Laurie Anderson - Life Lived Backwards lyrics
[Laurie Anderson - Life Lived Backwards lyrics]
So many things are being recorded
Numbers, locations, names, dates, times
Directions massive amounts of
Data are being collected and stored what kind
Of information is this?
Fragmented conversations
Full of jump cuts and distortion and
What are the stories that
Emerge from these fragments? And why
Are they being collected?
And it's only when you commit a crime
That the data is put together
And your story is reconstructed
Backwards a portrait of you – made up of
Data trails the places you went
The things you bought
The pictures you took the emails you sent
And like Kierkegaard said: "Life
Can only be understood
Backwards but it must be lived forwards"
Numbers, locations, names, dates, times
Directions massive amounts of
Data are being collected and stored what kind
Of information is this?
Fragmented conversations
Full of jump cuts and distortion and
What are the stories that
Emerge from these fragments? And why
Are they being collected?
And it's only when you commit a crime
That the data is put together
And your story is reconstructed
Backwards a portrait of you – made up of
Data trails the places you went
The things you bought
The pictures you took the emails you sent
And like Kierkegaard said: "Life
Can only be understood
Backwards but it must be lived forwards"
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