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David Byrne & Brian Eno - "Life is Long"
Sincerity is a chore that we perform every day. Honesty is a conscious constant effort, like hiking up your pants when you don't have a belt. Love is the nearest street corner to your house, you see it every day and you pass it by, always reminded, always there for the taking. Truth is brushing your teeth, you can force it, fake it, or mean it, but if you get it done eventually you'll come to like it. I can't understand this song, like I can't understand "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed, but I can react, and I react by lying down in the back seat of a car, putting the middle seat belt over my chest, and watching the telephone wires making that eternal rising dipping line in the sky.
[order directly from David Byrne]
Posted by Dan at August 25, 2008 2:24 PMStrangely, this is the first David Byrne song to make me think of Bob Dylan. And with Eno too? This song makes me feel oddly mournful, in a pleasurable sort of way.
Who else could do that to me?
Pensively,
Dudley Saunders
"Think JEFF BUCKLEY meets JONI MITCHELL!" (Paul V, IN L.A.)
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Dudley, you just beat the Web Sheriff for biggest signature in the comments!
I agree with your thoughts.
I like this site and the songs. I like the metaphors in this passage. Very interesting and true. :]
Posted by hyperlycomatose at September 7, 2008 4:40 PM
and it will begin playing. All songs are also available to download: just right-click the link and choose 'Save as...'
