4:16
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, 2008
Written by David Byrne, Brian Eno, and Leo Abrahams
O listen!
Backed by a mix of instruments and electronica, Byrne croons his typical quotidian yet quirky lyrics in a soft falsetto. It begins with waking up in the morning and hearing someone in the next apartment and then gets more abstruse. Is it about isolation? Hard to say. Byrne approaches most subjects like an alien dissecting a human to see how it ticks. "I see the music in your face / That your words cannot explain." The electronica backing makes the song cold and aloof; I read that this collaboration was done almost entirely through email, and maybe it's missing a human warmth that Byrne famously doesn't have, and which his old band provided. It's got a nice beat and if its intent is to make us feel removed from humanity, it succeeds.
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