Heaven (Talking Heads song)
- Heaven (Talking Heads song)
"Heaven" is a song by the American New Wave band Talking Heads from their 1979 album "Fear of Music". It explores the idea of achievement and purpose by way of identifying heaven as the perfect victory over human goals, and, subsequently, by showing this heaven as a place where the perfectly best thing happens over and over at the exact same time in the exactly perfect way ("Oh, heaven, heaven is a place... a place where nothing ever happens".) In this way, it mocks achievement as an absurd, or even futile, struggle.
Cover versions
*The song was covered by Icehouse frontman Iva Davies.
*Voxtrot does a cover of this song. [http://www.voxtrot.net/vault.htm accessed 4/12/08]
*The song appears on Simply Red's 1985 debut album "Picture Book".
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