Pieces and Parts-Laurie Anderson

[ti:Pieces and Parts] [ar:Laurie Anderson] [al:Life On A String] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Pieces and Parts - Laurie Anderson [00:02.32]They say that in 1842 on a plantation in Alabama [00:06.55] [00:08.01]The slaves unearthed a huge skeleton [00:11.07] [00:12.22]The bones of a giant whale [00:13.92] [00:15.49]A leviathan [00:16.16] [00:17.64]From the time when all the world was covered with water [00:21.35] [00:22.98]From the andes to the himalayas [00:25.43] [00:26.57]And even Alabama was deep down under [00:30.18] [00:32.37]And the slaves looked at the huge bones and they said [00:38.12] [00:39.80]These must be the bones of a fallen angel [00:43.86] [00:44.48]These must be the bones of a fallen angel [00:48.76] [00:51.98]Out on the ocean out of the water [00:56.12]We look for signs of him [00:59.70] [01:01.06]He looks like a giant snow hill a fountain [01:05.89]Then he disappears [01:07.65]He's a speck on the horizon [01:10.42] [01:12.82]We see him only in parts [01:16.38] [01:17.49]The flash of a tail his beating heart [01:21.95]He's in pieces and parts [01:26.08] [01:28.13]It's easier for a camel [01:30.70] [01:31.41]To slide through the eye of a needle [01:35.05] [01:38.01]Than to find a whale who hides at [01:43.33]The bottom of the ocean [01:45.03] [01:48.41]It's easier to sail around the world in a coffee cup [01:55.61] [01:58.19]Than to see a whale when he comes rising up [02:04.31] [02:06.24]We see him only in parts [02:09.78] [02:10.99]A fountain fins a speck on the horizon [02:15.98]Giant teeth an open mouth [02:18.99] [02:20.80]Look out look out look out look out [02:24.39] [02:26.37]So hit an Elephant with a dart [02:30.05] [02:30.84]And he just reaches around and pulls [02:33.11]It out with his trunk [02:34.88] [02:36.03]But hit a whale in the hear and [02:40.38]The whole ocean turns red [02:42.81] [02:43.78]It turns red [02:44.60] [02:45.54]We see him only in parts [02:48.97] [02:50.21]The flash of a tail his beating heart [02:54.60]He's in pieces and parts [02:58.61] [03:04.51]So get hit in your head [03:06.70] [03:07.42]And there may be a few things you can't recall at all [03:13.73] [03:15.11]But you get hit in your heart [03:18.05]And you're in pieces and parts [03:22.52] [03:23.53]Pieces and parts