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've gone

White Lily (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Last night I had that dream again. I dreamed I had to take a test In a Dairy Queen on another planet. And then I lokked around And there was this woman. And she was making it all up.

Poison (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Then you moved downstairs to live with her instead. Yeah just one floor and a shout away, I guess I should have moved but I decided to stay. Did I drink some poison that I don't remember now?

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.

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

The pilots were usually guys who'd gone to Canada to avoid the draft or else embittered Vietnam vets who never wanted to go home again.

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,...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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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 ...

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...

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...

Talk Normal (Live) Laurie Anderson

all E new pink flamingoes arranged in star patterns all over the lawn. then i went into the kitchen and it looked like a tornado had hit. and then i realized i was in the wrong house. last night i h At dream

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....

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...

White Lily (Home Of The Brave) (Live) Laurie Anderson

Last night I had that dream again. I dreamed I had to take a test In a Dairy Queen on another planet. And then I lokked around And there was this woman. And she was making it all up.

Smoke Rings (Live) Laurie Anderson

Well I had a dream and in it I went to a little town And all the girls in town were named Betty. And they were singing: Doo doo doo doo doo. Doo doo doo doo doo. Ah desire!

Blue Lagoon Laurie Anderson

Nights, I dream about a perfect place. Days, I dive by the wreck. Nights, I swim in the blue lagoon. Full fathom five thy father lies. Of his bones are coral made.

The Dream Before Laurie Anderson

Hansel and gretel are alive and well and they're living in berlin she is a cocktail waitress he had a part in a fassbinder film and they sit around at night now drinking schnapps and gin and she: h...

White Lily Laurie Anderson

Last night I had that dream again. I dreamed I had to take a test In a Dairy Queen on another planet. And then I lokked around And there was this woman. And she was making it all up.

Late Show (Live) Laurie Anderson

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better. I saw this guy on the train And he seemed to have gotten stuck In one of those abstract trances. And he was going:

In A Lifetime (Album Version) Jon Anderson

showed me you can't give Until you're strong enough to love How could I begin With no foundation in my heart And it wasn't until I saw My life in your eyes CHORUS At last I've found true love Without someone

Poison Laurie Anderson

Then you moved downstairs to live with her instead. Yeah just one floor and a shout away, I guess I should have moved but I decided to stay. Did I drink some poison that I don't remember now?

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 ...

Betcha (Album Version) Jon Anderson

It was the perfect chance The mystery school It's all for beginners How we knew it then But that didn't mean a thing So we stacked our promises To the mothers of invention Then yo u chased the spiral dream

Puppet Motel Laurie Anderson

I live on the highway near the Puppet Motel. I log in every day. I know the neighborhood well. Now about the residents of the Puppet Motel They're more than a little spooky And most of them are mean.

Coolsville Laurie Anderson

train This city This train Some things are just pictures They're scenes before your eyes And don't look now I'm right behind you Coolsville She said: Oh Jesus, why are you always in the arms of somebody else

My Compensation Laurie Anderson

I used to live in a big house All I ever thought about was getting out When I met you there was something about you Every slobbery frog and every mangy dog That crosses my path reminds me I love your brain

Slip Away Laurie Anderson

I'm thinking about the way that lost things always come back Looking like something else A fishing pole, a shoe, an old shirt, a lucky day Ooo then they slip away into the remains of the day Ooo they slip

Beginning French Laurie Anderson

After doing these concerts in French, I usually had the temporary illusion that I could actually speak French, but as soon as I walked out on the street, and someone asked me simple directions, I realized

Idle (Album Version) The Music

Someone to love you, somebody to talk to I wanna be like everybody else Someone to love you, somebody to talk to I wanna be like everybody else Someone to love you, somebody to talk to I wanna be

Broken Laurie Anderson

I say: Nowhere You say: There, you're doing it again You know I can't keep, I can't keep I can't keep doing this I wanted our life to be so sweet To live on harmony But there are so many things You just

Monkey's Paw Laurie Anderson

leap of faith It's a roll of the die It's a free lunch A free ride The gift of life it's a shot in the dark It's the call of the wild It's the big wheel The big ride But Nature's got rules and Nature' s