The Beginning of Memory-Laurie Anderson

[ti:The Beginning of Memory] [ar:Laurie Anderson] [al:Homeland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Beginning of Memory - Laurie Anderson [00:27.36]There's a story in an ancient play [00:28.44]About birds called The Birds [00:31.29] [00:32.89]And it's a short story [00:33.70]From before the world began [00:34.83] [00:36.28]From a time when there was no earth [00:37.81] [00:38.40]No land [00:38.77] [00:40.08]Only air and birds everywhere [00:42.71] [00:47.52]But the thing was [00:48.30] [00:48.83]There was no place to land [00:49.88] [00:50.76]Because there was no land [00:52.06] [00:54.16]So they just circled around and around [00:55.67] [00:57.14]Because this was before the world began [00:58.91] [01:04.87]And the sound was deafening [01:06.12] [01:07.13]Songbirds were everywhere [01:08.24] [01:09.17]Billions and billions [01:10.77]And billions of birds [01:12.22] [01:16.04]And one of these birds was a lark [01:17.42] [01:18.27]And one day her father died [01:19.62] [01:20.82]And this was a really big problem [01:21.90] [01:22.46]Because what should they do with the body [01:23.83] [01:25.33]There was no place to put the body [01:26.85]Because there was no earth [01:28.69] [01:40.53]And finally the lark had a solution [01:43.32] [01:45.41]She decided to bury her father [01:46.67] [01:47.51]In the back if her own head [01:49.69] [01:51.92]And this was the beginning of memory [01:55.85] [01:58.35]Because before this [01:59.16] [02:00.52]No one could remember a thing [02:01.71] [02:03.83]They were just constantly flying in circles [02:05.98] [02:08.07]Constantly flying in huge circles