[birds chirping]
[birds chirping]
[audience chatter]
[audience cheering, applause]
[“Here” playing]
[audience cheering]
♪ Here is a region ♪
脳のこの部分には⸺
♪ Of abundant details ♪
詳細が詰まっている
♪ Here is a region ♪
この部分は⸺
♪ That is seldom used ♪
ほとんど使われない
♪ And here is a region ♪
そして この部分は⸺
♪ That continues living ♪
生き続ける
♪ Even when the other ♪
たとえ他の部分が
♪ Sections are removed ♪
取り除かれたとしても
♪ Put your hand out of your pocket ♪
ポケットから手を出し
♪ Wipe the sweat off of your brow ♪
額の汗を拭うんだ
♪ Now it feels like a bad connection ♪
電波障害みたいに
♪ No more information now ♪
情報が届かない
♪ As it passes through your neurons ♪
神経細胞を通っていく
♪ Like a whisper in the dark ♪
暗闇でのささやきのように
♪ Raise your eyes to one who loves you ♪
♪ It is safe right where you are ♪
♪ Here is an area ♪
♪ Of great confusion ♪
♪ Here is a section ♪
♪ That’s extremely precise ♪
♪ And here is an area ♪
♪ That needs attention ♪
♪ Here’s the connection ♪
♪ To the opposite side ♪
♪ Here, too many sounds ♪
♪ For your brain to comprehend ♪
♪ Here the sound gets organized ♪
♪ Into things that make some sense ♪
♪ Here there is something ♪
♪ We call elucidation ♪
♪ Is it the truth ♪
♪ Or merely a description? ♪
♪ Here ♪
♪ Here ♪
♪ Here ♪
♪ Here ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for…
Thank you for leaving your homes.
-[audience laugh]
-My name’s David Byrne.
-[audience cheering, applause]
-Thank you.
I can’t take any credit for that.
I had no choice in the matter.
I read something, well, kinda surprising
and amazing the other day.
I read that babies’ brains
have hundreds of millions
more neural connections
than we do as adults
and that as we grow up,
we lose these connections.
So I wondered to myself,
what does this mean?
Does this mean that babies
are smarter than we are
and that as we grow up,
we get stupider and stupider
until we reach a… a plateau of stupidity?
Which is where most of us are now.
-Well, what happens is…
-[light music]
…we keep the connections
that are useful to us,
and, yes, there’s a process
of pruning and elimination,
and we… we get rid of a lot of the others
until the ones that are left
define who we are as a person,
who we are as people.
They define how we perceive the world,
and the world appears
to make some kind of sense to us.
And maybe round about that time,
we start asking ourselves
various questions like, who am I?
What do I want? How do I work this?
[audience laugh]
What are those people doing over there?
Should I be doing that?
Are they looking at me? Are they like me?
Should I go over and talk to them?
Huh, maybe not.
Try to figure this out.
Wondering if there’s… you know,
wondering if there’s a logic to it.
Wondering if it’s supposed
to make some kind of sense.
[“I Know Sometimes a Man Is Wrong”
playing]
♪ I know sometimes a man is wrong ♪
♪ I know sometimes I do believe ♪
♪ I know sometimes a man is wrong ♪
♪ I’ll be wrong until you’re next to me ♪
♪ I know sometimes the world is wrong ♪
♪ I know sometimes I do believe ♪
♪ I know sometimes the world is wrong ♪
♪ And they’ll be wrong
Until you’re next to me ♪
♪ They’ll be wrong
Until you’re next to me ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh ♪
[“Don’t Worry About the Government”
playing]
[audience cheering, applause]
♪ I see the clouds
That move across the sky ♪
♪ I see the wind
That moves the clouds away ♪
♪ It moves the clouds
Over by that building ♪
♪ I pick the building
That I want to live in ♪
♪ I smell the pine trees
And the peaches in the woods ♪
♪ I see the pinecones
That fall by the highway ♪
♪ That’s the highway
That goes to the building ♪
♪ That’s the building
That I want to live in ♪
♪ It’s over there, it’s over there ♪
♪ My building has every convenience ♪
♪ It’s gonna make life easy for me ♪
♪ It’s gonna be easy to get things done ♪
♪ I will relax alone with my loved ones ♪
♪ Loved ones, loved ones ♪
♪ Visit the building ♪
♪ Take the highway, park
And come up and see me ♪
♪ I’ll be working, working ♪
♪ But if you come visit
I’ll put down what I’m doing ♪
♪ My friends are important ♪
♪ Don’t you worry ‘bout me ♪
♪ I wouldn’t worry about me ♪
♪ Don’t you worry ‘bout me ♪
♪ Don’t you worry ‘bout me ♪
♪ I see the states
Across this big nation ♪
♪ I see the laws
Made in Washington, D.C. ♪
♪ I think of the ones
I consider my favorites ♪
♪ I think of the people
That are working for me ♪
♪ Some civil servants
Are just like my loved ones ♪
♪ They work so hard
And they try to be strong ♪
♪ I’m a lucky guy to live in my building ♪
♪ They own these buildings
To help them along ♪
♪ It’s over there, it’s over there ♪
♪ My building has every convenience ♪
♪ It’s gonna make life easy for me ♪
♪ It’s gonna be easy to get things done ♪
♪ I will relax alone with my loved ones ♪
♪ Loved ones, loved ones ♪
♪ Visit the building ♪
♪ Take the highway
Park and come up and see me ♪
♪ I’ll be working, working ♪
♪ But if you come visit
I’ll put down what I’m doing ♪
♪ My friends are important ♪
♪ Don’t you worry ‘bout me ♪
♪ I wouldn’t worry about me ♪
♪ Don’t you worry ‘bout me ♪
♪ Don’t you worry ‘bout me ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
[“Lazy” playing]
[audience cheering, applause]
♪ Oh ♪
♪ I’m wicked and I’m lazy ♪
♪ Oh, don’t you wanna save me? ♪
♪ I’m lazy when I’m loving ♪
♪ 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 talk ♪
♪ I’m lazy when I’m dancing
And I’m lazy when I walk ♪
♪ I open up my mouth ♪
♪ Air comes rushing out ♪
♪ Nothing doing, nada, never
How you like me now? ♪
♪ Wouldn’t it be mad? ♪
♪ Wouldn’t it be fine? ♪
♪ Lazy, lucky lady dancing
Loving all the time? ♪
♪ Oh, I’m wicked and I’m lazy ♪
♪ Oh, don’t you want to save me? ♪
[band playing]
♪ 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 outer space ♪
♪ No tears are falling from my eyes ♪
♪ I’m keeping all the pain inside ♪
♪ Now, don’t you want to live with me? ♪
♪ I’m lazy as a man can be ♪
♪ Oh, I’m wicked and I’m lazy ♪
♪ Oh, don’t you want to save me? ♪
♪ Lazy when I work ♪
♪ Lazy all the day ♪
♪ Screaming all you like ♪
♪ But it only fades away ♪
♪ I’m lazy when I’m praying ♪
♪ Lazy on the job ♪
♪ Got a lazy mind
A lazy eye, a lazy, lazy father ♪
♪ Hard men ♪
♪ Hard lives ♪
♪ Hard keeping it all inside ♪
♪ Good times ♪
♪ Good God ♪
♪ So lazy I almost stopped ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
♪ Oh, I’m wicked and I’m lazy ♪
♪ Oh, don’t you want to save me? ♪
♪ Oh, I’m wicked and I’m lazy ♪
♪ Oh, don’t you want to save me? ♪
[band playing]
[audience cheering, applause]
Thank you!
