Released: July 7, 1978
Songwriter: David Byrne
Producer: Talking Heads Brian Eno
[Intro]
Okay!
[Verse 1]
Pretty!
What is brand new? It's not what I think of you
You'll touch me in a minute, but that's not what I want to do
We are two strangers, we might never have met
We can talk forever, I understand what you said
[Chorus]
But I'm not in love
What does it take to fall in love?
Do people really fall in love?
[Verse 2]
You know it!
Is there time for this? Is this responsibility?
Girl time, boy time, is that the difference between you and me?
I won't ask any questions, who needs to make a new start?
I choose to believe you, I said before that I can't
[Chorus]
'Cause I'm not in love
What does it take to fall in love?
Do people really fall in love?
[Verse 3]
Feelings!
Take it easy, baby, don't let your feelings get in the way
I believe someday we'll live in a world without love
I can answer your questions if you won't twist what I say
Please respect my opinions, they will be respected some day
[Chorus]
But I don't need love
There'll come a day when we won't need love
I believe that we don't need love
Okay!
[Verse 1]
Pretty!
What is brand new? It's not what I think of you
You'll touch me in a minute, but that's not what I want to do
We are two strangers, we might never have met
We can talk forever, I understand what you said
[Chorus]
But I'm not in love
What does it take to fall in love?
Do people really fall in love?
[Verse 2]
You know it!
Is there time for this? Is this responsibility?
Girl time, boy time, is that the difference between you and me?
I won't ask any questions, who needs to make a new start?
I choose to believe you, I said before that I can't
[Chorus]
'Cause I'm not in love
What does it take to fall in love?
Do people really fall in love?
[Verse 3]
Feelings!
Take it easy, baby, don't let your feelings get in the way
I believe someday we'll live in a world without love
I can answer your questions if you won't twist what I say
Please respect my opinions, they will be respected some day
[Chorus]
But I don't need love
There'll come a day when we won't need love
I believe that we don't need love
more tracks from the album
Once in a Lifetime
- Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town (Alternate Version)
- Love for Sale
- The Big Country
- Stay Hungry
- I’m Not in Love
- Artists Only
- Found a Job
- Warning Sign
- Thank You for Sending Me an Angel
- The Democratic Circus
- Mr. Jones
- Blind
- People Like Us
- City of Dreams
- Love → Building on Fire
- Burning Down the House
- New Feeling (Alternate Version)
- Lifetime Piling Up
- A Clean Break (Let’s Work)
- Sax and Violins
- I Wish You Wouldn’t Say That
- In Asking Land
- Sugar on My Tongue
- Drugs (Alternate Version)
- Cities (Alternate Version)
- Puzzlin’ Evidence
- Wild Wild Life
- The Lady Don’t Mind
- Creatures of Love
- This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
- Swamp
- Slippery People
- Girlfriend Is Better
- Making Flippy Floppy
- Pulled Up
- Psycho Killer
- Don’t Worry About the Government
- The Book I Read
- No Compassion
- Tentative Decisions
- Heaven
- Life During Wartime
- Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
- Houses in Motion
- Memories Can’t Wait
- I Zimbra
- Road to Nowhere
- (Nothing But) Flowers
- Crosseyed and Painless
- Take Me to the River
- Air
- Listening Wind
- Stay Up Late
- And She Was
- Once in a Lifetime
From the albums
- More Songs About Buildings and Food (1978)
- Once in a Lifetime (2003)
Talking Heads popular songs
- Once in a Lifetime
- Psycho Killer
- This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
- Burning Down the House
- Life During Wartime
- Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
- Road to Nowhere
- Crosseyed and Painless
- The Great Curve
- Girlfriend Is Better
- Slippery People
- (Nothing But) Flowers
- Heaven
- Take Me to the River
- And She Was
- Listening Wind
- Don’t Worry About the Government
- Seen and Not Seen
- Making Flippy Floppy
- Houses in Motion
- I Zimbra
- The Overload
- Cities
- Wild Wild Life