Strange Angels

Laurie Anderson Strange Angels歌詞
1.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 come here they come here
they come.
It was one of those days larger than life when your friends came
to dinner and they stayed the night and then they cleaned out
the refrigerator - they ate everything in sight and then they
stay
In the living room and they cried all night strange angels -
singing just for me old stories - they're haunting me this is
nothing like i thought it would be. well i was out in my four
door wit
Top down. and i looked up and there they were:millions of tiny
teardrops just sort of hanging there and i didn't know whether
to laugh or cry and i said to myself:what next big sky? strange
a
- singing just for me their spare change falls on top of me rain
falling falling all over me all over me strange angels - singing
just for me old stories - they're haunting me big changes are c
Here they come here they com
E.


2.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 i'm here, why don't you give me s
F those high-heeled feet? and he said:listen there's no
guarantee nature's got rules and nature's got laws but listen
look out for the monkey's paw and i said:whaaat? he said:the
gift of life
A twist of fate it's a roll of the die it's a free lunch a free
ride but nature's got rules and nature's got laws and if you
cross her look out! it's the monkey's paw it's sayin:haw haw!
it's
G gimme five! it's sayin:bye bye! i know a man he lost his head
he said:the way i feel i'd be better off dead. he said:i got
everything i ever wanted now i can't give it up it's a trap,
just
Ck! the gift of life it's a 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
Ature's got rules and nature'
S got laws and if you cross her look out! it's the monkey's paw
you better stop! look around! listen! you- could- be- an- oca-
rina- salesman- going- from- door- to- door. or- would- you-
like-
Wing- on- a- star- and- carry- moon- beams- home? or- next-
time- around- you- could- be- a- small- bug- or- would- you-
like- to- be- a- fish? the gift of life it's a twist of fate
it's a roll
E 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 got laws and if you cro
R look out! it's the monkey's paw it's singin': gimme five! it's
singin': bye bye!


3.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 straightened out yeah just as soon
as
Perfect. some things are just pictures they're scenes before
your eyes and don't look now i'm right behind you coolsville
coolsville so perfect so nice so nice! and down by the ocean
under the b
Alk you were so handsome we didn't talk you're my ideal i'm
gonna find you i'm goin to coolsville so perfect so ideal this
train this city this train some things are just pictures they're
scenes
Re 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? he said:oh man! i don't need anybody's help i'm gonna get
th
N my own. this train this city this train this city this train


4.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 of stars spangled all over
the sk
They were spirals turning turning in the deep blue night. and
suddenly for no reason the way that angels leave the grund they
left in a kind of vortex travelling at the speed of sound. and
just
Started to leave just as i turned to go i saw a man who'd fallen
he was lying on his back in the snow. some people walk on water
some people walk on broken glass some just walk round and round
Eir dreams some just keep falling down. so when you see a man
who's broken pick him up and carry him and when you see a woman
who's broken put her all into your arms cause we don't know
where we
From we don't know what we are. so when you see a man who's
broken pick him up and carry him and when you see a woman who's
broken put her all into your arms cause we don't know where we
come f
E don't know what we are. and
You? you're no one and you? you're falling and you? you're
travelling travelling at the speed of light. and you? you're no
one and you? you're falling and you? you're travelling
travelling at t
Eed of light.


5.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 of paper and they say thing
like:
On't you get a real job? or:you and what army? or:get a horse.
and then i hear this voice comin from the back of my head uh huh
(whoa-ho) yep! it's my brain again and when my brain talks to me
Says:take me out to the ballgame take me out to the park take me
to the movies cause i love to sit in the dark take me to tahiti
cause i love to be hot and take me out on the town tonight cause
Ow the new hot spot. he says:babydoll! ooo oo oo babydoll ooo he
says:babydoll! i love it when you come when i call babydoll! you
don't have to talk i know it all babydoll! ooo oo oo babydoll
Ell i'm sitting around trying to write a letter i'm wracking my
brains trying to think of another word for horse i ask my brain
for some assistance. and he says:huh...let's see...how about
cow?
's close. he says: take me ou
T to the ballgame take me out to the park take me to the movies
cause i love to sit in the dark take me to your leader and i
say: do you mean george? and he says: i just want to meet him
and i s
Ome on i mean i don't even know george! and he says: babydoll!
ooo oo oo babydoll ooo he says: babydoll! i love it when you
come when i call babydoll! you don't have to talk i know it all
babydo
Oo oo oo babydoll ooo babydoll! babydoll! ooo oo oo babydoll!
babydoll! ooo oo oo babydoll! babydoll! ooo oo oo


