' t bad | |
| Call off the wedding band | |
| Nobody wants to hear that one again | |
| Play that again | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| To take the house he built for her apart | |
| To make it break it' s gonna take a metal ball hung from a chain | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| To pick the broken ruins up again | |
| To mend her heart, to help him start to see a world apart from pain | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| They' ll need a crane, they' ll need a crane | |
| They' ll need a crane |