Nonesuch Records | Laurie Anderson - India And On Down to Australia feat. ANOHNI (Official Audio) @nonesuchrecords | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 19 hours ago.
Laurie Anderson's "India And On Down to Australia," feat. ANOHNI, from Anderson's album 'Amelia,' out now on Nonesuch Records: laurieanderson.lnk.to/amelia

INDIA AND ON DOWN TO AUSTRALIA
Music and lyrics by Laurie Anderson

June 17th Karachi

Black eagles at five hundred feet.
Hills roll like carpets, down to the water’s edge.
Southerly winds, a mist, a sudden sandstorm.
A sudden sandstorm, a sudden sandstorm.

Far below are factories and jute mills
glaring in the sun.
June 18 Gray skies. Gray skies

We land at Dum Dum Airport Calcutta.
Streets are wide. White bulls are walking everywhere.
Passed the many mouths of the Ganges
and the Brahmaputra rivers.
Of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers.

The hazy contours of the mountains
Waters of Port Darwin a vivid green
Boats below are fishing for pearls.
Fishing for pearls. Bought a knife.

Shipped the parachutes home today
Shouldn’t need them anymore.
Shouldn’t need them. Not over the open ocean,
Where there’s no place to land.
No place to land. No place to land.

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