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"Life Lived Backwards" lyrics

Laurie Anderson Lyrics

"Life Lived Backwards"
(from "Heart Of A Dog" soundtrack)

So many things are being recorded. Numbers, locations, names, dates, times, directions. Massive amounts of data are being collected and stored. What kind of information is this? Fragmented conversations, full of jump cuts and distortion. And what are the stories that emerge from these fragments? And why are they being collected?

And it's only when you commit a crime, that the data is put together. And your story is reconstructed. Backwards. A portrait of you – made up of data trails. The places you went. The things you bought. The pictures you took. The emails you sent

And like Kierkegaard said: "Life can only be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards"


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soundtrack: "Heart Of A Dog" (2015)
Laurie Anderson - Heart Of A Dog soundtrack cover
The Lake (Instrumental)
(Instrumental)
Birth Of Lola
Tell All The Animals
From The Air
Phosphenes
Lola Goes Blind
Iron Mountain
How To Feel Sad Without Being Sad
The West Village
Life Lived Backwards
The Cloud
A Different World
What If The Sky Froze?
Piano Lessons
Animals Are Like People
The Release Of Love
Three Ghosts
The Bardo
The Real World
Dreaming Of Life Before Birth
A Story About A Story
Flow
(Instrumental)
Facebook
Bring Her Some Flowers
The Mother Meditation
The Lake (Vocal Version)
Turning Time Around
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