Thumbs Song by Sabrina Carpenter. HAVE FUN!! LIKE, FAVORITE, AND FOLLOW!! Summary: “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”.
LYRICS: [Verse 1] 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 [Pre-Chorus] 'Cause that's just the way of the world It never ends 'til the end, then you start again That's just the way of the world That's just the way of the world [Verse 2] Somewhere in the world They think they're working for themselves They get up every day 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 [Chorus] And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddly-dee-dat-dum (Dum, dum, dum, dum) They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum (Dum, dum, dum, dum) And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddly-dee-dat-dum (Skiddly-dee-dat-dum) They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum (Dum, dum, dum) [Verse 3] 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 working to get paid the very same [Pre-Chorus] 'Cause that's just the way of the world It never ends 'til the end, and then you start again That's just the way of the world That's just the way of the world [Chorus] And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddly-dee-dat-dum (Skiddly-dee-dat-dum) They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum (Dum, dum, dum, dum) And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddly-dee-dat-dum (Skiddly-dee-dat-dum) They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum (Dum, dum, dum) [Bridge] 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 [Pre-Chorus] 'Cause that's just the way of the world (Way of the world) It never ends 'til the end, and then you start again (Start again) That's just the way of the world That's just the way of the world [Chorus] And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs (Keep on) Skiddly-dee-dat-dum (Skiddly-dee-dat-dum) They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum (Woo, woo, dum, dum, dum) And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs (Keep on, keep on) Skiddly-dee-dat-dum (Skiddly-dee-dat-dum) They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs (Laa) Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum (Skiddly-dee-dat-dat-dat-de-dat-dum-dum) [Outro] And so, they keep on twiddlin' them thumbs (Keep on, keep on) Skiddly-dee-dat-dum (Dum, dum, dum, dum) They keep on, they keep on They gonna keep on twiddlin' them thumbs Skiddly-dee-dat-dum-dum 'Cause that's just the way of the world
