Laurie Anderson - Say Hello lyrics

A certain American religious sect
Has been looking at
Conditions of the world during the Flood
According to their calculations, during
The Flood the winds
Tides and currents were in
An overall southeasterly direction
This would mean that in order for Noah's Ark
To have ended up on Mount Ararat
It would have to have started out
Several thousand miles to the west
This would then locate
Pre-Flood civilization in
The area of Upstate New York
And the Garden of Eden roughly
In New York City now, in order to get from
One place to another, something must move
No one in New York remembers moving
And there are no traces of Biblical history
In the Upstate New York area
So we are led to the only
Available conclusion in this time warp
And that is that the Ark
Has simply not left yet

Let's compare this situation to
A familiar occurrence:
You're driving alone at night
And it's dark and it's raining
And you took a turn back there
And you're not sure now that
It was the right turn
But, you took the turn anyway
And you just keep going in this direction
Eventually, it starts to get light and
You look out and you realize
You have absolutely no idea where you are
So you get out at the next
Gas station and you say:

Hello excuse me can you tell me where I am?

You can read the signs you've been on this
Road before do you want to go home?

Do you want to go home now?

Hello excuse me can you tell me where I am?

You can read this sign
Language in our country
This is the way we say Hello

SAY HELLO

Hello excuse me can you tell me where I am?

In our country, this is the way we say Hello
It is a diagram of
Movement between two people
It is a sweep on the dial in our country
This is also the way we say Goodbye

Hello excuse me can you tell me where I am?

In our country
We send pictures of people speaking our
Sign language in Outer Space
We are speaking our sign
Language in these pictures

Do you think that They will think his
Arm is permanently attached in this position?

Oh, do you think They will read our signs?
In our country, Goodbye looks just like Hello

SAY HELLO sAY HELLO
SAY HELLO