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David Byrne — Lazy
Album: Grown Backwards
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Released: 2004
Length: 9:34
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I'm lazy when I'm lovin', I'm lazy when I play
I'm lazy with my girlfriend a thousand times a day
I'm lazy when I'm speaking, I'm lazy when I walk
I'm lazy when I'm dancin' and I'm lazy when I talk

I open up my mouth, it comes rushin' out
Nothin', doin' nadda, never, how you like me now?
Wouldn't it be mad, wouldn't it be fine
Lazy, lucky lady, dancin', lovin' all the time

I-I-I-I'm wicked and I'm lazy
Ooooh, don't you wanna save me

Some folks they got money an' some folks lives are sweet
Some folks make decisions an' some folks clean the streets, now
Imagine what it feels like, imagine how it sounds
Imagine life is perfect an' everything works out

No tears are fallin' from my eyes
I'm keepin' all the pain inside
Now don't you wanna live with me?
I'm lazy as a man can be!

I-I-I-I'm wicked and I'm lazy
Ooooh, don't you wanna save me

Imagine there's a girlfriend, imagine there's a job
Imagine there's an answer, imagine there's a God
Imagine I'm a Devil, imagine I'm a Saint
Lazy money, lazy sexy, lazy outta space!

No tears are fallin' from my eyes
I'm keepin' all the pain inside
Now don't you wanna live with me?
I'm lazy as a man can be!

I-I-I-I'm wicked and I'm lazy
Ooooh, don't you wanna save me

Lazy when I work, lazy on the bed
Screamin' all you like, but it only fades away
I'm lazy when I'm prayin', lazy on the job
Got a lazy mind, a lazy eye, a lazy lazy father

Hard men, hard lives
Hard keepin' it all inside
Good times, good God
I'm so lazy I almost stop!

*Cough*

I-I-I-I'm wicked and I'm lazy
Ooooh, don't you wanna save me

I-I-I-I'm wicked and I'm lazy
Ooooh, don't you wanna save me
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A few songs ago Talking Heads (!!) and now David Byrne. Can we please enjoy one single day without them?!
Posted 3 months ago by Dinges,_the_Dude    [ Reply ]
Byrne, Baby, Byrne
Posted 7 months ago by Egctheow    [ Reply ]
 dunno wrote:

this sucks.



So you're a sucking expert?
Posted 10 months ago by johnfiva    [ Reply ]
why does it remind me of Dave Matthews band
Posted 10 months ago by avgjay50    [ Reply ]
 wade44 wrote:

Make it stop!



Turn off the frigging radio.
Posted 10 months ago by johnfiva    [ Reply ]
i revel in the reality that people like this can spend years recording this shit and I can turn it off in an instant
and COMMENT!!
Burned RP fans?!  don't even leave an assrub reply... Just go listen to your man😆
Posted 1 year ago by Michaeljcovel    [ Reply ]
 Happy9 wrote:
There actually is a FANTASTIC version of this song by X-Press 2 "feat. David Byrne."  It's long, but by the end it's almost impossible not be be dancing.  It's the very first song on a 3-CD collection called Cream Collect Balearic.  Highly recommended.
 

That's a great version - actually the first version I came across once upon a time when I found it as a new release in a record store about 18 years ago.. haven't heard it since. Now listening to the original as I write this.. for the first time.
Posted 4 years ago by wanderinglevel    [ Reply ]
omg david byrne is 68... jeez do I feel old.
Posted 4 years ago by lynn01    [ Reply ]
 Happy9 wrote:
There actually is a FANTASTIC version of this song by X-Press 2 "feat. David Byrne."  It's long, but by the end it's almost impossible not be be dancing.  It's the very first song on a 3-CD collection called Cream Collect Balearic.  Highly recommended.
 
I prefer that version to this one 
Posted 4 years ago by ShamanManu    [ Reply ]
Too long! ...it would have made a good 4:35 minute song!
Posted 4 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
 wade44 wrote:
Make it stop!
 
Stop making sense!
Posted 4 years ago by eileenomurphy    [ Reply ]
Song came on and I thought...this sounds chaotic and stupid...wonder if it's David Byrne. Sure enough. Ugh. Just not my cuppa!
Posted 4 years ago by ziakut    [ Reply ]
There actually is a FANTASTIC version of this song by X-Press 2 "feat. David Byrne."  It's long, but by the end it's almost impossible not be be dancing.  It's the very first song on a 3-CD collection called Cream Collect Balearic.  Highly recommended.
Posted 4 years ago by Happy9    [ Reply ]
Interesting to hear the original, but the X-Press 2 version is better by a few orders of magnitude.
Posted 4 years ago by DrLex    [ Reply ]
 unclelonghair wrote:
I like David Byrne but this is surprisingly bad.  And just seems to go on forever?  Sounds like pop synth elevator muzak.
 
