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Description
Associated Performer: David Byrne
Associated Performer: Brian Carpenter
Engineer: Brian Rajaratnam
Mastering Engineer: Emily Lazar
Studio Musician: Emi Trevena
Programmer, Studio Musician, Producer: Kid Harpoon
Mixing Engineer: Spike Stent
Associated Performer: Alex Sopp
Associated Performer: Alex Waterman
Associated Performer: Andy Laster
Associated Performer: Brandon Seabrook
Associated Performer: Chris Lightcap
Associated Performer: Curtis Hasselbring
Associated Performer: David Cossin
Associated Performer: Dennis Lichtman
Associated Performer: Emily Bookwalter
Associated Performer: Katie Kresek
Associated Performer: Matt Bauder
Associated Performer: Ron Caswell
Associated Performer: Sara Caswell
Associated Performer: Sara Schoenbeck
Composer Lyricist: David Byrne
Lyrics and translation
Original
I saw a woman in a leotard.
Now, I'm not sure how I feel about the avant-garde.
Now, I like the idea, their politics too, but I'm not really sure if that means that it's good. I wanna go there.
Yeah, yeah. I wanna go there.
And when we go there, you will observe it's a passionate life, it's ahead of the curve.
It's deceptively weighty, profoundly absurd.
Well, it's whatever fits, it's the avant-garde, and it doesn't mean shit, it's the avant-garde.
Should I be more like the avant-garde?
Would it be easy or would it be hard?
For a life that's exciting, if one wants to go far, there's only one place, that's the avant-garde. I wanna go there.
I wanna go there.
I'll take you with me.
The things that we'll see.
Just look around and you will observe it's a passionate life, it's ahead of the curve.
It's deceptively weighty, profoundly absurd.
Now, it's whatever fits, it's the avant-garde, and it doesn't mean shit, it's the avant-garde.
I wanna go there.
I wanna go there.
And when we go there, you will observe it's a passionate life, it's ahead of the curve.
It's deceptively weighty, profoundly absurd.
Well, it's whatever fits, it's the avant-garde, and it doesn't mean shit, it's the avant-garde, and it doesn't mean shit, it's the avant-garde
English translation
I saw a woman in a leotard.
Now, I'm not sure how I feel about the avant-garde.
Now, I like the idea, their politics too, but I'm not really sure if that means that it's good. I wanna go there.
Yeah, yeah. I wanna go there.
And when we go there, you will observe it's a passionate life, it's ahead of the curve.
It's deceptively weighty, profoundly absurd.
Well, it's whatever fits, it's the avant-garde, and it doesn't mean shit, it's the avant-garde.
Should I be more like the avant-garde?
Would it be easy or would it be hard?
For a life that's exciting, if one wants to go far, there's only one place, that's the avant-garde. I wanna go there.
I wanna go there.
I'll take you with me.
The things that we'll see.
Just look around and you will observe it's a passionate life, it's ahead of the curve.
It's deceptively weighty, profoundly absurd.
Now, it's whatever fits, it's the avant-garde, and it doesn't mean shit, it's the avant-garde.
I wanna go there.
I wanna go there.
And when we go there, you will observe it's a passionate life, it's ahead of the curve.
It's deceptively weighty, profoundly absurd.
Well, it's whatever fits, it's the avant-garde, and it doesn't mean shit, it's the avant-garde, and it doesn't mean shit, it's the avant-garde