Same Time Tomorrow - Laurie Anderson

You know that little clock

The one on your VCR

The one that’s always blinking twelve noon

'Cause you never figured out

How to get in there and change it?

So it’s always the same time

Just the way it came from the factory

Good morning

Good night

Same time tomorrow

We’re in record

Ooohaaa

Ooohaaa

So here are the questions

Is time long or is it wide?

And the answers?

Sometimes the answers just come in the mail

And one day you get that letter

You’ve been waiting for forever

And everything it says is true

And then in the last line

It says: burn this

Ooohaaa

Ooohaaa

Ooohaaa

And I what I really want to know is

Are things getting better

Or are they getting worse?

Stop, stop.

Pause, pause.

We’re in record

Because these stories

That we have remembered

And most of them never even get written down

And so when they say things like

«We're gonna do this by the book,»

You have to ask «What book?,»

Because it would make a big difference

If it was Dostoyevsky or just

You know, Ivanhoe

Ooohaaa

Ooohaaa

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

Ooohaaa

Ooohaaa

East, East.

The edge of the world

West, West.

Those who came before me

We’re in record

Ooohaaa

Come here little girl

Get into the car

It’s a brand new Cadillac

Bright red

Come here little girl

Ooohaaa

Ooohaaa

When my father died we put him in the ground

When my father died it was

Like a whole library had burned down

Stop, stop.

Pause, pause

Ooohaaa

Ooohaaa

Same time tomorrow

And wild beasts shall rest there

And owls shall answer one another there

And the hairy ones shall dance there

And sirens in the temples of pleasure

Speak my language

Good night