Talking Heads' "Memories Can't Wait" -> Robyn Hitchcock's "Freeze".
The lines starting with "There's a..." ("party in my mind" -> "justice in this world"/"dead man in your heart"/"farmer in the clouds"). A direct reference, of course:
I know who wrote the book of love
It was an idiot!
It was a fool!
A slobbering fool with a speech defect and a... shakin' hand
And he wrote my name!
Next to yours!
But it should have been David Byrne or somebody...!
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