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Genius Annotation

In this standout track from Talking Heads' 1980 Remain In Light LP, David Byrne performs a spoken-word style poem over an instrumental created by the rest of the band

The poem describes, through metaphor, a man insecure enough about his identity to reshape it based on those of people he sees in popular culture, and his (perhaps correct) opinion that this is perfectly natural.

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