Sweaters Lyrics

They say that heaven is like tv a perfect little world that doesn't really need you and everything there is made of light and the days keep going by here they come here they come h...Read Full Lyrics

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 ...Read Full Lyrics

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 - And the themes are just infantile. And...Read Full Lyrics

[Laurie] Anyway, I was in Israel as a kind of cultural ambassador, and there were lots of press conferences scheduled around the performances. And the journalists usually started t...Read Full Lyrics

The day the devil comes to getcha you know him by the way he smiles the day the devil comes to getcha he's a rusty truck with only twenty miles he's got bad brakes he's got loose t...Read Full Lyrics

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 a...Read Full Lyrics

[Announcer] Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to London Laurie Anderson [Laurie] (Ooooaaaah! Ooooaaaah!) Hi This evening I'll be reading from a book I just finished, ...Read Full Lyrics

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, l...Read Full Lyrics

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 woma...Read Full Lyrics

Let me tell you a story about Kokovoko The island where I come from The beaches are littered with rotten coconuts And there are pieces of old skulls lying all around Jewels and sa...Read Full Lyrics