Laurie Anderson Lyrics

Broken You say: Where have you been? I say: Nowhere You say: There, you're doing it again You know I can't ...

Dark Angel A dark angel parachutes down into an abandoned town He says: Oh, I've been looking for a certain whi...

Here With You Instrumental ...

My Compensation My eyes snap open and I get up I say This must be my lucky day Jump up - get out - get on my way E...

One Beautiful Evening One beautiful evening in the garden on Eden A snake came walking in the twilight He was leaning on h...

One White Whale How to find you, maybe by your singing A weird trail of notes in the water One white whale in all th...

Slip Away What's this? A little dust in my eye Well I'm not the type to cry It's four a.m. I'm standing by the...

The Island Where I Come From Let me tell you a story about Kokovoko The island where I come from The beaches are littered with ro...

Washington Street It's midnight downtown. It's been raining for days Rain beats down. It covers the streets with its s...

Beautiful Pea Green Boat I'm lying in the shade Of my family tree I'm a branch that broke off What will become of me? Dear Mo...

Bright Red Bright Red Did she fall or was she pushed? Your shirt on my chair. Your shirt on my chair. I'll ...

Freefall You're out on the ocean And you get pulled down Freefall to the bottom Like when you're drowning Or ...

In Our Sleep In our sleep as we speak Listen to the drums beat As we speak In our sleep as we speak Listen to the...

Muddy River Rain keeps pouring down Houses are cracking. People drown. Cars are rusting here. A church floats by...

Night In Baghdad And oh it's so beautiful It's like the fourth of July It's like a Christmas tree It's like fireflies...

Poison It was one of those black cat nights The moon had gone out and the air was thin It was the kind of n...

Same Time Tomorrow You know that little clock, the one on your VCR, the one that’s always blinking twelve noon ’cau...

Speak My Language Daddy Daddy, it was just like you said Now that the living outnumber the dead. Where I come from it'...

Speechless (The Eagle and the Weasel) It was August. Summer of '82. You had that rusty old car And me I had nothing better to do You picke...

The Puppet Motel I live on the highway Near the Puppet Motel I log in every day I know the neighborhood well. No abou...

Tightrope LAst night I dreamed I died and that my life had been rearranged into some kind of theme park. And a...

Baby Doll I don't know about your brain- but mine is really bossy I come home from a day on the golf course an...

Beautiful Red Dress Well I was down at the Zig Zag That's the Zig Zag Bar & Grill And everybody was talking at once ...

Coolsville Coolsville Coolsville Coolsville Coolsville So perfect So nice Hey little darlin, I'm comin your way...

Hiawatha By the shores of Gitche Gumee By the shining Big- Sea- Water Downward through the evening twilight I...

Monkey's Paw Well I stopped in at the Body Shop Said to the guy: I want stereo FM installed in my teeth And take ...

My Eyes Sometimes I wish I hadn't gotten that tattoo Sometimes I wish I'd married you One hundred fires One ...

Ramon Last night I saw a host of angels And they were all singing different songs And it sounded like a lo...

Strange Angels They say that heaven is like TV A perfect little world that doesn't really need you And everything t...

The Day the Devil The day the devil comes to getcha you know him by the way he smiles The day the devil comes to getch...

The Dream Before (for Walter Benjamin) Hansel and Gretel are alive and well And they're living in Berlin She is a cocktail waitress He had ...

Blue Lagoon I got your letter. Thanks a lot. I've been getting lots of sun. And lots of rest. It's really hot. D...

Excellent Birds Flying Birds. Excellent Birds. Watch them fly. There they go. Falling snow. Excellent snow. Here it ...

Gravity's Angel You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat...

Kokoku I come very briefly to this place. I watch it move. I watch it shake. Kumowaku yamano. Watashino sak...

Sharkey's Day Sun's coming up. Like a big bald head. Poking up over the grocery store. It's Sharkey's day. It's Sh...

Sharkey's Night Sun's going down. Like a big bald head. Disappearing behind the boulevard. (Oooeee.) It's Sharkey's ...

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Late Show L-L-L L-L-Listen Listen T- L-L- Listen to my hearbeat. ...

Radar (instrumental) ...

Smoke Rings Standby. You're on the air. Buenos noches Senores y Senoras. Bienvenidos. La primera pregunta es: Qu...

Talk Normal I don't know about your dreams But mine are sort of hackneyed. Same thing, night after night. Just.....

White Lily What Fassbinder film is it? The one-armed Man walks into a flower shop and says: What flower express...

