Bright Red

Laurie Anderson Bright Red Album

10.Poison

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. then you turned
around
D on the light. you left our bed. then you moved downstairs to
live with her instead. yeah just one floor and a shout away, i
guess i should have moved but i decided to stay. did i drink
some po
That i don't remember now? and every night i open all the
windows i let a cold dark wind blow through. i play loud organ
music and i talk to myself and dream of you. uh oh! i hear
voices coming
Rough the pipes through all the springs in my bed and up through
the lights the volume goes up then it drops back down i can hear
the two of you playing records moving furniture and fooling arou
Id i drink some poison that i don't remember now? is there blood
on my hands/ no, my hands are clean. did i do something in
another lifetime that was really really mean? yeah, i'm hearing
voices
I losing my mind? think i'm g
Oing craz, i gotta get out. i run into the street and i start to
shout get ou of my way! get out! get out! did i drink some
poison that i don't remember now? is there blood on my hands?
did i do
Thing in another lifetime that was really really mean? a small
bullet, a piece of glass and your heart just grows around it.