Tightrope (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

In this dream I'm on a tightrope and I'm tipping back and forth trying to keep my balance. And below me are all my relatives and if I fall I'll crush them. This long thin line. This song line.

Speechless (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

It was August. Summer of '82. You had that rusty old car And me I had nothing better to do You picked me up. We hit the road. Baby me and you. We shot out of town Drivin' fast and hard Leaving our ...

Freefall (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

You're out on the ocean and you get pulled downFreefall to the bottomLike when you're drowning or falling asleepYou get turned aroundAnd when you think you're swimming to the surfaceYou're swimming...

Poison (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

It was one of those black cat nights The moon had gone out and the air was thin It was the kind of night that the cat would drag in. I'll never forget it, we had a fight. Then you turned around tur...

Bright Red (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Did she fall or was she pushed? Your shirt on my chair Your shirt on my chair I'll be with you. I'll be there. I'll never leave you Your shirt on my chair. Come here little girl. Get into the car. ...

Muddy River (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Rain keeps pouring down Houses are cracking. People drown. Cars are rusting here. A church floats by Washed in the blood of the lamb. And all the superhighways have disappeared One by one. And all ...

The Salesman (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Now the book is called Stories from the Nerve Bible and what I mean by the Nerve Bible is the body. And parts of the body appear and disappear throughout the book, adding up to a kind of self-portr...

John Lilly (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Now in this book there are a lot of stories about talking animals: talking snakes, and birds, and fish; and about people who try to communicate with them. John Lilly, the guy who says he can talk t...

The Rotowhirl (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Around 1978, I met a comedian, Andy Kaufmann. And he was performing his avant-garde Elise act in a club in Queens. The performance started with Andy playing the bongos, and for some unknown reason,...

White Lily (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Another Laurie Anderson clone! And I said: Loook at me! Loook at me! Loook at me! Loook at me! Loook at me! Loook at me! Loook at me! Loook at me! Loook at me! Loook at me! Loook at me!

The Puppet Motel (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

I live on the highway Near the Puppet Motel I log in every day I know the neighborhood well. No about the residents Of the Puppet Motel They're more than a little spooky And most of them are mean. ...

Speak My Language (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Daddy Daddy, it was just like you said Now that the living outnumber the dead. Where I come from it's a long thin thread Across an ocean. Down a river of red. Now that the living outnumber the dead...

World Without End (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

I remember where I came from There were burning buildings and a fiery red sea I remember all my lovers I remember how they held me. World without end remember me. East. The edge of the world. West....

In Our Sleep (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

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

Night In Baghdad (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

And oh it's so beautiful It's like the fourth of July It's like a Christmas tree It's like fireflies on a summer night. And I wish I could describe this to you a little better. But I can't talk ver...

Same Time Tomorrow (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

You know that little clock, the one on your VCR, the one that's always blinking twelve noon 'cause you never figured out how to get in there and change it? So it's always the same time, just the wa...

Word Of Mouth (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

as part of a project called Word of Mouth, I was invited, along with a living other artists, to go to Panape, a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific. The idea was that we'd sit around talking f...

The Ouija Board (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

I spent some time in California in the fall, looking for a quiet place to live. I finally found what seemed to be the perfect apartment. But the night after I moved in I heard a tremendous pounding...

The Hollywood Strangler (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

I was living out in West Hollywood when a Hollywood strangler was strangling women. Every night there was a panel discussion on TV about the strangler, speculations about his habits, his motives, h...

Someone Else's Dream (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

You know those nights, when you're sleeping, and it's totally dark, and absolutely silent, and you don't dream, and there's only blackness, and this is the reason, it's because on those nights you'...

The Cultural Ambassador (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Anyway, I was in Israel as a kind of cultural ambassador and there were lots of press conferences scheduled around the performances. The journalists usually started things off by asking about the a...

Beautiful Pea Green Boat (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

I'm lying in the shade Of my family tree I'm a branch that broke off What will become of me? Dear Mom, I'm lying here In this queen sized bed. I'm thinking back To all the stories you read to me Ab...

Love Among The Sailors (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

There is a hot wind blowingit moves across the oceans and into every port.A plague. A black plague. There's danger everywhereAnd you've been sailing.And you're all alone on an island now tuning in....

The Geographic North Pole (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

The summer of 1974 was brutally hot in New York and I kept thinking about how nice and icy it must be at the North Pole. And then I though, ？？？？Wait a second, why not go?？？？？ You know, like in cart...

Maria Teresa Teresa Maria (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Last spring, I spent a week in a convent in the Midwest. I'd been invited there to do a series of seminars on language. They'd gotten my name from a list in Washington, from a brochure that describ...

The End Of The World (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to London Laurie Anderson. Ooooaaaah! Ooooaaaah! Hi.

The Night Flight From Houston (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

It was the night flight from Houston. Almost perfect visibility. You could see the lights from all the little Texas towns far below. And I was sitting next to a fifty-year old woman who had never b...