Thank you.
You know…
meeting people is hard,
but I know… I know we have to do it.
These people over here,
they all met through apps.
[audience laugh]
Totally working for them.
These people over here don’t need apps.
They’re just supremely confident.
[audience laugh]
Well, some of them might be bluffing.
Some of them might be putting up a front,
but that doesn’t matter
‘cause it’s all working for them.
Meanwhile, I’m, well, you know, observing.
Trying to figure this out.
Objectively…
Objectively, I could never figure out why,
why looking at a person
should be any more interesting
than looking at any other thing,
like, say, a bicycle or a beautiful sunset
or a, ooh, nice bag of potato chips.
But, yeah, looking at people?
That’s the best.
[“This Must Be the Place” playing]
[audience cheering]
♪ Home ♪
♪ Is where I want to be ♪
♪ Pick me up and turn me round ♪
♪ I feel numb ♪
♪ Born with a weak heart ♪
♪ Guess I must be having fun ♪
♪ The less we say about it the better ♪
♪ Make it up as we go along ♪
♪ Feet on the ground ♪
♪ Head in the sky ♪
♪ It’s okay ♪
♪ I know nothing’s wrong ♪
♪ Nothing ♪
♪ Oh, I got plenty of time ♪
♪ Oh, you got light in your eyes ♪
♪ And you’re standing here beside me ♪
♪ I love the passing of time ♪
♪ Never for money ♪
♪ Always for love ♪
♪ Cover up and say good night ♪
♪ Say good night ♪
[audience cheering]
[band playing]
[audience cheering]
♪ Home is where I want to be ♪
♪ But I guess I’m already there ♪
♪ I come home ♪
♪ She lifted up her wings ♪
♪ I guess that this must be the place ♪
♪ I can’t tell one from another ♪
♪ Did I find you or you find me? ♪
♪ There was a time ♪
♪ Before we were born ♪
♪ If someone asks this is where I’ll be ♪
♪ Where I’ll be ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ We drift in and out ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Sing into my mouth ♪
♪ Out of all those kinds of people ♪
♪ You got a face with a view ♪
♪ I’m just an animal looking for a home ♪
♪ And share the same space
For a minute or two ♪
♪ And you love me till my heart stops ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
♪ Love me till I’m dead ♪
♪ Eyes that light up ♪
♪ Eyes look through you ♪
♪ Cover up the blank spots ♪
♪ Hit me on the head ♪
♪ I got… ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ah-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ah-ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
♪ Ah-ooh ♪
♪ Ooh, ooh, ooh ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
Thank you!
Thank you.
There’s more.
My friend Brian Eno suggested
that we use a nonsense poem
by a Dada artist
as the lyrics for this next song,
which we did.
I was familiar
with a different Dada artist,
who also wrote nonsense poetry.
His name was Kurt Schwitters,
and he recorded one of these in 1932.
It was called the “Ursonate,”
the primeval sonata.
Schwitters and some of the others
in the… this group were,
well, they were using nonsense
to make sense of a world
that didn’t make sense.
To help explain a little bit
what that means,
here’s a little bit of the “Ursonate.”
[speaks indistinctly]
It goes on like that for 40 minutes.
[audience laugh, applause]
It’d be a different kind of movie.
The world they were trying to make
sense of… Yes, it was pretty crazy.
Uh, there had recently
been an economic crash.
Uh, the Nazis were coming to power,
this is 1932,
and quite a few of the countries
they lived in were sliding into fascism.
The Dada artist Hugo Ball
said that their artistic aims
were to remind the world
that there are people
of different, independent minds
beyond war and nationalism,
who live for different ideals.
[audience cheering, applause]
Hugo Ball wrote the words
to this next song.
[“I Zimbra” playing]
[band playing]
[audience cheering]
♪ Gadji beri bimba glandridi ♪
♪ Lauli lonni cadori gadjam ♪
♪ A bim beri glassala glandride ♪
♪ E glassala tuffm, tuffm, I zimbra ♪
♪ Bim blassa glallassasa zimbrabim ♪
♪ Blassa glallassasa zimbrabim ♪
♪ A bim beri glassala grandide ♪
♪ E glassala tuffm, tuffm, I zimbra ♪
[band playing]
[audience cheer]
♪ Gadji beri bimba glandridi ♪
♪ Lauli lonni cadori gadjam ♪
♪ A bim beri glassala glandrid ♪
♪ E glassala tuffm, tuffm, I zimbra ♪
[band playing]
[audience cheering]
[man] Whoo!
