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We re on the road to nowhere lyrics7/2/2023 ![]() It was nominated for "Best Video of the Year" at the MTV Video Music Awards 1986. Johnson and features the band and various objects revolving, as if in their own "road to nowhere". So, out of embarrassment, or shame, I wrote an intro section that had a couple more in it." The video for the song was directed by Byrne and Stephen R. The front bit, the white gospel choir, is kind of tacked on, 'cause I didn't think the rest of the song was enough… I mean, it was only two chords. "At our deaths and at the apocalypse… (always looming, folks). "I wanted to write a song that presented a resigned, even joyful look at doom," recalls David Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. It also made number 8 on the Dutch Top 40. The song was released as a single in 1985 and reached number 25 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 6 in the British, German and South African singles charts. ![]() And Zen Buddhism." Road to Nowhere" is a rock song written by David Byrne for the 1985 Talking Heads album Little Creatures. It also appeared on Best of Talking Heads, Sand in the Vaseline: Popular Favorites, the Once in a Lifetime box set and the Brickbox set. He longs not to be part of this world and its unquenchable desires, but realizes he is also human and part of the collective insanity.īilocational shamanism. He can envision a different path, or a non-path, a movement off the road: "There's a city in my mind, come along and take that ride." He is one of them and not at the same time. The narrator is part and apart of the travelers's journey on the road to nowhere.
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