Brookhaven

Lyrics

[Intro — instrumental only, no vocals]
[a brook babbles and turns a clacking wooden wheel; the beat builds]
[Instrumental build — still no singing, let the groove settle in]
[Instrumental — the brook and the strings carry it alone]

[Verse 1 — vocals enter at last]
Leafy and quiet where the slow money flows,
a brook in the name and a college that knows;
turn the old wheel, let the water spill,
Brookhaven keeping its time so still.

[Chorus]
Brookhaven, Brookhaven, babble and clack,
the brook keeps running and it won't run back;
flow, flow, flow past the Oglethorpe gate,
the leafy green where the trains run late.

[Verse 2]
They sealed a crypt for a far-off age,
a time capsule humming on a buried page;
the brook keeps time that the vault can't keep,
Brookhaven running while the rich folks sleep.

[Chorus]
Brookhaven, Brookhaven, babble and clack,
the brook keeps running and it won't run back;
flow, flow, flow past the Oglethorpe gate,
the leafy green where the trains run late.

[Outro — vocals stop here]
[Instrumental — the brook rides out alone, no more singing]
[Long instrumental outro — the groove fades slowly all the way down to silence]