- The Island Where I Come from
- Laurie Anderson
- 247745
- Let me tell you a story about Kokovoko
- The island where I come from
- The beaches are littered with rotten coconuts
- And there are pieces of old skulls lying all around
- Jewels and sand and rising water
- Visions I've seen and cries I've heard
- I can't put these things into words
- Might as well put some beans
- In a hollow gourd and shake it, shake it
- I've floated on an icecap with a white polar bear
- I've floated up and down the golden stairs
- I've seen whales and caught in sails all twiskeetwee
- But me? I don't say much
- Jewels and sand and rising water
- Visions I've seen and cries I've heard
- I can't put these things into words
- Might as well put some beans
- In a hollow gourd
- There are lots of people who talk just to hear the sound
- The sound, the sound of their own voices
- But take an empty shell and put it up to your ear
- You can hear the ocean rumbling around in there
- Ooo the greasy wheel it goes round
- The humming of the breeze it makes a whishing
- and whirring sound
- The sudden silence when the burning sun goes down
- Jewels and sand and rising water
- Visions I've seen and cries I've heard
- I can't put these things into words
- Might as well put some beans
- In a hollow gourd and shake it, shake it
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- [00:27.14]Let me tell you a story about Kokovoko
- [00:32.83]The island where I come from
- [00:38.16]The beaches are littered with rotten coconuts
- [00:44.02]And there are pieces of old skulls lying all around
- [00:50.14]Jewels and sand and rising water
- [00:52.95]Visions I've seen and cries I've heard
- [00:58.60]I can't put these things into words
- [01:00.58]Might as well put some beans
- [01:04.08]In a hollow gourd and shake it, shake it
- [01:18.89]I've floated on an icecap with a white polar bear
- [01:22.70]I've floated up and down the golden stairs
- [01:26.41]I've seen whales and caught in sails all twiskeetwee
- [01:29.94]
- [01:31.57]But me? I don't say much
- [01:37.03]
- [01:42.10]Jewels and sand and rising water
- [01:45.79]Visions I've seen and cries I've heard
- [01:50.41]I can't put these things into words
- [01:53.54]Might as well put some beans
- [01:55.97]In a hollow gourd
- [01:58.09]
- [02:34.06]There are lots of people who talk just to hear the sound
- [02:37.67]
- [02:39.35]The sound, the sound of their own voices
- [02:44.11]
- [02:44.98]But take an empty shell and put it up to your ear
- [02:49.36]
- [02:51.06]You can hear the ocean rumbling around in there
- [02:57.12]Ooo the greasy wheel it goes round
- [03:01.92]
- [03:02.43]The humming of the breeze it makes a whishing
- [03:05.12]and whirring sound
- [03:06.92]
- [03:08.18]The sudden silence when the burning sun goes down
- [03:13.79]
- [03:31.36]Jewels and sand and rising water
- [03:34.93]Visions I've seen and cries I've heard
- [03:39.24]I can't put these things into words
- [03:42.80]Might as well put some beans
- [03:45.49]In a hollow gourd and shake it, shake it
