Iron Mountain Lyrics

Song	Iron Mountain
Artist	Laurie Anderson
Album	Heart of a Dog
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[00:00.000]	作曲 : Laurie Anderson
[00:02.036] [Spoken verse 1:]
[00:03.811]	It was so strange, the way it happened.
[00:08.294]	Almost overnight, there were soldiers everywhere in the city.
[00:12.718]	Where there used to be just, maybe, one policeman –
[00:15.539]	now there were groups of soldiers with machine guns, and riot gear.
[00:20.648]	Almost immediately, it became normal.
[00:24.828]	They began to blend in.
[00:26.781]	Nobody talked to them but they were everywhere,
[00:30.200]	Like ghosts.
[00:32.710]	And I thought, "when did that start to happen?"
[00:37.342] [Voiceover:]
[00:37.834]	We're trying to prevent it from happening,
[00:39.757]	instead of having to deal with it afterwards
[00:42.696] [Spoken verse 2:]
[00:43.195]	So homeland security began to breed dogs.
[00:46.330]	When the puppies were 13 weeks old they were sent to prisons to be trained by prisoners.
[00:53.402]	The smartest dogs were drafted to work with police on patrols.
[00:58.677]	And on bomb sniffing squads.
[01:00.732]	The homeland security slogan
[01:04.804]	"If you see something, say something."
[01:07.293]	sounds like something the Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein might say.
[01:11.988]	And his books are full of cryptic sentences about logic.
[01:14.718]	And about how language has the power to actually create the world.
[01:19.956]	"If you can't talk about it," he says, "it just doesn't exist."
[01:26.246] [Instrumental]
[01:44.253] [Spoken verse 3:]
[01:46.252]	After the "see something, say something" slogan had been around for a while,
[01:50.085]	someone from Homeland Security must have had second thoughts
[01:55.453]	about asking people to report on each other all the time.
[02:02.819]	I would've loved to have been at that Homeland Security PR brainstorming session
[02:07.793]	when they decided to add this phrase to their slogan.
[02:13.110] [murmur.]
[02:19.900]	There's so many trucks in my neighbourhood now,
[02:22.953]	carrying information and data on their way to secure storage areas.
[02:28.285]	Iron Mountain started as a network of caves for growing mushrooms.
[02:32.540]	And gradually turned into a bomb resistant storage facility for corporate documents.
[02:40.044]	After World War II,
[02:41.666]	the company began inventing new identities for Jewish immigrants,
[02:46.135]	who arrived with nothing.
[02:47.773]	No papers – or at most their old library cards.
[02:51.492]	So Iron Mountain created all sorts of new documents for them.
[02:56.173]	And they became instant Americans.

