[Verse 1]
I can’t seem to face up to the facts
I’m tense and nervous, and I can’t relax
I can’t sleep cause my bed’s on fire
Don’t touch me, I’m a real live wire
[Chorus]
Psycho killer,
qu’est-ce que c’est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away
Oh, oh
Psycho killer,
qu’est-ce que c’est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away
Oh, oh, oh, oh, aye-ya-ya-ya-ya
[Verse 2]
You start a conversation, you can’t even finish it
You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything
When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed
Say something once, why say it again?
[Chorus]
Psycho killer,
qu’est-ce que c’est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away
Oh, oh
Psycho killer,
qu’est-ce que c’est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away
Oh, oh, oh, oh, aye-ya-ya-ya-ya
[Bridge]
Ce que j’ai fait, ce soir-là
Ce qu’elle a dit, ce soir-là
Réalisant mon espoir
Je me lance, vers la gloire
, okay
Aye-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-ya-yeah
We are vain and we are blind
I hate people when they’re not polite
[Chorus]
Psycho killer,
qu’est-ce que c’est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away
Oh, oh
Psycho killer,
qu’est-ce que c’est?
Fa-fa-fa-fa, fa-fa-fa-fa-fa, fa, better
Run, run, run, run, run, run, run away
Oh, oh, oh, oh, aye-ya-ya-ya-ya
Ooh
[Guitar Solo]
[Outro]
Hey, hey, hey, hey
About The Song- Psycho Killer
The second single from the 1977 album Talking Heads: 77, “Psycho Killer,” is one of the most well-known Talking Heads songs. It peaked at #92 on the Billboard Hot 100.
It is the opening track on every Talking Heads “best of” and singles collection and is featured in the 1984 live CD and movie Stop Making Sense.
The character Norman Bates from the film Psycho served as inspiration for the song, which is about the thoughts of a serial killer. Bassist Tina Weymouth provided the French lyrics, and David Byrne came up with the concept of shifting the language to symbolize the “psycho killer” changing personas.
In the 2015 BBC 4 documentary Girl in a Band, bassist Tina Weymouth claimed that Byrne’s desire to write a song that was “really rude” was sparked by listening to Alice Cooper. Byrne writes the following in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads:
I imagined Alice Cooper performing a Randy Newman-style ballad when I first started writing this (I later got help). The villains were significantly less interesting than the Joker and Hannibal Lecter. In movies, everyone sort of cheers for the villains.
It is stated that “Psycho Killer” was the first song Frantz, Weymouth, and Byrne wrote together and that it was written “entirely as a joke” in Paul Zollo’s book Songwriters on Songwriting. Byrne still ponders why people adore it.