Hahaha, the question marks really set it off.
I forgot first time I heard The Dripping Tap at the first “left the tap on” part I thought it was:
Let the devil swamp it out on the sink
Let the devil and throw it in
Let the devil blanks hot over my skin
Let the devil wish I learned how to swim
I can’t figure out if this is mis-heard, or if it’s just Stu changing things later, but – the song archive says that this line in Magenta Mountain is:
“I see a flash of purple stone closing in.” …
but I’m hearing “purple stone [or smoke] enveloping”, and I can’t figure out how you’d sing “closing in” as four syllables/beats. Anybody know for sure?
huh. On the studio version I hear “…powerful thing, I see a flash of purple stone enveloping” and the live Timeland performance I hear “…powerful thing, a flash of purple smoke or stone envelopes me”
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Yeah, either “enveloping” or “envelopes me” fits, but it’s hard to make “closing in” fit.
The lyrics on Bandcamp do match what we have on the site so it seems those are the “official” lyrics
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Give it a few years, and they’ll probably change it a few more times. 
Just checked and it matches the printed lyrics on the inner sleeve of Omnium as well.
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