Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Mach 20 , by - Laurie Anderson. Song from the album United States Live, in the genre Release date: 28.07.2008
Record label: Warner
Song language: English
Mach 20 |
| Ladies and gentlemen, what you are observing here are magnified examples or |
| facsimiles of human sperm |
| Generation after generation of these tiny creatures have sacrificed themselves |
| in their persistent, often futile, attempt to transport the basic male genetic |
| code. |
| But where is this information coming from? |
| They have no eyes. |
| No ears |
| Yet some of them already know that they will be bald |
| Over half of them will end up as women |
| Four hundred million living creatures, all knowing precisely the same |
| thing--carbon copies of each other in a Kamikaze race against the clock |
| Some of you may be surprised to learn that if a sperm were the size of a salmon |
| it would be swimming its seven-inch journey at 500 miles per hour |
| If a sperm were the size of a whale, however, it would be traveling at 15, |
| 000 miles per hour, or Mach 20. Now imagine, if you will, four hundred million |
| blind and desperate sperm whales departing from the Pacific coast of North |
| America swimming at 15,000 mph and arriving in Japanese coastal waters in just |
| under 45 minutes |
| How would they be received? |
| Would they realize that they were carrying information, a message? |
| Would there be room for so many millions? |
| Would they know that they had been sent for a purpose? |