David Byrne is a bodhisattva. Just listen to to Good Thing to see how his arrow was pointed, so ealiy in his life. There he says "watch me work." In this song he says "I've got to get to work now."
This song is about recognizing the difference between ordinary / everyday things and the ultimate true nature of things (who \ what we really are). The example in the lyrics is love. If pure love is untainted by ego and self-serving interests, when the boys get "the look" their ordinary / everyday interests take over and all else is forgotten.
But the songwriter "won't look." He won't be distracted from his straight line to the good thing... He has purity in his heart and work to do to get there. He remembers instead the bodhisattvas that paved the way (accomplished higher states off mind). They:
set an example for us, I see it
It can happen to me too
But continually remembering to do this work requires some effort, or "trouble." And forgetting it, becomes in a lyrical twist, the very trouble with our love. Forgetting, then, becomes love with strings attached, or tainted, self-interested love.
Then we hear ordinary words, like "You're really special" and we get confused because we can't really tell in the miasma of the mundane. After all, realizing pure love is a very subtle state that requires some profound reflection.
When he looks out the window he sees all the products of the ordinary world. All pretending to be sofisticated, but none of it seemingly on the path of authenticity (not so busy). And even as he sees this ordinary world, he also sees its impermanence (things come and go).
But despite all of it, he "won't be neglected, not this time"... He "won't look." He has other things to do.
David Byrne is a bodhisattva. Just listen to to Good Thing to see how his arrow was pointed, so ealiy in his life. There he says "watch me work." In this song he says "I've got to get to work now."
This song is about recognizing the difference between ordinary / everyday things and the ultimate true nature of things (who \ what we really are). The example in the lyrics is love. If pure love is untainted by ego and self-serving interests, when the boys get "the look" their ordinary / everyday interests take over and all else is forgotten.
But the songwriter "won't look." He won't be distracted from his straight line to the good thing... He has purity in his heart and work to do to get there. He remembers instead the bodhisattvas that paved the way (accomplished higher states off mind). They:
set an example for us, I see it It can happen to me too
But continually remembering to do this work requires some effort, or "trouble." And forgetting it, becomes in a lyrical twist, the very trouble with our love. Forgetting, then, becomes love with strings attached, or tainted, self-interested love.
Then we hear ordinary words, like "You're really special" and we get confused because we can't really tell in the miasma of the mundane. After all, realizing pure love is a very subtle state that requires some profound reflection.
When he looks out the window he sees all the products of the ordinary world. All pretending to be sofisticated, but none of it seemingly on the path of authenticity (not so busy). And even as he sees this ordinary world, he also sees its impermanence (things come and go).
But despite all of it, he "won't be neglected, not this time"... He "won't look." He has other things to do.