They Might Be Giants - Nanobots lyrics

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Grow the nanobots up

Grow them in the cracks in the sidewalk

Wind the nanobots up

Wind them up and ask them a question.

Raise the yellow bots up

Raise them up and make them respect us

Wind the marching bots up

Wind them up and wish them away.

What with all the hullabaloo

we very nearly forgot about you now

all the old troubles will soon be at an end

and all the new ones will begin when we send the signal

to the newborn citizenship of the micro-nations

Sleeper cells awaken now - this is your time.

Hear the voices calling to their confederates

See the tiny figures testing their limbs

Stand back and watch them

Grow the nanobots up

Grow them in the cracks in the side walk

Wind the nanobots up

Wind them up and wish them away.

Sun is rising in the wrong place

I would decorate the room but there's no more space

All I see is pictures of matchstick men

I turn my back for two minutes and they're grown again

Rearranging beds

Eating what's available

in some hand me downs

Making do with leftovers, bunking up

sharing comic books, sitting 3 deep on each other's laps

in a van stacked up on other vans

driving on a tidal wave where they

Grow the nanobots up

Grow them in the cracks in the sidewalk

Wind the nanobots up

Wind them up and wish them away.

Raise the yellow bots up

Raise them up and make them respect us

Wind the marching bots up

Wind them up and get them to send a signal

to the newborn citizenship of the micro-nations

Sleeper cells awaken now - this is your

this is your time

Thanks to Jonathan Atkins for correcting these lyrics