South of the Sahara

South of the Sahara, aching heart

is that where you'd guess all astronomy starts?

we could have more knowledge than we dream

in heaven and earth, nothing's less than it seems

this could be the circle of the stones

the turn of the card or the rolling of bones

this could be the lay line on the land

the past and the future that cross in our hands

this could close the circle double star that hides itself

white dwarf behind the sun … oh, Sirius

the things we can't explain … remain … mysterious.

South of the Sahara, Timbuktu

the back of beyond and the shock of the new

this could be the strangest thing of all

the body of science with its back to the wall,

South of the Sahara distant men of logic try to trace

the shape of the Bortex, the pattern of space

the same as that of atoms in the mind

wherever we look it's ourselves that we find

the sand of the Sahara double star that hides itself

white dwarf behind the sun … oh, Sirius

the things we can't explain … remain … mysterious.

The people of the Dogon always knew

the extraterrestrials' heavenly view

stars that dog our passage holy suns

over the centuries, these have become

the legend of the Dogon ... how do you explain it?

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how do you begin to explain it all?

We could be the lay line on the land

invisible shifts in the hourglass's sand

we could have more knowledge than we dream

in heaven and earth nothing's all that it seems

we could be eternal … etc.