- Baby Doll
I don't know about your brain- But mine is really bossy I come home from a day on the golf course And I find all these messages Scribbled on wrinkled up scraps ...
- Babydoll
I don't know about your brain- but mine is really bossy I come home from a day on the golf course and I find all these messages scribbled on wrinkled up scraps ...
- Beautiful Pea Green Boat
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 bac...
- Beautiful Red Dress
Well I was down at the Zig Zag That's the Zig Zag Bar & Grill And everybody was talking at once And it was getting real shrill. And I've been around the block B...
- Big Science
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 t...
- Blue Lagoon
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....
- Born, Never Asked
It was a large room. Full of people. All kinds. And they had all arrived at the same buidling At more or less the same time. And they were all free. And they we...
- Bornnever Asked
It was a large room. full of people. all kinds. and they had all arrived at the same buidling at more or less the same time. and they were all free. and they we...
- Bright Red
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. Co...
- Coolsville
Coolsville Coolsville Coolsville Coolsville So perfect So nice Hey little darlin, I'm comin your way little darlin And I'll be there Just as soon as I'm All ...
- Credit Racket
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- Credit Racket (instrumental)
Coolsville Coolsville Coolsville Coolsville So perfect So nice Hey little darlin, I'm comin your way little darlin And I'll be there Just as soon as I'm All ...
- Dark Angel
A dark angel parachutes down into an abandoned town He says: Oh, I've been looking for a certain white clown Doesn't look like you're it But you're the only one...
- Day The Devil
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 bra...
- Dream Before
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...
- Example #22
Beispiele paranormaler Tonbandstimmen. Was sind paranormale Tonbandstimmen? Es sind Stimmen unbekannte herkunft. Es sing paranormaler Tonbandstimmen- (Examples...
- Excellent Birds
Flying Birds. Excellent Birds. Watch them fly. There they go. Falling snow. Excellent snow. Here it comes. Watch it fall. Long words. Excellent words. UI can he...
- Free Fall
You're out on the ocean and you get pulled down Freefall to the bottom Like when you're drowning or falling asleep You get turned around And when you think you'...
- Freefall
You're out on the ocean and you get pulled down Freefall to the bottom Like when you're drowning or falling asleep You get turned around And when you think you'...
- From The Air
Good evening. This is your Captain. We are about to attempt a crash landing. Please extinuish all cigarettes. Place your tray tables in their upright, locked po...
- Gravity's Angel
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 charm the ...
- Here With You
Instrumental
- Hiawatha
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 sky blue wat...
- In Our Sleep
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 t...
- It Tango
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....
- John Lilly
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...
- Kokoku
I come very briefly to this place. I watch it move. I watch it shake. Kumowaku yamano. Watashino sakebi. Watashino koewo. Ushano kokoku. Watashiwa sokoni. Watas...
- Language is a Virus
Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better. I saw this guy on the train And he seemed to gave gotten stuck In one of those abstract...
- Langue D'amour
Let's see. Uh, it was on an island. And there was this snake. And the snake had legs. And he could walk all around the island. Yes. That's true. A snake with le...
- Late Show
L-L-L L-L-Listen Listen T- L-L- Listen to my hearbeat.
- Let X = X
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...
- Let X=x
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...
- Life On A String
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 stretched into the ...
- Love Among The Sailors
There is a hot wind blowing it moves across the oceans and into every port. A plague. A black plague. There's danger everywhere And you've been sailing. And yo...
- Maria Teresa Teresa Maria
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...
- Monkey's Paw
Well I stopped in at the Body Shop Said to the guy: I want stereo FM installed in my teeth And take this mole off my back And put it on my cheek. And uh...while...
- Muddy River
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...
- My Compensation
My eyes snap open and I get up I say This must be my lucky day Jump up - get out - get on my way Every slobbery frog and every mangy dog That crosses my path ...
