《The Soul Is a Bird(Live)》歌词

歌曲： The Soul Is a Bird(Live)

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

歌手： Laurie Anderson

时长： 03:56

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The Soul Is A Bird (Live) - Laurie Anderson[00:00:00]

In 1984 as part of the press for the tour I was doing in Japan [00:00:10]

I was asked to go to Bali and speak[00:00:17]

About the future with the prince of Ouboud [00:00:20]

Now the idea was that I would[00:00:25]

Represent the Western world [00:00:26]

The prince the Southern world [00:00:30]

And the Japanese press representative[00:00:33]

Would represent whatever was left [00:00:35]

The conversations would be published in a large book [00:00:39]

Scheduled for release one year after the concert tour [00:00:43]

Now as press this didn't really[00:00:47]

Seem like a great way[00:00:49]

To advertise concerts but it sounded[00:00:50]

Like far anyway[00:00:53]

And I stayed at the palace in one of the[00:00:56]

Former king's harem houses [00:00:59]

Each of the king's wives had had[00:01:02]

Her own house guarded[00:01:04]

By a pair of animals a bear and a fox for example [00:01:06]

By the time I got there years later [00:01:12]

The menagerie had dwindled a bit [00:01:15]

My house was guarded by two tropical fish [00:01:18]

Bali was extremely hot in the afternoons[00:01:25]

And the conversations[00:01:29]

With the prince drifted along[00:01:30]

Randomly from topic to topic [00:01:33]

The prince was a bon vivant trained in Paris[00:01:36]

And he spoke excellent English and when[00:01:41]

He wasn't in the palace he was out on the[00:01:43]

Bumpy back roads racing cars [00:01:46]

So we talked about cars a subject I know absolutely[00:01:50]

Nothing about and I felt that as far as representing[00:01:54]

The Western world was going [00:01:59]

I was failing pretty dismally [00:02:02]

Then on the second night the prince served an[00:02:06]

Elaborate feast of Balinese dishes [00:02:10]

At the end of the meal the[00:02:14]

Conversation slowed to a halt [00:02:16]

And after a few minutes of silence he asked:[00:02:19]

Would you like to see the[00:02:26]

Cremation tapes of my father [00:02:27]

The tapes were several hours long and were a record[00:02:31]

Of the elaborate three month[00:02:36]

Ceremony shot by the BBC [00:02:38]

When the king died the whole country went to work [00:02:43]

Building an enormous funeral pyre for him [00:02:46]

After months of preparation during which time the[00:02:52]

Corpse continues to reside in the living room they[00:02:57]

Hoisted the body to the top of this rickety [00:03:02]

Extremely flammable structure and lit a match [00:03:05]

The delicate tower crumbled almost immediately [00:03:11]

And the king's body fell to the[00:03:15]

Ground with a sickening thud [00:03:17]

Suddenly everyone began to cheer [00:03:23]

Later I learned that the Balinese believe that the[00:03:30]

Soul is a bird and that when the body falls it shakes the[00:03:34]

Bird loose and gives it a hit start on it's way to heaven[00:03:42]