Well, I'm dressed up so nice
An' I'm doin' my best
Yes I'm startin' over
Startin' over in another place
Lemme tell you a story
Big chief with a golden crown
He's got rings on his fingers
And then he walks up, up to the throne
He's makin' shapes with his hands
An' don't you dare sit down
Now don't you dare sit back
And don't you dare speak up
And on the first day, we had everything we could hold
Ooh, and then we let it fall
And on the second day, there was nothing else left to do
Ooh, what a day that was
There are 50,000 beggars
Roaming in the streets
They have lost all their possessions
They have nothing left to eat
Down come the bolts of lightning
Now an electrical storm
Starts a chain reaction
Go pull a fire alarm
I'm dreaming of a city
It was my own invention
And I put the wheels in motion
A time for big decisions
And on the first day, we had everything we could hold
Ooh, and then we let it fall
And on the second day, there was nothing else left to do
Ooh, what a day that was
Oh, a day that was
Ooh, that's the way it goes
There's a million ways to get things done
Three's a million ways to make things work out
Well, I'm going right through
And the light came down
Well, they're roundin' 'em up
From all over town
They're movin' forward and back
They're movin' backwards and front
And they're enjoying themselves
Moving in every direction
So if you feel like you're in a whirlpool
You feel like going home
And if you feel like talking to someone
Who knows the difference between right and wrong
And on the first day, we had everything we could hold
Ooh, and then we let it fall
And on the second day, there was nothing else left to do
Ooh, what a day that was
We're goin' boom boom boom
That's the way we live
And in a great big room and
That's the way we live
What a Day That Was
David Byrne
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(The Gift Of Sound) Where The Sun Never Goes Down (the Gift Of Sound) Where The Sun Never Goes Down.... (Untitled) A Building In The Air A Cloud Of Light A Conduit To Heaven A Hill In Ontario County A Long Time Ago A Million Miles Away A Perfect Hand A Persecution Followed A Pretty Face A Self Made Man A Self-Made Man A Soft Seduction A Walk In The Dark A Whole Man Admiral Perry America Is Waiting American Troglodyte Amnesia Angels Art Thou Greater Than He? Astronaut Asuka Atronaut Au fond du Temple Saint Ava Back In The Box Back in the Box [Album Version] Big Blue Plymouth Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open) Big Business Broken Things Buck Naked Burnt By The Sun Carnival Eyes Civilization Come With Us Crash Daddy Go Down Dance On Vaseline Dancing Together Desconocido Soy Dialog Box Dialogue Box Dirty Old Town Dirty Old Town (mapeye) Don't Fence Me In Don't Fence Me In (cole Porter) Don't Want To Be A Part Of Your World Don't Want To Be Part Of Your World Don't Want to be Part of Your World (Samba) Don't You Agree? Dreamworld - Marco De Canaveses Eggs In A Briar Patch Eleven Days Empire Every Drop Of Rain Everyone's in Love With You Everything That Happens Exquisite Whiteness Fall with Me Finite = Alright Finite=Alright Five Golden Sections Fuzzy Freaky Gates Of Paradise Girls on My Mind Glad Glass, Concrete & Stone Glass, Concrete and Stone Glass, Concrete, and Stone Good & Evil Good And Evil Good And Evil (rumba/llesa) Great Desolations Hanging Upside Down Help Me Somebody Here Lies Love His Wife Refused Home How Are You? I Feel My Stuff I Know Sometimes A Man Is Wrong I've Tried I've Tried (Things To Do) I've Tried [things To Do] [knee Play 9] In The Future In The Future [knee Play 12] Independence Day Independence Day (cumba) Jungle Book Kish Ladies In Blue Language Confounded Lazy Lazy [*] Lazy [Freeform Reform Vocal] Lazy [Norman Cook Dub] Lazy [Peace Division Dub] Lie To Me Lie To Me (merengue) Life Is Long Lighthouse Like Humans Do Like Humans Do [Los Amigos Invisibles Remix] Lilies Of The Valley Loco De Amor Loco De Amor (salsa/reggae) Machu Picchu Make Believe Mambo Make Believe Mambo (orisa) Marching Through The Wilderness Mea Culpa Men Will Do Anything Miss America Money Monkey Man Moonlight in Glory My Big Hands My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks) My Big Nurse My Fair Lady My Love Is You Neighborhood Never So Big Nineveh Not So Far To Go Nothing At All Now I'm Your Mom Office Cowboy Office Cowboy (Pagode) One Fine Day Order 1081 Outro Pirates Please Don't Poison Poor Boy Princess Princess [Non LP Track] Ready For This World Rios, Pontes E Overdrives River Sad Song Seven Years She Only Sleeps She's Mad Smile Social Studies Social Studies (The Gift Of Sound) Social Studies [knee Play 4] Solano Avenue Somebody Something Ain't Right Strange Overtones Strange Ritual Teotihuacan The Accident The Angel Moroni The Breastplate Of Righteousness The Burden Of The Word The Call Of The Wild The Call Of The Wild (merengue) The Civil Wars The Cowboy Mambo The Cowboy Mambo ( Hey Lookit Me Now ) The Cowboy Mambo (Hey Lookit Me Now) The Dream Police The Dream Police (Cha Cha Cha) The Gates of Paradise The Great Intoxication The Great Western Road The Jezebel Spirit The Lighthouse The Man Who Loved Beer The Moment Of Conception The Mouth Of Malachi The Other Side of this Life The Pearl Of Great Price The People Tree The Red House The Revolution The River The Rose Of Tacloban The Rose Tattoo The Sound Of Business The Sound Of Business [knee Play 3] They Are In Love Things To Do (I've Tried) Tic Toc 2 (In the Future) [*][Instrumental] Tiny Apocalypse Tiny Town Tree (Reprise) Tree (Reprise) [*][Instrumental] Tree (Today Is an Important Occasion) Tree (today Is An Important Occasion) [knee Play 1... Tree [Instrumental][Version] Tula Twistin' In The Wind Two Soldiers U.B. Jesus Un Di Felice, Eterea Under Heavy Manners Under Heavy Manners (fripp/byrne) Under the Mountain Unknown Untitled Track Ur Walk Like A Woman Walk on Water Wanted For Life Waters Of March When She Passed By Where The Sun Never Goes Down Why Why Don't You Love Me? Wicked Little Doll Women Vs. Men Women vs. Men (Bolero) Written On Gold Plates You & Eye You & Eye You And Eye You Don't Know Me You'll Be Taken Care Of
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