《The End of the World(Live)》歌词

[00:00:00] The End Of The World (Live) - Laurie Anderson

[00:00:02] Ladies and gentlemen please welcome back to London Laurie Anderson

[00:00:29] Ooooaaaah

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[00:00:54] Hi This evening I'll be reading

[00:01:00] From a book I just finished

[00:01:04] And since a lot of it is about the future

[00:01:07] I'm going to start more or less

[00:01:10] On the last page

[00:01:13] And tell you about my grandmother

[00:01:19] Now she was a Southern Baptist Holy Ruler

[00:01:23] And she had a very clear idea about the future

[00:01:28] And of how the world would end

[00:01:32] In fire

[00:01:33] In fire

[00:01:37] Like in Revelations

[00:01:38] Like in Revelations

[00:01:42] And when I was ten my grandmother told me

[00:01:45] The world would end in a year

[00:01:49] So I spent the whole year praying

[00:01:52] And reading the Bible

[00:01:54] And alienating all my friends and relatives

[00:01:59] And finally the big day came

[00:02:04] And absolutely nothing happened

[00:02:10] Just another day

[00:02:16] Ooooaaaah

[00:02:21] Now my grandmother was a missionary

[00:02:24] And she had heard

[00:02:25] That the largest religion in the

[00:02:26] World was Buddhism

[00:02:30] So she decided to go to Japan

[00:02:32] To convert Buddhists

[00:02:35] And to inform them about the end of the world

[00:02:38] And to inform them about the end of the world

[00:02:44] And she didn't speak Japanese

[00:02:47] So she tried to convert them with a combination

[00:02:49] Of hand gestures

[00:02:51] Sign language and hymns in English

[00:02:59] Ooooaaaah

[00:03:06] The Japanese had absolutely no idea what

[00:03:10] She was trying to get at

[00:03:14] And when she got back to the United States she was

[00:03:17] Still talking about the end of the world

[00:03:21] And I remember the day she died

[00:03:24] She was very excited She was like a small bird perched

[00:03:29] On the edge of her bed near the window in the hospital

[00:03:33] Waiting to die

[00:03:36] And she was wearing these pink

[00:03:37] Nightgowns and combing

[00:03:40] Her hair so she'd look pretty for the big moment

[00:03:45] When Christ came to get her

[00:03:50] Ooooaaaah

[00:03:53] And she wasn't afraid but then

[00:03:56] Just at the very last

[00:03:57] Minute something happened

[00:04:01] That changed everything

[00:04:05] Because suddenly at the very

[00:04:06] Last minute she panicked

[00:04:13] After a whole life of praying and predicting

[00:04:15] The end of the world she panicked

[00:04:22] And she panicked because she couldn't decide

[00:04:25] Whether or not to wear a hat

[00:04:35] Ooooaaaah

[00:04:42] And so when she died she went into the future

[00:04:49] In a panic with absolutely no idea of

[00:04:57] What would be next