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Is Anybody Home

Is Anybody Home Lyrics

Song Is Anybody Home
Artist Laurie Anderson
Album Airwaves
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[00:07.89] I live by the Hudson River,
[00:10.6] And a lot of boats go by.
[00:13.2] They glide by so quickly,
[00:14.90] Camouflaged against the Jersey Shore.
[00:20.26] Sometimes at night when the liners are lit up,
[00:22.88] It's hard to tell which is moving,
[00:24.62] the boat, or the shoreline.
[00:27.1] And it seems like all of Manhattan is comin' anchored,
[00:29.78] And slowly drifting out to sea.
[00:32.31] I spent, hours trying to film them,
[00:35.10] So I set up a camera by the window.
[00:37.95] And every time I hear a horn,
[00:40.20] I ran to the window.
[00:42.23] But I usually miss them.
[00:45.52] It's kind of rhythem,
[00:47.48] I kind of thinking it's been getting into the song I've been writing lately.
[00:52.47] Like walking upstairs in the dark,
[00:54.65] You think there's one more step than there actually is.
[00:57.73] And you foot comes pounding down,
[01:00.12] Is nothing underneath.
[01:02.39] Or like the piano we got a few months ago,
[01:05.47] Only a few keys work.
[01:07.96] So we put it out in the hall near the door.
[01:11.22] When people come in,
[01:12.6] they break their hands acorss the keyboard,
[01:15.6] playing a few notes that still work.
[01:19.8] It's kind of a doorbell now.
[01:23.42] All the sounds around were so distracting,
[01:26.22] I was trying to concentrated
[01:29.11] on a song for performance.
[01:31.69] But I couldn't.
[01:33.95] And my mother called and said,
[01:36.0] "Why not come out here and write your song? “
[01:38.83] It's real quiet, I just put on new carpets down."
[01:42.61] (Anybody home? )（
[01:44.29] When I got there, I noticed that
[01:46.65] The new carpets were so thick that
[01:48.89] None of the doors closed.
[01:51.33] The only door that still worked was the door to parent's room.
[01:54.97] It was a swing door,
[01:57.21] Every time someone opened it,
[01:59.14] It thwack into the parrot's cage,
[02:01.81] And the parrot screamed.
[02:03.54] Each time this happened totally surprised dozens of times a day.
[02:08.9] And the shirek filled the whole house,
[02:11.27] Through all the half-opened doors.
[02:23.11] And this is the song,
[02:26.32] I finally wrote.
[00:07.89] I live by the Hudson River,
[00:10.6] And a lot of boats go by.
[00:13.2] They glide by so quickly,
[00:14.90] Camouflaged against the Jersey Shore.
[00:20.26] Sometimes at night when the liners are lit up,
[00:22.88] It' s hard to tell which is moving,
[00:24.62] the boat, or the shoreline.
[00:27.1] And it seems like all of Manhattan is comin' anchored,
[00:29.78] And slowly drifting out to sea.
[00:32.31] I spent, hours trying to film them,
[00:35.10] So I set up a camera by the window.
[00:37.95] And every time I hear a horn,
[00:40.20] I ran to the window.
[00:42.23] But I usually miss them.
[00:45.52] It' s kind of rhythem,
[00:47.48] I kind of thinking it' s been getting into the song I' ve been writing lately.
[00:52.47] Like walking upstairs in the dark,
[00:54.65] You think there' s one more step than there actually is.
[00:57.73] And you foot comes pounding down,
[01:00.12] Is nothing underneath.
[01:02.39] Or like the piano we got a few months ago,
[01:05.47] Only a few keys work.
[01:07.96] So we put it out in the hall near the door.
[01:11.22] When people come in,
[01:12.6] they break their hands acorss the keyboard,
[01:15.6] playing a few notes that still work.
[01:19.8] It' s kind of a doorbell now.
[01:23.42] All the sounds around were so distracting,
[01:26.22] I was trying to concentrated
[01:29.11] on a song for performance.
[01:31.69] But I couldn' t.
[01:33.95] And my mother called and said,
[01:36.0] " Why not come out here and write your song? "
[01:38.83] It' s real quiet, I just put on new carpets down."
[01:42.61] Anybody home?
[01:44.29] When I got there, I noticed that
[01:46.65] The new carpets were so thick that
[01:48.89] None of the doors closed.
[01:51.33] The only door that still worked was the door to parent' s room.
[01:54.97] It was a swing door,
[01:57.21] Every time someone opened it,
[01:59.14] It thwack into the parrot' s cage,
[02:01.81] And the parrot screamed.
[02:03.54] Each time this happened totally surprised dozens of times a day.
[02:08.9] And the shirek filled the whole house,
[02:11.27] Through all the halfopened doors.
[02:23.11] And this is the song,
[02:26.32] I finally wrote.
[00:07.89] I live by the Hudson River,
[00:10.6] And a lot of boats go by.
[00:13.2] They glide by so quickly,
[00:14.90] Camouflaged against the Jersey Shore.
[00:20.26] Sometimes at night when the liners are lit up,
[00:22.88] It' s hard to tell which is moving,
[00:24.62] the boat, or the shoreline.
[00:27.1] And it seems like all of Manhattan is comin' anchored,
[00:29.78] And slowly drifting out to sea.
[00:32.31] I spent, hours trying to film them,
[00:35.10] So I set up a camera by the window.
[00:37.95] And every time I hear a horn,
[00:40.20] I ran to the window.
[00:42.23] But I usually miss them.
[00:45.52] It' s kind of rhythem,
[00:47.48] I kind of thinking it' s been getting into the song I' ve been writing lately.
[00:52.47] Like walking upstairs in the dark,
[00:54.65] You think there' s one more step than there actually is.
[00:57.73] And you foot comes pounding down,
[01:00.12] Is nothing underneath.
[01:02.39] Or like the piano we got a few months ago,
[01:05.47] Only a few keys work.
[01:07.96] So we put it out in the hall near the door.
[01:11.22] When people come in,
[01:12.6] they break their hands acorss the keyboard,
[01:15.6] playing a few notes that still work.
[01:19.8] It' s kind of a doorbell now.
[01:23.42] All the sounds around were so distracting,
[01:26.22] I was trying to concentrated
[01:29.11] on a song for performance.
[01:31.69] But I couldn' t.
[01:33.95] And my mother called and said,
[01:36.0] " Why not come out here and write your song? "
[01:38.83] It' s real quiet, I just put on new carpets down."
[01:42.61] Anybody home?
[01:44.29] When I got there, I noticed that
[01:46.65] The new carpets were so thick that
[01:48.89] None of the doors closed.
[01:51.33] The only door that still worked was the door to parent' s room.
[01:54.97] It was a swing door,
[01:57.21] Every time someone opened it,
[01:59.14] It thwack into the parrot' s cage,
[02:01.81] And the parrot screamed.
[02:03.54] Each time this happened totally surprised dozens of times a day.
[02:08.9] And the shirek filled the whole house,
[02:11.27] Through all the halfopened doors.
[02:23.11] And this is the song,
[02:26.32] I finally wrote.
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