David Byrne has written a song for Alex Gibney’s forthcoming feature-length documentary about Elon Musk, using lyrics entirely comprised of quotes from the world’s first trillionaire.
The track is called Let Me Sell You A Dream and has been co-written by the film’s composer Daniel Pemberton. The lyrics, it seems, were easy for the ex-Talking Head to source. “I asked for good quotes from the Martian, and found more of them online,” Byrne told Variety in an interview. “I’m sure he loves dropping these wild statements, and those became the lyrics. All his own words. No editorializing. Straight from the man’s mouth to mine.”
