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Waking
Stream of consciousness
On a sleeping
Street of dreams
Thoughts
Like scattered leaves
Slowed in mid-fall
to the streams
Of fast running rivers
Of choice and chance
And time stops here on the delta
While they dance, while they dance Mmm, mmm ...
I love the child
Who steers this riverboat
But lately he's crazy
For the deep
The river seems dreamlike
In the daytime
Someone keeps thinking
In my dreams
Of fast running rivers
Of choice and chance
And It seems as if time stops on the delta (Time stops on the delta)
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance...
Stream of consciousness
On a sleeping
Street of dreams
Thoughts
Like scattered leaves
Slowed in mid-fall
to the streams
Of fast running rivers
Of choice and chance
And time stops here on the delta
While they dance, while they dance Mmm, mmm ...
I love the child
Who steers this riverboat
But lately he's crazy
For the deep
The river seems dreamlike
In the daytime
Someone keeps thinking
In my dreams
Of fast running rivers
Of choice and chance
And It seems as if time stops on the delta (Time stops on the delta)
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance
While they dance...
Lyrics submitted by hari66, edited by LumpyMcPhoomph
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One of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard.
It truly is a beautiful song, probably my favorite of CS&N. It was written by David Crosby... I really don't know what it means. It could be how the world seemed to him when he was high since he had huge drug problems. Otherwise, it's clearly a very abstract description of some sort of phenomenon.
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