- My Eyes
Sometimes I wish I hadn't gotten that tattoo Sometimes I wish I'd married you One hundred fires One hundred days Sometimes I feel like a stranger Sometimes I t...
- Night in Baghdad
And oh it's so beautiful It's like the Fourth of July It's lie a Christmas tree It's like the fireflies on a summer night. And I wish I could describe this to ...
- O Superman
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...
- O Superman (For Massenet)
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...
- On The Way To Jerusalem
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 ...
- One Beautiful Evening
One beautiful evening in the garden on Eden A snake came walking in the twilight He was leaning on his ivory cane And he said, let me tell you a little secret a...
- One White Whale
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 nets of sil...
- Pieces And Parts
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...
- Poison
It was one of those black cat night The moon had gone out and the air was thin It was the kind of night the cat would drag in. I'll never forget it, we had a f...
- Radar
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- Radar (instrumental)
Sharkey's Night Sun's going down Like a big bald head Disappearing behind the boulevard. It's Sharkey's night. It's Sharkey's night tonight. And the manager ...
- Ramon
Last night I saw a host of angels And they were all singing different songs And it sounded like a lot of lawnmowers Mowing down my lawn And up above kerjillions...
- Same Time Tomorrow
You know the little clock, the one on your VCR The one that's always blinking twelve noon Because you never figured out How to get in there and change it? So it...
- Sharkey's Day
Sun's coming up. Like a big bald head. Poking up over the grocery store. It's Sharkey's day. It's Sharkey's day today. Sharkey wakes up and Sharkey says: There ...
- Sharkey's Day (Single Edit)
Sun's coming up. Like a big bald head. Poking up over the grocery store. It's Sharkey's day. It's Sharkey's day today. Sharkey wakes up and Sharkey says: There ...
- Sharkey's Night
Sun's going down. Like a big bald head. Disappearing behind the boulevard. (Oooeee.) It's Sharkey's night. Yeah. It's Sharkey's night tonight. And the manager s...
- Slip Away
What's this? 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 [...
- Smoke Rings
Standby. You're on the air. Buenos noches Senores y Senoras. Bienvenidos. La primera pregunta es: Que es mas macho, Pineapple o knife? Well, let's see. My gu...
- Someone Else's Dream
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 bla...
- Speak my Language
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. ...
- Speechless (The Eagle And The Weasel)
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 to...
- Statue Of Liberty
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...
- Strange Angels
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 c...
- Sweaters
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 lo...
- Talk Normal
I don't know about your dreams But mine are sort of hackneyed. Same thing, night after night. Just...repetitive. And the color is really bad - And the themes ar...
- The Cultural Ambassador
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 sta...
- The Day The Devil
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 bra...
- The Dream Before
(for Walter Benjamin) 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 s...
- The Dream Before (For Walter Benjamin)
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...
- The End Of The World
— Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to London Laurie Anderson. Ooooaaaah! Ooooaaaah! Hi. This evening I’ll be reading from a book I jus...
- The Geographic North Pole
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...
- The Hollywood Strangler
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, speculat...
- The Island Where I Come From
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 a...
- The Mysterious "J"
In the book there are several chapters about women talking and women writing. Now it seems likely that men invented writing and wrote what? Maybe ninety, maybe ...
- The Night Flight From Houston
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...
- The Ouija Board
In 1978, 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 ...
- The Puppet Motel
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 l...
- The Rotowhirl
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...
- The Salesman
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 bo...
- The Soul Is A Bird
In 1984, 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 wa...
- The Ugly One With The Jewels
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...
- Tightrope
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 boardwalk. And my...
- Walking & Falling
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 couldn't find you....
- Washington Street
It's midnight downtown. It's been raining for days Rain beats down. It covers the streets with its sparkling skin. In the deli purple light A woman in a party ...
- White Lily
What Fassbinder film is it? The one-armed Man walks into a flower shop and says: What flower expresses Days go by And they just keep going by endlessly Pulling...
- Word Of Mouth
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 the Pacifi...
- World Without End
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...