Song | The Night Flight From Houston (Remastered LP Version) |
Artist | Laurie Anderson |
Album | Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology |
Download | Image LRC TXT |
[00:09.02] | It was the night flight from Houston. Almost perfect visibility. You could see the lights from all the little Texas towns far below. And I was sitting next to a fifty-year old woman who had never been on a plane before. And her son had sent her a ticket and said: Mom, you’ve raised ten kids; it’s time you got on a plane. And she was sitting in a window seat staring out and she kept talking about the Big Dipper and that Little Dipper and pointing; and suddenly I realized that she thought we were in outer space looking down at the stars. And I said: ' You know, I think those lights down there are the lights from little towns. |
[00:09.02] | It was the night flight from Houston. Almost perfect visibility. You could see the lights from all the little Texas towns far below. And I was sitting next to a fiftyyear old woman who had never been on a plane before. And her son had sent her a ticket and said: Mom, you' ve raised ten kids it' s time you got on a plane. And she was sitting in a window seat staring out and she kept talking about the Big Dipper and that Little Dipper and pointing and suddenly I realized that she thought we were in outer space looking down at the stars. And I said: ' You know, I think those lights down there are the lights from little towns. |
[00:09.02] | It was the night flight from Houston. Almost perfect visibility. You could see the lights from all the little Texas towns far below. And I was sitting next to a fiftyyear old woman who had never been on a plane before. And her son had sent her a ticket and said: Mom, you' ve raised ten kids it' s time you got on a plane. And she was sitting in a window seat staring out and she kept talking about the Big Dipper and that Little Dipper and pointing and suddenly I realized that she thought we were in outer space looking down at the stars. And I said: ' You know, I think those lights down there are the lights from little towns. |