"Heaven" is a song by the American new wave band Talking Heads from their 1979 album Fear of Music. It was also featured as the second song in their 1984 concert film Stop Making Sense. The lyrics refer to heaven as a "place where nothing ever happens", and describe a bar, a party, and a kiss. The song has been called "the calm after their unusual ominous storm" by AllMusic[2] as well as something "psychologists would certainly have a field day with" by author and The Guardian journalist Ian Gittins.[3]
Dave Bell, writing for quarterly UK magazine Ceasefire, argued that the song "epitomises pop as Samuel Beckett might write it: tedious, beautiful and desperate".[4]
In 1986 Thomas Di Leva made a Swedish cover of the song, named "Himlen". It was recorded for his album Pussel,[12] and was also the B-Side of his single "Snurra bakåt!"[13]
Singer Q Lazzarus covered "Heaven" for the 1993 film Philadelphia. This song has never been available in its complete form.
The National contributed a cover of "Heaven" to the 2024 album Everybody's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense.[14]