Comments on: Talking Heads, “Road to Nowhere” https://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/2007/08/19/talking-heads-road-to-nowhere/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:30:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: imapinon https://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/2007/08/19/talking-heads-road-to-nowhere/#comment-2866 Mon, 15 Apr 2019 13:30:05 +0000 http://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/?p=631#comment-2866 David said this about his song, “It’s this little ditty about how there’s no order and no plan and no scheme to life and death and it doesn’t mean anything, but it’s alright.” I like that. It is honest and clean. I am working on an Easter sermon. The song is a helpful back drop.

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By: Alucinari https://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/2007/08/19/talking-heads-road-to-nowhere/#comment-2863 Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:27:29 +0000 http://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/?p=631#comment-2863 He’s making Biblical references the whole time and the music video backs it up. road to paradise. they’ll make a fool of you. There’s a city in his mind that’s growing day by day (which he says while wearing a square on his head.) people going up a ladder. And it shows him receiving a crown! It’s all there. Plain as day. Completely awesome.

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By: Talkinghedz https://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/2007/08/19/talking-heads-road-to-nowhere/#comment-2835 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 01:50:11 +0000 http://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/?p=631#comment-2835 In reply to herb.

This seems right to me – it’s the repetition of “it’s alright” that leads to this interpretation. The city in his mind is alright and being made a fool is alright because either way it ends the same. Might as well get a big suit and have some fun.

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By: herb https://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/2007/08/19/talking-heads-road-to-nowhere/#comment-2826 Wed, 13 Aug 2014 01:08:08 +0000 http://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/?p=631#comment-2826 In reply to Jon Martin.

The song is transparent as is many of his songs are.
Take the shit that comes along in your life because it
only hurts you if you rebel and after all everybody ends
up in the same place. Oblivion. You can’t stop the shitheads
that have control over you but “baby it’s alright”. Its upbeat
but depressing at the same time. We all end up equal in the
end. Dust in the wind.

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By: Sandy https://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/2007/08/19/talking-heads-road-to-nowhere/#comment-2731 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:02:50 +0000 http://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/?p=631#comment-2731 I am in sync with most of the comments on an intellectual basis and felt similarly when I was younger … however today I wonder if David Byrne was not addressing the larger social and political issues of the time; and to me it seems even more poignant today… the last verse of the song draws me to that strong conclusion.

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By: Jon Martin https://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/2007/08/19/talking-heads-road-to-nowhere/#comment-2237 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 13:41:47 +0000 http://www.songsthatsavedyourlife.com/?p=631#comment-2237 In reply to GMazade.

Hey there. I’m glad you liked the article, and that it gives you a useful starting point for both analysis and lecture. I’m also teaching English, but have yet to work these songs into my Medieval Lit classes. 😉 It’d be great to hear more about how you’re doing that…

But more importantly, thanks for stopping by to remind me that there are others out there who feel like I do. In the deepest depths of dissertation writing, that’s very comforting indeed.

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