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"The Beginning of Memory" is a track by Laurie Anderson, from the album Homeland, released 22nd June 2010. Full lyrics are available below.
Lyrics
There's a story in an ancient play about birds called The Birds And it's a short story from before the world began From a time when there was no earth, no land Only air and birds everywhere But the thing was there was no place to land Because there was no land So they just circled around and around Because this was before the world began And the sound was deafening. Songbirds were everywhere Billions and billions and billions of birds And one of these birds was a lark and one day her father died And this was a really big problem because what should they do with the body? There was no place to put the body because there was no earth And finally the lark had a solution She decided to bury her father in the back of her own head And this was the beginning of memory Because before this no one could remember a thing They were just constantly flying in circles Constantly flying in huge circles
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