Laurie Anderson - Song for Two Jims lyrics
[Laurie Anderson - Song for Two Jims lyrics]
A while ago I was camping out in Kentucky i
Was sleeping out under this
Ledge and about three
In the morning I woke up the fire was
Out but I could see two boots standing
A few feet away i crawled out and there was
A guy standing there holding a musket he
Said: We eat critters and I said: What? He
Said: We eat critters you
Know, squirrel, possum
Night animals we hunt ‘em at night
He said he didn’t think it
Was a good idea for
A woman to be alone in those parts and
He invited me back to his
House i followed him
And ended up staying a week his name was
Mr taylor and he was married
To Mrs taylor they were
Also brother and sister but
They didn’t think that
Was too strange because their parents
Were also brother and
Sister there were four Taylor
Kids: Jack, Jim
Rhonda and Jim two Jims for some
Reason we’d get up every
Day and sort of hack around
In the tobacco patch and
When it got too hot we’d
Just sit around on the
Porch and sort of stare out
The landscape around there
Was completely desolate except for
The tobacco plants standard
Oil had strip-mined it in the thirties
And just when some vegetation
Was beginning to grow back
They discovered that a certain
Kind of low-grade shale could
Be converted to oil
So they came back and drilled
Holes -very deep holes- hundreds
Of feet down into the bedrock
But they never got
Around to filling them afterwards
The just sent
Down a shipment of manhole covers
But nobody ever bothered to put them
Over the holes one day, mrs taylor told me
That she used to have another kid
But that he had apparently fallen down in
One of these holes her description was very
Abstract "Nobody try to rescue him
It just felt down the hole" she said: "Well
One day I saw him out there
And I was watching and then I didn’t
See him out there no more"
Was sleeping out under this
Ledge and about three
In the morning I woke up the fire was
Out but I could see two boots standing
A few feet away i crawled out and there was
A guy standing there holding a musket he
Said: We eat critters and I said: What? He
Said: We eat critters you
Know, squirrel, possum
Night animals we hunt ‘em at night
He said he didn’t think it
Was a good idea for
A woman to be alone in those parts and
He invited me back to his
House i followed him
And ended up staying a week his name was
Mr taylor and he was married
To Mrs taylor they were
Also brother and sister but
They didn’t think that
Was too strange because their parents
Were also brother and
Sister there were four Taylor
Kids: Jack, Jim
Rhonda and Jim two Jims for some
Reason we’d get up every
Day and sort of hack around
In the tobacco patch and
When it got too hot we’d
Just sit around on the
Porch and sort of stare out
The landscape around there
Was completely desolate except for
The tobacco plants standard
Oil had strip-mined it in the thirties
And just when some vegetation
Was beginning to grow back
They discovered that a certain
Kind of low-grade shale could
Be converted to oil
So they came back and drilled
Holes -very deep holes- hundreds
Of feet down into the bedrock
But they never got
Around to filling them afterwards
The just sent
Down a shipment of manhole covers
But nobody ever bothered to put them
Over the holes one day, mrs taylor told me
That she used to have another kid
But that he had apparently fallen down in
One of these holes her description was very
Abstract "Nobody try to rescue him
It just felt down the hole" she said: "Well
One day I saw him out there
And I was watching and then I didn’t
See him out there no more"