Transitory Life Lyrics - Homeland - Laurie Anderson

It's a good time far bankers and winners and sailors 

With their stories of jackpots and islands of pleasure 

They keep their treasures locked in Iron Mountain 

Locked in Iron mountain, 

They're sailing through this transitory life. 

They're moving through this transitory life. 

It takes a Iong time far a mouse to realize he's in a trap 

But once he does, something inside him never stops trembling. 

And grandma in the pancake makeup she never wore in life 

Lies there in her shiny black coffin looks just like a piano. 

She made herself a bed inside my ear. 

She made herself a bed inside my ear. 

And every night I hear 

We're sailing through this transitory life. 

We're moving through this transitory life. 

When the doctor says: congratulations, it's a boy! 

Where do aII the dream baby girls, those possible pearls, go? 

Lorrine and Susan with the brown eyes 

And lovely Irene and difficult but beautiful Betty 

And tiny tiny Juanita? 

They're sailing through this transitory life. 

They're moving through this transitory life.