Lyrics Classified - Laurie Anderson

Classified

I came home today and you had rearranged all the furniture
And you had changed your name
And I’d never seen you wear that pin-striped shirt before
And then I realized, I was in the wrong house
In this picture, there’s a big blank piece of paper and I’m saying: Sign it
Go ahead.
It’s blank.
What have you got to lose?
And the sun’s coming up and you still haven’t signed it and I keep saying:
Sign it.
Sign it
I’m going to draw a picture and I’m going to put in an eight-lane superhighway
and I’m going to draw you on it in an old jalopy
And then I’m going to draw a whole fleet of Mack trucks bareling along the
highway with their brights on
And then I’m going to draw a flat tire on the jalopy and then I’m going to draw
the whole jalopy in X-ray to show that you’ve got no gas
He said: You can take my money.
You can take my life
You can take my gun.
You can take my wife
But just make sure that when you do--you take grandma too
Hey!
That sounds great!
That sounds really good!
Just don’t put my name on it, OK?
Take my name off it, all right?
Wish they all could be California girls