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 speak in

Speechless (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

We shot out of town Drivin' fast and hard Leaving our greasy skid marks In people's back yards. We were goin' nowhere. Just drivin' around. We were goin' in circles. And me I was just hanging on.

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.

Tightrope (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

And there was this big ferris wheel about a half mile out in the ocean, half in and half out of the water. And all my old boyfriends were on it. With their new girlfriends.

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.

Freefall (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Secret codes and cryptograms I'm lost in your words I'm swimming. We're going down to the bottom. All the way to the bottom. Rapture of the deep. I got your letter. I couldn't read it.

White Lily (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

I came home today and both our cars were gone. And there were all these new pink Flamingoes arranged in star patterns All over the lawn.

The Rotowhirl (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

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, sobbing.

Muddy River (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

A church floats by Washed in the blood of the lamb. And all the superhighways have disappeared One by one. And all the towns and cities and signs Are underwater now. They're gone.

Bright Red (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

Your words in my ears. I'll be with you. I'll be there. I'll never leave you.

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.

The Salesman (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

And I used the word Bible in the title of this book because the first really strange stories I remember hearing were Bible stories.

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.

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.

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...

World Without End (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

When my father died we put him in the ground. When my father died it was like a whole library Had burned down. World without end remember me.

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.

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?

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.

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

On those nights, you're in someone else's dream, you're busy in someone else's dream. Some things are just pictures, they're scenes before your eyes. Don't look now, I'm right behind 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 Hollywood Strangler (Live) (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

I was living out in West Hollywood when a Hollywood strangler was strangling women.

Love Among The Sailors (Album Version) Laurie Anderson

And you're all alone on an island now tuning in. Did you think this was the way Your world would end? Hombres. Sailors. Comrades. There is no pure land now. No safe place.

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...

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?？？？？

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

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

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.

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

And she was sitting in a window seat staring out and she kept talking about the Big Dipper and that Little Dipper and pointing; and suddenly I realized that she thought we were in outer space looking down

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.

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.

Big Science (Reprise Live Album Ver.) Laurie Anderson

and he said: well just take a right where they're going to That new shopping mall, go straight past where they're going to put in the freeway, take a left at what's going to be the new sports center,

Slip Away Laurie Anderson

A little dust in my eye Well I'm not the type to cry It's four a.m. I'm standing by the bed where you lie Sleeping the sleep of the newborn I put [my] finger to your lips. Warm air. Five a.m.

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

Why do the birds go on singing Why do the stars glow above Don't they know its the end of the world It ended when I lost your love I wake up in the morning and I wonder Why everything's the same as

Smoke Rings (Live) Laurie Anderson

And we'll be back in un momento. 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.

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 : hansel

White Lily Laurie Anderson

I came home today and both our cars were gone. And there were all these new pink Flamingoes arranged in star patterns All over the lawn.

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

I came home today and both our cars were gone. And there were all these new pink Flamingoes arranged in star patterns All over the lawn.

Talk Normal (Live) Laurie Anderson

i came home today and both our cars were gone. and there were 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

New Civilization (Album Version) Jon Anderson

we're going Can you imagine a new dance They call it syncopation Ain't it right to think the start Of anything just means there's Something going on-yeah Something going on-yeah, yeah, yeah We change our

Poison 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.

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

Betcha (Album Version) Jon Anderson

quick mistakes So yo u finally went and did it You screamed and ran away 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

Pieces and Parts Laurie Anderson

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

One White Whale Laurie Anderson

How to find you, maybe by your singing A weird trail of notes in the water One white whale in all these oceans One white whale Slipping through the years of silence Under polar Ice-Caps miles down You

Puppet Motel Laurie Anderson

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.

Washington Street Laurie Anderson

In the deli purple light A woman in a party dress pays for some milk Yellow cab stops for a light Two men in black hats are running A messenger on a bike Pile drivers pounding.

Statue of Liberty Laurie Anderson

Moon rises and sets In the real world Islands and hurricanes Wind blows in fort jersey It floats across the pave Into the open ocean It's a good day To run away Freedom is a scary thing Not many people

O Superman Laurie Anderson

Made in America. Smoking or non-smoking? And the voice said: Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

O Superman (For Massenet) Laurie Anderson

Made in America. Smoking or non-smoking? And the voice said: Neither snow nor rain nor gloom of night shall stay these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

The Island Where I Come from Laurie Anderson

rotten coconuts And there are pieces of old skulls lying all around Jewels and sand and rising water Visions I've seen and cries I've heard I can't put these things into words Might as well put some beans In