Letting the days go by
Let the water hold me down
Letting the days go by
Water flowing underground
Into the blue again
After the money's gone
Once in a lifetime
Water flowing underground

Same as it ever was

--David Byrne & the Talking Heads.

I once heard or read an interview with David Byrne, and he talked about the genesis of the song. There was a book, I think about the planet, about geology. I bought the book, and skimmed it to find the part about water. I interpreted it to be about how water has been around since the earth formed, and although it goes from solid to liquid to gas and back again, contains contaminants that are left behind when it evaporates, it's the SAME water.

It's ALL had shit "rinsed out" at some point.