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How can David Byrne come up with lyrics like these? I thought. It is so good, but it must have seemed like such a silly little thing when it first occurred to him: a bar named Heaven where the party, when it is over, “will start again / Will not be any different, will be exactly the same.”
Way, way back in college, my friends and I were huge Talking Heads fans. We listened to heaven over and over again. At first we thought of it as funny, bordering on dumb. We grew to think of it as genius, particularly when the marijuana was flowing freely. I still listen to that album (Fear Of Music) a few times a year