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laurie anderson - false documents lyrics

i went to a palm reader and the odd thing about the reading was that everything she told me was totally wrong. she said i loved airplanes, that i had been born in seattle, that my mother’s name was hilary. but she seemed so sure of the information that i began to feel like i’d been walking around with these false doc-ments permanently tattooed to my hands. it was very noisy in the parlor and members of her family kept running in and out. they were speaking a high, clicking kind of language that sounded a lot like arabic. books and magazines in arabic were strewn all over the floor. it suddenly occurred to me that maybe there was a translation problem–that maybe she was reading my hand from right to left instead of left to right.
thinking of mirrors, i gave her my other hand. then she put her other hand out and we sat there for several minutes in what i -ssumed was some kind of partic-p-tory ritual. finally i realized that her hand was out because she was waiting for money.

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