| Thom Yorke – Skip Divided Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| hahahaha i will not hear "I just need a number and location" without laughing now, thank you | |
| Talking Heads – Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| *NOTE this is just my interpretation, the song could just as easily be praising the government! But it certainly has meaning either way. | |
| Talking Heads – Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On) Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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For the people who don't believe there is meaning to the song - David Byrne does not write meaningless lyrics. Every word is dripping with meaning, and if it sounds meaningless, that is because you don’t understand it. What I can figure from this song, which is undoubtedly very cryptic, is that it is about government oppression. To me this is made clear enough by the title alone. I don’t know about you, but the idea of the “hand of a government man” clearly gives me the visual of oppression. The hands “pass in between us”, everywhere, telling us what is right and wrong, how to live. We'd "better not miss it", “Falling bodies tumble 'cross the floor. Well I'm a tumbler! When you get to where you wanna be. Thank you! Thank you!” "Well I'm a tumbler. Born under punches. I'm so thin." punches of the gov hand, knocking him down, creating a society that starves someone like Byrne. “And the heat goes on...Where the hand has been “ |
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| Talking Heads – Crosseyed and Painless Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| It is my opinion that David Byrne, in this song and others on the album, is expressing his distrust of 'facts' and the resulting desperation for truth and paranoia of being lied to (the album title Remain in Light speaks for itself here). Facts that have been twisted, fogged, or even outright fabricated, and then fed as truths to the society/flock of sheep that are all too happy to eat them up without once questioning them. | |
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