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Everybody's Coming to My House Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I wish I was a camera
I wish I was a postcard
I welcome you to my house
You didn't have to go far
A house and a garden
There are, there's plants and trees
Make a, a closer inspection
If you get, get down on your knees

[Chorus]
Now everybody's coming to my house
And I'm never gonna  be alone
And everybody's coming to my house
And they're never gonna go back home

[Verse 2]
I'm pointing and describing
And I can be your guide
The skin is just a roadmap
The view is very nice
Imagine looking at a picture
Imagine driving in a car
Imagine rolling down the window
Imagine opening the door

[Chorus]
Everybody's coming to my house
Everybody's coming to my house
I'm never gonna be alone
And they're never gonna go back home

[Bridge]
We're only tourists in this life
Only tourists but the view is nice
And we're never gonna go back home
No we're never gonna go back home (all right)
We're only tourists in this life
Only tourists but the view is nice

[Chorus]
Now everybody's coming to my house
And I'm never gonna be alone
And everybody's coming to my house
And they're never gonna go back home

[Outro]
Everybody's coming to my house
Everybody's coming to my house
I'm never gonna be alone
And I'm never gonna go back home
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Cover art for Everybody's Coming to My House lyrics by David Byrne

I always thought this was a song about a murderer (such as Jeffrey Dahmer, though likely not him for reasons I'll explain later).

At the beginning of the song, the speaker feels like a tour guide, trying to convince people to enter his house ("The view is very nice").

Now for the part of the murder. It is said that "Everybody's coming to (their) house, And they're never gonna go back home," and "they're never gonna be alone."

This, at least to me, seems like the description of a mass murderer who lured people to his house to kill them, because they had no friends of their own. It is backed up by the existence of 'Psycho Killer', although the lyrics are thought to be about David Berkowitz, the music video is very clearly about Jeffrey Dahmer.

Also, I'm pretty sure I heard that, in an interview, David Byrne said this song was about the feeling of anxiety as too many people surround you when you're supposed to be in the comfort of your own home (a feeling I'm all too familiar with), so I suppose my interpretation is just... interpretation. But that's the great thing about music, it can be interpreted in different ways, and have different meanings to different people.

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Negative
Subjective
Fear
Disgust
Murder
Anxiety
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Cover art for Everybody's Coming to My House lyrics by David Byrne

I think the most understated phrase of this song is "The skin is just a Roadmap"... \nHe\'s obviously talking about embracing all aspects of life.\nIt\'s a song of acceptance?

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