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The ouija board - Laurie anderson

In 1978 I spent some time in California in the fall

Looking for a quiet place to live

I finally found what seemed to be the perfect apartment

But the night after I moved in

I heard a tremendous pounding sound

As it turned out I had moved in right above

A Hawaiian hallow log drum school

Every other night it was converted into a hula school

With a live band of six Hawaiian guitars

I decided to soundproof my place

But I didn't hang the door very well and all the sounds kept drifting in

About this time like a lot of New Yorkers

Who find themselves on the West Coast

I got interested in various aspects of California's versions of the occult

We would sit around at night

When the Santa Anna winds howled outside

And ask questions to the ouija board

I found out a lot of information on my past 9 361 human lives on this planet

My first life was as a raccoon

And then you were a cow

And then you were a bird

And then you were a hat spelled the ouija

We said “a hat ”

We couldn't figure it out

Finally we guessed that

The feathers from the bird had been made into a hat

Is this true

Yes spelled the ouija Hat counts as half life

And then

Hundreds and hundreds of rave eyes

Now this is apparently my first life as a woman

Which should explain quite a few things

Eventually though the ouija's written words

Seemed to take a kind of personality a kind of a voice

Finally we began to ask the board

If the ouija would be willing to appear to us in some other form

Forget it forget it forget it forget it forget it forget it

The ouija seemed like it was about to crash

Please please what can we do now

So you will show yourself to us in some other manifestation

You should lurk You should L U R K Lurk

No I never really figured out how to lurk in my own place

Even though it was only a rented place

But I did find myself looking over my shoulder a lot

And every sound that drifted in

Seemed to be a version of this phantom voice

Whispering in a code that I could never crack