The Day The Devil Lyrics

Lyric discussion by foreverdrone 

Cover art for The Day The Devil lyrics by Laurie Anderson

Hearing this verse:

Well I'm sick of hearing bout your problems Yeah girlie your breakin' my heart ... Cause you've been laughin' all the way to the bank And don't give me those crocodile tears Cause you've been doing it for years...

...somehow, I imagine, was the sort of thing which might go through Laurie's head when her--shall we say--emotional weather was not the sunniest? Like she was thinking, what do I do for a living? I get up on stage with all this gear, and...and just talk, mostly.

And a lot of people's jobs really suck. And, she knows this. So she's feeling extraordinarily fortunate, and wondered whether eventually some kind of negative counter-reaction would necessarily surface. Well, a Faustian bargain might have seemed apropos, metaphorically speaking.