Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Laurie Anderson
Canonical path: /laurie-anderson/life-on-a-string
Related lyric paths: 6
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Life On A String
Read Life On A String lyrics by Laurie Anderson on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Life On A String
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A summer night the hot the heat
Sit at my desk fluorescent light
Drawing a picture of a perfect moment
I saw it once on a grand avenue
That stretched into the distance
And you and I were walking there
Lost in the moment
Life on a string
Life on a string
Some people know exactly where they're going
The pilgrims to Mecca
The climbers to the mountaintop
But me, I'm just looking
For just a single moment
So I can slip through time
Life on a string
Life on a string.
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Laurie Anderson performs "Life On A String", and this lyric page sits inside the Laurie Anderson catalog on LyroVerse.
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