If only David Byrne cared what you thought.

Posted 4 years ago by SmackDaddy    [ Reply ]
Killer David Byrne song.  Do not pass up the opportunity to see David Byrne live!
Posted 5 years ago by schulzed    [ Reply ]
 
 
"I-I-I-I'm wicked and I'm lazy
Ooooh, don't you wanna save me"
 
 
 
No, Dave, I'd just rather use the PSD button for all it's worth.
 




unclelonghair wrote:
I like David Byrne but this is surprisingly bad.  And just seems to go on forever?  Sounds like pop synth elevator muzak.

 


 
Unclelonghair, you're right on all three counts...well, maybe not "surprisingly bad." A lot of recent David Byrne is reliably, predictably bad. And it does go on forever--9:36. Even the slower versions of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony clock in under that, and Beethoven had so much more to say.  
Posted 6 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
 coloradojohn wrote:
I like it.  It is quite derivative of a frenetic groove from an old Talking Heads song, "The Great Curve," from Remain In Light...

 
Spot on CJ, a little glimpse of his past greatness.
Posted 6 years ago by Stephen_Phillips    [ Reply ]
I find I often admire what David Byrne is aiming to do, without getting that much satisfaction from the final product.
Posted 6 years ago by planet_lizard    [ Reply ]
Freaking awesome.
So glad I PSD'd from monsters and men
Posted 6 years ago by blotto    [ Reply ]
Goddamn Godlike!! Because this is an unique artist and the ''Lazy'' is a piece of art! {#Cool}
Posted 7 years ago by johnybladex    [ Reply ]
 rtrudeau wrote:
Good grief — does this song ever end?
Edit: I looked it up (since I'm not lazy). This thing is 9:36 long. That's too much, in my estimation, by about 8 minutes.
 
By about 9:34 in my view. Truly David Byrne is the Pseudy Ponce's Pseudy Ponce. A darling of the chatterati and hipsters and arty review shows, but ultimately with the substance of a Will Self and the same degree of self-importance. An auto-rate 1 and TFFPSD.
Posted 7 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
And he looks so cute - in his little red suit!
Posted 7 years ago by Lindo525    [ Reply ]
This is why, not matter what, I don't skip songs. The previous song was just god awful to my ears but the segue into this one was extraordinary. Don't change a thing Bill!
Posted 7 years ago by jlind    [ Reply ]
I like David Byrne but this is surprisingly bad.  And just seems to go on forever?  Sounds like pop synth elevator muzak.
Posted 7 years ago by unclelonghair    [ Reply ]
 scarletdancer wrote:
I don't understand the naysayers.  I like this!  {#Clap}

 
I as well!  At first I thought we were in for Elton John's Sixty Years On.  This is quite likable.
Posted 7 years ago by pinto    [ Reply ]
I am not normally a big TH or DB fan...but his music is ALWAYS interesting, and this is a breakthrough song for me. Pretty groovie
Posted 7 years ago by fatcatjb    [ Reply ]
I like it.  It is quite derivative of a frenetic groove from an old Talking Heads song, "The Great Curve," from Remain In Light...
Posted 7 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
Here we go again. A DB song I love. Yet I can't stand TH. I'm puzzled. 
Posted 7 years ago by SeriousLee    [ Reply ]
 

Posted: Mar 22, 2005 - 08:41
 
Ender43 wrote:
There is a remix (Electronic) out there that blows away this original...more deeply melodic and less reedy
 
ert wrote:
Yeah, it's by X-Press 2 and Byrne still does the vocals. It's much better. This one doesn't actually even appear to be on the Grown Backwards album.

 
thank you for the info (this version = meh : )
Posted 7 years ago by hayduke2    [ Reply ]
{#Dancingbanana}
Posted 7 years ago by sunflowerbee    [ Reply ]
awesomeo, like all DB
Posted 7 years ago by blotto    [ Reply ]
If he were lazier perhaps he would not have written this song. 

