Home Of The Brave

Laurie Anderson Home Of The Brave Album

5.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 trances. and he was going:'u
Ugh...ugh...' and fred said:'i think he's in some kind of pain.
i think it's a pain cry.' and i said:'pain cry? then language is
a virus.' language! it's a virus! lang
It's a virus! well i was talking to a friend and i was saying:i
wanted you. and i was looking for you. but i couldn't find you.
i couldn't find you. and he said:hey! are you talking to me? or
You just practicing for one of those performances of yours? huh?
language! it's a virus! language! it's a virus! he said:i had to
write that letter to your mother. and i had to tell the judge t
T was you.

And i had to sell the car and go to florida. because that's just
my way of saying (it's a charm.) that i love you. and i (it's a
job.) had to call you at the crack of dawn (why?) and list the
ti
Hat i've been wrong. cause that's just my way of saying that i'm
sorry. (it's a job.) language! it's a virus! language! it's a
virus! paradise is exactly like where you are right now only
much m
It's a shipwreck,) better. (it's a job.) you know? i don't
believe there's such a thing as tv. i mean - they just keep
showing you the same pictures over and over. and when they talk
they just m
Ounds that more or less synch up with their lips. that's what i
think! language! it's a virus! language! it's a virus! language!
it's a virus! well i dreamed there was an island that rose up
fro
Sea. and everybody on the island was somebody from tv. and there
was a beautiful view but nobody could see. cause everybody on
the island was saying: look at me! look at me! look at me! look
at
Because they all lived on an
Island that rose up from the sea. and everybody on the island
was somebody from tv. and there was a beautiful view but nobody
could see. cause everybody on the island was saying: look at me!
loo
Me! look at me! look at me! look at me! why? paradise is exactly
like where you are right now only much much better.