Lie Still, Little Bottle

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Flansburgh performing the song live with the stick

"Lie Still, Little Bottle" live on Record Guide, 1988

song name	Lie Still, Little Bottle
artist	They Might Be Giants
album	Lincoln, Then: The Earlier Years
year	1988
first played	June 23, 1987 (146 known performances)
run time	2:06
sung by	John Flansburgh

In concert, Flansburgh sometimes keeps time and rhythm by banging an amplified tree branch on the stage as he sings this song (there's some footage of him doing it in Gigantic). The fans, of course, love this, and have shouted, "The stick! The stick!" as a way of requesting this song.
"This song has been commonly misunderstood, this song is called 'Lie Still, Little Bottle' and people seem to think it's about alcoholism, but we are family entertainment, and this song is about, uh...amphetamines and barbituates, actually, so please, don't get the wrong idea. It's fictitious." - John Flansburgh, Feb. 10, 1992
Features Dr. Kenneth Nolan on the drums.

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