[00:00.000]	zuo qu : Laurie Anderson
[00:02.036] [Spoken verse 1:]
[00:03.811]	It was so strange, the way it happened.
[00:08.294]	Almost overnight, there were soldiers everywhere in the city.
[00:12.718]	Where there used to be just, maybe, one policeman
[00:15.539]	now there were groups of soldiers with machine guns, and riot gear.
[00:20.648]	Almost immediately, it became normal.
[00:24.828]	They began to blend in.
[00:26.781]	Nobody talked to them but they were everywhere,
[00:30.200]	Like ghosts.
[00:32.710]	And I thought, " when did that start to happen?"
[00:37.342] [Voiceover:]
[00:37.834]	We' re trying to prevent it from happening,
[00:39.757]	instead of having to deal with it afterwards
[00:42.696] [Spoken verse 2:]
[00:43.195]	So homeland security began to breed dogs.
[00:46.330]	When the puppies were 13 weeks old they were sent to prisons to be trained by prisoners.
[00:53.402]	The smartest dogs were drafted to work with police on patrols.
[00:58.677]	And on bomb sniffing squads.
[01:00.732]	The homeland security slogan
[01:04.804]	" If you see something, say something."
[01:07.293]	sounds like something the Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein might say.
[01:11.988]	And his books are full of cryptic sentences about logic.
[01:14.718]	And about how language has the power to actually create the world.
[01:19.956]	" If you can' t talk about it," he says, " it just doesn' t exist."
[01:26.246] [Instrumental]
[01:44.253] [Spoken verse 3:]
[01:46.252]	After the " see something, say something" slogan had been around for a while,
[01:50.085]	someone from Homeland Security must have had second thoughts
[01:55.453]	about asking people to report on each other all the time.
[02:02.819]	I would' ve loved to have been at that Homeland Security PR brainstorming session
[02:07.793]	when they decided to add this phrase to their slogan.
[02:13.110] [murmur.]
[02:19.900]	There' s so many trucks in my neighbourhood now,
[02:22.953]	carrying information and data on their way to secure storage areas.
[02:28.285]	Iron Mountain started as a network of caves for growing mushrooms.
[02:32.540]	And gradually turned into a bomb resistant storage facility for corporate documents.
[02:40.044]	After World War II,
[02:41.666]	the company began inventing new identities for Jewish immigrants,
[02:46.135]	who arrived with nothing.
[02:47.773]	No papers or at most their old library cards.
[02:51.492]	So Iron Mountain created all sorts of new documents for them.
[02:56.173]	And they became instant Americans.

[00:00.000]	zuò qǔ : Laurie Anderson
[00:02.036] [Spoken verse 1:]
[00:03.811]	It was so strange, the way it happened.
[00:08.294]	Almost overnight, there were soldiers everywhere in the city.
[00:12.718]	Where there used to be just, maybe, one policeman
[00:15.539]	now there were groups of soldiers with machine guns, and riot gear.
[00:20.648]	Almost immediately, it became normal.
[00:24.828]	They began to blend in.
[00:26.781]	Nobody talked to them but they were everywhere,
[00:30.200]	Like ghosts.
[00:32.710]	And I thought, " when did that start to happen?"
[00:37.342] [Voiceover:]
[00:37.834]	We' re trying to prevent it from happening,
[00:39.757]	instead of having to deal with it afterwards
[00:42.696] [Spoken verse 2:]
[00:43.195]	So homeland security began to breed dogs.
[00:46.330]	When the puppies were 13 weeks old they were sent to prisons to be trained by prisoners.
[00:53.402]	The smartest dogs were drafted to work with police on patrols.
[00:58.677]	And on bomb sniffing squads.
[01:00.732]	The homeland security slogan
[01:04.804]	" If you see something, say something."
[01:07.293]	sounds like something the Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein might say.
[01:11.988]	And his books are full of cryptic sentences about logic.
[01:14.718]	And about how language has the power to actually create the world.
[01:19.956]	" If you can' t talk about it," he says, " it just doesn' t exist."
[01:26.246] [Instrumental]
[01:44.253] [Spoken verse 3:]
[01:46.252]	After the " see something, say something" slogan had been around for a while,
[01:50.085]	someone from Homeland Security must have had second thoughts
[01:55.453]	about asking people to report on each other all the time.
[02:02.819]	I would' ve loved to have been at that Homeland Security PR brainstorming session
[02:07.793]	when they decided to add this phrase to their slogan.
[02:13.110] [murmur.]
[02:19.900]	There' s so many trucks in my neighbourhood now,
[02:22.953]	carrying information and data on their way to secure storage areas.
[02:28.285]	Iron Mountain started as a network of caves for growing mushrooms.
[02:32.540]	And gradually turned into a bomb resistant storage facility for corporate documents.
[02:40.044]	After World War II,
[02:41.666]	the company began inventing new identities for Jewish immigrants,
[02:46.135]	who arrived with nothing.
[02:47.773]	No papers or at most their old library cards.
[02:51.492]	So Iron Mountain created all sorts of new documents for them.
[02:56.173]	And they became instant Americans.

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