Lyrics talking heads road to nowhere11/3/2023 ![]() Takes me to the deep South and the poverty of some who lived thru truly hard times. This song captivates me still, after 50+ years. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. Just listening for the 784,654th time.and it's just perfect in every way. He longs not to be part of this world and its unquenchable desires, but realizes he is also human and part of the collective insanity.īilocational shamanism. He can envision a different path, or a non-path, a movement off the road: "There's a city in my mind, come along and take that ride." He is one of them and not at the same time. The narrator is part and apart of the travelers's journey on the road to nowhere. The other voice takes the role of the traveler on the road. ![]() The narrator takes the skeptical, outsider approach of one who has the wisdom to see the folly of pursuit. One at the beginning and end, the voice of the narrator, and another in the middle, the voice of those on the road to nowhere, those who believe that "We're on the road to paradise." ![]() There are two voices in this song, almost doppelgangers. Misery loves company, and all of us on the road to nowhere invite others to join us, and we assimilate them into our pointless, miserable journey that ends in death and nothingness. The plebes/proles endure a Sisyphean slog through life, straining towards some goal on the horizon that never materializes. I realize the video is not the song, but the video makes it obvious. The real "road to nowhere" is the domination and destruction of the planet by our species. But it's growing day by day and it's all rightīut they'll make a fool of you and it's all right
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