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!!1977 — Is anybody home ? ---- — — ''part of the series of photographs coupled with texts (song sheets) at the Holly Solomon Gallery in New York for the Jukebox exhibition.''{br}{br} |t [../files/articles/anderson/1977_isanybodyhome_tr.jpg]|t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t |t ---- ''Laurie Anderson, ''Is Anybody Home'', 1976, 4:27{br} - for boat horn, camera, stairs, piano and voice{br}Bass, Scott Johnson - Clarinet, Peter Gordon - Drums, Joe Kos - Voice, Violin, Laurie Anderson{br} From the lp [Airwaves, One Ten Records 001/2, 1977|https://www.discogs.com/fr/Various-Airwaves/release/789843]'' ---- {br}{br}{br}| |t |t |t ---- {small}{cap}Is Anybody Home ? (4:20){br}{br}^[talking^]{br}I live by the Hudson River, and a lot of boats go by{br}They glide by so quickly{br}Camouflaged against the Jersey shore{br}{br}Sometimes at night when the liners are lit up{br}It's hard to tell which is moving, {br}The boat, or the shoreline,{br}And it seems like all of Manhattan has come unanchored,{br}And is slowly drifting out to sea{br}{br}I spent hours trying to film them{br}So I set up a camera by the window{br}And every time I hear a horn, I run to the window{br}But I usually miss them{br}{br}It's a kind of rhythm{br}A kind of sinking that's been getting into the songs I've been writing{br}lately{br}Like walking up stairs in the dark{br}And you think there's one more step then there actually is,{br}And your foot comes pounding down{br}With nothing underneath{br}{br}Or like the piano we got a few months ago{br}Only a few keys work{br}So we put it out in the hall near the door,{br}And when people come in, they rake their hands across the keyboard{br}playing the few notes that still work{br}It's kind of a doorbell now{br}{br}All the sounds around were so distracting,{br}I was trying to concentrate on a song for a performance, but I couldn't{br}And my Mother called and said "Why not come out here and write your song ?{br}It's real quiet, I've just put all new carpets down."{br}{br}^[anybody home ? ^] ''(repeated throughout next section)''{br}{br}When I got there, I noticed that the new carpets were so thick{br}that none of the doors closed.{br}The only door that still worked was the door to the parrot's room.{br}It was a swinging door, and every time someone opened it,{br}It whacked into the parrots cage,{br}And the parrot screamed, each time this happened{br}Totally surprised dozens of times a day{br}{br}^[...^]{/cap}{/small} ---- |t |t |t |t |t {small}{cap}{br}{br}{br}{br}^[...^]{br}And the shriek filled the whole house,{br}Through all the half open doors.{br}{br} ^[violin starts^]{br}{br}and this is the song, I finally wrote{br}{br}^[sings^]{br}Some old birds, they never learn,{br}Doors have hinges and they turn{br}Water's wet, and fire burns,{br}All good things are worth their weight{br}And he who hesitates is late{br}Some things can never be told{br}What you got for free can never be sold{br}{br}Homes is where the heart is,{br}Solid gold.{br}{br}Is anybody home ?{br}{br}Some new birds they never learn{br}Doors have hinges and they turn{br}Water is wet, and fire burns,{br}What turns in turns out{br}And what goes in goes out{br}All good things are worth their weight{br}And he who hesitates is late{br}All good things are worth their weight{br}Some things can never be told{br}{br}Home is where the heart is{br}Solid Gold{br}{br}''(various other lines repeated, with what goes up comes down added during fade out)''{/cap}{/small}{br}{br}{br}{br}{br}{br}{br}{br}{br}{br}---- {small}^[[Source|http://www.jimdavies.org/laurie-anderson/lyrics/isanybodyhome.txt]^]{/small} ---- | {br}{br} {br}{br}
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