Laurie Anderson - Private Property lyrics

William F buckley, Jr, Mr private Property
Planned to
Give a little talk, a political speech, in
A small town in Illinois
His advance men discovered
That the center of town had disappeared
And that all the commercial action was out
At the mall when Buckley arrived at
The mall, he set up his microphone near a
Little fountain and began to
Hand out leaflets and autograph copies
Of his latest book
Just as a small crowd of shoppers gathered
The owners of the
Mall ran out and said: Excuse
Us this is private property
We're afraid you'll have to leave

You know, when I got back
From a trip this summer
I noticed that all of the
Old factories here on
The outskirts of town had
Suddenly been transformed into
Luxurious condos and that thousands
Of people had moved
Into them almost overnight most of the new
Residents appeared to be professional
Barbecuers every night
They were out on their
Fire escapes barbecueing something
And the smoke rising from their little
Fires made the whole neighborhood look like
A giant battlefield and I
Would look out my window and
Say: Hm you know
Last night I came up out of the
Subway and I said to myself:
Hm do you want to go home?
And I thought: You are home

Do you want to go home?
Do you want to go home now?