David Byrne Album

He is a boy
You are a girl
And you will always stay that way
But there are people
In this world
Who'd like to change what nature made

And if you take that decision
Then they will make that incision - down below

The birds and the bees
Are singin' for me
And this is the song I heard them singin'
Goin' tweedle dee dee
Tweedle dee dee
But I never heard a word they're tellin' me

Oh little girl
Please understand
And listen to the words I say
I was your dad
Now I'm your mom
I hope you'll comprehend someday

I didn't mean to confuse you
And now I know that it's hard to understand

The birds and the bees
Are singin' for me
But I never heard a word they're sayin'
Goin' tweedle dee dee
Tweedle dee dee
Freedom of choice is what they're bringin'

And when Columbus sailed
Upon that mighty sea
Well, we are just like him
Yes, we are pioneers

Into the great unknown
The wild uncharted lands
There ain't no turning back
Ain't gonna be no chains on me

Who would ever believe
Caterpillars like me
Turning into a butterfly
Well, I was suddenly free

The birds and the bees
Are singin' for me
And this is the song I heard them singin'
Tweedle dee dee
Tweedle dee dee
Freedom of choice is what they're bringin'

You know I'm man enough
Ain't gonna run and hide
My love is mighty tough
My love is mighty wild

I got a pair o' wings
And I'm gonna fly away
Too late to turn back now
Tomorrow came today - for me

Seems like ev'rywhere I go
Seems like ev'rything I do
Seems like ev'rything I dream about
Seems like ev'rywhere I look

Well I got girls, girls on my mind
I think about them mostly all the time
Oh - so tell me what you'd do?
Oh - if you were in my shoes?

No, thank you, please, I'm only looking
I don't believe we've met before
I guess I've died and went to heaven
Or else I'm lookin' out my nose

And I got girls, girls on my mind
I think about them sometimes all the time
Oh - well what about tonight?
Okay - what about today?

People say that I am crazy
People say that I am strange
But I don't care about what people say
They can't see inside my brain

I've got girls girls girls girls girls girls in my mind
Ev'ry little girl - stays in my mind
Well I don't wanna know - they're all around my mind
Flying all around - they're all around my mind
Oh - and when I get to sleep
Oh - I pray my soul to keep

I'm the star of my own movie
Honey, I'm the leading man
You might ask yourself - who is that guy?
With the girls upon his mind?

I got girls girls girls girls girls girls in my mind
Ev'ry little girl - stays in my mind
I remember 'em all - they're all in my mind
Long, short 'n' tall - stayin' in my mind

Flyin' all around
All around my mind
Flyin' up and down
Goin' through my mind
Ev'ry little girl
All through my mind
Ev'ry little girl
Stay in my mind

Prime time in the living rooms
And now all the drapes are closed
Moonlight shinin' from above
It seems like ev'rybody knows

Oh - something ain't right
Oh - something ain't right

Well, God can turn the world around
And he can push it in the dirt
And he can tear it all apart
And he don't care who all gets hurt

Oh - something ain't right
Oh - something ain't right

There's a place where money grows on trees
Now the only way to reach it's on your knees

C'mon down - you old fart
Let's see if you have got a heart
It ain't true - it's all lies
Are you the devil in disguise?
Won't give up - won't bow down
I'm gonna tear your playhouse down

He said: Oh - something ain't right
Oh - something ain't right

Twinkle twinkle twinkle little star
Who the hell now do you think you are?

Oh - something ain't right
Oh - something ain't right
Oh - something ain't right
Oh - something ain't right

Bangin' his head
Stab in the back
Look her in the eye and Buddy, you can tell she's crazy
Smack in the face
Look at 'em go
Take a look around and you can see I don't mean maybe

If sex is a weapon
Who's winnin' this war?
My legs are too tired
I can't run anymore

She's mad
She's sore
I'm getting out for sure
My time
Is up
I just can't stand this stuff

Said look where you're goin'
You don't even know what you're knowin'
Look where you're goin'
You don't even know what you're knowin'
Oh now darlin'

Heaven's above
Look out below
B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B-B - Baby
Fell on his back
Rubbin' his head
Pretty little girl; sure as hell she ain't no lady

I'm mild as a bunny
I'm meek as a lamb
You lead me to slaughter
I'm mud in your hands

I know - I say
I'm findin' out today
Someway - somehow
I'm gonna pull you down

So blow me away
Leave me alone
I beg you please
Please come on home

Now look where you're goin'
You don't even know what you're knowin'
Now look where you're goin'
You don't even know what you're knowin'
Ooh now darlin'

All over the house
All over the town
Bit him in the hand and he turned around and hit her with a hammer
Flippity flop
Now when does he stop?
Now here they come again
And that's the way they live together

So look where you're goin'
You don't even know what you're knowin'
Look where you're goin'
You don't even know what you're knowin'
Ooh now darlin'

Look where you're goin'
You don't even know what you're knowin'
Now look where you're goin'
You don't even know what you're knowin'
Ooh now darlin'

Look where you're goin'
You don't even know what you're knowin'
Look where you're goin'
You don't even know what you're knowin'

Window shoppin'
Finger poppin'
Hangin' in our fav'rite shopping mall
Looky looky
A little cutie
A little kitten she deserves a home

Tell you dudes when I get old enough
You bet that I am gonna try some stuff

Twisted sister
Don't 'cha miss her
There's a hundred more where she came from
Wiggle wiggle
Jiggle jiggle
Jesus, how the babes are almost grown!

