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Map Ref. 41°N 93°W - Live Version (1979)

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An unseen movement defies with geometry An unmovable expanse of geometry The aerial photographer overexposed To the cartologist, to the image exposed The area where the water flows So petrified, the landscape grows With straining eyes, try to understand The work incessantly at hand The carving and the paving of the land The carpet square, the graph divides Beneath the ruler, country hides Interrupting my train of thought Lines of longitude and latitude Define, refine my altitude The carpet unsquare Pornography, no escape Come out peaceful, love life, low life Landscape, canal, canard, watercolour Crystal palaces for floral kings A well-known waving span of wings Waiting at the sinking of the sun The debout idyll of division has begun Interrupting my train of thought Lines of longitude and latitude Define, refine my altitude Interrupting my train of thought Lines of longitude and latitude Define, refine my altitude Interrupting my train of thought Lines of longitude and latitude Define, refine my altitude