《The Geographic North Pole(Live)》歌词

歌曲： The Geographic North Pole(Live)

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

歌手： Laurie Anderson

时长： 05:22

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The Geographic North Pole (Live) - Laurie Anderson[00:00:00]

The summer of 1974 was brutally hot in New York[00:00:09]

And I kept thinking about how nice and icy it[00:00:15]

Must be at the North Pole And then I though [00:00:17]

“Wait a second why not go ”[00:00:22]

You know like in cartoons where[00:00:25]

They hang going to[00:00:26]

The North Pole on their door knobs[00:00:27]

And they just take off [00:00:29]

So I spent a couple of weeks preparing for the trip [00:00:32]

Getting a hatchet a huge backpack maps [00:00:35]

Knives sleeping bags [00:00:39]

Lures and a three month supply of Banic [00:00:41]

A versatile high-protein paste that can be[00:00:44]

Made into flat bread biscuits or cereal [00:00:47]

Now I had decided to hitch hike and one day I just[00:00:53]

Walked out onto Austin Street [00:00:58]

Weighing down seventy pounds of gear [00:01:00]

And stuck out my thumb [00:01:03]

Going North I asked the driver[00:01:08]

As I struggled into a station wagon [00:01:11]

After I got out of New York [00:01:15]

Most of the rides were trucks[00:01:18]

Until I reached the Hudson Bay and began[00:01:20]

To hitch in small mail planes [00:01:22]

The pilots were usually guys who'd[00:01:26]

Gone to Canada to[00:01:29]

Avoid the draft or else embittered Vietnam vets[00:01:30]

Who never wanted to go home again [00:01:36]

Either way they always wanted to show[00:01:40]

Off a few of their stunts [00:01:43]

We'd go swooping along the rivers doing[00:01:46]

Loop do loops and baby [00:01:49]

And they'd drop me off at an airstrip [00:01:54]

“There'll be another plane by here couple[00:01:57]

Of weeks; see ya; good luck ”[00:01:58]

I never did make it all the way to the geographic pole;[00:02:06]

It turned out to be a restricted area and no[00:02:10]

One was allowed to fly in or even over it [00:02:14]

I did get within a few miles of the[00:02:20]

Magnetic pole though [00:02:22]

So it wasn't really that disappointing [00:02:24]

I entertained myself in the evenings [00:02:28]

Cooking or smoking [00:02:31]

And watching the blazing light of[00:02:34]

The huge Canadian[00:02:37]

Sunsets as they turned the lake into fire [00:02:38]

Later I lay on by back looking up[00:02:46]

At the Northern lights[00:02:49]

And imagining there'd been[00:02:51]

A nuclear holocaust and[00:02:52]

That I was the only human being left in all of[00:02:54]

North America and what would I do then [00:02:56]

And then when these lights went out [00:03:02]

I stretched out on[00:03:06]

The ground watching the stars as[00:03:07]

They turned around[00:03:12]

And their enormous silent[00:03:14]

I finally decided to turn back because of my hatchet [00:03:26]

I'd been chopping some wood and the hatchet flew[00:03:30]

Out of my hand on the upswing [00:03:33]

And I did what you should never do[00:03:36]

When this happens:[00:03:38]

I looked up to see where it had gone[00:03:40]

And it came down[00:03:45]

Fffooo just missing my head and I thought [00:03:47]

My God I could be working around[00:03:52]

Here with a hatchet[00:03:55]

Emme in my skull and I'm ten miles[00:03:56]

From the airstrip [00:04:00]

And nobody in the whole world[00:04:02]

Knows where I am [00:04:05]

Daddy Daddy it was just like you said[00:04:20]

Now that the living outnumber the dead[00:04:31]

Where I come from it's a long thin thread[00:04:42]

Across an ocean Down a river of red[00:04:51]

Now that the living outnumber the dead[00:05:01]

Speak my language[00:05:12]