Broken - Laurie Anderson

You say: Where have you been?

I say: Nowhere

You say: There, you’re doing it again

You know I can’t keep, I can’t keep

I can’t keep doing this

I wanted our life to be so sweet

To live on harmony

But there are so many things

You just don’t want to hear anymore from me

You know I can’t keep doing this, I can’t keep

I can’t keep doin' this

Where did it go, the heat?

I can’t keep doin' this

I wanted to tell you so many things

But I lost my voice somewhere along the way

I think to myself where did it go?

Maybe it lives somewhere

Outside the city and it’s waiting for me there

All I have to do is say the word

And it will come back to me, it will come back to me

But I can’t even recall

How to ask something as big as that

You say: What are you thinking now?

I say: Nothing

You say: There, you’re doing it again

How did you get to be my conscience?

You know I can’t keep, I can’t keep

I can’t keep doing this

Where did it go, the heat?

Silence can be a beautiful thing

But only when it can by broken by a kind word

With a soft word

With a word

Our love unspoken

Our love lies broken