Laurie Anderson - Three Ghosts lyrics

Gordon Matta-Clark died young and he
Died in an amazing way

Gordon was a good friend of mine
And he was a sculptor
One of his most well known
Works was called Splitting
In which he sawed
A suburban house in half he was a minimalist
And there was a
Lot of advanced theory about why he
Cut houses in half although
None of the theories talked
About his parents'
Divorce or what happened one day
When his twin brother jumped to his
Death out of Gordon's window

When Gordon got sick
He decided to make his death very social and
So he invited his friends to come
To the hospital and he had only 24
Hours left to live the length
Of time that his system was breaking down
And he decided to spend this time
Reading to his friends and when he
Died there were two lamas on
Either side of him and
When he stopped breathing
They began shouting into his ear now
The Tibetans believe that hearing is the last
Sense to go so after the heart
Stops, and your brain flatlines, and
The eyes go dark
The hammers in the ears are
Still working and so they
Shout instructions from
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Also called 'The Great
Liberation Through Hearing'

And they yelled "Gordon! You're dead!
You're dead now!" And they
Say "You see two lights, and one is near you
And one is far away
And don't go to the near one
- go to the one that's
Far away" And so on, and so on, and so on
And so on

I've seen three ghosts in my life now and the
First was Gordon a few hours after he
Died he appeared on the back porch of the
Commune I was living in 'Every love story
Is a ghost story' (Ghost story
Ghost story) Said David Foster Wallace