"The Real World" lyrics

"The Real World"
(from "Heart Of A Dog" soundtrack)

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...)


Writer(s): Laurie Anderson
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