Take A Break: Brian Eno & David Byrne - Strange Overtones

Lyrics: Brian Eno & David Byrne

I wake up every morning
I hear your feet on the stairs
You’re in the next apartment
I hear you singing over there

This groove is out of fashion
These beats are 20 years old
I saw you lend a hand to
The ones out standing in the cold

Strange Overtones in the music you are playing
I’ll harmonize
It is strong and you are tough
But a heart is not enough

Put on your socks and mittens
It’s getting colder tonight
A snowball in my kitchen
I watched it melt before my eyes

Your song still needs a chorus
I know you’ll figure it out
The rising of the verses
A change of key will let you out

Strange overtones though they’re slightly out of fashion
I’ll harmonize
I see the music in your face
That your words cannot explain

Strange Overtones in the music you are playing
We’re not alone
It is strong and you are tough
But a heart is not enough

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Take A Break: Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don't Talk

Lyrics: Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don't Talk

Oh cheeky cheeky
Oh naughty sneaky
You're so perceptive
And I wonder how you knew.

But dead finks don't walk too well (oh no)
A bad sense of direction (oh no)
And so they stumble round in threes (oh no)
Such a strange collection.

Oh, you headless chicken
Can those poor teeth take so much kicking?
You're always so charming
As you make your way up here.

And dead finks don't dress too well
No discrimination
To be a zombie all the time
Requires such dedication.

"Oh please sir, will you let it go by,
'Cos I failed both tests with my legs both tied
In my place the stuff is all there
I've been ever so sad for a very long time.

My my, they wanted the works:
Can you this? and that? I never got a letter back
More fool me, bless my soul
More fool me, bless my soul."

Oh perfect masters
They thrive on disasters
They all look so harmless
Till they find their way up here.

But dead finks don't talk too well
They've got a shaky sense of diction
It's not so much a living hell
It's just a dying fiction.

Take A Break: Brian Eno - This

Lyrcis: Brian Eno - This

This chord
This water
This son
This daughter
This day
This time
This land
It's all mine

This Calling Bell
This Forge Bell
This Dark Bell
This The Knife Bell
This calling
This burden
This falling
The world's turning

This What I thought I knew
This What I thought was true
This I understood
This In the deep wood
This Ah there I stood a child so fair
This On a certain square
This Down the dirty stairs
This To see the table set
This With golden chairs
This Ah to follow, follow, follow, follow there

This race
And this world
This feeling
And this girl
This revolver
This fire
This I'll hold it up higher, higher, high

Take A Break!

Lyrics: Brian Eno - By This River

here we are
stuck by this river
you and I
underneath the sky that's ever falling down, down, down
ever falling down

through the day
as if on an ocean
waiting here
always failing to remember why we came, came, came
I wonder why we came

you talk to me
as if from a distance
and I reply
with impressions chosen from another time, time, time
from another time

Take A Break!

Lyrics: Brian Eno - And Then So Clear

And then so clear to wonder
To wake with open eyes
As the snow across the tundra
And the rain across the skies
And the rain across the skies

So much again and weightless
In the motherworld of space
We fail to form to come to
And the razor mountains fade
And the day is cursed in shame

In these the world we open
So much to lose to save
To light the highest beacons
And the rose of love will bleed
And the rose of love will bleed

In these the world we open
So much to lose and save
To light the brightest beacon
And the rose of love will bleed
And the razor mountains fade
And the day is cursed in shame

Blogwork:

1) If you could do anything you wanted tomorrow, what would you do?

Take a Break!

- - Lyrics: Brian Eno - -

Is there a time for keeping your distance
A time to turn your eyes away
Is there a time for keeping your head down
For getting on with your day

Is there a time for kohl and lipstick
A time for cutting hair
Is there a time for high street shopping
To find the right dress to wear

Here she comes
Heads turn around
Here she comes
To take her crown

Dici che il fiume (You say that the river)
Trova la via al mare (Finds the way to the sea)
E come il fiume (And like the river)
Giungerai a me (You shall come to me)
Oltre i confini (Beyond the borders)
E le terre assetate (And the thirsty lands)
Dici che come fiume (You say that as a river)
Come fiume... (Like a river...)

Is there a time to run for cover
A time for kiss and tell
Is there a time for different colours
Different names you find it hard to spell

Is there a time for first communion
A time for East 17
Is there a time to turn to Mecca
Is there time to be a beauty queen

Here she comes
Beauty plays the clown
Here she comes
Surreal in her crown

Dici che il fiume (You say that the river)
Trova la via al mare (Finds the way to the sea)
E come il fiume (And like the river)
Giungerai a me (You shall come to me)
Oltre i confini (Beyond the borders)
E le terre assetate (And the thirsty lands)
Dici che come fiume (You say that as a river)
Come fiume... (Like a river...)
L'amore giunger (Love shall come)
L'amore... (Love...)
E non so più pregare (And I'm not able to pray anymore)
E nell'amore non so più sperare (And I cannot hope in love anymore)
E quell'amore non so più aspettare (And I cannot wait for that love anymore)

Is there a time for tying ribbons
A time for Christmas trees
Is there a time for laying tables
And the night is set to freeze

- - English Exercise - -

The below words were used in the above song.
Try to make sentences with the words. ;)

1) ribbons
2) cover
3) lipstick