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"JOE: In our 

country, 

you’re free and so you’re born 

and so 

they say, 

“You’re free,” so happy birthday. 

And 

even if you were born to lose, even if you were a complete wreck when you were born, 

you might still grow up 

to be 

(president) ... because 

you’re free.

GERALDINE: Today, 

you might be 

an average (?)

citizen ... a civilian 

... a pedestrian ... 

(But tomorrow) you might 

be elected to some unexpected 

(office, or sell 

your novel)

and suddenly become 

(famous). Or you could get run over by a truck 

and your 

picture could get into the papers _that_ way. Because 

you’re free 

and 

anything

might happen 

... so happy birthday.

JOE: Gee! All 

those lights 

(and all those screens)! 

The New 

(York)

Experience is mind-boggling. 

I don’t think I’ve ever seen that 

many (screens) 

and I’ll probably come again ... 

It was really 

amazing, mind-boggling.

GERALDINE: You’re 

walking, 

and you don’t always realize it, but you’re always falling at the same time. 

With each step you fall forward. Over and over, 

you’re falling and then catching yourself from falling ... And this is how 

you can be walking and falling at the same time.

JOE: Look! Over there! It’s a real 

dog ... and it’s really 

talking

GERALDINE: I want_

ed you 

and I 

(was looking for you ... but I couldn’t 

find you). 

(I wanted you and I was looking for you) all 

day ... 

but 

I 

could

(n’

t 

find 

you.)

JOE: Well, 

I paid 

(my money), and I’ve got this funny 

feeling that somehow - you know - 

it’s not what I paid my 

(money for). 

I mean 

I _paid_ my 

(money) and I just 

don’t think 

this is what 

I paid 

(my 

money)

- you know - 

what I paid 

(my money) for.

GERALDINE: No one has ever looked at me like this before ... 

no one has ever _stared_ at me for so long like this ... 

This is the first time 

anyone has ever looked at me like this ... stared at me like this 

for such a long time ... for 

so 

long.

JOE: Well, 

he didn’t know what to do 

so he just 

decided 

to watch the government 

and see 

what the government was doing 

and then kind of scale it down to size 

- and run his life 

that way.

GERALDINE: She said 

the hardest thing to teach her three-year-old kid was what was alive 

and what wasn’t. 

The phone rings 

and she holds it out to her kid and says, “It’s Grandma. Talk to Grandma.” 

But she’s holding a piece of plastic. 

And the kid says to herself: “Wait a minute. Is the phone alive? 

Is the TV alive? What about that radio? What is alive in this room and what doesn’t have life?” 

Unfortunately, she doesn’t know how to ask these questions.

JOE: We were in a large room. Full 

of people. 

All 

kinds. 

And they had arrived at the same 

time. 

And they were all free 

and they were all asking themselves the same question: What is behind that curtain? 

They were all free. And they were all wondering 

what (would) happen 

(next).

GERALDINE: This is the time and this is the record of the time."

(Lyrics by Laurie Anderson, 

typing modifications and brackets by me, i would take the words between brackets out...)