Lyrics to
New Feeling

This version of New Feeling was released by Talking Heads in 1977.

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It’s not…yesterday…anymore
I go visiting, I talk loud
I try to make myself clear
In front…of a face…that’s nearer
Than it’s ever been before
Not this close before
Nearer than before
Not this close before

It is…is a million…years ago
I hear music…and it sounds like bells
I feel like my head is high
I wish…I could meet…every one
Meet them all over again
Bring them up to my room
Meet them all over again
Everyone’s up in my room

And now…Now I’m busy…Busy again
I feel like sitting down but
I’m still thinking…Thinking about my friends
In my garden…moments
But now I’m speaking out
Speaking about my friends
Now I’m speaking out
Thinking about my friends

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About Lyrics and New Feeling by Talking Heads

When you decide to study the lyrics to New Feeling, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1977 song by Talking Heads. Some of the lyrics to New Feeling have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Talking Heads and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to New Feeling if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to New Feeling" means the words set to the music of New Feeling, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Talking Heads. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to New Feeling and the lyrics to New Feeling are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Talking Heads who came here looking just for the lyrics to New Feeling, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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