Purpose In Life

Album: LP (1997)
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Songfacts®:

  • The conversation about the purpose in life is from John Carpenter's 1974 movie Dark Star when Lt. Doolittle is attempting to reason with a bomb that has artificial intelligence.
  • The monologue is from the Old Testament of the Bible - book of Genesis verse 11:5 referring to the story of the Tower Of Babel. >>>
    Suggestion credit:
    Donovan Berry - El Dorado, AR, for above 2

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