《Word of Mouth(Live)》歌词

歌曲： Word of Mouth(Live)

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

歌手： Laurie Anderson

时长： 04:49

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Word Of Mouth (Live) - Laurie Anderson[00:00:00]

In 1980 as part of a project called Word of Mouth [00:00:00]

I was invited along with a living other artists [00:00:06]

To go to Panape a tiny island[00:00:10]

In the middle of the Pacific [00:00:13]

The idea was that we'd sit around talking for a few[00:00:16]

Days and that the conversations[00:00:20]

Would be made into a talking record [00:00:22]

The first night we were all really jet-lagged but[00:00:27]

As soon as we sat down the organizers set up all[00:00:31]

These mikes and switched on[00:00:35]

Thousand white light bulbs [00:00:37]

And we tried our best to seem as[00:00:40]

Intelligent as possible [00:00:42]

Television had just come to Panape a week before[00:00:46]

We arrived and there was a strong excitement[00:00:49]

Around the island as people crowded[00:00:52]

Around the few sets [00:00:55]

Then the day after we arrived in a bizarre replay[00:00:58]

Of the first TV show ever broadcast to Panape [00:01:02]

Prisoners escaped from a jail broke into the[00:01:07]

Radio station and murdered the DJ [00:01:11]

Then they went off on a[00:01:16]

Rampage through the jungle [00:01:17]

Armed with lawnmower blades In all four people[00:01:20]

Were murdered in cold blood [00:01:26]

Detectives flown[00:01:30]

In from Guam to investigate [00:01:32]

Swarmed everywhere [00:01:34]

At night we stayed around in our cottages [00:01:37]

Listening out into the jungle [00:01:41]

Finally the local chief decided to hold a[00:01:49]

Ceremony for the murder victims [00:01:53]

The artist Marina Brownovich and I went [00:01:57]

As representatives of our group to film it [00:02:00]

The ceremony was held in a large thatched[00:02:05]

Lean-to and most of the ceremony involved[00:02:08]

Cooking beans in pits and brewing[00:02:12]

A dark drink from roots [00:02:15]

The smell was overwhelming Dogs around barking [00:02:20]

And everybody seemed to be having a[00:02:27]

Fairly good time as funerals go [00:02:28]

After a few hours Marina and I[00:02:35]

Were presented to the chief [00:02:38]

Who was sitting on a raised platform above the pits [00:02:40]

We'd been told we couldn't turn our backs on the[00:02:45]

Chief at any time or ever be higher than he was [00:02:48]

So we scrambled up onto the platform with our film[00:02:53]

Equipment and sort of duck-waddled up[00:02:56]

Backwards to the chief [00:02:59]

As a present I brought one of those[00:03:05]

Fred Flintstone cameras [00:03:07]

The kind where the film canister is[00:03:10]

Also the body of the camera [00:03:11]

And I presented it to the chief [00:03:14]

He seemed delighted and began to click off pictures [00:03:18]

He wasn't advancing the film between shots [00:03:23]

But since we were told we shouldn't[00:03:27]

Speak unless spoken to [00:03:29]

I wasn't able to inform him that he[00:03:32]

Wasn't going to get twelve pictures [00:03:35]

But only one very very complicated one [00:03:40]

After a couple more hours the chief lifted his hand [00:03:49]

And there was absolute silence [00:03:53]

All the dogs had suddenly stopped barking [00:03:58]

We looked around and saw the dogs [00:04:02]

All their throats had been simultaneously[00:04:07]

Cut and their bodies [00:04:10]

Still breathing pierced with rods [00:04:14]

Were turning on those pits [00:04:19]

The chief insisted we join in the meal but Marina[00:04:25]

Had turned green and I asked[00:04:29]

If we could just have ours to go [00:04:31]

They carefully wrapped the dogs in leaves[00:04:38]

And we carried their bodies away [00:04:42]

Word Of Mouth(live版) - Laurie Anderson[00:04:46]