When he was just young boy, Geggy Tah vocalist Tommy Jordan was diagnosed with what he describes as “diarrhea of song writing.”

“I have a twin sister and when we were really, really little, I was the mellow one and she was the hyper one,” Jordan explained from a phone somewhere near Salt Lake City.

“Then one day, we just completely switched roles and I became this big motor-mouth.”

Jordan, whose sister called him Tah most of their childhood, began using his motor-mouth in music when he paired up with fellow songwriter Greg Kurstin.

“My words go all over the place,” Jordan said. “My main voice is writing, unlike someone like Frank Sinatra whose main voice is his voice. Does that make any sense?”

Whether it makes sense or not, Jordan’s song writing has been gold to Geggy Tah. “Whoever You Are,” a song he wrote when he was only 8- years-old, has been climbing Billboard’s modern rock chart since it was first released, sparking the band’s year long club tour.

“I came up with that rhyme in the back seat of a car in San Jose,” Jordan explained. “My dad got so upset with people cutting him off. It made him so happy when someone let us change lanes.”

Jordan admits, however, that “Whoever You Are” has come to take on new meanings. “The best songs conjure up new images every time you play them,” he said.

Kurstin, who was called Geggy by his little sister, believes there are some serious issues beneath their lyrics. “Most people think we only touch on the humorous side of things,” Kurstin said.

“But there is a lot more stuff in there. It’s almost like really old cartoons, the ones around the time of the depression. They used a level of humor that hit on all levels. And if you felt like thinking, you could dig more into what was going on.”

On Sacred Cow, Geggy Tah emerges in a wide array of topics, including turkeys, puppies, owls, foals, grand dads, sisters and even a Toad (that is, if Toad The Wet Sprocket’s Glen Phillip’s vocal contribution on “House of Usher” counts).

The album, a continuing journey of melody, rhythm and poetic lyrics, follows Geggy Tah’s duo debut Grand Opening. Jordan and Kurstin agreed that Sacred Cow, which is also the name of one of Jordan’s most interesting vocal arrangements, can be left up to interpretation.

“This is our second record, so it’s the most important,” Jordan explained. “It’s like a sacred cow.” He added that there may even be some connections between the album’s theme and Eastern religious icons.

“We always say that this album is the destroyer, milking the creator, and putting it in the refrigerator, which is supposed to be the preserver. If music is milk, we’re milkmen.”

As both album covers show, the band’s most obvious icon is Gina, its producer Susan Roger’s Tera Terrier. Jordan said that each member of the band has taken on the role as a father to Gina.

Geggy Tah pays tribute the dog, which has also been rumored to look like a cow on occasion, with the last track on Sacred Cow.

“We don’t like to tell people that ‘Gina’ was for a dog.” Jordan said. “Cause we get a lot of people writing in and saying that the song helped them get back together with their girlfriend or something and we think that’s pretty funny.”

Since March, Geggy Tah has been touring with a number of acts, including Soul Coughing, The Barenaked Ladies and even five dates with Sting.

It was at a show with The Barenaked Ladies, where Geggy Tah drummer Daren Hahn found the best way to describe the band.

“One of their dad’s came to the show and I asked him what he thought,” Hahn said. “He said something like ‘Oh Geggy Tah, they have good motor skills.'”

Hahn continued saying that with Geggy Tah, “anything’s game.”

“You never know what to expect,” he said.

One newspaper described the band by saying that if Dr. Seuss made albums they would sound like Geggy Tah.

“I like that,” Kurstin said. “It’s kind of nice to be compared to something that’s not musical. You can use your imagination more.”

Geggy Tah will play at the M-Shop on Saturday night. Showtimes are set for 8 and 11 p.m.