Help Me Somebody

Eno and Byrne wrote it around a broadcast sermon by Reverend Paul Morton recorded in New Orleans in June 1980. The rooks on the track were contributed by April Potts and recorded at Eglingham Hall. A search summary says Morton paraphrases Psalm 139 and that the second half loops him shouting, though we did not read the original page.

Byrne had never performed it before the 2008 tour, where it sat in the early set slot. Setlist.fm counts 164 performances. We could not tell whether our upload is the album version or a live one, and found no covers, samples or video.