Released: November 18, 2003
Songwriter: Chris Frantz David Byrne Jerry Harrison Tina Weymouth
Producer: Steve Lillywhite Talking Heads
Gone away
Someone else son's gone
Every night
I lie here
Hard hurt heart
That holds the door
Buried in time
Lay in the factory bleeding
And all the time they walk the line
And all the time in asking land
Why can't I go with them, down they go
Why are we left behind?
There'll come a day
There'll be an open door
How can we get there?
We've lost the way
Memory
Is the strangest thing
What a day
For dreaming
There's a flame
Whose light still shines
Leading us out
Through fields and bridges
And all the time they walk the line
And all the time in asking land
All the miners breathing underground
Is there anyone there?
What is a man?
What are we working for?
What will we find there
So far away?
Cold
Cold, and the spanners waving
Time
No matter what they say
My search, crawling
Like a wet, cold miner
And I wonder, wonder
I wonder, wonder
And all the time they walk the line
And all the time in asking land
I seen grasses grow through rock and stone
I can picture his face
Narrow my head
There lies that open door
What does it matter
How long we wait?
What does it mean?
Is there no golden law?
Now that he's done
It's not the same
Someone else son's gone
Every night
I lie here
Hard hurt heart
That holds the door
Buried in time
Lay in the factory bleeding
And all the time they walk the line
And all the time in asking land
Why can't I go with them, down they go
Why are we left behind?
There'll come a day
There'll be an open door
How can we get there?
We've lost the way
Memory
Is the strangest thing
What a day
For dreaming
There's a flame
Whose light still shines
Leading us out
Through fields and bridges
And all the time they walk the line
And all the time in asking land
All the miners breathing underground
Is there anyone there?
What is a man?
What are we working for?
What will we find there
So far away?
Cold
Cold, and the spanners waving
Time
No matter what they say
My search, crawling
Like a wet, cold miner
And I wonder, wonder
I wonder, wonder
And all the time they walk the line
And all the time in asking land
I seen grasses grow through rock and stone
I can picture his face
Narrow my head
There lies that open door
What does it matter
How long we wait?
What does it mean?
Is there no golden law?
Now that he's done
It's not the same
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 album
- 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