Timbuktu (Acoustic) Lyrics

Launching out into the great beyond

Timbuktu

Going back to Poland

Dying where Edgar Allan Poe used to live

Launching out into the great beyond

Timbuktu

Know-how knows no borders

Marching through my brain like long last brethren

Chintzy exhortations

Like knives that never went dull

Like light bulbs that never burned out

Like secret formula lotions

That remind the curse of baldness

And if the sky delivered

What it seemed to have promised

That’s exactly what was going to happen

Launching out into the great beyond

Timbuktu

As surely as the sun was a lamp in the clouds

That went off and on every day

Launching out into the great beyond

Timbuktu

No useless bits of knowledge

Unwanted memories, dandelion fluff

It’s all flit and fume, my boy, a bellyful of wind

But if this was the only life he’d ever tasted

Who was he to judge

Whether it was rich or poor in the stuff

That makes life worth living?

She was a pistol, that one

His toes were in the water now

And it was either sink or swim from this point on

Launching out into the great beyond

Timbuktu

Going back to Poland

Dying where Edgar Allan Poe used to live