Laurie Anderson - The Real World lyrics
[Laurie Anderson - The Real World lyrics]
I spent the next 49 days keeping
A kind of double-diary keeping
Track of what was going on in the real world
And what was going on in the Bardo lots
Of things were going on
In the real world during that
Time on May 2nd, osama Bin Laden was killed
In Pakistan in a raid
Called Operation Neptune Spear
Led by the CIA on April 22nd
The memory unit of the flight
Data recorder from Air
France 447 was recovered from the bottom
Of the Atlantic Ocean then on
May 21st, there was a prediction
By a US religious group
That the world was going to end
(a judgement has come the world
Is now under judgement
Where it was not prior to
May 21) On May 23rd, there was a retraction
(a difference in the world
That we can't detect at all with our eyes
But we can know from The Bible)
A kind of double-diary keeping
Track of what was going on in the real world
And what was going on in the Bardo lots
Of things were going on
In the real world during that
Time on May 2nd, osama Bin Laden was killed
In Pakistan in a raid
Called Operation Neptune Spear
Led by the CIA on April 22nd
The memory unit of the flight
Data recorder from Air
France 447 was recovered from the bottom
Of the Atlantic Ocean then on
May 21st, there was a prediction
By a US religious group
That the world was going to end
(a judgement has come the world
Is now under judgement
Where it was not prior to
May 21) On May 23rd, there was a retraction
(a difference in the world
That we can't detect at all with our eyes
But we can know from The Bible)
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