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Byrne might have used preacher cadences as a jumping-off point for the song. But his message is more universal than regional, as he hints at the idea of someone living a life that has developed almost beyond their control. The refrain of You may find yourself supports this notion. Byrne implies that a person’s location, car, and spouse might not be anything they’ve actually chosen.
In the second verse, consciousness and free will bubbles to the surface. This is not my beautiful house, the unnamed protagonist snaps. This is not my beautiful wife. In the final verse, he looks for a way out. Where does that highway go to? he wonders. And then, in a killer of a final line, he realizes that somewhere along the way, his journey has created consequences: My God, what have I done?
In the refrains, water, both to baptize this lost soul and to wash away his sins, floods over the proceedings. But even that isn’t enough to effect any meaningful change in the course of a life. Same as it ever was. https://americansongwriter.com/the-...ow-it-was-inspired-by-preachers-on-the-radio/
The Guardian writer Jack Malcolm suggested that "Once in a Lifetime" can be read "as an art-pop rumination on the existential ticking time bomb of unchecked consumerism and advancing age"
According to the AllMusic critic Steve Huey, the lyrics address "the drudgery of living life according to social expectations, and pursuing commonly accepted trophies (a large automobile, beautiful house, beautiful wife)" Although the narrator has these trophies, he questions whether they are real and how he acquired them, a kind of existential crisis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_in_a_Lifetime_(Talking_Heads_song)#cite_note-:0-11
