transitory life

• homeland albümündenlaurie anderson şarkısı, sözleri de şöyle:
  
  ıt'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 ıron mountain
  locked in ıron mountain,
  they're sailing through this transitory life.
  they're moving through this transitory life.
  
  ıt takes a ıong 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 ı 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 aıı the dream baby girls, those possible
  pearls, go?
  lorrine and susan with the brown eyes
  and lovely ırene and difficult but beautiful betty
  and tiny tiny juanita?
  they're sailing through this transitory life.
  they're moving through this transitory life.
  
  afraid to breathe, afraid to rise
  we run and run in this transitory life.
  tipped off balance we fall like ıight
  we land on water in this transitory life.
  we fall like light on water and water turns to ice.
  everything keeps changing in this transitory life.
  everything keeps changing in this transitory life.