Sharkey's Day
Composer(s): Laurie Anderson
Performer(s): Laurie Anderson



Sun's coming up 
Like a big bald head
Poking up over the grocery store
It's Sharkey's day 
It's Sharkey's day today

Sharkey wakes up and Sharkey says 
There was this man...
And there was this road...
And if only I could remember these dreams...
I know they're trying to tell me...something.
Ooooeee 
Strange dreams (Strange dreams) 
Oh yeah

And Sharkey says 
I turn around, it's fear 
I turn around again
And it's love 
Oh yeah 
Strange dreams

And the little girls sing
Oooee Sharkey
And the manager says 
Mr. Sharkey? He's not at his desk right now
Could I take a message?
And the little girls sing
Oooeee Sharkey 
He's Mister Heartbreak
They sing 
Oooeee Sharkey 
Yeah 
He's Mister Heartbreak

And Sharkey says 
All of nature talks to me 
If I could just figure out what it was trying to tell me 
Listen!
Trees are swinging in the breeze 
They're talking to me
Insects are rubbing their legs together
They're all talking 
They're talking to me 
And short animals
They're bucking up on their hind legs 
Talking 
Talking to me
Hey! Look out! Bugs are crawling up my legs!
You know? I'd rather see this on TV 
Tones it down

And Sharkey says 
I turn around, it's fear
I turn around again, and it's love
Nobody knows me 
Nobody knows my name

And Sharkey says 
All night long I think of those little planes up there
Flying around 
You can't even see them 
They're specks!
And they're full of tiny people 
Going places

And Sharkey says 
You know? I bet they could all land on the head of a pin
And the little girls sing 
Ooooeee 
Sharkey!
He's Mister Heartbreak 
They sing 
Oooeee 
That Sharkey!
He's a slow dance on the edge of the lake 
He's a whole landscape gone to seed
He's gone wild! 
He's screeching tires on an oil slick at midnight on the road to Boston a long time ago

And Sharkey says 
Lights! Camera! Action! Timber!
At the beginning of the movie, they know they have to find each other
But they ride off in opposite directions

Sharkey says 
I turn around, it's fear
I turn around again, and it's love
Nobody knows me 
Nobody knows my name

You know? They're growing mechanical trees
They grow to their full height 
And then they chop themselves down

Sharkey says 
All of life comes from some strange lagoon
It rises up, it bucks up to it's full height from a boggy swamp on a foggy night 
It creeps into your house 
It's life! It's life!
I turn around, it's fear 
I turn around again, and it's love
Nobody knows me 
Nobody knows my name

Deep in the heart of darkest America 
Home of the brave
Ha! Ha! Ha! You've already paid for this 
Listen to my heart beat

And the little girls sing 
Oooeee Sharkey 
He's a slow dance on the edge of the lake 
They sing
Ooooeeee 
Sharkey
He's Mister Heartbreak
Paging Mr. Sharkey 
White courtesy telephone please

And Sharkey says 
I turn around, it's fear
I turn around again, and it's love

And the little girls sing
Ooooeee Sharkey 
Yeah
On top of Old Smokey all covered with snow
That's where I wanna, that's where I'm gonna
That's where I'm gonna go