Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Greatest Conversation Ever in the History of the Universe, artist - Jesu. Album song 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth, in the genre Альтернатива
Date of issue: 04.05.2017
Record label: Caldo Verde
Song language: English
The Greatest Conversation Ever in the History of the Universe |
Laurie Anderson hugged me last night and it was a dream |
I was in the house where her and Lou lived and I saw some things that he had |
seen |
Not through his eyes or through his brain or through his years or through his |
heart or the blood that ran through his veins |
Or his pleasure and pain I saw the Hudson and imagined that maybe the house had |
remained |
Just as it was until Lou’s last days |
We were there and for 3 or 4 hours and it was so unreal that I forgot my name |
And Laurie gave me a hug it felt like a dream |
I’m not the kind of guy who would reveal the details of what caught my eye |
At their house to random girls and guys |
With the exception of a birthday gift given to him by Muhammad Ali |
That was framed and in that moment I was frozen and it was just I and me |
Uninterrupted and I thought oh my God |
What two powerful independent minds |
If the two of them conversed |
It would probably be the greatest conversation ever in the history of the |
universe |
I thought what two strong brave individual minds |
And I am nothing but a speck of sand on the beach but so am I |
If you don’t like this song or what I have to say then |
Fuck off and listen to Bye Bye Miss American Pie |
Because it’s from my heart and so is this next line |
I’m a black sheep baby and I’ll eat you alive |
And I’m kind and gentle and I’m good listener and I can read people’s eyes |
And I’m fun to be around and I’m endearing and can sing songs that make grown |
men cry |
And if you’re down and out I’m not the type to tense up so spill it baby don’t |
be shy |
Caroline and Laurie shared a love of Rat Terriers |
But I walked to the Muhammad Ali framed photo and I stared at it |
At least a few times for it was all too much as Ali had recently died |
And I couldn’t help thinking all of our time will come |
You, you, and you, and you too, and I |
Tonight I walked around New York all on my own |
Between Broadway and 5th and 28th and 34th |
I’ve always loved 32nd street Korean way |
The women’s bodies around there are curvy and wrapped beautifully |
They look like walking decorative vases |
And all the wonderful tastes of Bulgogi and Kalbi |
And the sexy red soup with bean curd and the spicy Kimchi |
And Madison Square Garden and Joe Louis Plaza |
And Jack’s Dempsey’s and Macy’s and I’m sentimental about many things in this 6 |
by 2 by block radius |
But tonight Lou was still on my mind he had a stunning view of the water as do I |
Back in San Francisco I look at small distant cities and I watch the boats pass |
It was less than three years ago that I walked on stage in London just as I |
heard that Lou had died |
I played Caroline Says and The Kids and I talked for a bit and I wanted to cry |
'Cause at the Vancouver Olympics I had briefly met Lou |
And what his album Berlin meant to me I’m not even gonna to try to explain it |
to you |
This year has been a strange motherfucker |
People gettin' killed in America and France and two 12 year old girls |
Are being tried as adults for attempted murder |
Where was their father? |
Where was their mother while they were being brain washed by Slenderman, |
brother? |
And Trump is all over the TV |
Let’s face it we asked for this fuck because we’ve been surpassed by technology |
We’ve have our heads up our asses sending selfies around the planet |
And getting run over by cars while we jerk off to Pokeman |
So here’s this motherfucker spouting off |
And if you think you took no part in his place in this world then you’re fired |
Because you’ve not been paying attention and your apprenticeship expired |
I’ve digressed but I keep following my path that lead me from first hearing |
Berlin when I was 19 |
To The Power Of The Heart |
Where at Lou’s tribute concert I sung and I was honored to have taken part |
And the night was magical and humid and dark |
Laurie looked for sun, Lou looked for rain, well she had sun that day and at |
night Lou had his rain |
And I did what I came here to do and shared the Lincoln Center stage |
With all of that talent and those amazing singers |
And all of those original brains |
And tonight from 32nd I hear siren’s creepin' up and trailin' off |
And as a walked I saw Sbarro’s and thought of my very first trip to New York |
1992 all I could afford was Pizza and Dunkin Donuts and I had 20 bucks left over |
That I spent on a stripper behind a window who reached down and jerked me off |
I had a cassette Walkman back then and knew a girl who lived in The Bronx |
We went out one night and saw a movie Glenn Gary Glenn Ross |
I remembered that just now in this humidity as I turn and I toss |
Thinking about Lou and the beautiful things he had not what he had lost |
Friends and poetry the love of his life and his beautiful house |
And I’m gonna go to sleep now as in this moment there’s nothing more to write |
Thank you Laurie I’m forever grateful for that night |