And I don't need to watch the news at night
Anyone can see we're out of time --

Hangin' on
Hangin' out
Got my hundred dollar shoes
Hangin' round
Hangin' free
And we got nothin' else to do
What goes up
Must come down
Oh, she took an overdose
Hangin' out
Hangin' free
Till our mama takes us home

Shimmy shimmy
Gimmie gimmie
We don't need you and we don't need love
I gotta have it
I'm gonna grab it
It ain't stealing, hey, it's only fun

When you live inside the pleasure dome
You don't ever wanna go back home

Hangin' on
Hangin' out
Some are hangin' upside down
A perfect world
A perfect girl
Oh -- another year rolls by
I'm the king
And you're my queen
When those zombies all awake
A broken heart
A broken home
Ain't no tears upon your face

Hangin' on
Hangin' out
There's place for me and you
Hangin' round
Hangin' free
We got nothin' else to do
Turn it up
Fade it down
Yeah, that song it saved my life
Perfect teeth
A perfect smile
Oh, she was a friend of mine
Let's go out
To the place
Where the hands of time are slowed
No one walks
No one dies
No more hassles anymore

I'm takin' all your little toys away
You don't have any say so in your future
The pretty colors and the shiny lights
Do we just chase whatever we desire?

Oh silent night
Oh holy night
Sometimes you see me
Sometimes you don't

You'll get to know me better
After a walk in the dark
The monster in the mirror
We'll take a walk in the dark
Woah - we'll take a walk in the dark
Woah - we'll take a walk in the dark

I'm not afraid to close my eyes at night
I'm not afraid of what my dreams will show me
I saw a fish that had a human head
I saw some things that I would like to show you:

The broken glass
The car's on fire
Open the cages
And set them free

Mine eyes have seen the glory
I took a walk in the dark
It ain't no bedtime story
We'll take a walk in the dark
Woah - we'll take a walk in the dark
Woah - we'll take a walk in the dark

Oooh -
Who will help ya now?
Surrender,
My love
Let it all come down
Burn baby burn

Now Jesus, Mary and the Holy Ghost
Took one look and they said, "Hey, we're lost!"
"How the hell do we get outa here?"
They shit their pants, they got so scared

So no matter who you are
Ya need a walk in the dark
The sweetest thing I ever saw
I took a walk in the dark
Woah - we'll take a walk in the dark
Woah - we'll take a walk in the dark

Now Washington, DC's
A funny little town
The further you look into it
The further things stick out

You oughta be ashamed
You oughta be destroyed
I'll chop you into little bits
And feed you to my dogs

Well well well well well
What have we got here?
What have we got now?
Hey hey hey hey hey
Twistin' in the wind
Twistin' all night long

Now can you picture this?
A taste of what will be
The weatherman is wrong again
It looks like rain to me

I heard the whistle blow
The train has jumped the track
The mighty engine's outa gas
Bureaucratic heart attack

My sister likes the boys
They kinda like her, too
My mama says, "Be careful"
Sister says, "Now, that ain't cool"

My daddy fell in love
Down at the factory
And me, I like to sit around
Get high, and watch TV

Well well well well well
What have we got here?
What have we got now?
Hey hey hey hey hey
Twistin' in the wind
Twistin' all night long

Now I can take a joke
I'm laughin' at myself
I faked my way through college
And I faked my way through sex

I've been falling down too long
I've been bangin' up my head
And if I could stay on my feet
I'd prob'ly go right back again

Now Harry's got a gun
And he just turned fourteen
He dresses like a gangster
And he's livin' on the street

They kicked him in the balls
They shaved off all his hair
They put a current through his head
And left him lyin' there

Well well well well well
What have we got here?
What have we got now?
Hey hey hey hey hey
Twistin' in the wind
Twistin' all night long

They say that crime don't pay
The judge does not agree
'Cause if you got the money
He will surely set you free

I'll watch you burn in hell
I'll see you in your grave
I'd like to watch you suffer for
The evil that you made

Hi-dee hi-dee ho
What a funny clown
The fat man he fell off the wall
And he can't get up again

It's time to say goodbye
It's time to say goodnight
Whoever is the last one out
Well, please turn out the light

I can't find my way around this table
And I can't find my way around your face
And I can't find my way around your body
And wasted days turn into wasted nights

Hey lookit me now!
Hey lookit me now!
Hey lookit me now now now now now now!
Lookit me now!

