With a magical, dream-like atmosphere, shimmering guitars, violin, and the soft spoken narrative voice of the veteran American musical experimentalist and artist best known for O Superman, this comes from her new album Amelia, due out on 30 August on Nonesuch Records. Lyrics from the album are described as inspired by her pilot diaries, the telegrams she wrote to her husband, and her “idea of what a woman flying around the world might think about”. To explore and enjoy more by Laurie Anderson, see also the other embedded links below.
Tommy Tommy Tommy
Left his Burma girl lazy at the sea.
Can’t get this song out of my mind.
It plays all night and all day
On the road to Mandalay where the flying fishes play.
On the road to Mandalay where the flying fishes play.
Who wrote that? Kipling?
No. Where am I?
There is something shining north north east.
It is my plane.
Her skin so smooth.
She shines like an English biscuit tin.
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