Do not understand Bill's attraction to post TH Byrne.  It is all so uninspiring.   
Posted 7 years ago by zurcronium    [ Reply ]
 scarletdancer wrote:
I don't understand the naysayers.  I like this!  {#Clap}

 
Me too {#Clap} Simply because not a lot of blokes admit to it...(I'm lazy as a man can be!) {#Lol}
Posted 8 years ago by VH1    [ Reply ]
It seems that post Talking Heads, David Byrne produces only junk...
Posted 8 years ago by ciolca    [ Reply ]
I don't understand the naysayers.  I like this!  {#Clap}
Posted 8 years ago by scarletdancer    [ Reply ]
I can see only one reason why Bill would play a nine minute song that is rated 5.0 or lower in stead of three decent songs of 3 minutes... he's lazy. {#Yes}
Posted 15 years ago by grbn    [ Reply ]
 GregX59 wrote:
Man - this song drags on and on and on... If we have to listen to a song called "Lazy" make it Deep Purple's "Lazy".
 
Great idea! 

Posted 15 years ago by raga    [ Reply ]
I know for certain this exists in a remixed - and much better - version. Play that one please!
Posted 15 years ago by mirland    [ Reply ]
{#Puke}
Posted 15 years ago by shawshank    [ Reply ]
this sucks.

Posted 15 years ago by dunno    [ Reply ]
Thanks for the info......... back in 9 minutes...........

 rtrudeau wrote:
Good grief — does this song ever end?
Edit: I looked it up (since I'm not lazy). This thing is 9:36 long. That's too much, in my estimation, by about 8 minutes.

 


Posted 15 years ago by Bakaretsu    [ Reply ]
Dig this tune.
Posted 15 years ago by blotto    [ Reply ]
He's too lazy to finish the song. Wicked.
Posted 15 years ago by squidish    [ Reply ]
Good grief — does this song ever end?
Edit: I looked it up (since I'm not lazy). This thing is 9:36 long. That's too much, in my estimation, by about 8 minutes.

