David Byrne — Everybody Laughs
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Length: 3:43
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Everybody laughs and everybody cries
Everybody lives and everybody dies
Everybody eats and everybody loves
Everybody knows what everybody does
Everybody's going through the changes
Every complication
What you say with gesture and expression
In my imagination
Every mobile phone in every restaurant
Everyone we know, and everything you want
Everybody wonders what ya gonna do
Everything is closer, everything is true
Everybody's startin' everything again
Everybody's outside, now they're comin' in
Everybody's goin' through the garbage
Lookin' for inspiration
Some will find it starin' at the ceiling
Of the subway station
Everyone you love in every kind of way
Everything you know in every single face
Every change of heart and every saving grace
Every song we sing in every kind of place
Everybody looks and everybody sees
Everybody's askin' everybody please
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Everybody's goin' everywhere at once
Everybody's backside, everybody's front
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Hey, hey-hey-hey
Hey, hey-hey-hey
Hey, hey-hey-hey
Hey, hey-hey-hey
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Everybody dances, everybody stops
Everybody wants what everybody's got
Everybody wonders what ya gonna do
Everybody's wearing everybody's shoes
Everybody lives and everybody dies
Everybody eats and everybody loves
Everybody knows what everybody does
Everybody's going through the changes
Every complication
What you say with gesture and expression
In my imagination
Every mobile phone in every restaurant
Everyone we know, and everything you want
Everybody wonders what ya gonna do
Everything is closer, everything is true
Everybody's startin' everything again
Everybody's outside, now they're comin' in
Everybody's goin' through the garbage
Lookin' for inspiration
Some will find it starin' at the ceiling
Of the subway station
Everyone you love in every kind of way
Everything you know in every single face
Every change of heart and every saving grace
Every song we sing in every kind of place
Everybody looks and everybody sees
Everybody's askin' everybody please
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Everybody's goin' everywhere at once
Everybody's backside, everybody's front
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Hey, hey-hey-hey
Hey, hey-hey-hey
Hey, hey-hey-hey
Hey, hey-hey-hey
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh-ooh
Everybody dances, everybody stops
Everybody wants what everybody's got
Everybody wonders what ya gonna do
Everybody's wearing everybody's shoes
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He often says that he is not open to a Talking Heads reunion because it would not be progressing his art. Well David, this song sounds exactly what I would think a modern Talking Heads song would be. And I could have even believed it was a Talking Heads song from 40 years ago (except the better sound production reveals that it is a modern recording).
Not his best work, but I appreciate the sentiment & the shiny newness...
I'll do you one better: Why is the sky?
David Byrne is truly the pseud's pseud, beloved of the chi chi chatterati , so far up himself he's becoming a black hole of intellectual pretension. 1's too good for him
Love this man, love the cover and I think I'm loving the song too 