This song would later be extended and re-recorded with producer Ric Ocasek and released as the first single from their 1999 album Do the Collapse. It would be this earlier version of the song, however, that would be included on GBV’s 2003 best-of Human Amusements at Hourly Rates.
[Verse]
Someone tell me why I do the things that I don't wanna do
When you're around me, I'm somebody else
Someone tell me why I act like a fool
When things don't go my way
When you're around me, I'm somebody else
[Chorus]
There is good reason I guess
Having once gone too far
When you clean out the hive, does it make you want to cry?
Are you still being followed by the teenage FBI?
[Outro]
Someone tell me why
Someone tell me why
Someone tell me why I do the things that I don't wanna do
When you're around me, I'm somebody else
Someone tell me why
Someone tell me why
Someone tell me why
Teenage FBI (Original Version) was written by Robert Pollard.
Teenage FBI (Original Version) was produced by Chris Nini.