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Puzzlin' Evidence Lyrics
You got the CBS...!
And the ABC...!
You got Time and Newsweek!
Well, they're the same to me!
Now don't you wanna get right with me?
(Puzzling evidence)
I hope you get ev'rything you need
(Puzzling Evidence)
Puzzling evidence
Puzzling evidence
Puzzling evidence
Done hardened in your heart
Hardened in your heart.
...Alright!
Now I am the gun
And you are the bullet
I got the power and glory!
(Puzzling)
And the money to buy it!
(Puzzling)
Got your Gulf and Western and your MasterCard
(Puzzling evidence)
Got what you wanted, lost what you had
(Puzzling evidence)
I'm seeing
Puzzling evidence
Puzzling evidence
Puzzling evidence
Done hardened in your heart
It's hardened up your heart.
...alright!
Huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...u
Well, I'm puzzling (Huh!)
I'm puzzling (Huh!)
I'm puzzling (Huh!)
Puzzling (Huh!)
I'm puzzling (Huh!)
Woo...I'm puzzling (Huh!)
Sometimes I'm puzzling! (Huh!)
See the little children! (Puzzlin')
And the family! (Puzzlin')
Gonna live together! (Puzzlin')
Take them home with me! (Puzzlin')
Well I hope you're happy with what you've made
(Puzzling evidence)
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
(Puzzling evidence)
I'm seeing
Puzzling evidence
Puzzling evidence
Puzzling (sometimes) evidence
Done hardened in your heart
Hardened in your heart
Huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...huh...
I'm puzzling (Huh!)
Puzzling (Huh!)
Puzzling (Huh!)
P-P-P-Puzzlin'! (Huh!)
Still Puzzlin'! (Huh!)
And the ABC...!
You got Time and Newsweek!
Well, they're the same to me!
(Puzzling evidence)
I hope you get ev'rything you need
(Puzzling Evidence)
Puzzling evidence
Puzzling evidence
Done hardened in your heart
Hardened in your heart.
...Alright!
Now I am the gun
And you are the bullet
I got the power and glory!
(Puzzling)
And the money to buy it!
(Puzzling)
(Puzzling evidence)
Got what you wanted, lost what you had
(Puzzling evidence)
I'm seeing
Puzzling evidence
Puzzling evidence
Puzzling evidence
Done hardened in your heart
It's hardened up your heart.
...alright!
Well, I'm puzzling (Huh!)
I'm puzzling (Huh!)
I'm puzzling (Huh!)
Puzzling (Huh!)
I'm puzzling (Huh!)
Woo...I'm puzzling (Huh!)
Sometimes I'm puzzling! (Huh!)
And the family! (Puzzlin')
Gonna live together! (Puzzlin')
Take them home with me! (Puzzlin')
(Puzzling evidence)
In the land of the free and the home of the brave
(Puzzling evidence)
Puzzling evidence
Puzzling evidence
Puzzling (sometimes) evidence
Done hardened in your heart
Hardened in your heart
I'm puzzling (Huh!)
Puzzling (Huh!)
Puzzling (Huh!)
P-P-P-Puzzlin'! (Huh!)
Still Puzzlin'! (Huh!)
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It's not that paranoid. ABC and NBC and all the major CORPORATE news organizations are about the same, and they are all owned by Rupert Murdoch! Even the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has a new NEOCON administration. I think in this sense, the Talking Heads songs were prophetic: they saw the consolidation of our sources of information before it became common knowledge that corporate media serves corporate interests.
@humancorporation - Yep. "In 1987, the FCC abolished the fairness doctrine..." - and that was all she wrote.Thank you for not being a fool. Just because Talking Heads/David Byrne made a comment with tongue-in-cheek doesn't mean he didn't invest belief in that comment. Ian Anderson, Ray Davies, Bob Dylan, Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell et al, they ALL used plays on words and satire to make serious points.
@humancorporation - Yep. "In 1987, the FCC abolished the fairness doctrine..." - and that was all she wrote.Thank you for not being a fool. Just because Talking Heads/David Byrne made a comment with tongue-in-cheek doesn't mean he didn't invest belief in that comment. Ian Anderson, Ray Davies, Bob Dylan, Eddie Vedder, Chris Cornell et al, they ALL used plays on words and satire to make serious points.
This song goes along with a paranoid preacher's (musical) sermon in the movie "True Stories". A slideshow that was rather hilarious is shown before and during it, presenting concrete examples of what the vague lyrics are talking about. It sketches out some sort of master conspiracy theory behind, if you count everything shown in the slideshow, just about everything from JFK's death to contemporary dictatorships to robots that are going to take over the world.
Some things are obvious yet refuted by some people because those folks cannot figure out how they could be wrong. The evidence is puzzling because it contradicts their ingrained, convenient yet erroneous beliefs.