John Lilly Now in this book there are a lot of stories about talking animals: talking snakes, and birds, and fi...

Maria Teresa Teresa Maria Last spring, I spent a week in a convent in the Midwest. I’d been invited there to do a series of ...

On The Way To Jerusalem There was a devout nun in the XVth century who decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and she be...

Someone Else's Dream You know those nights, when you’re sleeping, and it’s totally dark, and absolutely silent, and y...

The Cultural Ambassador Anyway, I was in Israel as a kind of cultural ambassador and there were lots of press conferences sc...

The End Of The World — Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to London Laurie Anderson. Ooooaaaah! Ooooaaaah! Hi...

The Geographic North Pole The summer of 1974 was brutally hot in New York and I kept thinking about how nice and icy it must b...

The Hollywood Strangler I was living out in West Hollywood when a Hollywood strangler was strangling women. Every night ther...

The Mysterious "J" In the book there are several chapters about women talking and women writing. Now it seems likely th...

The Night Flight From Houston It was the night flight from Houston. Almost perfect visibility. You could see the lights from all t...

The Ouija Board In 1978, I spent some time in California in the fall, looking for a quiet place to live. I finally f...

The Rotowhirl Around 1978, I met a comedian, Andy Kaufmann. And he was performing his avant-garde Elise act in a c...

The Salesman Now the book is called Stories from the Nerve Bible and what I mean by the Nerve Bible is the body. ...

The Soul Is A Bird In 1984, as part of the press for the tour I was doing in Japan, I was asked to go to Bali and speak...

The Ugly One With The Jewels In 1974, I went to Mexico to visit my brother who was working as an anthropologist with Tsutsil Indi...

Word Of Mouth In 1980, as part of a project called Word of Mouth, I was invited, along with a living other artists...

Big Science Coo coo it's cold outside. Coo coo it's cold outside. Ooo coo coo. Don't forget your mittens. Hey Pa...

Born, Never Asked It was a large room. Full of people. All kinds. And they had all arrived at the same buidling at mor...

Example #22 Beispiele paranormale Tonbandstimmen. Was sind paranormale Tonbandstimmen? Es sind Stimmen unbekannt...

From The Air Good evening. This is your Captain. We are about to attempt a crash landing. Please extinuish all ci...

It Tango She said: It looks. Don't you think it looks a lot like rain? He said: Isn't it. Isn't it just. Isn'...

Let X=X I met this guy - and he looked like might have been a hat check clerk at an ice rink. Which, in fact...

O Superman O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad. O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad. Hi...

Sweaters I no longer love your mouth. I no longer love your eyes. I no longer love your eyes. I no longer lov...

Walking & Falling I wanted you. And I was looking for you. But I couldn't find you. I wanted you. And I was looking fo...

Babydoll I don't know about your brain- but mine is really bossy I come home from a day on the golf course an...

Day The Devil The day the devil comes to getcha you know him by the way he smiles The day the devil comes to getch...

Dream Before Hansel and Gretel are alive and well And they're living in Berlin She is a cocktail waitress He had ...

Free Fall You're out on the ocean and you get pulled down Freefall to the bottom Like when you're drowning or ...

Language Is A Virus Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better. I saw this guy on the train ...

Langue d'Amour Let's see. Uh, it was on an island. And there was this snake. And the snake had legs. And he could w...

Let X = X I met this guy - and he looked like might have been a hat check clerk at an ice rink. Which, in fact...

Life On A String A summer night the hot the heat Sit at my desk fluorescent light Drawing a picture of a perfect mome...

Love Among The Sailors There is a hot wind blowing It moves across teh oceand and into every port. A plague. A black plague...

O Superman (For Massenet) O Superman. O Judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad. O Superman. O Judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad. Hi...

Pieces And Parts They say that in 1842 on a plantation in Alabama The slaves unearthed a huge skeleton, the bones of ...

Puppet Motel I live on the highway near the Puppet Motel. I log in every day. I know the neighborhood well. Now a...

Sharkey's Day (Single Edit) Sun's coming up. Like a big bald head. Poking up over the grocery store. It's Sharkey's day. It's Sh...

Speechless It was August. Summer of '82. You had that rusty old car And me I had nothing better to do. You pick...

Statue Of Liberty Moon rises and sets In the real world Islands and hurricanes Wind blows in fort jersey It floats acr...

World Without End I remember where I came from There were burning buildings and a fiery red sea I remember all my love...