[ti:Backwater (2004 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Brian Eno] [al:Before And After Science] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Backwater (2004 Digital Remaster) - Brian Eno [00:08.81]Backwater [00:12.61]Were sailing at the edges of time [00:16.30]Backwater [00:20.07]Were drifting at the waterline [00:22.75]Oh were floating in the coastal waters [00:25.35]You and me and the porters daughters [00:27.24]Ooh what to do not a sausage to do [00:30.77]And the shorter of the porters daughters [00:32.97]Dips her hand in the deadly waters [00:34.93]Ooh what to do in a tiny canoe [00:37.71]Black water [00:43.22]There were six of us but now we are five [00:46.97]Were all talking [00:51.04]To keep the conversation alive [00:53.66]There was a senator from ecuador [00:55.84]Who talked about a meteor [00:57.83]That crashed on a hill in the south of peru [01:01.70]And was found by a conquistador [01:03.27]Who took it to the emperor [01:05.49]And he passed it on to a turkish guru [01:10.40]His daughter [01:14.14]Was slated for becoming divine [01:18.06]He taught her [01:21.95]He taught her how to split and define [01:24.55]But if you study the logistics [01:26.26]And heuristics of the mystics [01:28.72]You will find that their minds rarely move in a line [01:32.10]So its much more realistic [01:34.30]To abandon such ballistics [01:36.41]And resign to be trapped on a leaf in a vine [02:12.05]Backwater we're sailing at the edges of time [02:19.68]Backwater we're drifting at the waterline [02:26.26]Oh we're floating in the coastal waters [02:28.61]You and me and the porter's daughters [02:30.62]Ooh what to do not a sausage to do [02:34.29]And the shorter of the porter's daughters [02:36.41]Dips her hand in the deadly waters [02:38.02]Ooh what to do in a tiny canoe