Dallas
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Screenshot from the studio version's video
| song name | Dallas |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Venue Songs, Free Tunes |
| year | 2004 |
| first played | July 17, 2004 (28 known performances) |
| run time | 0:42 |
| sung by | John Flansburgh, John Linnell and Dan Miller |
Trivia/Info
- This is the venue song for Trees, which closed down in late 2005 for financial reasons, but reopened in 2009. The song, originally called "Trees" on the setlist, was first performed live on July 17 and 18, 2004, but has since found its way into setlists several times.
- The song is in the style of the English art-rock band Yes. The first three words and beginning of the melody are identical to those of Yes's song "We Have Heaven" from the 1971 album Fragile, albeit at a faster tempo.
- During the song's debut performances in Dallas, Flansburgh held a small book titled The Crusades by English poet Henry Treece, claiming he had found the book in town and that it contained a poem called "Trees" which would serve as the lyrics to the venue song. As The Crusades is a nonfiction history book and Treece did not write a poem called "Trees", Flansburgh was likely reading lyrics on a sheet of paper tucked into the book, as he also later would during the debut performance of "Three Might Be Duende."
- John Flansburgh on the song via dvdtalkradio.com:
We did a song for a rock club in Dallas named Trees that we basically did in the style of Yes which was very very tricky ... the song was only a minute long but we probably spent four hours straight rehearsing ... that art-rock music from the 70s. ... we realized how much better the musicians in Yes must really be than we expected.
Song Themes
Animals, Falling, Falsetto, Insects, Not In Common Time, Plants, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, Space, Venue Songs, Weapons
Videos
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