This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

"This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" is a song by Talking Heads, from their fifth album Speaking in Tongues. The lyrics were written by David Byrne, and the music was written by Byrne and the other members of the band, Chris Frantz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. The song is widely regarded as one of the band's most beautiful, and in the bizarre "Self Interview" on the DVD of the critically acclaimed concert film Stop Making Sense, Byrne admits that it is a love song, a topic he tends to avoid because it is "kinda big". The performance of the song that can be seen on Stop Making Sense is wonderfully, eccentrically, romantic. Throughout the song, Byrne and his bandmates perform by a standard lamp, while close-up images of various body parts are projected onto a screen behind them. When the song reaches a bridge, the musicians step back and Byrne dances with the lamp. Byrne's lyrics are, as befits the title, pleasantly naive. A particularly moving line is:

"I'm just an animal looking for a home and share the same space for a minute or two."

The song was covered by the Montreal-based band The Arcade Fire as a b-side to their single "Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)". The version on the single is live, with David Byrne on guest vocals.