Talking Heads: And She Was Meaning
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Song Released: 1985
And She Was Lyrics
And she was lying in the grass
And she could hear the highway breathing
And she could see a nearby factory
She's making sure she is not dreaming
See the lights of a neighbor's house
Now she's starting to rise
Take a minute to...
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It’s about a girl on acid.
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At the time of its initial release I seem to recall Byrne hinting that it WAS about suicide. There was some blowback about the song "glamorizing" suicide and I believe that is when he constructed the "hippie chick/acid trip" premise.
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It's about a girl who runs away from a small life. She's a missing person, doesn't fit into the mold. She is rising above it to the unknown. The unknown is the rest of the world she inhabits, after fleeing. She joins the universe and expands her horizons.
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I think it was a man who found her in himself. notice feet are a mans feet and she was created by him
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Unquestionably she killed herself. First of all, the title is past tense -- she was, but is no longer. She joined "the world of missing persons" -- she's gone. And she died by her own hand, since they sing "She was glad about ... what she's done."
Some of the lyrics describing her experience could be describing a drug-induced state, but would she, under the influence of a hallucinogen, make sure she's not dreaming and "take a minute to concentrate"?
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This is about a hippie chick David Burne used to know who would drop trips in the industrial zone.
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The song is about a woman who has died and/or having an out of body experience just after death.
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