Genius Lyrics
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Talking Heads – Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
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The song addresses the public paranoia that followed the Watergate Scandal. Byrne studied the straight speech of John Dean’s Watergate testimony and tried to apply it to his
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Talking Heads – Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) Samples
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Phish – Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
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Take a look at these hands / Take a look at these hands / The hand speaks / The hand of a government man / Well I'm a tumbler / Born under punches / I'm so thin / All I want is to
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Angélique Kidjo – Born Under Punches
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[Intro] / Congo / Congo / Congo / [?] / [Verse 1] / Take a look at these hands / Take a look at these hands / The hand speaks / The hand of a government man / Well I'm a tumbler
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Devo – Disco Dancer (7″ version) Samples
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The Cool Greenhouse – The Neoprene Ravine Samples
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"Weird Al" Yankovic – Dog Eat Dog Interpolations
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Galactic Hole – Cold Hands Samples
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Rona Kenan - רונה קינן – Wait
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Wait for me / Wait for me / Pick up the phone / It's me / Wait, wait for me / Pick up the phone it's me / Yes I see her every day / No I don't know what she looks like / Don't come
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Talking Heads – Drugs (Alternate Version)
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And all I see is little dots / Some are smeared and some are spots / Feels like a murder but that's alright / Somebody said there's too much light / Pull down the shade and it's
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Talking Heads – New Feeling (Alternate Version)
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It's not yesterday anymore / I go visiting, I talk loud / I talk to make myself clear / In front of a face that's nearer / Than it's ever been before, not this close before
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Talking Heads – In Asking Land
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Gone away / Someone else son's gone / Every night / I lie here / Hard hurt heart / That holds the door / Buried in time / Lay in the factory bleeding / And all the time they walk
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Talking Heads – The Overload
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“The Overload” is Talking Heads' attempt to create a song in the signature style of Joy Division. The catch? None of the band had ever actually heard Joy Division; the song was
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Talking Heads – Crosseyed and Painless
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The second track off of Talking Heads' 1980 classic addresses the idea of losing identity, and not sure how to regain it back.
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Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
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In this song, producer Brian Eno and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne are at the apogee of whatever it is they do (Byrne claims he was just riffing on some Southern preacher).
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Devo – Disco Dancer (7″ version)
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I'm a disco boy / I'm a disco boy / I'm a disco dancer / But I've got no place to go / I'm a disco boy / I'm a disco boy / I'm a disco dancer baby / And my feet won't touch the
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The Cool Greenhouse – The Neoprene Ravine
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[Verse 1] / Well, I psychically channeled the lyrics for this song / From an alien equivalent of the Velvet Underground / Who call themselves The Neoprene Ravine / The Neoprene
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Disco Inferno – A Rock to Cling To
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[Verse 1] / Drifting further out to sea / My strength will soon be leaving me / Our ships have sunk or run aground / And only sharks now swim around / Smashed and battered by the
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Talking Heads – Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town (Alternate Version)
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Wait, wait for the moment to come / Stand up, stand up and take my hand / Believe, believe in mystery / Love love love love is simple as 1-2-3 / I'm a know-it-all, I'm smartest man
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Talking Heads – Houses in Motion
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[Verse 1] / For a long time I felt without style or grace / Wearing shoes with no socks in cold weather / I knew my heart was in the right place / I knew I'd be able to do these
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Talking Heads – The Great Curve
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The song is a noisy yet hypnotic piece with an
ultra-fast driving riff along with afrobeat inspired bongos and harmonizing horns, the chorus has multiple singers creating a complex
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Talking Heads – Cities (Alternate Version)
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Think of London, a small city / It's dark, dark in the daytime / The people sleep, sleep in the daytime / If they want to, if they want to / I'm checking them out / I'm checking
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Talking Heads – Listening Wind
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Listening Wind, from the 1980 album Remain In Light, tells the story of a foreign terrorist, Mojique, who carries out a bombing of American colonialists.
The controversial subject
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Talking Heads – Seen and Not Seen
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In this standout track from Talking Heads' 1980 Remain In Light LP, David Byrne performs a spoken-word style poem over an instrumental created by the rest of the band
The poem
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Galactic Hole – Cold Hands
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[Instrumental]
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