《The Beginning of Memory》歌词

[00:00:00] The Beginning of Memory - Laurie Anderson

[00:00:27] There's a story in an ancient play

[00:00:28] About birds called The Birds

[00:00:32] And it's a short story

[00:00:33] From before the world began

[00:00:36] From a time when there was no earth

[00:00:38] No land

[00:00:40] Only air and birds everywhere

[00:00:47] But the thing was

[00:00:48] There was no place to land

[00:00:50] Because there was no land

[00:00:54] So they just circled around and around

[00:00:57] Because this was before the world began

[00:01:04] And the sound was deafening

[00:01:07] Songbirds were everywhere

[00:01:09] Billions and billions

[00:01:10] And billions of birds

[00:01:16] And one of these birds was a lark

[00:01:18] And one day her father died

[00:01:20] And this was a really big problem

[00:01:22] Because what should they do with the body

[00:01:25] There was no place to put the body

[00:01:26] Because there was no earth

[00:01:40] And finally the lark had a solution

[00:01:45] She decided to bury her father

[00:01:47] In the back if her own head

[00:01:51] And this was the beginning of memory

[00:01:58] Because before this

[00:02:00] No one could remember a thing

[00:02:03] They were just constantly flying in circles

[00:02:08] Constantly flying in huge circles