Heaven (Talking Heads song)

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Heaven is a song by the American New Wave band Talking Heads. 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.

[edit] Covers

• The song was later covered by Icehouse frontman Iva Davies.
• Voxtrot does a cover of this song.^[1]
• The song appears on Simply Red's 1985 debut album Picture Book.

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