Posted 15 years ago by rtrudeau    [ Reply ]
{#Beat}

DB    Me
Posted 15 years ago by jagdriver    [ Reply ]
themotion wrote:
Byrne fans? ... Where?
Right here. David Byrne, for me, is the epitome of "Godlike." But to each her own.
Posted 17 years ago by susaine    [ Reply ]
Make it stop!
Posted 17 years ago by wade44    [ Reply ]
sounds like it should be on Charlies' Angels or Starsky and Hutch...
Posted 17 years ago by LongGoneDaddy    [ Reply ]
SARKO BARFO!
Posted 17 years ago by Roy_Orbison    [ Reply ]
I'm surprised this is still played given its poor rating by listeners.
Posted 17 years ago by wade44    [ Reply ]
This song slipped from a four to a three....
Posted 17 years ago by Mugro    [ Reply ]
GregX59 wrote:
Man - this song drags on and on and on... If we have to listen to a song called "Lazy" make it Deep Purple's "Lazy".
Spot on!!! Thank you!!!
Posted 17 years ago by Walrus_Gumbo    [ Reply ]
Ender43 wrote:
...Byrne fans should check it out.
Byrne fans? ... Where?
Posted 17 years ago by themotion    [ Reply ]
I like eclectisism, but putting this after the tremendous Fanfare for the Common Man just can't be expected to go well... Wow does this sound bad in comparison.
Posted 17 years ago by mongoose01ca    [ Reply ]
Poor girlfriend...
Posted 17 years ago by Nabla    [ Reply ]
Wake me when it's over.
Posted 17 years ago by digitalcolony    [ Reply ]
Enough, we get it, your lazy
Posted 19 years ago by snowak    [ Reply ]
Dave, go home to the Talking Heads, they're waiting for you.
Posted 19 years ago by Daveinbawlmer    [ Reply ]
Funktacular, baby!
Posted 19 years ago by winter    [ Reply ]
I think he lifted part of that violin riff straigt from the theme of CHiPs.
Posted 19 years ago by Graig    [ Reply ]
Is this man in pain? He moans like a cow stuck in a barb wire fence.
Posted 19 years ago by kaosmonkey    [ Reply ]
Bill, I like your style! What a great follow-up to the Big Daddy cover!
Posted 19 years ago by BGGA    [ Reply ]
Again, the remixes of the song sound better to me - and yes, they sound good in a club - I recommend "finding" the mix with Xpress2. I heard that mix first, then this original version, and I certainly like the mix more...
Posted 19 years ago by Ender43    [ Reply ]
I like it. I bet it would sound great on a club sound system. How come "Lazy" isn't mentioned on the track listing?
Posted 19 years ago by Arthur_Two_Sheds_Jackson    [ Reply ]
Man - this song drags on and on and on... If we have to listen to a song called "Lazy" make it Deep Purple's "Lazy".
Posted 19 years ago by GregX59    [ Reply ]
Bad, very bad. Way to repetitive. I registered just so I could rate it a one.
Posted 19 years ago by skimonkey    [ Reply ]
For a song called "Lazy" it sure seems kind of busy.
Posted 19 years ago by drover    [ Reply ]
ert wrote:
Yeah, it's by X-Press 2 and Byrne still does the vocals. It's much better. This one doesn't actually even appear to be on the Grown Backwards album.
Yeah that's the one, it's on one of my running mixes...Byrne fans should check it out.
Posted 19 years ago by Ender43    [ Reply ]
Ender43 wrote:
There is a remix (Electronic) out there that blows away this original...more deeply melodic and less reedy
Yeah, it's by X-Press 2 and Byrne still does the vocals. It's much better. This one doesn't actually even appear to be on the Grown Backwards album.
Posted 19 years ago by ert    [ Reply ]
There is a remix (Electronic) out there that blows away this original...more deeply melodic and less reedy
Posted 19 years ago by Ender43    [ Reply ]
Sounds like a David Byrne that's trying hard to be the David Byrne that didn't used to have to try hard.
Posted 19 years ago by timandjuliet    [ Reply ]
The start makes me think of Bjork, but the rest would fit too, except for the voice. :D
Posted 19 years ago by R_P    [ Reply ]
Previous definition of "ambivalence": seeing your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new car. New definition of "ambivalence": listening to David Byrne and thinking of something intelligent to say about him.
Posted 19 years ago by mojoman    [ Reply ]
Technically perfect, excellent production, spiritually empty. Missing that spark. Like a jazz or classical musician that hits tons of notes but says nothing. Clever but anoying. If I never heard it again that would be fine.
Posted 19 years ago by coding_to_music    [ Reply ]
KevDog kinda digs it. It is a 6.5.
Posted 19 years ago by KevDogRedux    [ Reply ]
The dvd of David's show from Union Chapel in London features a fine version of this, complete with string section. The concert also includes his cover of Whitney Houston's "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)"!!!!
Posted 19 years ago by redeyespy    [ Reply ]
I prefer the single edit (although I miss the strings)
Posted 19 years ago by Malc    [ Reply ]
Apt name for this tune. David, David, we hardly knew ye!
Posted 19 years ago by Grantus    [ Reply ]
Oh how I hate this song, will it ever end?
Posted 19 years ago by Ellesbee    [ Reply ]
oh yeaaaa work it david work it!!!!!
Posted 19 years ago by sndsgd    [ Reply ]
definitely cool
Posted 19 years ago by fusionmuze    [ Reply ]
I like this a lot better than that other track from this disc that has been played so much around here. I really like the strings at the end of this one.
Posted 20 years ago by ArbiterOfGoodTaste    [ Reply ]
I guess I'm still just a sucker for David Byrne. Didn't like this much when I first heard it here on RP. But now I'm beginning to get into it. The man just works on so many different levels.
Posted 20 years ago by steeler    [ Reply ]
Thanks for playing, I think this is cool.
Posted 20 years ago by PDW    [ Reply ]
I am big daviv Byrne Fan, but this is very painful to hear.. it is like watching true stories over and over...Please, seriously...stop it...
Posted 20 years ago by masterhead    [ Reply ]
