All the time I told myself: My God, what a wonderful, original and surreal creation of words is this: a fiery zoo! And I asked myself for a long time what may be the meaning of it. The problem was the connection of the ...us (from virUS) with the "oooohh". Laurie Anderson merges both words, so it becomes a "sooohh", which to my ears sounded like "zoo". A friend of mine looked at me with a pitiful smile and gave me the advice to read the lyrics sheet.