Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Backwater, artist - Brian Eno. Album song Before And After Science, in the genre Date of issue: 31.12.2003
Record label: Virgin
Song language: English
Backwater |
| Backwater |
| We’re sailing at the edges of time |
| Backwater |
| We’re drifting at the waterline |
| Oh we’re floating in the coastal waters |
| You and me and the porter’s daughters |
| Ooh what to do not a sausage to do |
| And the shorter of the porter’s daughters |
| Dips her hand in the deadly waters |
| Ooh what to do in a tiny canoe |
| Black water |
| There were six of us but now we are five |
| We’re all talking |
| To keep the conversation alive |
| There was a senator from Ecuador |
| Who talked about a meteor |
| That crashed on a hill in the south of Peru |
| And was found by a conquistador |
| Who took it to the emperor |
| And he passed it on to a Turkish guru |
| His daughter |
| Was slated for becoming divine |
| He taught her |
| He taught her how to split and define |
| But if you study the logistics |
| And heuristics of the mystics |
| You will find that their minds rarely move in a line |
| So it’s much more realistic |
| To abandon such ballistics |
| And resign to be trapped on a leaf in the vine |