Talking Heads Cities (HQ) (Lyrics)

From their 1979 album Fear Of Music.

LYRICS:

Think of London, a small city

It's dark, dark in the daytime
The people sleep, sleep in the daytime
If they want to, if they want to


I'm checking them out
I'm checking them out
I got it figured out
I got it figured out
There's good points and bad points
Find a city
Find myself a city to live in.

There are a lot of rich people in Birmingham
A lot of ghosts in a lot of houses
Look over there!...A dry ice factory
A good place to get some thinking done

I'm checking them out
I'm checking them out
I got it figured out
I got it figured out
There's good points and bad points
Find a city
Find myself a city to live in.

Down el Paso way things get pretty spread out
People got no idea where in the world they are
They go up north and come back south
Still got no idea where in the world they are.
Did I forget to mention, to mention Memphis
Home of Elvis and the ancient greeks
Do I smell? I smell home cooking
It's only the river, it's only the river.

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[ThingsILove1985]

Epic...

[Squibfire]

@954cudaman unless you're Patrick Bateman who im sure would prefer some late stage Genesis (because their early stuff was too artsy, too intellectual) or maybe some Huey Lewis (but only post Sports) but of course we all know the ultimate killing music is Whitney Huston lol

[bethanywhitebear]

RIP Whitney

[GEORGEZNEMETH]

Found Fort Lauderdale, Fla. But what do I smell? It's only the river, only the New River where all the multi-million dollar yachts spew pollution into the lifeless waters. Black as coal the waters are...

[divisioneight]

Brings back memories when I found a city to live in and played this LOUD in my new pad. I did forget to mention Memphis however, and did not see Elvis.

[deadboydansmith089]

good points and bad points found that city its over there its only a few miles away a stone throw from here its right here see it....

[sara3ki]

@fourtywpm .. huuíí .. the city of the cities ; ) .. N.Y. I like really vastly! Regrettably, Harlem, I did fail to come by : S

- Europe is great : D … Rome (past-time-music), the perpetual, is neither the worst sleepy little town.. so pulchritudinous as pell-mell - .

[fourtywpm]

@sara3ki We'll see where I end up next. I'm a Harlem globetrotter LOL

[sara3ki]

@fourtywpm … well, more exotic can`t be .. sounds like globetrotting .. far away from ‘anything’.. hm, Vietnam yes.. best food and bustle around, bustle around + all bustle around at least in these cities ; ) .. nice!

[fourtywpm]

@sara3ki yep. Well I don't have a particularly interesting job, I just love traveling! I don't know about that, now I'm in Vietnam and the cities here are pretty beautiful! : o )