Laurie Anderson - 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 was this man...
And there was this road...
And if only I could remember these dreams...
I know they're trying to tell me... something.

Ooooeee.
Strange dreams (strange dreams).
Oh yeah.

And Sharkey says:
I turn around, it's fear.
I turn around again and it's love.
Oh yeah. Strange dreams.

And the little girls sing:
Oooeee Sharkey.
And the manager says: Mr. Sharkey?
He's not at his desk right now.
Could I take a message?
And the little girls sing:
Oooeee Sharkey.
He's Mister Heartbreak.
They sing: Oooeee Sharkey.
Yeah. He's Mister Heartbreak.

And Sharkey says:
All of nature talks to me.
If I could just figure out what it was trying to tell me.
Listen!

Trees are swinging in the breeze.
They're talking to me.
Insects are rubbing their legs together.
They're all talking.
They're talking to me.
And short animals...
They're bucking up on their hind legs.
Talking. Talking to me.
Hey! Look out!
Bugs are crawling up my legs!
You know?
I'd rather see this on TV.
Tones it down.

And Sharkey says:
I turn around, it's fear.
I turn around again and it's love.
Nobody knows me.
Nobody knows my name.

And Sharkey says:
All night long I think of those little planes up there.
Flying around.
You can't even see them.
They're specks!
And they're full of tiny people.
Going places.
And Sharkey says:
You know?
I bet they could all land on the head of a pin.

And the little girls sing:
Ooooeee. Sharkey!
He's Mister Heartbreak.
They sing: Oooee. That Sharkey!
He's a slow dance on the edge of the lake.
He's a whole landscape gone to seed.
He's gone wild!
He's screeching tires on an oil slick at midnight on the road to Boston a long time ago.
And Sharkey says:
Lights! Camera! Action! TIMBER!
At the beginning of the movie, they know they have to find each other.
But they ride off in opposite directions.

Sharkey says:
I turn around (it's fear).
I turn around again (and it's love).
Nobody knows me.
Nobody knows my name.
Ya know?
They're growing mechanical trees.
They grow to their full height.
And then they chop themselves down.
Sharkey says:
All of life comes from some strange lagoon.
It rises up, it bucks up to its full height from a boggy swamp on a foggy night.
It creeps into your house.
It's life! It's life!

I turn around (it's fear).
I turn around again (and it's love).
Nobody knows me.
Nobody knows my name.

Deep in the heart of darkest America.
Home of the brave.
Ha! Ha! Ha! You've already paid for this.
Listen to my heart beat.

And the little girls sing:
Oooeee Sharkey.
He's a slow dance
On the edge of the lake.
They sing: Ooooeeee. Sharkey.
He's Mister Heartbreak.
Paging Mr. Sharkey.
White courtesy telephone please.

And Sharkey says:
I turn around, it's fear.
I turn around again, and it's love.
And the little girls sing:
Ooooeee Sharkey. Yeah.
On top of Old Smokey all covered with snow.
That's where I wanna,
that's where I'm gonna
That's where I'm gonna go.