Cenoté lyrics

Beneath the jungle's canopy

Lie subleties of tree top height

Boosted so by waters close

There in depths foreboding lie

Clouded surfaces of debris

A cover eerie still and silent

Mysterious and darkened 'neath

A world apart from sunlight lit

Encircled in alimestone fortress

Colours alit in artifical light

They magnify the dazzled mind

So clear as if one can soar there

Above the halocline flowing by

As if a river of mirages fluid

Its saline waving borders go

Diving through its illusive limits

Bubbles breakup sediments

That bring clouds extending

Stalagtites and stalagmites stand

Untouched since flooded find

In an aquatic arena magnificant

Found through passage tight

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

Beauty bounds in balance

Precautions to assure return

By lines, by backup, by peers

That shared wonder bonds men

A child's discovery is reborn

Known by so few, essential still

A world of light kept by dark

Cenotés' route to the underworld