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This must be where they got the idea for the Real World.

:)

Basically, no TV show could be as exciting as real life, and the characters on TV could never compare to the characters we interact with every day.

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 relationship. but their hate of commercial television united them to find ways to entertain themselves, and it grew into a stable economic profit. and now they live happily together, doing what they love for the people they love.

I like what I am reading from you people. I think your all very close to the message. Consider the simplicity of the main message . . . If your work isn't what you like, then something is just not right. Its a message we should consistently share with our kids, and their kids. How you reach that realization, is half the fun. Those that never understand what they love, are the sad souls warming us at night.

Also consider that David Byrne's own realization may have been what ended this great bands manifest.

I think it's straightforward - it's about 2 people who were passively absorbing life, letting events wash over them and feeling bored, until they decided to create their own destiny.

Or did they? The lyric says, "They might be better off..." so maybe the narrator is just supposing what could happen if they would just realize that they have the power to make things different.

This is a great song, but it's really hard to figure out what it means.

The television and business of inventing situations with the help of their family may just be a metaphor for not taking your life so seriously, learning not to sweat the small stuff, and realizing that in reality it's all a big show, so you might as well enjoy it a little.

As one who's lived both with and without TV, it's a good message.

this song actually reminds me of lucille ball and desi arnaz. for those of you unfamiliar, they actually created the "i love lucy" show to save their marriage. not saying this is what its about, but its always what i think of ;]

I think the song is about a couple who has decided to start making homemade porn. That is why Judy is in the bedroom and Bob is on the streets scouting locations.

I think that this song is a very simple one refering to "reality" shows that started around 1979 in USA. Showing it's ridicoulus side... Period.

It's a very funny song, but also with serious meaning about finding happiness and purpose in life.

The characters are passive receptors of entertainment. The fact that there may be "nothing on" television hasn't stopped them and the listener is reminded that this is in fact quite a common occurrence. Television is supposed to a distraction, a diversion from life; the idea being that if you don't quite like what's going on in your life you can experience a different reality. But in an entertainment based culture, the roles switch places; instead of tv being something you do in between life, life becomes something you do in between tv sessions.

The characters comically do the unthinkable: they make their lives much more enjoyable than any TV show. Which is only a novel concept due to the perverted way that the entertainment industry usurped any agency we had in finding entertaining experiences. What's ironic about the song is the way that it makes what the characters end up doing seem strange and special. They're literally just living life the way it used to be lived before tv.

Sometimes I like to pretend that if I ever got tired of listening to Spotify that I'd just make songs for myself to listen to. The same way I make dinner for myself or make my bed. Life doesn't have to be about what others give you. Imagine making your own clothes, your own furniture, your own life!

There's lots more going on in the song but it's all easy to figure out so I'll let y'all do it your selves!