Talking Heads Lyrics

    ------ About the song (Nothing But) Flowers performed by Talking Heads

It is amazing how people can drag a political interpretation out of this. I'm not saying they are incorrect, but in the interpretations I have read there, not one person has interpreted this song as a dig at 'Golden Age Thinking'. This is a theme that has been explored by a range of artists, from Flaubert, to Samuel Johnson, to Woody Allen! The point isn't whether or not a natural environment is better, it is just that the grass is always greener on the other side. We all long for a simpler life, and accept the idea that Eden was perfect. But if Adam and Eve could have gone to Pizza Hut or 7-Eleven, and just got their food handed to them at their convenience, would they be able to cope with going back to hunting rattlesnakes? The snake is killed in this song, unlike the story of the Fall, so in this account mankind has done nothing to destroy paradise, they have simply constructed another one that they are dissatisfied with. This is the permanent aspect of our nature: dissatisfaction with our lot. We can't get used to ANY lifestyle. Like Randall Jarrell said: 'In a golden age, people go around complaining how yellow everything looks.'

    ------ About the song Thank You For Sending Me An Angel performed by Talking Heads

Writen quite well, for to days learning process, Weather it be astronuants or grammer school childern its fit quite well with the gwen/ edgercaysy-Nostrodamas learning program. 2013 3-12

    ------ About the song (Nothing But) Flowers performed by Talking Heads

Eating the beating heart of the snake is a culinary experience sought after by the most adventurous seeking the ultimate perfect meal.

All very exciting and relished decadently with every mouth full :)

Until of course the petal chefs arrived tantalizing you with sensuous rose salads..

    ------ About the song (Nothing But) Flowers performed by Talking Heads

Would you say that this song could be an example of the importance of nature? The way I see it, the song talks about how mother nature will eventually run its course and we won't be used to the changes. Therefore we should stop destroying it and get used to it.

    ------ About the song (Nothing But) Flowers performed by Talking Heads

Some have mentioned Joni Mitchell's Big Yellow Taxi, paved paradise and put up a parking lot in reverse in this song. I thought of Kurt Vonnegut's novel where the bombs and planes were carefully deconstructed and the metal returned to ore form and put back where it came from, everything done in reverse from finished product back to raw resources. I don't know what it means, it just reminded me of that. Maybe it means we can't really go back and do it again, we should be a little more careful going forward.

    ------ About the song Life During Wartime performed by Talking Heads

During the lives of musicians in the Civilized world, ;-0; war times is going from gig to gig. That's all it is. A subjective slightly drug crazed mentally deranged metaphor. Nothing is wht it seems Alice

    ------ About the song (Nothing But) Flowers performed by Talking Heads

This is not at all about a guy who wants the hippy lifestyle; on the contrary ,the most decipherable lines are vehemently AGAINST the hippy ideology. People's comprehension skills need some work..

    ------ About the song (Nothing But) Flowers performed by Talking Heads

Great song. Heard it for the first time this year. The lyrics are definitely Byrne... but the tune could have been from the Paul Simon album Graceland. After 15 seconds, I thought "I thought I played Talking Heads, not Paul Simon."

    ------ About the song This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) performed by Talking Heads

This song is always been a favorite. I especially grew fond of it when I was going through a rough divorce fighting for my only son. When we were at home together during this time we would listen to it and it said everything about the love me and him share as a father and son.
Now I have met a new love and am engaged to be married and this is the song my son his new step mother will dance to all together. Perfect for lyrics for such the feeling I have . We have a new life with love and hope . A new family..

    ------ About the song This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) performed by Talking Heads

It is quite simply the best pure love song recorded. A love song that only uses the word "love" one time,(and is probably only in the song as a just-because) is brilliant in of itself. The vibe and the lyrics are a perfect combination of feeling and explantion of what the harmony between two people that 'fully accept each other' (the best definition of love I have heard) is really all about.