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"And She Was" is a potent rock song written by David Byrne for the 1985 Talking Heads album Little Creatures.

"I used to know a blissed-out hippie-chick in Baltimore," recalled Byrne in the liner notes of Once in a Lifetime: The Best of Talking Heads. "She once told me that she used to do acid (the drug, not music) and lay down on the field by the Yoo-hoo chocolate soda factory. Flying out of her body, etc etc. It seemed like such a tacky kind of transcendence… but it was real! A new kind of religion being born out of heaps of rusted cars and fast food joints. And this girl was flying above it all, but in it too."

The song is musically notable for its unusual use of modulation, interspersing the key of E major between the first half of verses one and two ("and she was lying in the grass", "and she was drifting through the backyard") and the chorus ("the world was moving") with the key of F major for the second half of verses one and two ("see the lights of a neighbour's house", "moving into the universe"). The rest of the song is in the key of E major.

It reached number 54 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 17 on the British singles chart. The accompanying music video was directed by avant-garde filmmaker Jim Blashfield.

The song was featured in the 2005 film Bewitched.

Charts

Notes

1. ^ | Billboard Magazine
2. The Official Charts Company. "UK Albums Chart". Every Hit. Retrieved 2010-05-17.
3. Recording Industry Association of New Zealand (February 6, 1986). "New Zealand Singles Chart". New Zealand Charts. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
4. MegaCharts (February 8, 1986). "Dutch Singles Chart". Dutch Charts. Retrieved 2009-05-17.
5. Irish Recording Music Association (January 30, 1986). "Irish Singles Chart". Irish Charts. Archived from the original on 2 June 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-17. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)

• Talking Heads songs
• 1985 singles
• Music videos directed by Jim Blashfield
• Songs written by David Byrne
• Songs about drugs
• Sire Records singles
• Song recordings produced by David Byrne
• Song recordings produced by Jerry Harrison