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David Byrne - Everybody's Coming To My House

David Byrne's got a new record, American Utopia, set for release on March 9.

On his website, Byrne explains, "These songs don't describe an imaginary or possibly impossible place but rather attempt to depict the world we live in now. Many of us, I suspect, are not satisfied with that world—the world we have made for ourselves. We look around and we ask ourselves—well, does it have to be like this? Is there another way? These songs are about that looking and that asking."

Here's the first track from the record, co-written by the ubiquitous Brian Eno and featuring contributions from a host of other artists. There's a funky, yet sober urgency to the tune. You can sense Byrne's anxiety in the chorus:

"Now everybody's coming to my house
And I'm never gonna be alone
And everybody's coming to my house
And I'm never gonna go back home"





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