Natural Science - Live In YYZ 1981
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When the ebbing tide retreats
Along the rocky shoreline
It leaves a trail of tidal pools
In a short-lived galaxy
Each microcosmic planet
A complete society
A simple kind of mirror
To reflect upon our own
All the busy little creatures
Chasing out their destinies
Living in their pools
They soon forget about the sea
Everything reels in a spiral array
Of patterns of grand and complex
Time after time we lose sight of the way
Our causes can't see their effects
A point of leap forward
In time and space
The universe starts to retract
Mess and magic
String of midnight magic
A blinking light squirm on the map
Everything reels in a spiral array
Of patterns of grand and complex
Time after time we lose sight of the way
Our causes can't see their effects
Science like nature
Must also be tamed
With a view to one's preservation
Keeping our same
State of integrity
It will surely serve us well
Art as expression
Not as market campaigns
You've still got to
The most hideous species
The ugliest mind
Will still survive annihilation
Forming a world
A state of integrity
Sounds of death
Unburnt and strong
Wave after wave
Flowing with time
And bury the world's dust
Hide after hide
Roll over
Sealing the light to go on and on