Is Everybody Still Here?

In Heaven There Is No Beer

...a polka with many versions and verses, wild polka band Brave Combo from Texas introduced Blueskygirl to the tune many years ago, and she still finds herself humming it, for no known reason, often.

In Heaven there is no beer
That's why we drink it here
And when we're gone from here
All our friends will be drinking all that beer

La, la, la, la, la, la ...

Heaven

David Byrne, wrote Heaven with Jerry Harrison. It is the second song, sung by Byrne and Tina Weymouth, in Talking Heads' great rock movie Stop Making Sense, made during 3 concerts in 1984. 

This is the movie where Davie Byrne wears his Big Suit for Girlfriend Is Better. 

At the end of the first set, after Life During Wartime, David Byrne asks, "Does anyone have any questions?"

Everyone is trying to get to the bar

The name of the bar, the bar is called heaven

The band in heaven, they play my favourite song

Play it one more time, play it all night long

Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens

Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens

There is a party, everyone is there

Everyone will leave at exactly the same time

When this party's over, it will start again

It will not be any different, it will be exactly the same

Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens

When this kiss is over it will start again

It will not be any different, it will be exactly the same

It's hard to imagine that nothing at all could be so exciting, could be this much fun

Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens

Heaven, heaven is a place, a place where nothing, nothing ever happens