| 21. Laurie Anderson - Pieces And Parts |
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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...
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| 22. Laurie Anderson - Hiawatha |
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By the shores of Gitche Gumee By the shining Big- Sea- Water Downward through the evening twilight In the days that are forgotten >From the land of...
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| 23. Laurie Anderson - Late Show |
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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...
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| 24. Laurie Anderson - Word Of Mouth |
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In 1980, 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...
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| 25. Laurie Anderson - The Geographic North Pole |
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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,...
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| 26. Laurie Anderson - Tightrope |
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LAst night I dreamed I died and that my life had been rearranged into some kind of theme park. And all my friends were walking up and down the...
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| 27. Laurie Anderson - Walking & Falling |
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I wanted you. And I was looking for you. But I couldn't find you. I wanted you. And I was looking for you all day. But I couldn't find you. I...
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| 28. Laurie Anderson - Night In Baghdad |
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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...
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| 29. Laurie Anderson - The Night Flight From Houston |
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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...
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| 30. Laurie Anderson - The Ugly One With The Jewels |
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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...
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| 31. Laurie Anderson - Muddy River |
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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...
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| 32. Laurie Anderson - The Cultural Ambassador |
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Anyway, I was in Israel as a kind of cultural ambassador and there were lots of press conferences scheduled around the performances. The journalists...
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| 33. Laurie Anderson - Gravity's Angel |
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You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got it all. Everybody loves you. You can...
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| 34. Laurie Anderson - The Rotowhirl |
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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...
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| 35. Laurie Anderson - Poison |
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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...
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| 36. Laurie Anderson - Gravity's Angel |
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You can dance. You can make me laugh. You've got x-ray eyes. You know how to sing. You're a diplomat. You've got it all. Everybody loves you. You can...
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| 37. Laurie Anderson - Love Among The Sailors |
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There is a hot wind blowing It moves across teh oceand and into every port. A plague. A black plague. There's danger everywhere And you've been...
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| 38. Laurie Anderson - Excellent Birds |
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Flying Birds. Excellent Birds. Watch them fly. There they go. Falling snow. Excellent snow. Here it comes. Watch it fall. Long words. Excellent...
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| 39. Laurie Anderson - Life On A String |
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A summer night the hot the heat Sit at my desk fluorescent light Drawing a picture of a perfect moment I saw it once on a grand avenue That...
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| 40. Laurie Anderson - White Lily |
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I don't know about your dreams But mine are sort of hackneyed. Same thin night after night. Just...repetitive. And the color is really bad - ...
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