[cheering continues]
[“Slippery People” playing]
[band playing]
♪ What about the time? ♪
♪ You were rolling over ♪
♪ Fall on your face ♪
♪ You must be having fun ♪
♪ Walk lightly ♪
♪ Think of a time ♪
♪ You’d best believe
That this thing is real ♪
♪ Now put away that gun ♪
♪ This part is simple ♪
♪ Try to recognize what is in your mind ♪
♪ God help us ♪
♪ Help us lose our minds ♪
♪ These slippery people ♪
♪ Help us understand
What’s the matter with him? ♪
♪ He’s all right ♪
-♪ How do you know? ♪
-♪ The Lord won’t mind ♪
-♪ Don’t know no games ♪
-♪ He’s all right ♪
♪ Love from the bottom to the top ♪
-♪ Turn like a wheel ♪
-♪ He’s all right ♪
-♪ See for yourself ♪
-♪ The Lord won’t mind ♪
♪ We’re gonna move right now ♪
♪ Turn like a wheel inside a wheel ♪
♪ I remember when ♪
♪ Sitting in the tub ♪
♪ Pulled out the plug ♪
♪ The water was running out ♪
♪ Cool down ♪
♪ Stop acting crazy ♪
♪ They’re gonna leave
And we’ll be on our own now ♪
♪ Seven times five ♪
♪ They were living creatures ♪
♪ Watch them come to life
Right before your eyes ♪
♪ Backsliding, how do you do? ♪
♪ These slippery people
Gonna see you through ♪
-♪ What’s the matter with him? ♪
-♪ He’s all right ♪
-♪ How do you know? ♪
-♪ The Lord won’t mind ♪
-♪ Don’t know no games ♪
-♪ He’s all right ♪
♪ Love from the bottom to the top ♪
-♪ Turn like a wheel ♪
-♪ He’s all right ♪
-♪ See for yourself ♪
-♪ The Lord won’t mind ♪
♪ We’re gonna move right now ♪
♪ Turn like a wheel inside a wheel ♪
[band playing]
[audience cheering]
♪ Bi, b-b-bi, b-bi-bi, b-bi ♪
♪ B-b-bi, b-b-bi, b-bi-bi, b-bi ♪
♪ Bi, bi, bi, bi, bi, bi, bi ♪
♪ B-b-bi, b-b-bi, b-bi-bi, b-bi ♪
♪ Bi-b-b-bi, bi-b-b-bi ♪
♪ B-b-b-b-b-bi, b-bi-bi, b-bi ♪
♪ B-b-bi, bi, bi, b-bi-bi ♪
♪ Bi, b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bi
What’s the matter with him? ♪
♪ He’s all right ♪
-♪ How do you know? ♪
-♪ The Lord won’t mind ♪
-♪ Don’t know no games ♪
-♪ He’s all right ♪
♪ And we’re going to the top ♪
-♪ Turn like a wheel ♪
-♪ He’s all right ♪
-♪ See for yourself ♪
-♪ The Lord won’t mind ♪
♪ We’re gonna move right now ♪
♪ Turn like a wheel inside a wheel ♪
-♪ What’s the matter with him? ♪
-♪ He’s all right ♪
-♪ How do you know? ♪
-♪ The Lord won’t mind ♪
-♪ Don’t know no games ♪
-♪ He’s all right ♪
♪ Love from the bottom to the top ♪
-♪ Turn like a wheel ♪
-♪ He’s all right ♪
-♪ See for yourself ♪
-♪ The Lord won’t mind ♪
♪ We’re gonna move right now ♪
♪ Turn like a wheel inside a wheel ♪
♪ It’s all right ♪
♪ The Lord won’t mind ♪
♪ It’s all right
Love from the bottom to the top ♪
♪ It’s all right ♪
♪ The Lord won’t mind ♪
♪ Right now
Turn like a wheel inside a wheel ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
[David] Thank you!
Whoo!
Thank you.
In 1976, the band I was in,
Talking Heads, we got a record contract.
[audience cheering]
-Okay.
-[audience laugh]
Thank you. It was a contract,
but not for very much money.
I spent some of my money
on a Sony Trinitron color television.
The screen was about that big, but it was…
It was state of the art in those days.
I must have still been
a little bit… a little bit isolated,
still trying to figure things out,
and I had an idea that to help with that,
I should watch more TV.
[audience laugh]
Okay, I saw the TV
as being a kind of window,
and I would see the hopes and dreams
and aspirations and foibles
of my fellow Americans,
and I might learn something
about myself as well,
and maybe, maybe I’d get
some answers to those questions
that I was asking myself earlier.
And I wondered to myself…
did the TV contain
those millions of lost connections…
between me and them and them and me?
[“I Should Watch TV” playing]
♪ I used to think that I should watch TV ♪
♪ I used to think
That it was good for me ♪
♪ Wanted to know
What folks were thinking ♪
♪ To understand the land I live in ♪
♪ And I would lose myself ♪
♪ And it would set me free ♪
♪ This is the place
Where common people go ♪
♪ A global franchise
One department store ♪
♪ Yes, there were many awkward moments ♪
♪ I had to do some self-atonement ♪
♪ Well, if I opened up ♪
♪ Well, it would set me free ♪
♪ I know I like ♪
♪ Behold and love this giant ♪
♪ Big soul, big lips ♪
♪ That’s me and I am this ♪
♪ Everybody gets a touched-up hairdo ♪
♪ Everybody’s in the passing lane ♪
♪ Had a reason
That she touched all channels ♪
♪ The weird things that live in there ♪
[band playing]
♪ All right, I took a walk ♪
♪ Down to the park today ♪
♪ I wrote a song called
“Just Like You and Me” ♪
♪ I heard the jokes
From the sports reporters ♪
♪ The rival teams
When they faced each other ♪
♪ The more I lost myself
The more it set me free ♪
♪ How am I not your brother? ♪
♪ How are you not like me? ♪
♪ Everybody’s in the hotel lobby ♪
♪ I’m living in here, yes, I am ♪
♪ I feel it moving
In my arms and fingers ♪
♪ Touch me and feel my pain ♪
♪ All right! It’s good to lose
And it’s good to win sometimes ♪
♪ It’s good to die
And it’s good to be alive ♪
♪ Maybe someday we can stand together ♪
♪ Not afraid of what our eyes might see ♪
♪ Maybe someday understand them better ♪
♪ The weird things inside of me ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
About a year ago…
[laughs]
…we invited a high-school choir
in Detroit, Michigan,
to do an interpretation of this next song.
The song’s called
“Everybody’s Coming to My House.”
-[audience cheer]
-Thank you.
And in my version, and that’s
the version you’re gonna hear,
it… it kinda sounds like
the singer is not sure
how he feels about everybody
coming over to his house.
And you can sense, although
he never says it in the song,
you can sense that he’s thinking,
“When are they gonna leave?”
[audience laugh]
In contrast, their version,
and this was kind
of a profound thing for me,
they didn’t change a single lyric,
they didn’t change the melody,
and yet their version
has a completely different meaning.
Their version seems to be about welcome,
inviting everyone over, inclusion.
I kinda liked their version better,
and I didn’t know how they did it.
Unfortunately, I am what I am.
[audience laugh]
[audience applause, cheering]
Not sure how to take that applause.
[audience cheering]
[chuckles]
We have people from many parts
of the world in this band.
I, myself, I’m a naturalized citizen.
I… My parents brought me
over from Scotland when I was little.
[audience cheering]
We have people
from Brazil, France, Colombia.
Most of us are immigrants,
and we couldn’t do it without them.
