David Byrne on Trying to Write a Song About the Pandemic

David Byrne tells Rolling Stone he tried writing music during the pandemic and even had a lyric about someone with Purell in their purse.

Transcript

00:00During COVID, I tried to write songs and wasn't really able to write much.

00:06I tried to, I wrote words for a song called Six Feet Apart or Six Feet Away

00:13about seeing someone, but you can't get in closer than six feet because of social distancing.

00:21And you couldn't see this person's face because of a mask, that kind of thing.

00:26And I sent the words to John Mulaney and said, what do you think?

00:33There was a line about she had Perel in her purse.

00:36He liked that, but I never used it.

00:39I thought, nah, it's, this is, what's happening is kind of, it's serious.

00:45This is not a joke.