Okay! Pretty
What is brand new, exactly I think of you
You'll touch me in a minute
But that's not what I want to do

We are two strangers
We might never have met
We can talk forever
I understand what you said

But I'm not in love, what does it take to fall in love?
Do people really fall in love?

You know it
Is there a time for this? Is this responsibility?
Girl time, boy time
Is that the difference between you and me?

I won't ask any questions
Who needs to make a new start
I choose to believe you
I said before that I can't

'Cause I'm not in love, what does it take to fall in love?
Do people really fall in love?

Feelings
Take it easy, baby
Don't let your feelings get in the way
I believe someday we'll live in a world without love

I can answer your questions
If you won't twist what I say
Please respect my opinions
They will be respected someday

But I don't need love, there'll come a day when we won't need love
I don't believe that we don't need love


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I'm Not In Love Lyrics as written by David Byrne

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    This had once been an extremely important idea for Byrne: his belief that "love" was an imaginary concept with little actual meaning. The song was performed in the band's earliest days, when they were still called alternately The Artistics or The Autistics.

    The record label--worried by Byrne's somewhat-freakish persona--deliberately chose a producer for their first LP who'd tone down the weirdness. Byrne was sufficiently attached to this song--and "Warning Sign" which, although quite different, shares the suspicious attitude toward emotional attachment--to hang on to them until their second LP, More Songs About Buildings and Food. By then TH had a more-sympathetic producer in Brian Eno, and enough critical acclaim (and successful performances) that their label allowed David's more-twitchy songs to be recorded and released.

    Three albums later (Speaking in Tongues), it's obvious from "Naive Melody (This Must Be the Place)" and "Girlfriend Is Better" that David--surprise, wonder of wonders--had fallen in love, and was beginning to discard some of his more-eccentric ideas and concepts. Still weird though. What's the first thing anyone says about the film Stop Making Sense? The word "geek", or something about David's awkward stage presence and gestures (and the "big suit" of course). I do like his repetitive-measuring-along-one's-arm gesture; it looks good. Actually I'll admit...in my college days I listened to the More Songs LP entirely too often; I was on the verge of adopting the anti-love stance and other "conceptual art"-ish notions, myself. Until a pair of more-warmly-human-minded friends (a boy-girl couple) helped show me how self-defeating it could be.

    foreverdroneon February 15, 2011   Link

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