Laurie Anderson - Beginning French lyrics
[Laurie Anderson - Beginning French lyrics]
Lately, I've been doing a lot
Of concerts in French unfortunately, i don't
Speak French i memorize it i
Mean, my mouth is moving
But I don't understand what I'm saying
It's like sitting at the breakfast table
And it's early in the morning
And you're not quite awake
And you're just sitting
There eating cereal and sort of staring
At the writing on the box
Not reading it exactly, just more or less
Looking at the words and suddenly, for
Some reason, you snap to attention
And you realize that what you're
Reading is what you're
Eating … but by then it's much too late
After doing these concerts in French
I usually had the
Temporary illusion that I could
Actually speak French
But as soon as I walked out
On the street, and someone
Asked me simple directions, i realized I
Couldn't speak a single word as
A result of this inadequacy
I found that the people I
Had the most rapport with
Were the babies and one of the things I
Noticed about these babies was that
They were apparently being
Used as some kind of
Traffic testers their mothers
Would be pushing them along in their
Strollers -and they would come
To a busy street with lots
Of parked cars -and the
Mother can't see what the traffic
Is like because of all
The parked cars -so she just
Sort of edges the
Stroller out into the street and cranes
Her head out afterwards and
The most striking thing about this
Is the expression on
These babies' faces as they sit
There in the middle of
Traffic, stranded, banging those little
Gavels they've all got
And they can't even speak English
Do you know what I mean?
Of concerts in French unfortunately, i don't
Speak French i memorize it i
Mean, my mouth is moving
But I don't understand what I'm saying
It's like sitting at the breakfast table
And it's early in the morning
And you're not quite awake
And you're just sitting
There eating cereal and sort of staring
At the writing on the box
Not reading it exactly, just more or less
Looking at the words and suddenly, for
Some reason, you snap to attention
And you realize that what you're
Reading is what you're
Eating … but by then it's much too late
After doing these concerts in French
I usually had the
Temporary illusion that I could
Actually speak French
But as soon as I walked out
On the street, and someone
Asked me simple directions, i realized I
Couldn't speak a single word as
A result of this inadequacy
I found that the people I
Had the most rapport with
Were the babies and one of the things I
Noticed about these babies was that
They were apparently being
Used as some kind of
Traffic testers their mothers
Would be pushing them along in their
Strollers -and they would come
To a busy street with lots
Of parked cars -and the
Mother can't see what the traffic
Is like because of all
The parked cars -so she just
Sort of edges the
Stroller out into the street and cranes
Her head out afterwards and
The most striking thing about this
Is the expression on
These babies' faces as they sit
There in the middle of
Traffic, stranded, banging those little
Gavels they've all got
And they can't even speak English
Do you know what I mean?