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Upside-Downtown, or “This city we live in.”
(AUDIO: (Nothing But) Flowers (Talking Heads) by Caetano Veloso)
“Here we stand like an Adam and an Eve,
Waterfalls, the Garden of Eden.
Two fools in love,
So beautiful and strong,
The birds in the trees are smiling upon them.
From the age of the dinosaurs,
cars have run on gasoline.
Where, where have they gone?
Now, it’s nothing but flowers!
There was a factory.
Now there are mountains and rivers.
We caught a rattlesnake.
Now we’ve got something for dinner.
There was a shopping mall.
Now it’s all covered with flowers.
If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower.
Years ago, I was an angry young man,
I’d pretend that I was a billboard.
Standing tall by the side of the road,
I fell in love with a beautiful highway.”