The Soul Is A Bird (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

, as part of the press for the tour I was doing in Japan, I was asked to go to Bali and speak about the future with the prince of Ouboud. Now the idea was that I would represent the Western world, ...

On The Way To Jerusalem (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

There was a devout nun in the XVth century who decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and she belonged to an order that wore bags over their heads. And the mother superior told the nun that if ...

The Ugly One With The Jewels (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

In 1974, I went to Mexico to visit my brother who was working as an anthropologist with Tsutsil Indians, the last surviving Mayan tribe. And the Tsutsil speak a lovely birdlike language and are qui...

Big Science (Reprise Live Album Ver.) Laurie Anderson

Coo coo it's cold outside. coo coo it's cold outside. ooo coo coo. don't forget your mittens. hey pal! how do i get to town from here? and he said: well just take a right where they're going to Tha...

The End Of The World (Remastered LP Version) Laurie Anderson

Why does the sun go on shining Why does the sea rush to shore Don't they know it's the end of the world 'Cause you don't love me anymore. Why do the birds go on singing Why do the stars glow above ...

O Superman Laurie Anderson

O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad. O Superman. O judge. O Mom and Dad. Mom and Dad. Hi. I'm not home right now. But if you want to leave a message, just start talking at the sound of ...

Let X=X Laurie Anderson

I met this guy - and he looked like might have been a hat check clerk at an ice rink. which, in fact, he turned out to be. and I said: oh boy. right again. let x=x. you know, it could be you. it ...

I Dreamed I Had To Take A Test..... Laurie Anderson

I dreamed I had to take a test in a Dairy Queen on another planet.

Four, Three, Two, One Laurie Anderson

Four three two one. Rock the cradle. Rule the world. One two three four. Beat the clock. Stop the press. Four three two one. Stop the press. Beat the clock. Rock the cradle. And rule the world.

It Tango Laurie Anderson

She said: It looks. Don't you think it looks a lot like rain? He said: Isn't it. Isn't it just. Isn't it just like a woman? She said: It's hard. It's just hard. It's just kind of hard to say. He sa...

Blue Lagoon Laurie Anderson

I got your letter. Thanks a lot. I've been getting lots of sun. And lots of rest. It's really hot. Days, I dive by the wreck. Nights, I swim in the blue lagoon. Always used to wonder who I'd...

Sweaters Laurie Anderson

I no longer love your mouth. I no longer love your eyes. I no longer love your eyes. I no longer love the color of your sweaters. I no longer love it. I no longer love the color of your sweaters. I...

One White Whale Laurie Anderson

How to find you, maybe by your singingA weird trail of notes in the waterOne white whale in all these oceansOne white whaleSlipping through the years of silenceUnder polar Ice-Caps miles downYou le...

The Island Where I Come from Laurie Anderson

Let me tell you a story about KokovokoThe island where I come fromThe beaches are littered with rotten coconutsAnd there are pieces of old skulls lying all aroundJewels and sand and rising waterVis...

Pieces and Parts Laurie Anderson

They say that in 1842 on a plantation in AlabamaThe slaves unearthed a huge skeleton,the bones of a giant whale,a leviathan,from the time when all the world was covered with waterfrom the Andes to ...

Slip Away Laurie Anderson

What's this? A little dust in my eyeWell I'm not the type to cryIt's four a.m. I'm standing by the bed where you lieSleeping the sleep of the newbornI put [my] finger to your lips. Warm air.Five a....

My Compensation Laurie Anderson

My eyes snap open and I get up I sayThis must be my lucky dayJump up - get out - get on my wayEvery slobbery frog and every mangy dogThat crosses my path reminds meYou're my precious jewel and you'...

Dark Angel Laurie Anderson

A dark angel parachutes down into an abandoned townHe says: Oh, I've been looking for a certain white clownDoesn't look like you're itBut you're the only one aroundSo I guess you'll have to do, He ...

Broken Laurie Anderson

You say: Where have you been?I say: NowhereYou say: There, you're doing it againYou know I can't keep, I can't keepI can't keep doing thisI wanted our life to be so sweetTo live on harmonyBut there...

Washington Street Laurie Anderson

It's midnight downtown. It's been raining for daysRain beats down.It covers the streets with its sparkling skin.In the deli purple lightA woman in a party dress pays for some milkYellow cab stops f...

Statue of Liberty Laurie Anderson

Moon rises and setsIn the real worldIslands and hurricanesWind blows in fort jerseyIt floats across the paveInto the open oceanIt's a good dayTo run awayFreedom is a scary thingNot many people real...

One Beautiful Evening Laurie Anderson

One beautiful evening in the garden on EdenA snake came walking in the twilightHe was leaning on his ivory caneAnd he said, let me tell you a little secret about lifeThere's a certain sharpness to ...

Life on a String Laurie Anderson

A summer night the hot the heatSit at my desk fluorescent lightDrawing a picture of a perfect momentI saw it once on a grand avenueThat stretched into the distanceAnd you and I were walking thereLo...