Tom Brislin is a musician, songwriter, and producer. Tom’s show is a one-ma… Read Full Bio ↴Tom Brislin is a musician, songwriter, and producer. Tom’s show is a one-man concert with piano and vocal, enhanced with keyboards and percussion (which Tom sometimes plays all-at-once). He describes his music as “pop songs with special features”, alluding to the infusion of classical, jazz, and other dynamic musical influences. Formerly of the New Jersey-based indie-rock band Spiraling, Brislin has been critically admired in the press by The Washington Post, Philadephia City Paper, The Star-Ledger (NJ), and many more. Brislin’s work as a professional keyboardist has landed him on tours and recordings by notable artists like: Yes, Deborah Harry, Meat Loaf, OK Go, Josh Kelley, Renaissance, Glen Burtnik, and many others. He is a native of New Jersey, currently living in Nashville.

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Birdhouse in Your Soul
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Cha Z

5y↑165

I'm your only friend
I'm not your only friend
But I'm a little glowing friend
But really I'm not actually your friend
But I am

Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

I have a secret to tell
From my electrical well
It's a simple message and I'm leaving out the whistles and bells
So the room must listen to me
Filibuster vigilantly
My name is blue canary one note* spelled l-i-t-e
My story's infinite
Like the Longines Symphonette it doesn't rest

Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

I'm your only friend
I'm not your only friend
But I'm a little glowing friend
But really I'm not actually your friend
But I am

There's a picture opposite me
Of my primitive ancestry
Which stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free
Though I respect that a lot
I'd be fired if that were my job
After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts
Bluebird of friendliness
Like guardian angels its always near

Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

(and while you're at it
Keep the nightlight on inside the
Birdhouse in your soul)

Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch (and while you're at it)
Who watches over you (keep the nightlight on inside the)
Make a little birdhouse in your soul (birdhouse in your soul)

Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

Blue canary in the outlet by the light switch (and while you're at it)
Who watches over you (keep the nightlight on inside the)
Make a little birdhouse in your soul (birdhouse in your soul)

Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I'm the only bee in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

Patrick Stocks

4y↑4

I’m your only friend
I’m not your only friend
But I’m a little glowing friend
But really I’m not actually your friend
But I am

Blue canary in the outlet by the light 💡 switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I’m the only bee 🐝 in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

I have a secret to tell
From my electrical well
It’s a simple message and I’m leaving out the whistles and bells 🔔
So the room must listen 👂 to me
Filibuster vigilantly
My name is blue canary 1 note 📝 spelled I-I-t-e
My story’s infinite ♾
Like the Longines Symphonette it doesn’t rest

Blue canary in the outlet by the light 💡 switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I’m the only bee 🐝 in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

I’m your only friend
I’m not your only friend
But I’m a little glowing friend
But really I’m not actually your friend
But I am

There’s a picture opposite me
Of my primitive ancestry
Which stood on Rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck free
Though I respect ✊ that a lot
I’d be fired if that were my job
After killing Jason off and countless screaming 😱 Argonauts
Bluebird of friendless
Like guardian angels 👼🏽 it’s always near

Blue canary in the outlet by the light 💡 switch
Who watches over you
Make a little birdhouse in your soul
Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I’m the only bee 🐝 in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

(And while you’re at it
Keep the nightlight on inside the
Birdhouse in your soul)

Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I’m the only bee 🐝 in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

Blue canary in the outlet by the light 💡 switch (and while you’re at it)
Who watches over you (keep the nightlight on inside the)
Make a little birdhouse in your soul (birdhouse in your soul)

Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I’m the only bee 🐝 in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

Blue canary in the outlet by the light 💡 switch (and while you’re at it)
Who watches over you (keep the nightlight on inside the)
Make a little birdhouse in your soul (birdhouse in your soul)

Not to put too fine a point on it
Say I’m the only bee 🐝 in your bonnet
Make a little birdhouse in your soul

All comments from YouTube:

Patrick Mulvaney

5y↑189

Nearly 20 years later, I still can't decide of these guys were being too serious having fun, or if they having too much fun being serious.

X P

3y↑7

@RatPfink66 "they were Brooklyn before Brooklyn was Brooklyn, back when it was still Brooklyn" is the comment of the year

X P

@Patrick Mulvaney: yes

Cameron Metz

4y↑2

Can never have enough fun while being serious and to me that’s what they were doing 😂😂😂

RatPfink66

4y↑7

They were Brooklyn before Brooklyn was Brooklyn...back when it was still Brooklyn. Arcane, irreverent, learning the rules to break 'em.