The future isn't quite what you imagined
Ev'rything you valued has been sold
And ev'ry heart that takes a chance is broken
Now I don't see you laughin' at us no more

Hey look at you now!
Hey look at you now!
Hey look at you now now now now now now!
Look at you now!

Green grass grows around the backyard shithouse
And that is where the sweetest flowers bloom
We are flowers growin' in God's garden
And that is why he spreads the shit around

Hey look at us now!
Hey look at us now!
Hey look at us now now now now now now!
Look at us now!

Hey lookit me now!
Hey lookit me now!
Hey lookit me now now now now now now!
Lookit me now!

Back from the war
Covered in red, white and blue
So here I am
But I got nowhere to go

Heaven help you now
Heaven help you now

Monkey man
This is not Garden of Eden
Take a look
Who will eat and who gets eaten?

Saturday night
I'm gettin' outa my head
Who's laughin' now
You should be runnin' my friend

Heaven help us now
Heaven help us now

Monkey man
D.N.A. and evolution
Slide on down
Say goodbye civilization

A hundred miles an hour in my mind
And there you go
Outa control into the promised land
And down we go

Monkey man
Are we just some weird mutation?
Oh, my mind!
Lead me not into temptation

Like a snake
I will strike without a warnin'
Holy cow
Someone pinch me, am I dreamin'?

Monkey man
Let's get back to where we started
Slide on down
Evolution's goin' backwards

I ain't gonna work here no more
I ain't gonna work here no more
Honey, come and dance with me
'Cause I ain't gonna work here no more

I feel like I'm walkin' on air
I feel like I'm walkin' on air
I can see your house from here
And I feel like I'm walkin' on air

Oh - Oh
A million miles away from here
And I ain't gonna work here no more

You can't tell a man by his clothes
You can't tell a man by his clothes
A toad is a prince in someone's eyes
And you can't tell a man by his clothes

The stars gonna fall from the sky
The stars gonna fall from the sky
This time I think they've gone too far
And the stars gonna fall from the sky

Oh - Oh
A million miles away from here
And I ain't gonna work here no more

Oh - Oh
A million miles away from here
And I ain't gon' be treated this way

Some sunny day
I been waitin' so long
Gonna walk right on outa here
And I ain't gonna work here no more

We must have been out of our minds
We must have been out of our minds
Your own back side will let you down
And we must have been out of our minds

Oh - Oh
A million miles away from here
And we must have been out of our minds

Oh - Oh
A million miles away from here
And I ain't gonna work here no more
A million miles away from here
And I ain't gonna work here no more

It's a tiny town, you can hang around with me
It's a tiny town, and everybody knows what you've been doin'
So don't you mess around, cuz it's a tiny town
Teeny weeny town, tiny town, tiny town
And every little town, if you look around
Is a tiny town, tiny town, tiny town.

Be careful my darling, what you say and do
The shit that you make comes right back to you

And the whole wide world is a tiny town,
Full of tiny ideas
With each tiny heart pumpin up and down
Come be tiny with me

Such a tiny town, we have trouble living with each other
Someone knock you down and
Someone else would like to steal your lover
Mmm, it's a tiny town, it's enough to make you lose your mind
Mother nature said, she won't play that way so quit your crying

Mama still loves you, when you go astray
You don't need to push her in her grave

In my tiny mind you are tiny too I'll be tiny tonight
For each tiny me there's a tiny you, close your tiny town eyes

And the birds sweetly singing in the tiny town trees
And the animals ask what you're doing, well it's as plain as can be

I see your sadness, like birds in the air
I see them all flying away

In each tiny heart in this tiny world is a tiny desire
And each tiny boy and each tiny girl close their tiny town eyes
And the whole wide world is a tiny town, full of tiny ideas
With our tiny hearts pumpin up and down, come be tiny with me

Somebody, somebody's gettin' outa bed
Somebody, somebody's gettin' herself dressed
Somebody, somebody combin' back her hair
Somebody, somebody dancin' down the stairs

And on the TV and in magazines
She sees the people she would like to be

Somebody, somebody steals away her dreams
Somebody, somebody - race is all they see
Somebody, somebody takes away her pride
Somebody, somebody don't know wrong from right

Now they have taken everything she owns
How did she ever get this far from home?

See how we are
There ain't no four-leaf clover
In the blink of an eye
Ev'rything changes
We gotta start all over

Down in that deep muddy river (so long ago)
Blood is much thicker than water (the angels know)
Love is the ocean we swim in (so long ago)
Carry us to our beginning (the angels know)

Somebody, somebody takes away our name
Somebody, somebody tell me who I am
Somebody, somebody testify for love
Somebody, somebody where are you tonight?

Down in that deep muddy river (so long ago)
Blood is much thicker than water (the angels know)
She hears a voice sweetly singing (so long ago)
Carry us to our beginning (the angels know)