The Geographic North Pole (Live)-Laurie Anderson

[ti:The Geographic North Pole(live版)] [ar:Laurie Anderson] [al:The Ugly One With The Jewels And Other Stories] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Geographic North Pole (Live) - Laurie Anderson [00:09.61]The summer of 1974 was brutally hot in New York [00:14.52] [00:15.36]And I kept thinking about how nice and icy it [00:17.94]Must be at the North Pole And then I though [00:21.21] [00:22.12]“Wait a second why not go ” [00:25.30]You know like in cartoons where [00:26.88]They hang going to [00:27.72]The North Pole on their door knobs [00:29.40]And they just take off [00:31.24] [00:32.71]So I spent a couple of weeks preparing for the trip [00:35.91]Getting a hatchet a huge backpack maps [00:39.57]Knives sleeping bags [00:41.07]Lures and a three month supply of Banic [00:44.72]A versatile high-protein paste that can be [00:47.92]Made into flat bread biscuits or cereal [00:51.71] [00:53.85]Now I had decided to hitch hike and one day I just [00:58.15]Walked out onto Austin Street [01:00.10] [01:00.73]Weighing down seventy pounds of gear [01:03.14] [01:03.73]And stuck out my thumb [01:05.54] [01:08.25]Going North I asked the driver [01:10.95] [01:11.87]As I struggled into a station wagon [01:14.07] [01:15.61]After I got out of New York [01:17.34] [01:18.11]Most of the rides were trucks [01:20.11]Until I reached the Hudson Bay and began [01:22.75]To hitch in small mail planes [01:25.57] [01:26.64]The pilots were usually guys who'd [01:29.26]Gone to Canada to [01:30.56]Avoid the draft or else embittered Vietnam vets [01:36.06] [01:36.77]Who never wanted to go home again [01:38.88] [01:40.92]Either way they always wanted to show [01:43.42]Off a few of their stunts [01:45.72] [01:46.57]We'd go swooping along the rivers doing [01:49.82]Loop do loops and baby [01:53.54] [01:54.71]And they'd drop me off at an airstrip [01:56.51] [01:57.04]“There'll be another plane by here couple [01:58.43]Of weeks; see ya; good luck ” [02:04.45] [02:06.44]I never did make it all the way to the geographic pole; [02:09.42] [02:10.66]It turned out to be a restricted area and no [02:14.74]One was allowed to fly in or even over it [02:18.16] [02:20.39]I did get within a few miles of the [02:22.32]Magnetic pole though [02:24.99]So it wasn't really that disappointing [02:27.08] [02:28.79]I entertained myself in the evenings [02:31.69]Cooking or smoking [02:33.57] [02:34.78]And watching the blazing light of [02:37.26]The huge Canadian [02:38.53]Sunsets as they turned the lake into fire [02:43.77] [02:46.57]Later I lay on by back looking up [02:49.11]At the Northern lights [02:50.70] [02:51.38]And imagining there'd been [02:52.28]A nuclear holocaust and [02:54.22]That I was the only human being left in all of [02:56.49]North America and what would I do then [02:58.64] [03:02.27]And then when these lights went out [03:05.13] [03:06.82]I stretched out on [03:07.66]The ground watching the stars as [03:12.00]They turned around [03:13.18] [03:14.02]And their enormous silent [03:16.96] [03:26.36]I finally decided to turn back because of my hatchet [03:29.59] [03:30.65]I'd been chopping some wood and the hatchet flew [03:33.41]Out of my hand on the upswing [03:35.99] [03:36.86]And I did what you should never do [03:38.51]When this happens: [03:39.70] [03:40.58]I looked up to see where it had gone [03:45.64]And it came down [03:47.39]Fffooo just missing my head and I thought [03:51.64] [03:52.92]My God I could be working around [03:55.86]Here with a hatchet [03:56.64]Emme in my skull and I'm ten miles [04:00.24]From the airstrip [04:01.54] [04:02.29]And nobody in the whole world [04:04.28] [04:05.32]Knows where I am [04:06.68] [04:20.42]Daddy Daddy it was just like you said [04:27.39] [04:31.53]Now that the living outnumber the dead [04:36.79] [04:42.39]Where I come from it's a long thin thread [04:47.89] [04:51.65]Across an ocean Down a river of red [04:58.80] [05:01.96]Now that the living outnumber the dead [05:07.65] [05:12.51]Speak my language