So Happy Birthday (Remastered LP Version)-Laurie Anderson

[ti:So Happy Birthday] [ar:Laurie Anderson] [al:United States Live] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]So Happy Birthday (Remastered LP Version) - Laurie Anderson [00:00.02] [00:08.82]JOE: In our country you're free and so you're born [00:11.62]And so they say "You're free " so happy birthday [00:15.36] [00:16.14]And even if you were born to lose--even if you were [00:18.82]A complete wreck when you were born--you might still [00:21.94]Grow up to be president because you're free [00:25.33] [00:26.65]GERALDINE: Today you might be an average citizen [00:28.76]A civilian a pedestrian But tomorrow you might [00:33.53]Be elected to some unexpected office--or sell your novel [00:36.59]And suddenly become famous Or you could get run over [00:41.00]By a truck and your picture could get into the papers [00:44.85]_that_ way Because you're free and anything might happen [00:49.30] so happy birthday [00:51.02] [00:52.06]JOE: Gee All those lights and all those screens [00:55.13] [00:55.70]The New York Experience is mind-boggling I don't think [00:59.52]I've ever seen that many screens and I'll probably come [01:02.24]Again It was really amazing mind-boggling [01:07.18]GERALDINE: You're walking and you don't always realize [01:09.51]It but you're always falling at the same time With each [01:14.27]Step you fall forward Over and over you're falling [01:19.14]And then catching yourself from falling And this is [01:22.91]How you can be walking and falling at the same time [01:26.49] [01:27.36]JOE: Look Over there It's a real dog and it's really talking [01:32.47]GERALDINE: I wanted you and I was looking for you [01:36.06]But I couldn't find you I wanted you and I was looking [01:40.57]For you all day but I couldn't find you [01:44.94] [01:46.63]JOE: Well I paid my money and I've got this funny feeling [01:50.12]That somehow--you know--it's not what I paid my money for [01:54.41]I mean I _paid_ my money and I just don't think this is [01:57.88]What I paid my money--you know--what I paid my money for [02:01.77] [02:02.60]GERALDINE: No one has ever looked at me like this before [02:06.67]No one has ever _stared_ at me for so long like this [02:11.03]This is the first time anyone has ever looked at me like [02:14.26]This stared at me like this for such a long time [02:18.73]For so long [02:19.57] [02:20.69]JOE: Well he didn't know what to do so he just decided [02:23.79]To watch the government and see what the government was [02:26.76]Doing and then kind of scale it down to size--and run his [02:30.12]Life that way [02:31.23] [02:32.62]GERALDINE: She said the hardest thing to teach her [02:34.50]Three-year-old kid was what was alive and what wasn't [02:37.82] [02:38.78]The phone rings and she holds it out to her kid and says [02:42.96]"It's Grandma Talk to Grandma " But she's holding a [02:46.88]Piece of plastic And the kid says to herself: "Wait a [02:50.98]Minute Is the phone alive Is the TV alive What about [02:56.28]That radio What is alive in this room and what doesn't [03:01.07]Have life " Unfortunately she doesn't know how to ask [03:05.95]These questions [03:07.01] [03:07.67]JOE: We were in a large room Full of people All kinds [03:11.52]And they had arrived at the same time And they were all [03:14.51]Free and they were all asking themselves the same question: [03:17.31] [03:18.03]What is behind that curtain They were all free And they [03:21.64]Were all wondering what would happen next [03:23.95] [03:24.59]GERALDINE: This is the time and this is the record of the time