Thomas Moll

4y↑5

30 years!

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Irie Dixon

3y↑53

My stepdad showed us this song and we listened to it constantly while growing up- road trips, camping, at the beach. Always singing it at the top of our lungs. My stepdad just passed away this Father’s Day, his name was Blue and this song is even closer to my heart now than I ever thought any song could be.

Ants_in_my_eyes_ Johnson

3y↑2

That is such a beautifully sad story that makes me terribly happy. He is in the outlet by the light switch and watches over you. Keep that nightlight on inside the birdhouse in your soul. Anytime you see a blue bird remember its a guardian angel always close to you. I can see how special this song is to you now. Your stepdad had a cool ass gnarly name btw. Condolences.

Ants_in_my_eyes_ Johnson

3y↑3

He is in the outlet by the light switch and watches over you. Keep the nightlight on inside the birdhouse in your soul.

Cha Z

5y↑165

Mark Bryant

4y↑2

@I'm Undecided and I guarantee there are little birdhouses in those souls.

I'm Undecided

5y↑4

It's souls like you who I thank xD

Madelynn

4y↑407

This was my dad's favorite song

Pierson Ellis

My dad loved they might be giants but his favorite was Particle Man. Who can blame him though

Patrick TAYLOR

@Kathleen Sullivan 1980

A Vicious Vixen

2y↑1

@expired nutella You dad has good taste in music.

expired nutella

2y↑1

this feels like the dad song above all the other dad songs because every so often ill just hear my dad singing it to himself

A Vicious Vixen

This was my favorite song. I listened to it the entire time during my vacation to Yellowstone. I’m old. I was 10 when this came out. It was the bees knees. Cartoons made shorts for these songs and they were great.

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typhoonthunder

3y↑66

without the context of these being song lyrics, if i heard someone saying this in public i would've thought they were actually insane

Donna L. Carl Kuchinski

2y↑1

I'd think they were brilliant...I love the words! How beautiful to make a little birdhouse in your soul!

mrbump28

2y↑1

That's been me for the last week lol

Porter Sherman

5y↑291

"I'm a little glowing friend" holy shit my joint just spoke to me

alex gore

@Amy Wiers not to put too fine a point on it

Amy Wiers

@Mark Bryant make a little birdhouse in your soul

Mark Bryant

@Sonica who watches over you

Sonica

@BOB BOT Blue canary in the outlet by light switch

BOB BOT

@Sonica like the longines symphonette it doesnt rest

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John K.

4y↑231

Dammit, all of these folks saying that this song reminds them of their fathers are making me feel really old

water man

I bonded with my dad over this song haha. I sometimes cry over it honestly, whenever i'm sad I like to bring it up. It makes me happier.

John K.

3y↑2

@KOT Edits Gee, that makes all the difference. 😜🤪

KOT Edits

if it makes ya feel any better it's my mom that this reminds me of.

Abbey Clarke

lol. My whole family loves They Might Be Giants!! Especially my daddddd >:) :')

Mark Mueller

3y↑1

No fcking kidding

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Ghostspeare

5y↑168

Sing this at the top of your lungs... in public. Those who come sing next to you... they'll be good future friends. Ignore the rest.

ShrekConfirmed

4y↑3

@Aquatic guy gets it

Aquatic

4y↑9

@ShrekConfirmed That's the point. The good friends don't care

ShrekConfirmed

4y↑8

@Aquatic as good as the main comment is, its pretty cringe to start randomly singing in public at the top of your lungs

Aquatic

4y↑15

@Zeke Iwa Find another place to be a 6 year old

Zeke Iwa

4y↑7

Cringe.

Sierra hotel sierra

2y↑2

my parents played this every day for me when i was three and now im realising how great it is

Edgar Braintree

4y↑35

TMBG is the first band I was ever into, and the first concert I attended, in 1993. When it was still a drum machine instead of a drummer. I was 11 years old, and when they played this I lost it

Son of Crystal Pepsi

4y↑169

Make a little birdhouse in your soul. With a little bird feeder in your soul. Then yell at all those damn squirrels that keep stealing the seed in your soul.

