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Laurie Anderson
World without end (1994)I remember where I came from
There were burning buildings and a fiery red sea
I remember all my lovers
I remember how they held me
World without end remember me
World without endEast.
The edge of the world.
West.
Those who came before me.
World without endWhen my father died we put him in the ground
When my father died it was like a whole library
burned down.
World without end remember me.
Nonesuch 2015
Drie doden
Lolabelle
Een vriend
en haar moeder
en niet: Lou Reed
Een flard uit: From the air (2015)As a child I was a kind of a sky worshipper
This was the MidWest and the sky was so vast
It was most of the world
I knew I had come from there
And at some day I would go back
From the airWhat are days for?
To wake us up.
To put between the endless nights.
What are nights for?
To fall through time
Into another world.
How to feel sad without being sadLolabelle was a malldog
She came from one of the highspeed puppymills
That breed dogs in batches and then sell them in malls.
She was bought by a couple
who where in the middle of a divorce
And no one could take her
How to feel sad without being sadThe woman didn’t want her
And the husband didn’t want her
And the boy wanted her, but
nobody really wanted the boy.
How to feel sad without being sadAnd so the man took Lolabelle with him to Canada
Where he spend the month camping
and crying and thinking it all through
and talking to himself,
And Lola rolled about in the kayak
Purched on the front, leading the way as the man peddled the way
How to feel sad without being sadHow to go on
And I think that’s where she learned the great skill of empathy
And also where she learned what her meditation teacher keeps telling us
He says: “You should learn to feel sad without being sad
Which is actually really heard to do
To feel sad without actually being sad
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