Laurie Anderson - Mach 20 lyrics

Ladies and gentlemen
What you are observing here are magnified
Examples or facsimiles of human sperm
Generation after generation of these
Tiny creatures have
Sacrificed themselves in their
Persistent, often futile
Attempt to transport the basic male
Genetic code but where is
This information coming from? They have
No eyes no ears
Yet some of them already know
That they will be bald
Over half of them will end up as women

Four hundred million living creatures
All knowing precisely the same thing
-carbon copies of each
Other in a Kamikaze race against the clock
Some of you may be surprised to learn that
If a sperm were the size of
A salmon it would be swimming it's seven-inch
Journey at 500 miles per hour
If a sperm were the size of a whale, however
It
Would be traveling at 15, 000 miles per hour
Or Mach 20 now imagine, if you will
Four hundred million blind and
Desperate sperm whales
Departing from the Pacific coast of
North America swimming at 15
000 mph and arriving in Japanese coastal
Waters in just under 45 minutes
How would they be received?
Would they realize that they
Were carrying information, a message?
Would there be room for so many millions?
Would they know that they had
Been sent for a purpose?