[audience cheering, applause]
[“Everybody’s Coming to My House” playing]
♪ I wish I was a camera ♪
♪ I wish I was a postcard ♪
♪ I welcome you to my house ♪
♪ You didn’t have to go far ♪
♪ Well, there’s a house and a garden ♪
♪ There are plants and trees ♪
♪ Make a closer inspection ♪
♪ If you get, get down on your knees ♪
♪ Now, everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ And I’m never gonna be alone ♪
♪ Yeah, everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ And they’re never gonna go back home ♪
♪ I’m pointing and describing ♪
♪ And I can be your guide ♪
♪ The skin is just a roadmap ♪
♪ The view is very nice ♪
♪ Imagine looking at a picture ♪
♪ Imagine driving in a car ♪
♪ Imagine rolling down the window ♪
♪ Imagine opening the door ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ I’m never gonna be alone ♪
♪ And they’re never gonna go back home ♪
[band playing]
♪ We’re only tourists in this life ♪
♪ Only tourists, but the view is nice ♪
♪ And we’re never gonna go back home ♪
♪ No, we’re never gonna go back home ♪
[band playing]
♪ We’re only tourists in this life ♪
♪ Only tourists, but the view is nice ♪
♪ And everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ And I’m never gonna be alone ♪
♪ Yeah, everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ And they’re never gonna go back home ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ I’m never gonna be alone ♪
♪ And they’re never gonna go back home ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ I’m never gonna be alone ♪
♪ And they’re never gonna go back home ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
[audience cheering]
[“Once in a Lifetime” playing]
♪ You may find yourself ♪
♪ Living in a shotgun shack ♪
♪ You may find yourself
In another part of the world ♪
♪ You may find yourself
Behind the wheel of a large automobile ♪
♪ You may find yourself
In a beautiful house ♪
♪ With a beautiful wife ♪
♪ You may ask yourself ♪
♪ Well, how did I get here? ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Let the water hold me down ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Water flowing underground ♪
♪ Into the blue again ♪
♪ After the money’s gone ♪
♪ Once in a lifetime ♪
♪ Water flowing underground ♪
♪ You may ask yourself ♪
♪ How do I work this? ♪
♪ You may ask yourself
Well, where is that large automobile? ♪
♪ You may tell yourself ♪
♪ This is not my beautiful house ♪
♪ You may tell yourself ♪
♪ This is not my beautiful wife ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Let the water hold me down ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Water flowing underground ♪
♪ Into the blue again ♪
♪ After the money’s gone ♪
♪ Once in a lifetime ♪
♪ Water flowing underground ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Water dissolving ♪
♪ And water removing ♪
♪ There is water ♪
♪ At the bottom of the ocean ♪
♪ Remove the water ♪
♪ Carry the water ♪
♪ Remove the water ♪
♪ From the bottom of the ocean ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Let the water hold me down ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Water flowing underground ♪
♪ Into the blue again ♪
♪ After the silent water ♪
♪ Under the rocks and stones ♪
♪ There is water underground ♪
♪ You may ask yourself ♪
♪ What is that beautiful house? ♪
♪ You may ask yourself ♪
♪ Well, where does that highway lead to? ♪
♪ You may ask yourself ♪
♪ Am I right? ♪
♪ Am I wrong? ♪
♪ You may say to yourself ♪
♪ My God, what have I done? ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Let the water hold me down ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Water flowing underground ♪
♪ Into the blue again ♪
♪ After the silent water ♪
♪ Under the rocks and stones ♪
♪ There is water underground ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Let the water hold me down ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Water flowing underground ♪
♪ Into the blue again ♪
♪ After the money’s gone ♪
♪ Once in a lifetime ♪
♪ Water flowing underground ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
♪ Same as it ever was ♪
[audience cheering]
[band playing]
♪ Time isn’t holding us ♪
♪ Time isn’t after us ♪
♪ Time isn’t holding us ♪
♪ Time isn’t holding us ♪
♪ Time isn’t holding us ♪
♪ Time isn’t after us ♪
♪ Here comes the twister now ♪
♪ Here it comes, here it comes ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Once in a lifetime ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Letting the days go by ♪
♪ Once in a lifetime ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
[David] Whoo!
Whoo!
[audience cheering continues]
Whoo!
Thank you!
[man whistling]
[slow drumbeats]
[“Glass, Concrete & Stone” playing]
♪ Now I’m waking at the break of dawn ♪
♪ To send a little money home ♪
♪ From here to the moon ♪
♪ Is rising like a discotheque ♪
♪ And now my bags are down ♪
♪ And packed for traveling ♪
♪ Looking at happiness ♪
♪ Keeping my flavor fresh ♪
♪ Nobody knows, I guess ♪
♪ How far I’ll go ♪
♪ I know, so I’m leaving at six o’clock ♪
♪ Meet in a parking lot ♪
♪ Harriet Hendershot ♪
♪ Sunglasses on ♪
♪ She waits by this glass ♪
♪ And concrete and stone ♪
♪ And it’s just a house ♪
♪ Not a home ♪
♪ Skin that covers me from head to toe ♪
♪ Except a couple tiny holes ♪
♪ And openings ♪
♪ Where the city’s blowing in and out ♪
♪ And this is what it’s all about ♪
♪ Delightfully ♪
♪ Everything’s possible
When you’re an animal ♪
♪ Not inconceivable ♪
♪ How things can change ♪
♪ I know ♪
♪ So I’m putting on aftershave ♪
♪ Nothing is out of place ♪
♪ Gonna be on my way ♪
♪ Try to pretend ♪
♪ It’s not only glass ♪
♪ And concrete and stone ♪
♪ And it’s just a house ♪
♪ Not a home ♪
♪ And my head ♪
♪ Is 50 feet high ♪
♪ Let my body and my soul ♪
♪ Be my guide ♪
[singers vocalize]
[audience cheering, applause]
Thank you.
In 2016, just before the election,
I went to Charlotte, North Carolina,
to encourage people to register
if they weren’t registered,
to encourage them to vote
if they were registered.
The election was in a couple of days.
We do something similar here.
We’ve partnered with an organization
called Head Count.
They have a table in the lobby.
They’ll register you instantly, instantly,
no matter what state you’re from.
We also did a thing called a pledge.
The pledge consists of a clipboard
and a piece of paper,
and I would go up to people and go,
“Are you gonna vote tomorrow?
Will you sign this piece of paper saying
that you’re gonna vote tomorrow?”
This is not a legal document.
It was just a piece of paper,
but it’s been shown that
when people put their name down,
it was like they’d made a promise
to themselves,
and it increased the odds
that they would actually turn up.
The turnout for that election
was the best it had been in decades.
[audience cheering, applause]
Fifty-five percent of us
turned out to vote.
-[audience groan]
-Okay.
Local elections are another matter.
Local elections,
the average turnout is 20 percent.
To give you a visual idea
of what 20 percent looks like,
here are 20 percent of the people
in this theater.
Here they are.
These are the ones that vote
in local elections.
The ones up top are waving and laughing
because, well, they just decided
your future
and the future of your children.