I liked the Talking Heads but this song sucks. 1. way too long and repetitive. 2. his vocals are the same few sliding riffs that were creative in the original TH songs but now he is just endlessly recycling his old tricks over and over and over and over and (you get the idea). Sucks. Totally. PLEASE QUIT PLAYING IT SO MUCH!!
Posted 20 years ago by tld    [ Reply ]
masterhead wrote:
I was trying to give this song a chance since I like David Byrne a bunch.. but this song sucks..really sucks...
Lots of positives for this song. The comments and ratings are consistent. The universal disdain they express show show that good taste is alive and well and that it can be pretty easy to get people to agree about stuff. Thanks, David. Thanks, too, for the long intro that gives would-be listeners time to hit the mute button! All around, this song has LOTS of redeeming features!
Posted 20 years ago by rulebritannia    [ Reply ]
This is the song that never ends... it just goes on and on, my friends... could have lived without this one.
Posted 20 years ago by kathedral    [ Reply ]
I was trying to give this song a chance since I like David Byrne a bunch.. but this song sucks..really sucks... It is not The Temptations..It is not Shaft..It is not Disco...It becomes nothing
Posted 20 years ago by masterhead    [ Reply ]
David always gets high marks for inventiveness, to say nothing of chutzpah.
Posted 20 years ago by redeyespy    [ Reply ]
This song seems to play on RP every day. I like it--but not that much!
Posted 20 years ago by artmarcia    [ Reply ]
Pipes wrote:
Starts out like a Moody Blues song. Kinda fun!
I was thinking of Papa Was a Rolling Stone, especially because of the strings arrangement.
Posted 20 years ago by Johray63    [ Reply ]
I didn't think it was a great song when I heard it first... Everytime I hear it again, it becomes more annoying though...
Posted 20 years ago by marcel    [ Reply ]
My volume 10 of Paste magazine arrived yesterday, featuring an article on David Byrne.
Posted 20 years ago by artmarcia    [ Reply ]
vhope1 wrote:
I couldn't agree more--he's being a bit long-winded here and needs an editor.
Exactly , whatever happened to that frantic energy of Talking Heads Days !
Posted 20 years ago by UncleChig    [ Reply ]
OK, this rocks...in a wierd, grown backward, David Byrne sort of way
Posted 20 years ago by Red_Dragon    [ Reply ]
UncleChig wrote:
Oh David .. Oh Hum ... Oh David , Oh Hummmm zzzzz....
I couldn't agree more--he's being a bit long-winded here and needs an editor.
Posted 20 years ago by vhope1    [ Reply ]
Would have been great as an action scene track for CHiPs. Minus the annoying lyrics. And it just goes on and on and on. Time to move on.
Posted 20 years ago by llustig2    [ Reply ]
Oh David .. Oh Hum ... Oh David , Oh Hummmm zzzzz....
Posted 20 years ago by UncleChig    [ Reply ]
keyriest wrote:
Give this tune a rest. It hurts.
Posted 20 years ago by gypsy222    [ Reply ]
Give this tune a rest. It hurts.
Posted 20 years ago by keyriest    [ Reply ]
Why is it still going? Is he trying to outlast Inagadavida?
Posted 20 years ago by MikeWC    [ Reply ]
I can groove to this. It keeps me awake. How often can this happen with a song about being lazy?
Posted 20 years ago by ABanana224    [ Reply ]
What, no reggae covers of this song available?
Posted 20 years ago by MikeWC    [ Reply ]
No mas, no mas! I'll tell you where I hid the WMD!!!!
Posted 20 years ago by rulebritannia    [ Reply ]
OK, DB live is surely fun, but this song is getting WAY too much play. It was almost OK the first few times, but it's positively painful now.
Posted 20 years ago by rulebritannia    [ Reply ]
This always gets me smiling again. Thanks!! :sunny.gif:
Posted 20 years ago by cjp323    [ Reply ]
Love this song. Love Tosca. Bought the Album. Expected more songs like this. Not to be. Very odd, indeed. Maybe in a couple of years, I'll get it. In the meantime. It kind of grates on me.
Posted 20 years ago by Gregorama    [ Reply ]
It's mezmerizing - not brilliant, but at least original.
Posted 20 years ago by matta    [ Reply ]
Starts out like a Moody Blues song. Kinda fun!
Posted 20 years ago by Pipes    [ Reply ]
This is total crap. Enuff said
Posted 20 years ago by Danbdc    [ Reply ]
Much better when Fatboy Slim mixed this into the Brighton Beach show.
Posted 20 years ago by cetan    [ Reply ]
I hate Flanders
Posted 20 years ago by MaK    [ Reply ]
frankydee wrote:
David Byrne is unique. Music does not please everyone but you still have to show respect for this guy. One of a kind.
OK, I'm challenged. I like several TH songs a lot. Otherwise, I find DB's music facile. I'm sure he has great personal charisma at a cocktail party, but I just don't get the "genius" label for this guy.
Posted 20 years ago by rulebritannia    [ Reply ]
I get pissy whenever this song comes up. Can't do Byrne . Please go away. :P
Posted 20 years ago by Geed    [ Reply ]
I don't think this is credited to David Byrne, nor is it from the album Grown Backwards. Rather, it's a group called "X-Press 2" that David liked and did vocals for on this one track three years ago ( https://www.talking-heads.net/lazy.html ) I really liked the original version of this track. The version on RP yesterday was stripped down a little too much.
Posted 20 years ago by ert    [ Reply ]
Heathen wrote:
He is indeed lazy... to lazy to write decent music. This is utter arse and totally repetitive. :(
David Byrne is unique. Music does not please everyone but you still have to show respect for this guy. One of a kind.
Posted 20 years ago by frankydee    [ Reply ]
DAVID GETS TRAPPED IN HIS OWN ECLECTICNESS...BUT I STILL ENJOY HIS FUNNY SINGING...
Posted 20 years ago by masterhead    [ Reply ]
He is indeed lazy... to lazy to write decent music. This is utter arse and totally repetitive. :(
Posted 20 years ago by Heathen    [ Reply ]