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Thumbs Lyrics from the album “EVOLution“, This song was sing by Sabrina Carpenter.
Thumbs Lyrics
Somewhere in the world there is a father and a mother
And the father is a son, who has a mother
The mother has a daughter who gets married to the brother of a mother
And they all just tryna multiply with one another
‘Cause that’s just the way of the world
It never ends till the end, then you start again
That’s just the way of the world
That’s just the way of the world
Somewhere in the world they think they’re working for themselves
They get up everyday to go to work for someone else
And somebody works for them and so they think they’ve got it made
But they’re all just working to get paid the very same
And so they keep on twiddlin’ them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum
They gonna keep on twiddlin’ them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
And so they keep on twiddlin’ them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum
(Skiddly-dee-da-dum)
They gonna keep on twiddlin’ them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Somewhere in the world you got a robber and a bank
And the bank robbed the people, so the people rob the bank
And the police came to get him but they let him get away
‘Cause they’re all just workin’ to get paid the very same
‘Cause that’s just the way of the world
It never ends till the end, then you start again
That’s just the way of the world
That’s just the way of the world
And so they keep on twiddlin’ them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum
(Skiddly-dee-da-dum)
They gonna keep on twiddlin’ them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
And so they keep on twiddlin’ them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum
(Skiddly-dee-da-dum)
They gonna keep on twiddlin’ them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
Don’t believe everything that you hear
Let it go through your left and right ear
Don’t just march to the beat of that drum
Don’t be one of them people just twiddlin’ them thumbs
‘Cause that’s just the way of the world
It never ends till the end and then you start again
That’s just the way of the world
That’s just the way of the world
And so they keep on twiddlin’ them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum
(Skiddly-dee-da-dum)
They gonna keep on twiddlin’ them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
And so they keep on twiddlin’ them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum
(Skiddly-dee-da-dum)
They gonna keep on twiddlin’ them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
And so they keep on twiddling them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum
They gonna keep on twiddling them thumbs
Skiddly-dee-da-dum-dum
‘Cause that’s just the way of the world
Writer(s): Steve Mac, Priscilla Renea Hamilton
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“Thumbs” was released on October 7, 2016 as a promotional single for Sabrina Carpenter’s sophomore album EVOLution, and was later released as an official single on January 3, 2017. It is the ninth song performed on Carpenter’s headline tour of the same name.
“Thumbs” is a song about not becoming someone who just goes along with everybody else and how everyone in the world is the same in some way.
This song is about how people go through the same routines every day without thinking. The main phrase of the chorus means that people may or may not see a problem in what is going on with what they or others are doing, but they do not do anything about it. The saying “twiddle your thumbs” means “to do nothing for a period of time, usually while you are waiting for something to happen”.