Say Hello-Laurie Anderson

[ti:Say Hello] [ar:Laurie Anderson] [al:United States Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Say Hello - Laurie Anderson [00:51.23]A certain american religious [00:53.68]Sect has been looking at conditions [00:56.36]Of the world during the flood [00:58.72] [01:01.10]According to their calculations [01:02.49] [01:03.50]During the flood the winds [01:05.27] [01:05.85]Tides and currents [01:07.31] [01:08.13]Were in an overall southeasterly direction [01:10.71] [01:12.57]This would mean that in order for noah's [01:14.69]Ark to have ended up on mount ararat [01:18.05]It would have to have started out several [01:21.16]Thousand miles to the west [01:23.33] [01:25.01]This would then locate [01:26.35]Pre-flood civilization in the area [01:29.66]Of upstate new york [01:31.36] [01:32.43]And the garden of eden [01:33.46]Roughly in new york city [01:35.25] [01:36.66]Now in order to get [01:38.19]From one place to another [01:39.43] [01:40.52]Something must move [01:41.81] [01:43.32]No one in new york remembers moving [01:45.72] [01:46.77]And there are no traces of [01:47.98]Biblical history in the [01:49.80]Upstate new york area [01:51.01] [01:52.47]So we are led to the only [01:54.17]Available conclusion in this time warp [01:56.61] [01:57.72]And that is that the [01:59.24]Ark has simply not left yet [02:02.29] [02:04.46]Let's compare this situation [02:05.72] [02:06.46]To a familiar occurrence: [02:07.86] [02:08.78]You're driving [02:09.33] [02:10.32]And it's dark and it's raining [02:12.40] [02:13.62]And you took a turn back there [02:15.80]But you're not sure [02:16.69]Was the right turn [02:17.46] [02:18.91]But you took the turn anyway [02:19.92] [02:21.10]And you just keep [02:21.93]Going in this direction [02:22.69] [02:24.09]Eventually it starts to get light and [02:28.55]You look out and you realize [02:30.34] [02:31.12]You have absolutely no [02:32.27]Idea where you are [02:33.71] [02:35.00]So you get out at the [02:36.43]Next gas station and you say: [02:38.61] [02:39.60]Hello excuse me [02:41.58] [02:43.10]Can you tell me where I am [02:44.37] [02:47.06]You can read the signs [02:49.80] [02:52.68]You've been on this road before [02:54.76] [02:57.24]Do you want to go home [02:58.47] [03:00.31]Do you want to go home now [03:01.85] [03:03.43]Hello excuse me [03:04.03] [03:05.03]Can you tell me where I am [03:06.34] [03:07.83]In our country [03:09.36]This is the way we say hello [03:11.82] [03:13.44]It is a diagram of movement [03:15.46] [03:16.02]Between two points [03:18.00] [03:19.47]It is a sweep on the dial [03:21.67] [03:23.05]In our country [03:23.92] [03:24.55]This is also the way we say goodbye [03:28.14] [03:29.58]Say hello [03:30.26] [03:31.49]Hello excuse me [03:32.14] [03:32.78]Can you tell me where I am [03:34.19] [03:35.64]In our country [03:36.79]This is also the way we say goodbye [03:39.65] [03:40.93]You just show time [03:41.80] [03:42.77]For last night [03:43.62] [03:44.42]You were here [03:44.96] [03:46.04]But I walked up in the morning [03:48.27] [03:49.72]You were gone [03:50.25] [03:52.07]In our country [03:53.45]Goodbye looks just like hello [03:56.65] [03:57.91]Say hello [03:58.51] [03:59.89]Hello excuse me [04:01.29]Can you tell me where i am [04:02.36] [04:04.09]In our country [04:04.81] [04:05.46]We send pictures of people speaking [04:08.08]Our sign language in outer space [04:11.10] [04:12.72]We are speaking our [04:13.99]Sign language in these pictures [04:16.89] [04:18.54]Do you think that [04:19.75]They will think his arm is permanently [04:24.33]Attached in this position [04:26.22] [04:27.86]Oh do you think [04:29.75] [04:30.51]They will read our signs [04:32.79] [04:34.24]In our country [04:34.91] [04:36.26]Goodbye looks just like hello [04:39.70] [04:41.35]Say hello [04:42.10] [04:44.19]Say hello [04:45.40] [04:47.95]Say hello