Born On A Sunday (Live And Reconstructed / 1999)

Okay, it was a hundred years ago today that

Claude Debussy taught the band how to play

Now we don't want this to sound too much

Like some kind of PBS educational film

So imagine that Claude, for the sake of argument

Is played today by Brad Pitt or Bart Simpson

Keep that in your mind

This man called Claude is the hero of our story

And it's a story about ideas

Ideas, the most beautiful and threatening thing in the world

Where do they come from? Where do they go?

What you can hear now is the sound of an idea in the embryo

This is the sound of something about to be born

Any minute now, for the sake of you

The people who put the A into Chicago

Art of Noise, born again

The time is reaching forward to the break of the dawn

My heart is waiting for you, beating time 'til you come

I'm waiting every hour

I'm waiting every day

I'm waiting to see you

I'm waiting to feel you

I'm waiting to hear you

I'm waiting to love you

I'm waiting to see you

I'm waiting to feel you

I'm waiting to hear you

I'm waiting to love you

So where do ideas come from?

Thank you for asking that question, it's a good first question

They come from in here

But how do they get in here?

For Claude Debussy, the hero of our story

I guess they came in here because of water

He loved water

In fact, he was particularly fond of scuba diving

And he had a favorite resort in the

South of France that he liked to go to

And he ordered his equipment from www.scuba.com

And when he got to the south of France he would go

Under the surface of the water looking for these ideas

And he would go deeper and deeper, deeper into the dark

Looking for these ideas that would be so important out there

Deeper and deeper into the dark

And these ideas would come

And he would hold onto them for dear life