talking heads in parallel

[sergebroom]

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that large automobile?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful house!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful wife!

I read somewhere that the Talking Heads's song Once in a Lifetime was supposed to be about a man's midlife crisis. Still, I wonder if David Byrne and/or Brian Eno were science-fiction fans. You see, one of the episodes of the Twilight Zone, titled The Parallel, was about an astronaut who goes up in orbit around the Earth and, upon landing, finds that things are not as they should be. His military rank isn't the one he remembers. No one has ever heard of President Kennedy. The astronaut's house now has a picket fence. His wife recognizes him, but, when she kisses him, she recoils as if something were 'off' about him. After concluding that he landed in a parallel Earth, he makes it back home. His words when he rejoins with his wife?

"This is my beautiful wife."