Brian Eno & David Byrne - Strange Overtones

Brian Eno & David Byrne - Strange Overtones

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 twenty 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

Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire

Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire

Brown eyes and I was tired
We had walked and we had scrambled
Through the moors and through the briars
Through the endless blue meanders.
In the blue August moon
In the cool August moon

Over the nights and through the fires
We went surging down the wires
Through the towns and on the highways
Through the storms in all their thundering.
In the blue August moon
In the cool August moon

Then we rested in a desert
Where the bones were white as teeth sir
And we saw St Elmo's fire
Splitting ions in the ether.
In the blue August moon
In the cool August moon
In the blue August moon
In the cool August moon.