Marc H

awesome name!

Director Orson Callan Krennic

lmao

lilith the vampire

5y↑33

I heard this album when I was pretty young, I never realized until now how great it is

Ch3rry_sodapop_

5y↑27

I learned about this band from a show that I love and now I'm hooked to this band :D

Kimaya Grace

@Ch3rry_sodapop_ same

HBcreates

@Nebula TMBG wrote a couple of songs for the Mickey mouse clubhouse show. Including the theme song

Nebula

@Jay Kalt Mickey Mouse???

Ch3rry_sodapop_

4y↑2

@Jay Kalt no it's Umbrella Academy it's on Netflix

Jay Kalt

4y↑1

is the show mici mouse or malcom in the middle

CarltheCarl

3y↑7

The nostalgia I feel with this song
It's almost like a fever dream. I remember being a toddler and when it was my bedtime I would hear this from a cd

CarltheCarl

@a.i yes

a.i

is that a cookie run icon..

Tommy Garson

2y↑1

every time I listen to this song I am more convinced that it's the most beautiful song I have ever heard.

Max

3y↑20

this entire band makes me think of my dad ahahaha if y'all really wanna feel old this album came out when he was a high school freshman and i'm currently 17 years of age

lyinsroar

3y↑5

it's not old, it's a brand new album... (for 1990)

Aidan Robertson

3y↑7

This band deserves much more attention

Patrick Stocks

4y↑4

Ok Google Play

2y↑1

That punchy change in the middle of the chorus though! One of my favorite parts of any song! 👏

Lance Marshall

4y↑42

This has been in my head for years and I have no clue where it came from

Andrea1542

3y↑1

It...it came from They Might Be Giants😉

CarltheCarl

3y↑2

It's totally a fever dream song

bebop888

3y↑3

the little birdhouse in your soul.

A C

4y↑11

This was so high school. Love it...

Classtoise

3y↑12

Thanks, Danny. I finally got it out of my head after 20 years.

Insert Redletter Media Meme Here

3y↑2

This song is fucking amazing. Its like all my previous memories being a young kid. Crazy.

Wallis_

3y↑7

Thanks for this one, Dan. Now I'll never get it out of my head.

brianwesley28

4y↑1

Flood was such an incredible album.

Jordan Eric Baird

Loved this song ever since i was like 7-8 years old. It has absolutely aged well.

Ants_in_my_eyes_ Johnson

3y↑2

This song is literally one of my happy places 😊

Gingabed

God I love this song

David Blain

2y↑2

My cousin gave me this on cassette tape in 1991 to use as a sleep aid. Needless to say it didn't work and I've been a fan ever since...LOL

Barbara Merrick

5y↑8

I <3 this song

RodgertheNegotiator

4y↑7

around 2:29 when he's like "while you're at it, keep a nightlight on inside your soul. I love this part the most.

Duke Devlan

3y↑2

This song is super special awesome

Conor McGuire

4y↑4

Best song about a nightlight ever.

fred

3y↑4

I SEARCHED FOR THIS SONG FOR 2 YEARS AND I FOUND IT

Frederik klotz skov

someone once said if we all heard this song in the morning before we start our day we could have world peace

Lauren Kirkwood

3y↑1

so catchy!!

Sir Billius

Weirdly enough, I associate this song very strongly with Weapon of Choice because these were my dad’s favorite songs for a while when I was a kid.

kyle carson

3y↑1

They will always.....be giants.

Meursault

5y↑115

Christ, 1990?
This was really popular in like '07, I thought it was from around then lol.

Tyler Durden

Funny I would've guessed closer to 87, thought I was younger when this dropped

Madison Westwater

4y↑1

I know, I grew up with this album and I never knew how old it was until I rediscovered it

Snigelson

3y↑1

Treehouse in my heart is my favorite song

im rather odd

my mom has this album on cassete tape :) grew up listening to pavement, tmbg, and das racist. a good selection, i think

uniit

5y↑55

this song reminds me of my dad

Alicia Young

5y↑4

uniit this comment makes me feel old

alex Gria

4y↑2

I have it on my playlist

Anna Joy Walker

My baby brothers favourite song. 😭💓

Sunder, Plaintive Mind

3y↑1

If I had kids they'd say this song reminded them of me.

