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Saturday, January 24, 2026

Music For Enophiles - BACKWATER

 I danced so much to the original yesterday (yes, yes around the living room in my pants!) that I found this . . . . . . I like them (well you WOULD -ED!) Lets have a great weekend people!

Brian Eno - by A.Swapp c.1977 3’ x 4’ Liquitex on treated canvas


Brian Eno cover band Music for Enophiles performing Bowery Electric 

March 39, 2017


Sing-along-a-Eno!

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


So it's much more realistic

To abandon such ballistics

And resign to be trapped on a leaf in the vine


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


Brian Eno - Before and After Science 1977

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