《The Ugly One with the Jewels(Live)》歌词

歌曲： The Ugly One with the Jewels(Live)

所属专辑：The Ugly One With The Jewels And Other Stories

歌手： Laurie Anderson

时长： 05:06

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The Ugly One With The Jewels (Live) - Laurie Anderson[00:00:00]

In 1974 I went to Mexico to visit my brother who[00:00:11]

Was working as an anthropologist with Tsutsil Indians [00:00:17]

The last surviving Mayan tribe [00:00:21]

And the Tsutsil speak a lovely birdlike language[00:00:26]

And are quite tiny physically;[00:00:31]

I towered over them [00:00:33]

Mostly I spent my days following the women around[00:00:36]

Since my brother wasn't really allowed to do this [00:00:41]

We got up at 3am and began to[00:00:45]

Separate the corn into three colors [00:00:48]

And we boiled it ran to the mill and back [00:00:52]

And finally started to make the tortillas [00:00:55]

Now all the other women's tortillas were 360 [00:00:59]

Perfectly toasted perfectly round;[00:01:04]

And after a lot of[00:01:08]

Practice mine were still lobe-sided and charred [00:01:09]

And when they thought I wasn't looking[00:01:16]

They threw them to the dogs [00:01:20]

After breakfast we spent the rest of the day down[00:01:24]

At the river watching the goats and braiding[00:01:27]

And unbraiding each other's hair [00:01:31]

So usually there wasn't that much to report [00:01:34]

One day the women decided to braid[00:01:38]

My hair Tsutsil-style [00:01:41]

After they did this I saw my reflection in a puddle [00:01:44]

I looked ridiculous but they said [00:01:50]

“Before we did this you were ugly but now[00:01:55]

Maybe you will find a husband ”[00:02:02]

I lived within in a yurt a thatched structure[00:02:10]

Shaped like a cob cake [00:02:15]

And there's a central fireplace ringed by sleeping[00:02:17]

Shelves sort of like a dry beaver down [00:02:21]

Now my Tsutsil name was Lausha [00:02:27]

Which loosely translated means[00:02:31]

The ugly one with the jewels[00:02:34]

Now ugly OK I was awfully tall by local standards [00:02:39]

But what did they mean by the jewels [00:02:46]

I didn't find out what this meant until one night [00:02:53]

When I was taking my contact lenses out [00:02:57]

And since I'd lost the case I was carefully[00:03:00]

Placing them on the sleeping shelf;[00:03:03]

Suddenly I noticed that everyone was staring at me[00:03:07]

And I realized that none of the[00:03:12]

Tsutsil had ever seen glasses [00:03:14]

Much less contacts and that these were[00:03:16]

The jewels the transparent [00:03:20]

Perfectly round jewels that[00:03:25]

I carefully hid on the shelf[00:03:29]

At night and then put for safekeeping[00:03:31]

Into my eyes every morning [00:03:36]

So I may have been ugly but so what [00:03:42]

I had the jewels [00:03:52]

Full fathom thy father lies[00:04:06]

Of his bones are coral made[00:04:13]

Those are pearls that were his eyes[00:04:20]

Nothing of him that doth fade[00:04:27]

But that suffers a sea change[00:04:33]

Into something rich and strange[00:04:41]

And I alone am left to tell the tale[00:04:49]

Call me Ishmael[00:04:57]