But you guys seem to be okay with that.
Here’s another little bit of information.
The average age of the people,
who turn out to vote in local elections,
that 20 percent, is 57 years of age.
[woman] Whoo!
Oh! There we go.
[audience laugh]
[David] Hey!
[chuckles]
Congratulations.
Okay, yeah, but 57?
Climate change, right?
-Kids, you’re fucked.
-[audience laugh]
We gotta do better
than 20 percent, really.
[audience cheering, applause]
Local elections do make a difference.
We gotta do better than 55 percent, too.
[audience cheering, applause]
[“Toe Jam” playing]
♪ I was asked in New York City ♪
♪ Do you like my clothes? ♪
♪ I’m talking to my tape recorder ♪
♪ Walking down the road ♪
♪ But on Friday night I’m purified ♪
♪ Now my feet don’t touch the floor ♪
♪ When the rubber meets the road ♪
♪ In between my toes ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ Every day is fucking perfect ♪
♪ It’s a paradise ♪
♪ I watch my life like it’s a movie ♪
♪ I had to watch it twice ♪
♪ Now, a boy looks at a girl ♪
♪ And a girl looks like a pony ♪
♪ She gallops all day long ♪
♪ In between my toes ♪
♪ And now every night she’s purified ♪
♪ She don’t do that dance no more ♪
♪ When the rubber meets the road ♪
♪ In between my toes ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ A member of the juju nation ♪
♪ Down in New Orleans ♪
♪ You don’t need an application ♪
♪ If you move your feet ♪
♪ Explode if you poke it ♪
♪ Exposed on the floor ♪
♪ It grows if you soak it ♪
♪ It rolls out the door ♪
♪ Now it’s summertime every night ♪
♪ Now my feet don’t touch the floor ♪
♪ She don’t do that dance no more ♪
♪ In between my toes ♪
♪ And now him and you ♪
♪ You and I ♪
♪ I don’t do that dance no more ♪
♪ When the rubber meets the road ♪
♪ In between my toes ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
♪ Na, na, na ♪
[speaks gibberish]
♪ The lady starts to sing ♪
♪ But she ain’t no disco dancer ♪
♪ She learned to shake her thing ♪
♪ In between my toes ♪
♪ Explode if you poke it ♪
♪ Exposed on the floor ♪
♪ It grows if you soak it ♪
♪ It rolls out the door ♪
♪ Explode if you poke it ♪
♪ Exposed on the floor ♪
-♪ It grows ♪
-♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
-♪ If you soak it ♪
-♪ Na, na, na ♪
-♪ It rolls ♪
-♪ Na, na, na, na ♪
-♪ Out the door ♪
-♪ Na, na, na ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
Whoo!
Thank you!
In 2018, we toured a concert version
of this show. We played a lot of places.
We played San Antonio twice.
So a friend of mine came to the show,
and we were talking backstage,
and he asked me,
“Are you really playing
all that music that we hear,
or do you have, you know, playback
and tracks and stuff like that?”
And I said, “I have nothing
against playback and tracks,
but in this case everything you hear
coming off the stage
is being played by this incredible band.”
[audience cheering, applause]
Whoo!
I figured other people were maybe thinking
the same thoughts
as my friend was thinking,
so I’ve continued to tell this story,
but it’s not enough.
Journalists and reporters, they email,
and they call my office, and they go,
“I know what he says from the stage.
But really? Really?”
So I thought, “Okay,
we have to put this matter to rest.”
To do that, I’m gonna introduce the band,
and as I do so, you’re gonna hear
how the next song is put together
right in front of your ears.
[audience cheering, applause]
From New York City, Daniel Freedman!
[drumbeats]
Toronto, Canada, Jacquelene Acevedo!
[rattling]
Red Bank, New Jersey, Tim Keiper!
[band playing]
Bahia, Brazil, Gustavo Di Dalva!
Joaçaba, Brazil, Mauro Refosco!
Montpelier, France, Stéphane San Juan!
Chicago, Bobby Wooten!
[band playing continues]
Milwaukee, Angie Swan!
Palo Alto, Karl Mansfield!
Atlanta, Georgia, Tendayi Kuumba!
Paramus, New Jersey, Chris Giarmo!
[band playing continues]
[“Born Under Punches” playing]
♪ All I want ♪
♪ Is to breathe ♪
♪ Won’t you breathe ♪
♪ With me? ♪
Take a look at these hands.
Take a look at these hands.
The hands speak.
The hand of a government man.
Well, I’m a tumbler.
Born under punches.
I’m so thin.
♪ All I want ♪
♪ Is to breathe ♪
Breathe with me.
♪ Won’t you breathe ♪
♪ With me? ♪
♪ Find a little space ♪
♪ So we move in between ♪
In between it!
♪ Keep one step ahead ♪
♪ Of yourself ♪
Don’t you miss it, don’t you miss it!
Some of you people just about missed it.
Last time to make plans.
I’m a tumbler. I’m a government man.
♪ Never seen anything like that before ♪
♪ What? ♪
♪ Falling bodies tumble ♪
♪ Cross the floor ♪
I said I’m a tumbler.
♪ When you get to where you wanna be ♪
Well, don’t even mention it.
♪ When you get to where you wanna be ♪
Thank you, thank you.
Take a look at these hands.
They were passing in between us.
Take a look at these hands.
Take a look at these hands.
You don’t have to mention it.
No, thanks. No, thanks.
I’m a government man.
[band playing]
♪ Goes on, the heat goes on ♪
♪ The heat goes on and the heat goes on ♪
♪ The heat goes on
Where the hand has been ♪
♪ And the heat goes on
And the heat goes on ♪
-♪ And the heat goes on ♪
-I’m not a drowning man!
♪ And the heat goes on ♪
-♪ And the heat goes on ♪
-And I’m not a burning building.
-♪ And the heat goes on ♪
-I’m a tumbler.
-♪ And the heat goes on ♪
-Drowning cannot hurt a man.
♪ Where the hand has been ♪
-♪ And the heat goes on ♪
-Fire cannot hurt a man
-♪ When the heat goes on ♪
-Not the government man.
-♪ And the heat goes on ♪
-♪ All I want ♪
-♪ Is to breathe ♪
-♪ And the heat goes on ♪
♪ And the heat goes on
And the heat goes on ♪
♪ Won’t you breathe with me? ♪
♪ And the heat goes on ♪
-♪ Find a little space ♪
-♪ And the heat goes on ♪
-♪ So we move in between ♪
-♪ And the heat goes on ♪
♪ Keep one step ahead ♪
♪ Of yourself ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
[“I Dance Like This” playing]
[piano plays]
♪ In another dimension ♪
♪ Like the clothes that you wear ♪
♪ A mighty, mighty battle ♪
♪ Sprouting illegal hair ♪
♪ A fitness consultant ♪
♪ In the negative zone ♪
♪ Wandering the city ♪
♪ Looking for a home ♪
♪ I dance like this ♪
♪ Because it feels so damn good ♪
♪ If I could dance better ♪
Hey, hey!