Angela Nash

5y↑109

i miss u everyday dad. we'll dance in heaven

steelshark studios

what makes you think you'll ruin heaven for your dad?

Nebula

@Lil Jay AGREED

Lil Jay

@Collin Stinson Your parents failed

Nebula

R.I.P.

Nebula

and stupid Collin Stinson made me cry harder

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Lylasaur66

4y↑1

In band class I play the snare drum and my friend (bass drum) and I played this :)))

Otaku Coast to Coast

This is my mom’s favorite song. it’s mine too.

Alfredo Meister

5y↑33

dial a song was so great
most people here wont know what that is though...

Alfredo Meister

4y↑1

@Liam Berg (STUDENT) tmbg had a phone service, where if you dialed a certain phone number, it would play one of their new songs through the phone

Cillo billo

5y↑5

I'm not sure if text-a-song would work so well

Sim Simma

5y↑4

Maybe someone could do text a song now a days.

lyinsroar

5y↑5

TMBG are/were so revolutionary :)

whitenoisemaker

Obsessed with the drums in this song lol

Sir A. Scott Ascot

The "drums".

el_twt05

wish someone would make a slowed version like thisss 1:38

Chelsea Elwell

4y↑12

I never knew They Might Be Giants were from the 90s :O

Morgan McDowell

I liked They Might Be Giants with the 2 boys named John when I was little!

Cameron Cooper

This was my great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Pendleforth, 's favorite song during the black plague. Wait, no

RockyTeeth

4y↑5

i found this through a fandom animatic and by god is it great

Fallen Eyes

3y↑1

countryhumans m.a.p.. thought the song sounded really good.

Killjoy Cat 394

Same and then I started loving it

Director Orson Callan Krennic

4y↑1

Same

Truce Truce

5y↑8

Best song

Evan Rosenlieb

4y↑4

Holy shit this is 30 years old!?

froggy

@Evan Rosenlieb looool

Evan Rosenlieb

TFW you almost react to your own comment without realizing it two years later

Avid Non (get it)

Thank you very much Jeff Henderson for the best of my Youth! I Still remember the girl you had a love affair with as a senior. God bless you dude. I hope you are doing well !
Your friend always though we haven't talked since God got me to AA in 88.
☮️ 💓 D.R.

MeteorTesh

3y↑1

Damn, I was 1 when this came out.

Jones Aviation

3y↑5

Why am I 12 and like this song so much?

Pedro

because ygotas

Our Channel

3y↑1

Because reasons

Charicola1

3y↑1

Cause you've got good taste kid.

Crafties Squad#MakeLoveNotWar

3y↑1

Gaming Engineer Approves Of This Song.

Robert Wyatt

3y↑8

This is the song that the demon possessing you sings.

Bob A Linx

3y↑1

Garbage day!

Riley Ross

3y↑2

I get the reference

furby time

3y↑2

only listening to this because a good fanfiction mentioned it lol. 🎈

a.i

MAKE A LITTLE BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL

Dogol

Anyone else notice how John Linell looks a lot like Don Knotts

lyinsroar

andy griffith show <3

Riley Ross

3y↑6

Who else is here because of Little kuriboh original Yu-Gi-Oh abridged

Killjoy Cat 394

I love this song it omost has Panic! At the disco pretty odd ara vibes

car1938

Why does this song remind everyone of there dads

Lavender

2y↑2

I'll never forgive myself for leaving the video early when I was recommended it a few months ago lol

Spectra Soulfaire

3y↑1

This song's great, but that alarm clock-esque beeping in the background is annoying.

Helixel Illustrations

3y↑3

"little treehouse in your heart" Arin was ..kinda close

Colin Ur Buddy

People talking about their dads playing this song for them.... it's not that old.... shit... I'm old

_havien

i didnt know this was the original song (0_0) - a lemon demon fan

Bob A Linx

3y↑4

Anyone else love LittleKuriboh’s Season Zero Abridged?

Raya Granum

I didn't realize that this was a real song till today, I thought it was a little kuriboh thing.

Axolotlion

4y↑4

Man so good

Haruka Takahashi

3y↑6

Yugioh abridged zero theme song:3

skm Cole

4y↑31

Clicks on video

welcome home...

Ok Google Play

Now that you mentioned it I feel the same way.

