歌词
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
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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
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Wheel within wheels in a spiral array
A pattern so grand and complex
Time after time we lose sight of the way
Our causes can't see their effects
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A quantum leap forward
In time and space
The universe learned to expand
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Mess and magic
Triumphant and tragic
A mechanized world out of hand
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Computerized clinic
For superior cynics
Who dance to a synthetic band
In their own image
Heir world is fashioned
No wonder they don't understand
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Wheel within wheels in a spiral array
A pattern so grand and complex
Time after time we lose sight of the way
Our causes can't see their effects
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Science, like nature, must also be tamed
With a view towards its preservation
Given the same state, state of integrity
It will surely serve us well
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Art as expression
Not as market campaigns
Will still capture our imaginations
Given the same state of integrity
It will surely help us along
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The most endangered species, the honest man
Will still survive annihilation
Forming a world, a state of integrity
Sensitive, open, and strong
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Wave after wave will flow with the tide
And bury the world as it does
Tide after tide will flow and recede
Leaving life to go on as it was