Timbuktu - Acoustic

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