♪ Well, you know that I would ♪
♪ I’m working on my dancing ♪
♪ This is the best I can do ♪
♪ I’m tentatively shaking ♪
♪ You don’t have to look ♪
♪ I can’t say I’m sorry ♪
♪ Can’t say I’m ashamed ♪
♪ I can’t think of tomorrow ♪
♪ When it seems so far away ♪
♪ We dance like this ♪
♪ Yeah, boy, yeah ♪
♪ Because it feels so damn good ♪
[chirrups]
♪ If we could dance better ♪
Hey, hey!
♪ Well, you know that we would ♪
[audience cheering]
♪ We dance like this ♪
♪ Because it feels so damn good ♪
♪ If we could dance better ♪
♪ Well, you know that we would ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
[“Bullet” playing]
♪ The bullet went into him ♪
♪ His skin did part in two ♪
♪ Skin that women had touched ♪
♪ But the bullet went on through ♪
♪ The bullet went into him ♪
♪ It went its merry way ♪
♪ Like an old gray dog ♪
♪ On a fox’s trail ♪
♪ The bullet went into him ♪
♪ His stomach filled with food ♪
♪ Many fine meals he tasted there ♪
♪ But the bullet went on through ♪
♪ The bullet went into him ♪
♪ It went its merry way ♪
♪ Like an old gray dog ♪
♪ On a fox’s trail ♪
♪ The bullet went into him ♪
♪ Through his heart with thoughts of you ♪
♪ Where your kisses he inhaled ♪
♪ The lies and the truth ♪
♪ The bullet went into him ♪
♪ It traveled up into his head ♪
♪ Through thoughts of love and hate ♪
♪ The living and the dead ♪
[indistinct chatter]
♪ The bullet went into him ♪
♪ It went its merry way ♪
♪ Like an old gray dog ♪
♪ On a fox’s trail ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
Thank you.
As you can see,
we don’t have any cables or wires
attached to us in these shows,
attaching to gear or equipment
or any of those kinds of things.
We’re completely untethered.
We can go wherever we like on the stage.
It’s very liberating.
When I began to think
about the show, I realized that,
well, what we humans
like looking at the most is,
yeah, other humans.
More than a bicycle,
more than a beautiful sunset,
and probably more
than a bag of potato chips.
So I thought about the show,
and I wondered,
what if we could
eliminate everything from the stage
except the stuff we care about the most?
What would be left?
Well, it would be us.
Us and you,
and that’s what the show is.
[audience cheering, applause]
[“Every Day Is a Miracle” playing]
♪ The rose is pruned to a perfect shape ♪
♪ Perfect for whom, I wonder ♪
♪ The chicken thinks in mysterious ways ♪
♪ But beauty is not what we’re after ♪
♪ Now, the chicken imagines a heaven ♪
♪ Full of roosters and plenty of corn ♪
♪ And God is a very old rooster ♪
♪ And eggs are like Jesus, his son ♪
♪ Every day is a miracle ♪
♪ Every day is an unpaid bill ♪
♪ You’ve got to sing for your supper ♪
♪ Love one another ♪
♪ A cockroach might eat the “Mona Lisa” ♪
♪ The Pope don’t mean shit to a dog ♪
♪ And elephants don’t read newspapers ♪
♪ And the kiss of a chicken is hot ♪
♪ The brain of a chicken ♪
♪ And the dick of a donkey ♪
♪ A pig in a blanket ♪
♪ And that’s why you want me ♪
♪ What does it feel like ♪
♪ To be your tongue ♪
♪ Moving around in your mouth? ♪
♪ To be a flea
In the forest of your love ♪
♪ A cockroach
In the cosmos of your house ♪
♪ Every day is a miracle ♪
♪ Every day is an unpaid bill ♪
♪ You’ve got to sing for your supper ♪
♪ Love one another ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Oh ♪
-♪ Oh ♪
-♪ Oh ♪
♪ Oh ♪
-♪ Oh ♪
-♪ Every day is a miracle ♪
-♪ Oh ♪
-♪ Every day is an unpaid bill ♪
-♪ You’ve got to sing ♪
-♪ Oh ♪
♪ For your supper ♪
-♪ Love one another ♪
-♪ Oh ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
[audience cheering, applause]
[“Blind” playing]
♪ Ha ♪
♪ Signs ♪
♪ Signs are lost ♪
♪ Signs disappeared ♪
♪ Turn invisible ♪
♪ Got no sign ♪
♪ Somebody got busted ♪
♪ Got a face of stone
And a ghostwritten biography ♪
♪ You know
Well, dogs started rushing in ♪
♪ And they’re looking for food ♪
♪ Dogs started rushing
And they’re looking at you ♪
♪ It was light by five ♪
♪ Torn all apart
All in the name of democracy ♪
♪ He’s hurt ♪
♪ He’s dying ♪
♪ They claimed he was a terrorist ♪
♪ Claimed to avert a catastrophe ♪
♪ Oh, well, someone should’ve told him
That the buck stops here ♪
♪ Someone should have said ♪
♪ He was involved with thieves ♪
-♪ And they’re blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
♪ Blind, blind, blind, blind, blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
♪ Blind, blind, blind, blind, blind ♪
[band playing]
♪ No sense of harmony ♪
♪ No sense of time ♪
♪ Don’t mention harmony ♪
♪ Say, “What is it?
What is it? What is it?” ♪
♪ Give a little shock
And he raises his hand ♪
♪ Somebody shouts out, says
“What is it? What is it? What is it?” ♪
♪ He was shot down in the night ♪
♪ People ride by
But his body’s still alive ♪
♪ The girl in the window
What has she done? ♪
♪ She looks down at me
And says, “I don’t wanna die!” ♪
-♪ And they’re blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
♪ Blind, blind, blind, blind, blind ♪
-♪ Whoo, they’re blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
♪ Blind, blind, blind, blind, blind ♪
♪ Now, someone
Should have told me where to go ♪
♪ Crawling all around looking
For foot-foot-footprints ♪
♪ Now tell me
What the hell have we become? ♪
♪ Some dirty little bastards? ♪
♪ What the hell is going on? ♪
♪ No sense of harmony ♪
♪ No sense of time ♪
♪ Don’t mention harmony ♪
♪ Say, “What is it?
