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Before & After Science
by Brian Eno
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Overall Rating:
3.6650
Avg. Critic Score:
3.9100
Before & After Science Lyrics
Lyrics
Disc
Track
Title
- It will shine and it will shudder as I guide it with my rudder
- On its metalled ways
- It will cut the night before it as it leaves the day that saw it
- On its metalled ways
- Nobody passes us in the deep quiet of the dark sky
- Nobody sees us alone out here among the stars
- In these metal ways
- In these metal days
- Through a fault of our designing we are lost among the windings
- Of these metal ways
- Back to silence back to minus with the purple sky behind us
- In these metal ways
- Nobody hears us when we're alone in the blue future
- No one receiving the radio's splintered waves
- In these metal ways
- In these metal days
- Backwater!
- We're sailing at the edges of time
- Backwater!
- We're drifting at the water-line
- 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.
- Burger cruising just above the ground, ground, ground
- And gunner puts a burnish on his steel
- Anna with her feelers moving round, round, round
- Is sharpening her needles on the wheel.
- Burger Bender bargain blender shine, shine, shine
- And gunner burn the leader on the fuse
- Bundle up the numbers counting three - six - nine
- Here's Anna building webs across our shoes.
- Celebrate the loss of one and all, all, all
- And separate the torso from the spine
- Burger Bender bouncing like a ball, ball, ball
- So Burger Bender bargain blender shine.
- Do the Do-si-do, do the Mirror Man
- Do the Boston Crab, do the Allemande.
- Dark alley (dark alley) black star
- Four turkeys in a big black car
- The road is shiny (bright shine) the wheels slide
- Four turkeys going for a dangerous ride
- The lacquer crackles (black tar) the engines roar
- A ship was turning broadside to the shore
- Splish splash, I was raking in the cash
- The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface (Ooh)
- King's lead hat put the innocence inside her
- It will come, it will come, it will surely come
- King's lead hat was a mother to desire
- It will come, it will come, it will surely come.
- In New Delhi (smelly Delhi) and Hong Kong
- They all know that it won't be long
- I count my fingers (digit counter) as night falls
- And draw bananas on the bathroom walls
- The killer cycles (humdrum), the killer hurts
- The passage of my life is measured out in shirts
- Time and motion (motion carried) time and tide
- All I know and all I have is time
- And time and tide is on my side
- King's lead hat put the poker in the fire
- It will come, it will come, it will surely come
- King's lead hat was a mother to desire
- It will come, it will come, it will surely come.
- The weapon's ready (ready Freddy) the guns purr
- The satellite distorts his voice to a slur
- He gives orders (finger pie) which no-one hears
- The king's hat fits over their ears
- He takes his mannequin (tram line) cold turpentine
- He tries to dial out 999999999
- He dials reception (moving finger): he's all alone
- He's just a figment on the telephone!
- King's lead hat made the Amazon much wider
- It will come, it will come, it will surely come
- King's lead hat was the poker in the fire
- It will come, it will come, it will surely come
- King's lead hat was a mother to desire
- It will come, it will come, it will surely come
- King's lead hat put the innocence inside her
- It will come, it will come, it will surely come.
- Here he comes
- The boy who tried to vanish to the future or past
- Is no longer here with his sad blue eyes.
- Here he comes
- He floated away and as he rose above reason
- He rose above the clouds, he was seven feet high.
- Here he comes
- The night is like a glove and he's floating like a dove
- That catches the wind in the deep blue sky.
- Here he comes
- The boy who tried to vanish to another time
- Is no longer here with his sad blue eyes.
- Here he comes
- Here he comes
- Ooh ooh ooh ooh
- Ooh ooh ooh ooh
- Ooh ooh ooh ooh
- Ooh ooh ooh ooh
- Here he comes
- The boy who tried to vanish to another place
- Sees us following here all one at a time.
- Here he comes
- And we're checking out each other's supplies
- And looking at the eyes of all the others standing in the line.
- Here he comes
- The night is like a glove and he's floating like a dove
- With his deep blue eyes in the deep blue sky.
- Here he comes
- The boy who tried to vanish to the future or past
- Is no longer alone among the dragonflies.
- Here he comes
- Here he comes
- Ooh ooh ooh ooh
- Ooh ooh ooh ooh
- Who will remember him?
- Who will remember him?
- I am on an open sea,
- Just drifting as the hours go slowly by.
- Julie with her open blouse
- Is gazing up into the empty sky
- Now it seems to be so strange here
- Now it's so blue.
- The still sea is darker than before...
- No wind disturbs our coloured sails.
- The radio is silent, so are we.
- Julie's head is on her arm;
- Her fingers brush the surface of the sea
- Now I wonder if we'll be seen here
- Or if time has left us all alone.
- The still sea is darker than before...
- Here we are
- Stuck by this river,
- You and I
- Underneath a sky that's ever falling down, down, down
- Ever falling down.
- Through the day
- As if on an ocean
- Waiting here,
- Always failing to remember why we came, came, came:
- I wonder why we came.
- You talk to me
- As if from a distance
- And I reply
- With impressions chosen from another time, time, time,
- From another time.
- Spider and I
- Sit watching the sky
- On our world without sound.
- We knit a web
- To catch one tiny fly
- For our world without sound.
- We sleep in the mornings,
- We dream of a ship that sails away,
- A thousand miles away.
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