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Originally Posted by dancheatham
I clearly hear a /v/ in there, so it's definitely "selves" IMO. It's a bit awkwardly worded since "themselves" wouldn't really fit the meter (but Dave has been cramming lots of words into lines over the last decade or so, meter be damned... c.f. Black & Blue Bird, Bismarck).
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Make sense and dmbalmanac.com has these listed.
10/18/2020 alternate lyrics
Once I had a dream
stuck somewhere in between
the water and the beach
both worlds out of reach
so with elegance and style
caught a wave and took a ride
Yeah, empty plastic bag
a starry night
floats into the black
look at how she dip and dive
but no one could ever know
how many miles she'll go
or how she does with such elegance and style
look at how she dip and dive
Take only what you need
like the water and the seed
so after we are gone
there'll be something good to carry on
all this elegance and style
dancing with the butterfly
You know, math's no miracle
it's all grown mechanical
machines by
selves design, oh yeah
to float into the sky
with such elegance and style
the ocean and the butterfly