Laurie Anderson - John Lilly lyrics

Now in this book there are a lot of stories
About talking animals - talking
Snakes, and birds
And fish -and about people who
Try to communicate with them

John Lilly, the guy who says he can talk
To dolphins, said he was in an aquarium
And he was talking to a
Big whale who was swimming
Around and around in his tank
And the whale kept
Asking him questions telepathically and one
Of the questions the
Whale kept asking was: "do
All oceans have walls?"

You know, i've always thought that one of
The most serious defects of
The human body was that you
Couldn't close your ears
You can't point them anywhere or close them
They just sort of hang there on
The sides of your head
But an acupuncturist explained to
Me that the pressure
Points in the ears are very important
Because the whole body is represented
Right there in the ear
"The ears, "he said, "are vestigial
Fetuses, little versions of yourself
One male and one female" And he showed
Me: "here's the lobe
That's the miniature upside down
Head and this curve here is the spine
And right here are the little genitals-"

And that was when I went back to wearing hats