The End Of The World - Live
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"Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back to London Laurie Anderson."
Ooooaaaah!
Ooooaaaah!
Hi
This evening I'll be reading from a book I just finished
And since a lot of it is about the future
I'm going to start more or less on the last page
And tell you about my grandmother
Now, she was a Southern Baptist Holy Ruler
And she had a very clear idea about the future
And of how the world would end
— In fire
In fire
— Like in Revelations
Like in Revelations
And when I was ten my grandmother told me the world would end in a year
So I spent the whole year praying and reading the Bible
And alienating all my friends and relatives
And finally the big day came
And absolutely nothing happened
Just another day
Ooooaaaah!
Now my grandmother was a missionary
And she had heard that the largest religion in the world
Was Buddhism
So she decided to go to Japan to convert Buddhists
— And to inform them about the end of the world
And to inform them about the end of the world
And she didn't speak Japanese
So she tried to convert them with a combination of hand gestures
Sign language and hymns
In English
Ooooaaaah!
The Japanese had absolutely no idea what she was trying to get at
And when she got back to the United States
She was still talking about the end of the world
And I remember the day she died
She was very excited
She was like a small bird
Perched on the edge of her bed
Near the window in the hospital
Waiting to die
And she was wearing these pink nightgowns
And combing her hair so she'd look pretty
For the big moment when Christ came to get her
Ooooaaaah!
And she wasn't afraid
But then, just at the very last minute
Something happened that changed everything
Because suddenly, at the very last minute
She panicked
After a whole life of praying and predicting the end of the world
She panicked
And she panicked because she couldn't decide
Whether or not ... to wear ... a hat
Ooooaaaah!
And so when she died
She went into the future
In a panic
With absolutely no idea
Of what would be next
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