Warning Sign

Just a wonderfully bizarre and scary song. I like the warble effect they put on DB's mic.

I really don't know.

I do love this song, though; it's one my favorites, just for how the ending makes me feel.

when i think of this song i think of the awesome bass line. and then the rhythm of the drums and bass together. the little guitar sounds are cool on top. voice is last... i think maybe the lyrics are describing thoughts that pop into your mind... anxiety offset by financial security perhaps? the banality of haircuts? love it!

This song is (obtusely) about seeing a prostitute and the whole experience of someone with anxiety going through that act. If it seems really bizarre, just remember that it's coming from the mind of Byrne

I haven't a gosh-darned clue.

This song is about a man who has lost a relationship due to money going to his head once before and is now about to make the same mistake again despite the warning from his conscience.

or maybe it's about being in a hotel room with a prositute that's about to rob you.(In a really bad area) Just as your trip kicks in, the only thing you remember is getting hit over the head with a vase. and then she robbes you . this has happend before didn't take the warning sign deja vu A true Master Piece.

Our superficial, materialistic and profit driven civilisation will collapse. Global warming, exploitation and alienation of the working class. People's attention to these serious issues is disrupted by all the distractions in our society. The media 'manufacturing consent', sports and the perpetual quest for profits/material gain.

Social cohesion is the lowest it's been for many years. Trump and Brexit examples of this.

Two distinct and foreign sects of society voting for very different things. One right wing, one left.

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, that is, constrictions and no freedom, but lot of aesthetic and very vain things, like hair design and their movement. Sex also is something natural but money is needed (“I’ve got money now, c’mon baby”), that is, sex is just about prostitution, for “love has gone away”. The past and remembering have no importance (“I don’t care what I remember”), this means a lack of identity, life becomes a crazy race without any sense. I think this is an amazing prophetic song about times to come in 1978 - a future that was predictable then, and surely it depicts very well the society we’re living in now.

It's about man, a woman, and the American Dream. The woman has been mentally and emotionally sabotaged by the system for whom her partner works, and she is depressed and anxious. The system manufactures global warming and social injustice for profit. The woman has been given instructions to stay quiet and in the home so that the man can make money. Any attempt to deviate is gaslit. The man can't quite see that he is complicit, so he just works more and keeps having sex with her even though she seems pretty out of it. The woman would have had the imagination, creativity, and will to prevent global warming, prevent medical emergencies, and get people to slow down and teach people how to care about warning signs. Her state of health is the warning sign. The man is surrounded by propaganda in print, tv, and movies about the dominating relevance of haircuts and money to his own life. In his arrogance, he is insulted that she doesn't seem that into him, and wants her to remember that he makes the money. He emphasizes that he has money "now", implying that he once did not, and revealing that he thinks he has the right to pursue the American dream at a cost to women and every other living creature and the dang earth all the way out to space and beyond.