Time for another pathetic attempt to puzzle out another hard-to-understand* lyrics by Laurie Anderson: The Fifth Plague (Death of Livestock). This cheering, upbeat song can be listened to online at the official website of the album it is included in: The Plague Songs (2006).
The Fifth Plague
(music and lyrics by Laurie Anderson)
(as heard by Mnemosyne)
Beasts of the field we stand
Somewhere between darkness and man
Part of the plan
Part of the proof of the fifth plague
Ah to die in a grove
On a spring day
Tipped over by god
Part of the proof
Part of the plan of the fifth plague
Not the glorious death of the sacred bull
But slaughtered and pitched 'bout rotten junk
into the land of the dead
Where mummified kings and queens wait
in the wrong heaven
Beasts of the field we stand
Somewhere between darkness and man
Part of the plan
Proof of the power of the fifth plague
Like the dying bull in the ring
Stuck by the picadors
The last sound he hears
In this dusty world
The howl of true trumpets
And the sound of applause
As the matador bowes
The Fifth Plague of Egypt / J. M. William Turner, 1800
* For the record again: this version of lyrics is based on Mnemosyne's pure speculation. Please keep my limited auditive comprehension skills in mind when reading the text. (By the way, any help / correction would be deeply appreciated.)
