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Artist: Talking Heads
Suggested Track: Psycho Killer - 2005 Remaster

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Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime Lyrics
This song is about how most people spend the vast majority of their lives unconscious to what happens. Most people let things happen to them, instead of being a ...
Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life Lyrics
The song is about idolatry and ego and the false ideas about pop culture (yes that includes cocaine which was popular when this song was contemporary). Its ...
Talking Heads - Heaven Lyrics
David suggests it would be torture or pure boredom and that the promises of Heaven are flawed in the first place. He is telling us that Heaven is an illusion we ...
Talking Heads - Burning Down the House Lyrics
While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a ...
Talking Heads - And She Was Lyrics
"This is a song about a girl I knew in high school, that I went to high school in suburban Baltimore [with]... this girl I knew there who used to do LSD, and ...
Talking Heads - Animals Lyrics
A drunken paranoid rant by a character with too much on his plate, finally losing it and declaring that animals are laughing at him, telling his shocked barroom ...
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer Lyrics
Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it. “I overthink and have trouble sleepin' / All purpose ...
Talking Heads - Slippery People Lyrics
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
Talking Heads - Swamp Lyrics
15 Comments · This song is the entire Reagan Era, spelled out for anyone paying attention. · Sounds like he's talking about the devil's big plan to destroy the ...
Talking Heads - Paper Lyrics
i think this song is about being held up to scrutiny in front of people (in this case a lover). if you read it that way, it makes a lot of sense. keep hold of ...
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Lyrics
The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
Talking Heads - Tentative Decisions Lyrics
Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He ...
Talking Heads - Artists Only Lyrics
For Artist's Only (original name) was on the album More Songs about Buildings and Food. The lyrics were not written by David Byrne. They were written by Mike ...
Talking Heads - Stay Up Late Lyrics
The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
Talking Heads - The Good Thing Lyrics
As the heart finds the good thing, the feeling is multiplied. Add the will to the strength and it equals conviction. As we economize, efficiency is multiplied,
Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless Lyrics
Its meaning is like an amorphous blob. Try to hold onto it, and you discover it's an impossible task. The harder you work at grasping it, the more it slips ...
Talking Heads - The Lady Don't Mind Lyrics
In this song Byrne is narrating a male voice who both describes a woman who seems to float in and out of his life and the bewildering transcendence in touching ...
Talking Heads - (Nothing But) Flowers Lyrics
I think the song could be taken as a meditation on the twisting of our 'human nature' by civilisation; a post-apocalyptic paradise has arisen, and we should all ...
Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better (Stop Making Sense version) Lyrics
This song is about the interpersonal struggle of a man during a night of dancing and sexual intercourse with a woman of which he is not dating. The "girlfriend" ...
Talking Heads - Walk It Down Lyrics
The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
Talking Heads - Memories Can't Wait Lyrics
I m eager to live my life fully. "These memories can t wait" - It s about the future that starts now. Life with its experiences and adventures awaits us. The ...
Talking Heads - Warning Sign Lyrics
Warning Sign is a song about the future “things to come”, a future made of fear of something, which you have to warn about, made of imperatives, instructions, ...
Talking Heads - Mind Lyrics
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
Talking Heads - The Book I Read Lyrics
It's about a guy who read a book and fell in love with it! The book isn't a book, it's a girl that heard a lot of good things about and when he met her and fell ...
Talking Heads - People Like Us Lyrics
This song was a sarcastic homage to reactionary, country music lyrics and attitude. A dedication to myopic citizens of the United States. Pretty obvious. In ...
Talking Heads - Cities Lyrics
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
Talking Heads - Listening Wind Lyrics
The song is about a colonial encounter. Mojique is, quite clearly, a terrorist. The dust might hint at a nearby desert. The wind in his heart hints at a ...
Talking Heads - Mr. Jones Lyrics
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control ...
Talking Heads - Houses In Motion Lyrics
The song is about a man digging his own grave. He is continually running the race, but never really accomplishes anything. That is why the contrast is so ...
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime Lyrics
This song is actually about life as a struggling musician on tour. The life of a travelling musician relating this to being a war. Making money, and getting ...
Talking Heads - Love for Sale Lyrics
While the obvious connections with suicide or alcoholism could be drawn easily, more subtly this song could be about someone who views the world through a ...
Talking Heads - I'm Not In Love Lyrics
"I believe some day we'll live in a world without love" is a particularly strange assertion. After a casual listen, it's unlikely anyone would notice how this ...
Talking Heads - Drugs Lyrics
Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it." " ...
Talking Heads - Dream Operator Lyrics
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
Talking Heads - The Big Country Lyrics
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
Talking Heads - Making Flippy Floppy Lyrics
6 Comments ... This song is about a child, an adolescent losing their innocence and coming to grips with adult life generally and, more specifically, with ...
Talking Heads - Pulled Up Lyrics
The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
Talking Heads - With Our Love Lyrics
This song is about recognizing the difference between ordinary / everyday things and the ultimate true nature of things (who \ what we really are). The example ...
Talking Heads - Moon Rocks Lyrics
This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This ...
Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere Lyrics
Ed Sheeran tells a story of unsuccessfully trying to feel “Amazing.” This track is about the being weighed down by emotional stress despite valiant attempts to ...
Talking Heads - Found a Job Lyrics
this song seems pretty straighforward with its meaning. its the story of a couple who argued and criticized the norm so much that it threatened their ...
Talking Heads - Television Man Lyrics
"I'm inside and I'm outside at the same time" This refers to the immersive experience of watching a screen, of how we are able to effectively tune out the rest ...
Talking Heads - The Girls Want To Be With The Girls Lyrics
The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
Talking Heads - No Compassion Lyrics
The track speaks of where the mind goes at the most desperate & desolate of times, when it just about slips away to all but disconnect itself, and the aftermath ...
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) Lyrics
The main refrain throughout the song is “hands of a government man,” and some of the posts suggest that the song is about government oppression. ... The hands ...
Talking Heads - Seen And Not Seen Lyrics
It's about how people tend to either act how they look or look how they act, so they change themselves to conform to something. Then it starts talking about ...
Talking Heads - Sugar on My Tongue Lyrics
Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He ...
Talking Heads - The Great Curve Lyrics
altho.. "The world moves on a womans hips The world moves and it swivels and bops" (this girl is making an attempt to change the world so the 'world' will move ...
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Once In A Lifetime by Talking Heads - Songfacts
Once In A Lifetime by Talking Heads song meaning, lyric interpretation, video and chart position