6.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 but i don't care i'm on a
roll
On a wild ride cause the moon is full and look out baby - i'm at
high tide. i've got a beautiful red dress and you'd look really
good standing beside it.. i've got some beautiful new red shoes
Hey look so fine i've got a hundred and five fever and it's high
tide. well just the other day i won the lottery i mean lots of
money i got so excited i ran into my place and i said:hey! is
any
Home? nobody answered but i guess that's not too weird since i
live alone. i've got a beautiful red dress and you'd look really
good standing beside it.. girls? we can take it and if we can't
we
Onna fake it we're gonna save ourselves we're gonna make it and
if we don't we're gonna take it we're gonna save ourselves save
ourselves well they say women shouldn't be the president cause
we
Azy from time to time well push m
Y button baby here i come yeah look out baby i'm at high tide
i've got a beatiful red dress and you'd look really good
standing beside it.. i've got a little jug of red sangria wine
and we could
Little sips from time to time i've got some bright red drop dead
lips i've got a little red card and mechanical hips i've got a
hundred and five fever!!! ok! ok! hold it! i just want to say
som
G. you know, for every dollar a man makes a woman makes 63
cents. now, fifty years ago that was 62 cents. so, with that
kind of luck, it'll be the year 3,888 before we make a buck. but
hey, girl
Can take it and if we can't we're gonna fake it we're gonna save
ourselves save ourselves (yeah tell it to the judge) we're gonna
make it and if we don't we're gonna take it we're gonna save ou
Es save ourselves we've got a fever of a hundred and five and
look baby it's high tide. well i could just go on and on and
on... but tonight i've got a headache


7.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 brakes he's got loose teeth he's
a lo
Y from home the day the devil comes to getcha he's got a smile
like a scar he knows the way to your house he's got the keys to
your car and when he sells you his sportcoat you say:funny!
that's
Ize attention shoppers! everybody please rise give me back my
innocence get me a brand new suit give me back my innocence oh
lord! cut me down to size well you can hide under the porch and
you c
De behind the couch but the day the devil comes to getcha he's
right on time here he comes well i'm sick of hearin bout your
problems yeah girlie you're breakin my heart i'm the original
party a
Hey! hey! babaloo so don't come bangin your bibles cause you've
been laughin all the way to the bank and don't give me those
crocodile tears cause you've been doing it for years i'm
everywhere!
Right here mr. jones the day
The devil comes to getcha he's a long way from home and you know
he's gonna getcha cause you're stuck in the middle everybody
please rise give me back my innocence get me a brand new suit
give
Ck my innocence oh lord! cut me down to size give me back my
innocence get me a new cadillac cause when i get on up to heave
lord you can have it all back cause in heaven, you get it all
back in
En it all comes back cause in heaven, you get it all back in
heaven cause in heaven...... in heaven......


8.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 drinking schnapps and gin
and she
:hansel, you're really bringing me down and he says:gretel, yu
can really be a bitch he says:i've wated my life on our stupid
legend when my one and only love was the wicked witch. she said:
Is history? and he said:history is an angel being blown
backwards into the future he said:history is a pile of debris
and the angel wants to go back and fix things to repair the
things that ha
En broken but there is a storm blowing from paradise and the
storm keeps blowing the angel backwards into the future and this
storm, this storm is called progress


9.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 tell lies (whoa ho) sometimes i
act
A monkey here come the night and then kerjillions of stars start
to shine and icy comets go whizzing by and everything's shaking
with a strange delight and here it is:the enormous night and oo
Es they're lookin all around and oo my feet i'm upside down if i
were the president if i were queen for a day i'd give the ugly
people all the money i'd re-write the book of love i'd make it
fun
Eel of fortune wheel of fame two hundred forty million voices
two hundred forty million names and down in the ocean where
nobody goes some fish are fast some are slow some swim round the
world s
Ide below this is the ocean so deep so old. and then kerjillions
of stars start to shine and icy comets go whizzing by and
everything's shaking with a strange delight and here it is:the
enormou
Ht and oo my eyes they're loo
Kin all around and oo my feet they've left the ground so cry me
a river that leads to a road that turns into a highway that goes
and goes and tangles in your memories so long so old.


10.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 waters and i said:hello
operator
E memphis tennessee and she said:i know who you're tryin to call
darlin and he's not home he's been away but you can hear him on
the airwaves he's howlin at the moon yeah this is your country s
N and honey this next one's for you. and all along the highways
and under the big western sky they're singing ooo oooooo they're
singing wild blue. and way out on the prairie and up in the high
Rral they hear a voice it says:good evening this is captain
midnight speaking and i've got a song for you goes somethin like
this:starlight starbright we're gonna hang some new stars in the
he
Tonight. they're gonna circle by day they're gonna fly by night
we're goin sky high. yoo hooooo hooo. yeah yoo hooo ooo
hooooooooo so good night ladies and good night gentlemen keep
those cards
Letters coming and please don't
Call again. geronimo and little nancy marilyn and john f.
dancing uncle took the message and it's written on the wall.
these are pictures of the houses shining in the midnight
moonlight while th
G sings love me tender. and all along the watchtowers aand under
the big western sky they're singing yoo hooooo they're singing
wild blue. and wau wau up there, bursting in air red rockets,
brig
D glare >from the land of sky blue waters sent by freedom's sons
and daughters. we're singing ooo hoooooooo we're singing wild
blue. we're singing ooo hoooooooo ooo hooooooooo and dark behind
Ose the forest rose the black and gloomy pine trees rose the
firs with ones upon them and bright before it beat the water
beat the clear and sunny water beat the shing big- sea- water