Laurie Anderson - The Visitors lyrics

A group of American minimal artists
Were on a goodwill
Trip to China near the end of their visit
They stopped in a remote province where few
Americans had ever gone one of
The Chinese hosts seemed to be very
Confused about the United States
He kept asking questions like: "Is it
True that Americans ride airplanes to
Work?" "Is it true that all your
Food is made in factories?"
One of the artists was a conceptualist whose
Specialties was theories about
Information and
Truth he decided to try out one
Of his theories on the host
So when the host asked, "Is it true you
Have robots in your houses?" he said, "Yes
Yeah we have lots of them it's true"
The host asked
"Is it true that Americans live
On the moon?" The artist
Said, "Yes, it's true a lot of
Us live there in fact
We go there all the time"
In this province, however
The word for moon was the
Same as the word for
Heaven the hosts were amazed that
Americans traveled to heaven
They were even more amazed that
We were able to come
Back -that we went to heaven all the time

They look like us they act like us
Remember us they are not us