What is it? What is it?” ♪
♪ Give a little shock
And he raises his hand ♪
♪ Somebody shouts out, says
“What is it? What is it? What is it?” ♪
♪ He was shot down in the night ♪
♪ People ride by
But his body’s still alive ♪
♪ Girl in the window what has she done? ♪
♪ She looks down at me
And says, “I don’t wanna die!” ♪
-♪ And they’re blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
♪ Blind, blind, blind, blind, blind ♪
-♪ Yeah, they’re blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
-♪ Yeah, blind ♪
-♪ Blind ♪
♪ Blind, blind, blind, blind, blind ♪
Whoo!
[band playing]
[audience cheering]
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Oh ♪
♪ Oh ♪
[audience claps]
♪ Oh ♪
[audience continues clapping]
[audience cheering, applause]
[“Burning Down the House” playing]
[audience claps]
♪ Ah, watch out ♪
♪ You might get what you’re after ♪
♪ Cool babies ♪
♪ Strange but not a stranger ♪
♪ I’m an ordinary guy ♪
♪ Burning down the house ♪
♪ Hold tight ♪
♪ Wait till the party’s over ♪
♪ Hold tight ♪
♪ We’re in for nasty weather ♪
♪ There has got to be a way ♪
♪ Burning down the house ♪
♪ Here’s your ticket ♪
♪ Pack your bag
It’s time for jumping overboard ♪
♪ Transportation is here ♪
♪ Close enough but not too far ♪
♪ Maybe you know where you are ♪
♪ Fight fire with fire ♪
♪ Oh, all wet ♪
♪ Hey, you might need a raincoat ♪
♪ Shakedown ♪
♪ Dreams walking in broad daylight ♪
♪ Whoo, 365 degrees ♪
♪ Burning down the house ♪
♪ It was once upon a place ♪
♪ Sometimes I listen to myself ♪
♪ Gonna come in first place ♪
♪ People on their way to work said
“Baby, what did you expect?” ♪
♪ Gonna burst into flame ♪
Well, go ahead.
[audience cheering]
♪ Burning down the house ♪
♪ My house ♪
♪ Is out of the ordinary ♪
♪ That’s right ♪
♪ Don’t wanna hurt nobody ♪
♪ Some things sure
Can sweep me off my feet ♪
♪ Burning down the house ♪
♪ No visible means of support
And you have not seen nothing yet ♪
♪ Everything’s stuck together ♪
♪ And I don’t know what you expect
Staring into the TV set ♪
♪ Fight fire with fire ♪
♪ Oh ♪
[band playing]
♪ Burning down the house ♪
♪ Burning down the house ♪
♪ Burning down the house ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
Thank you!
Thank you. The next song was written
by the actress and singer Janelle Monáe.
[audience cheering]
She sang it at the Women’s March
in Washington a few years ago.
I was there.
I wrote to her a little bit afterwards
and asked what she would think
of a white man of a certain age
singing this particular song.
The reason will be clear in a minute.
She loved the idea.
She said the song is for everyone.
That it’s for humanity.
[audience cheering]
It’ll be obvious the song
is a protest song.
It’s also a requiem,
a requiem for lives
that have been senselessly taken.
I also see the song
as being about possibility,
the possibility of change,
not just in the imperfect world out there,
but in myself, too.
I also need to change.
[“Hell You Talmbout” playing]
♪ Hell you, hell you ♪
♪ Hell you, hell you ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
-Eric Garner.
-[singers] Say his name.
-Eric Garner.
-Say his name.
-Eric Garner.
-Say his name.
-Eric Garner.
-Say his name.
-Trayvon Martin.
-Say his name.
-Trayvon Martin.
-Say his name.
-Trayvon Martin.
-Say his name.
-Trayvon Martin.
-Say his name.
-Botham Jean.
-Say his name.
-Botham Jean.
-Say his name.
-Botham Jean.
-Say his name.
-Botham Jean.
-Say his name.
Say his name. Say his name. Say his name.
Say his name. Say his name. Say his name.
Say his name. Say his name.
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
-Freddie Gray.
-Say his name.
-Freddie Gray.
-Say his name.
-Freddie Gray.
-Say his name.
-Freddie Gray.
-Say his name.
-Atatiana Jefferson.
-Say her name.
-Atatiana Jefferson.
-Say her name.
-Atatiana Jefferson.
-Say her name.
-Atatiana Jefferson.
-Say her name.
-Sandra Bland.
-Say her name.
-Sandra Bland.
-Say her name.
-Sandra Bland.
-Say her name.
-Sandra Bland.
-Say her name.
Say her name. Say her name.
Say her name. Say her name.
Say her name. Say her name. Say her name.
Say her name.
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
-Sean Bell.
-Say his name.
-Sean Bell.
-Say his name.
-Sean Bell.
-Say his name.
-Sean Bell.
-Say his name.
-Marielle Franco.
-Say her name.
-Marielle Franco.
-Say her name.
-Marielle Franco.
-Say her name.
-Marielle Franco.
-Say her name.
-Emmett Till.
-Say his name.
-Emmett Till.
-Say his name.
-Emmett Till.
-Say his name.
-Emmett Till.
-Say his name.
Say his name. Say his name.
Say his name. Say his name.
Say his name. Say his name.
Say his name. Say his name.
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
-Tommy Yancy.
-Say his name.
-Tommy Yancy.
-Say his name.
-Tommy Yancy.
-Say his name.
-Tommy Yancy.
-Say his name.
-Jordan Baker.
-Say his name.
-Jordan Baker.
-Say his name.
-Jordan Baker.
-Say his name.
-Jordan Baker.
-Say his name.
-Amadou Diallo.
-Say his name.
-Amadou Diallo.
-Say his name.
-Amadou Diallo.
-Say his name.
-Amadou Diallo.
-Say his name.
Say his name. Say his name.
Say his name. Say his name.
Say his name. Say his name.
Say his name. Say his name.
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
♪ Hell you talmbout ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
Thank you.
The writer James Baldwin said,
“I still believe that we can do
with this country
something that has not been done before.”
And this, this from a man
who suffered lifelong oppression
and discrimination.
-[singers] ♪ Oh… ♪
-Despite all that’s happened,
and despite all, that’s still happening,
I think there’s still a possibility.
We’re a work in progress.
We’re not fixed.
Our brains can change.
Maybe those millions
of connections in our brains
that got pruned and eliminated
when we were babies
somehow get kind of re-established,
only now, instead of being in our heads,
they’re between us and other people.
Who we are is thankfully not just here,
but it extends beyond ourselves
through the connections between all of us.
