David Byrne: She Explains Things to Me

David Byrne: U.B. Jesus

"What made Mona Lisa smile? / Es una sonrisa eterna"

Fri, 15 May 2015 at 18:40

"All I want is to breathe / Won't you breathe with me / Hands of a Government Man / Find a little space so we move in-between / And keep one step ahead of yourself. Don't you miss it! Don't you miss it!"

"And you're rolling / In the blender / With me / And I can love you / Like a color / TV"

"We are vain and we are blind / I hate people when they're not polite"

Light Bath

"No will whatsoever. No will whatsoever! Absolutely no integrity"

"I love the passing of time / never for money / always for love / cover up and say goodnight . . . say goodnight"

"These days shoes are worn only on special occasions / battles are fought for family and nations / maybe you pray, but God isn't home / and there's no guarantee that justice be done"

"Now from the sands you hear the happy sounds of a carousel"

"There isn't a short cut / it must come from your heart"

"Skin, that covers me from head to toe / except a couple tiny holes and openings" * David Byrne: Glass, Concrete & Stone * released originally in the film Dirty Pretty Things, premiered on Sep 5th, 2002 * footage from Later with Jools Holland on May 7th, 2004

"A boy looks at a girl / and a girl looks like a pony / she got looks all day long / in between my toes" * The BPA featuring David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal: Toe Jam * written by D. Byrne & Dylan Mills * produced by Norman Cook & Simon Thornton * released on Jul 7th, 2008 * directed by Keith Schofield

"It's not the ending of the world / it's only the closing of a discotheque / I used to go three times a week / but that was..." " * David Byrne: A Long Time Ago * produced by Arto Lindsay, Susan Rogers & D. Byrne * recorded in Nov-Dec 1993, released on May 24, 1994

"Cool babies / strange but not a stranger / I'm an or-di-na-ry guy" * Talking Heads: Burning Down the House * music by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison & Tina Weymouth, lyrics by D. Byrne * released originally in May 1983 * footage from the 1984 film Stop Making Sense, directed by Jonathan Demme, shot at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood in Dec 14-16, 1983

"Excuse and pardon me / stay for a while / maybe we'll never meet again" * Talking Heads: Lifetime Piling Up (written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) \ produced by Steve Lillywhite & Talking Heads \ released in 1992, prior to Oct 10th

"Man takes a pencil and puts down his thoughts / the old human highway from Eden to Nod..." * David Byrne: The Great Western Road (from the soundtrack to the film Young Adam, premiered on May 16th 2003), released in Sep 2003 (assumingly on the 4th), uploaded by xxWhiteBrickWallxx

"I wouldn't live there if you paid me / I couldn't live like that, no siree!" * Talking Heads: The Big Country (David Byrne), released on Jul 21st 1978

"Now don't you wanna get right with me?" * Talking Heads: Puzzlin' Evidence (David Byrne, 1986)