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Backwater, we're sailing at the edges of time
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Backwater, we're drifting at the waterline
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Oh, we're floating in the coastal waters
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You and me and the porter's daughters
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Ooh, what to do not a sausage to do?
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And the shorter of the porter's daughters
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Dips her hand in the deadly waters
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Ooh, what to do in a tiny canoe?
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Blackwater, there were six of us, but now we are five
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We're all talking to keep the conversation alive
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There was a senator from Ecuador who talked about a meteor
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That crashed on a hill in the south of Peru
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And was found by a conquistador
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Who took it to the emperor
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And he passed it on to a Turkish guru
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His daughter, was slated for becoming divine
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He taught her, he taught her how to split and define
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But if you study the logistics and heuristics of the mystics
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You will find that their minds rarely move in a line
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So it's much more realistic to abandon such ballistics
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And resign to be trapped on a leaf in a vine
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Backwater, we're sailing at the edges of time
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Backwater, we're drifting at the waterline
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Oh, we're floating in the coastal waters
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You and me and the porter's daughters
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Ooh, what to do not a sausage to do?
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And the shorter of the porter's daughters
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Dips her hand in the deadly waters
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Ooh, what to do in a tiny canoe?
Brian Eno - By This River
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