One Beautiful Evening-Laurie Anderson

[ti:One Beautiful Evening] [ar:Laurie Anderson] [al:Life On A String] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]One Beautiful Evening - Laurie Anderson [00:06.59]One beautiful evening in the garden on Eden [00:10.78] [00:13.03]A snake came walking in the twilight [00:15.27] [00:16.87]He was leaning on his ivory cane [00:19.00] [00:20.29]And he said let me tell you a little secret about life [00:25.92] [00:27.54]There's a certain sharpness to a knife or a diamond [00:32.54] [00:34.01]Come here watch it glitter [00:37.39] [00:39.50]Oh it's another blue day in a nowhere place [00:44.14] [00:45.49]We're singin' hey hey nonny hay [00:49.76] [00:50.45]I'm a little teapot short and stout [00:54.93] [00:56.24]Tip me over and pour me out [01:00.36] [01:03.35]You know when the Egyptians built their steam trains [01:06.51] [01:08.66]They didn't have any fuel to burn no wood no trees anywhere [01:12.83] [01:15.60]But they did have a lot of old mummy rags lying around [01:21.26] [01:23.11]So the gathered up all the rags and burned them in their trains [01:27.13] [01:29.97]Yeah they burned their ancestors for fuel [01:33.92] [01:38.58]Ooo I'm a crocodile floating down the river [01:41.99] [01:44.47]I'm a tree catching my own oranges as they fall from my head [01:49.72] [01:51.23]I'm a little teapot short and stout [01:56.37] [01:58.72]Tip me over and pour me out [02:04.86] [02:07.36]And hello to all the people who sent me on the way [02:09.80] [02:10.70]A pat on the back for you have fun it's your moment now [02:13.04] [02:13.79]It's your turn to walk along the runway road [02:16.11] [02:18.35]And me I sent my better self on ahead [02:23.02] [02:24.80]Your attention please [02:25.73] [02:40.57]It's like at the end of the play and all the actors come out [02:44.30]And they line up and they look at you [02:46.31] [02:47.19]And horrible things have happened to them during the play [02:49.79] [02:51.31]And they stand there while you clap and now what [02:55.22] [02:58.59]What happens next [02:59.31] [03:02.13]And the fire dies and there were furious winds where he went [03:10.68] [03:15.82]We're singin' hey hey nonny hey [03:21.13] [03:24.02]We're singin' hey hey nonny hey [03:29.60] [03:30.78]It's another blue day in a nowhere place [03:34.51]We're singin' hey hey nonny hey [03:38.81] [04:00.35]I'm a little teapot short and stout [04:03.04] [04:06.00]Tip me over and pour me out [04:12.02] [04:27.15]Oh beauty in all it's forms [04:28.72] [04:31.40]Funny how hatred can also be a beautiful thing [04:33.85] [04:36.28]When it's as sharp as a knife [04:37.92] [04:39.49]As hard as a diamond [04:40.71] [04:46.18]Perfect