[audience cheering, applause]
♪ Oh… ♪
♪ Saw the wandering eye ♪
♪ Inside my heart ♪
♪ Shouts and battle cries ♪
♪ From every part ♪
♪ I can see those tears ♪
♪ Every one is true ♪
♪ When the door appears ♪
♪ I’ll go right ♪
♪ Through ♪
♪ Ooh… ♪
♪ In a small, dark room ♪
♪ Where I will wait ♪
♪ Face to face I find ♪
♪ I contemplate ♪
♪ Even though a man ♪
♪ Is made of clay ♪
♪ Everything can change ♪
♪ That one fine ♪
♪ One fine day ♪
♪ One fine day ♪
♪ Then before my eyes ♪
♪ Is standing still ♪
♪ I beheld it there, a city on a hill ♪
♪ I complete my tasks ♪
♪ One by one ♪
♪ I remove my masks ♪
♪ When I am done ♪
♪ Then a peace of mind fell over me ♪
♪ In these troubled times ♪
♪ I still can see ♪
♪ We can use the stars ♪
♪ To guide the way ♪
♪ It is not that far ♪
♪ That one fine ♪
♪ One fine day ♪
♪ One fine day ♪
♪ One fine day ♪
♪ Hope, oh, I have hope ♪
-♪ Oh ♪
-♪ I have hope ♪
-♪ Oh ♪
-♪ I have hope ♪
-♪ Oh ♪
-♪ I have hope ♪
-♪ Oh ♪
-♪ I have hope ♪
-♪ Oh ♪
-♪ I have ♪
♪ Hope ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
[David] Whoo! Thank you!
[audience cheering, applause]
Whoo-hoo!
Thank you! Thank you!
Whoo!
[audience cheering, applause]
♪ Well, we know where we’re going ♪
♪ But we don’t know where we’ve been ♪
♪ And we know what we’re knowing ♪
♪ But we can’t say what we’ve seen ♪
♪ And we’re not little children ♪
♪ And we know what we want ♪
♪ And the future is certain ♪
♪ Give us time to work it out ♪
[band playing]
[audience claps]
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
♪ Come on inside ♪
♪ Taking that ride to nowhere ♪
♪ We’ll take that ride ♪
♪ I’m feeling okay this morning ♪
♪ And you know ♪
♪ We’re on the road to paradise ♪
♪ Here we go ♪
♪ Here we go ♪
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
♪ Come on inside ♪
♪ Taking that ride to nowhere ♪
♪ We’ll take that ride ♪
♪ Maybe you wonder where you are ♪
♪ I don’t care ♪
♪ Here is where time is on our side ♪
♪ Take you there ♪
♪ Take you there ♪
[band playing]
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
Whoo! Whoo!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
Ha! Ha!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
Whoo! Whoo!
♪ There’s a city in my mind ♪
♪ Come along and take that ride
And it’s all right ♪
♪ Baby, it’s all right ♪
♪ And it’s very far away
But it’s growing day by day ♪
♪ And it’s all right ♪
♪ Baby, it’s all right ♪
♪ Would you like to come along? ♪
♪ You can help me sing this song
And it’s all right ♪
♪ Baby, it’s all right ♪
♪ Don’t let them tell you what to do ♪
♪ Cause they’ll make a fool of you
And it’s all right ♪
♪ Baby, it’s all right ♪
♪ There’s a city in my mind ♪
♪ Come along and take that ride
And it’s all right ♪
♪ Baby, it’s all right ♪
♪ And it’s very far away
But it’s growing day by day ♪
♪ And it’s all right ♪
♪ Baby, it’s all right ♪
♪ Would you like to come along? ♪
♪ You can help me sing this song
And it’s all right ♪
♪ Baby, it’s all right ♪
♪ Don’t let them tell you what to do ♪
♪ They’ll make a fool of you
And it’s all right ♪
♪ Baby, it’s all right ♪
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
Yee-ha!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
You better believe it, baby!
[band playing]
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
Everybody, now, move about!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
Yeah! Yeah!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
Whee-ha! Whee-ha!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
♪ Whoo! ♪
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
Hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup, hup!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
Come on!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
[singing gibberish]
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
Hey! Hey!
Hey! Hey!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
♪ Yeah ♪
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
Hey! Hey! Hey!
Hey!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
[David] Yee-ha!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
[David] You better believe it, baby!
♪ We’re on a road to nowhere ♪
[audience cheering, applause]
Whoo!
[audience cheering, applause]
Whoo!
[audience cheering]
-[man] Oh, my God. You okay?
-[woman] Yeah.
-[man] Nice job with that balloon!
-[woman] Yeah, right? Yeah.
[all] Whoo!
-Ah!
-Oh, my God.
-Oh, my God.
-Oh, my God.
-Whoo!
-[David] Oh, my God.
That was the shit right there.
That was the shit right there.
That was it.
最高のパフォーマンスだった
That’s my boy! That’s how you do it!
That’s how you do it. Man!
さすがだね しびれたよ
-We need a hype man.
-Now we’re home free.
褒めて 大成功だ
-That’s right. World star.
-Now we’re home free.
世界的スターだもん ひと安心だ
[laughs]
-Thank you, David.
-Oh, thank you.
ありがとう
-That’s what I’m talking about.
こうでなくっちゃ
-[woman] That’s it right there.
[indistinct chatter]
[crowd cheering]
[“Everybody’s Coming to My House” playing]
♪ I wish I was a camera ♪
♪ I wish I was a postcard ♪
♪ I welcome you to my house ♪
♪ You didn’t have to go far ♪
♪ A house and a garden ♪
♪ There’s plants and trees ♪
♪ Make a ♪
♪ A closer inspection ♪
♪ If you get ♪
♪ Down to your knees ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ And we’re never gonna be alone ♪
♪ And everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ And we’re never gonna go back home ♪
♪ I’m pointing and describing ♪
♪ I can be your guide ♪
♪ The skin is just a roadmap ♪
♪ The view is very nice ♪
♪ Imagine looking at a picture ♪
♪ Imagine driving in a car ♪
♪ Imagine rolling down the window ♪
♪ Imagine opening the door ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ I’m never gonna be alone ♪
♪ And we’re never gonna go back home ♪
♪ We’re only tourists in this life ♪
♪ Only tourists, but the view is nice ♪
♪ And we’re never gonna be alone ♪
♪ And we’re never gonna go back home ♪
[bicycle bell rings]
♪ We’re only tourists in this life ♪
♪ Only tourists, but the view is nice ♪
♪ And we’re never gonna be alone ♪
♪ And we’re never gonna go back home ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ I’m never gonna be alone ♪
♪ And we’re never gonna go back home ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ Everybody’s coming to my house ♪
♪ We’re never gonna be alone ♪
♪ And we’re never gonna go back home ♪
-Whoo!
-Yeah.
Ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay, ay!
[woman] Oh, wait.
[birds chirping]