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.
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.