John Uthus

I've been chilling here for two years, velcome home guys

TheShadow

Listened to on the way to California from the East coast

Karzikann

4y↑1

4/4

Not only a review but also most likely the time signature

Swarley751

you made me count it

yeah

ice_crime

3y↑2

this song hits different when you're a victim of cancel culture

faroshscale

3y↑5

Cancel culture isn't real.

Andrzej

4y↑4

Reminds me Madness British band

Patrick Stocks

4y↑11

30th anniversary

BOOM BOOM326

3y↑1

My dad is in jail so I can’t relate

Solina Tsegai

My parents are african immigrants so I have no family connection to this, but I listen to ‘Istanbul, not Constantinople’ and I never went back

Lucas Ventura Escamilla

This music should be is in Malcolm in the middle in this a episode put this music

dysn

Hmm... primitive ancestry “standing on rocky shores keeping ships wreck-free”... as well as killing “jason and screaming argonauts”

... Oh, its a visual comparison between a lighthouse and a cyclops (one single “eye” both have)

Dwane Dibly

@Empathy Module Yeah, especially since the Cyclops was Odysseus, not Jason and the Argonauts.

Empathy Module

3y↑1

I'm pretty sure it's saying that a lighthouse is the ancestor of the nightlight. The lyrics are 'stood on rocky shores and kept the beaches shipwreck-free', and 'I'd be fired if that were my job after killing Jason off and countless screaming argonauts', implying that the nightlight would fail to stop their ship from crashing on the shore

Mike Bliss

3y↑1

Welcome to the Burgers... Try the new... You get a free stomach.

Feffol Crowman

4y↑6

Neil sang this song

1nsgnfgnt!!

4y↑1

wait when????

LPS Horse Lover

4y↑3

lyinsroar Cicierega

lyinsroar

?? gaiman?

captainHpig

This was not your first time here welcome back

Plus Ultra

3y↑5

Yu-Gi-Oh Abridged brought me here

Donna L. Carl Kuchinski

For my dearest Janet

Kathleen Sullivan

Pls listen to Dr. Worm next every1

Patrick Stocks

4y↑4

30 years ago

Charicola1

Fuck..
I was 16....

Lenny

5y↑12

5/7

Ethan Miller

5y↑6

Who disliked!!!!!

Aven Lostaunau

Seto Kaiba, Jiro the yellow spider, tetsu ushio

Seth Gadman

4y↑1

Someone without a soul...and thus a birdhouse.

Patrick Mulvaney

5y↑3

How does one NOT like this song???

lyinsroar

5y↑3

D:

if you turn your screen upside down... it becomes a like!!
but then all the likes become dislikes :(

Jaime plaza

3y↑4

Yu gi oh season 0 abridged

Jeremy Rife Network

2:14

Jeremy Rife Network

2:13

Fog

3y↑2

Inb4 game grumps flood

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Cha Z

Patrick Stocks

Patrick Mulvaney

X P

X P

Cameron Metz

RatPfink66

Thomas Moll

Irie Dixon

Ants_in_my_eyes_ Johnson

Ants_in_my_eyes_ Johnson

Cha Z

Mark Bryant

I'm Undecided

Madelynn

Pierson Ellis

Patrick TAYLOR

A Vicious Vixen

expired nutella

A Vicious Vixen

typhoonthunder

Donna L. Carl Kuchinski

mrbump28

Porter Sherman

alex gore

Amy Wiers

Mark Bryant

Sonica

BOB BOT

John K.

water man

John K.

KOT Edits

Abbey Clarke

Mark Mueller

Ghostspeare

ShrekConfirmed

Aquatic

ShrekConfirmed

Aquatic

Zeke Iwa

Sierra hotel sierra

Edgar Braintree

Son of Crystal Pepsi

Marc H

Director Orson Callan Krennic

lilith the vampire

Ch3rry_sodapop_

Kimaya Grace

HBcreates

Nebula

Ch3rry_sodapop_

Jay Kalt

CarltheCarl

CarltheCarl

a.i

Tommy Garson

Max

lyinsroar

Aidan Robertson

Patrick Stocks

Ok Google Play

Lance Marshall

Andrea1542

CarltheCarl

bebop888

A C

Classtoise

Insert Redletter Media Meme Here

Wallis_

brianwesley28

Jordan Eric Baird

Ants_in_my_eyes_ Johnson

Gingabed

David Blain

Barbara Merrick

RodgertheNegotiator

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