Julian Lennon - Saltwater
Time: 0:55
We'll make the desert bloom
We're so ingenious
We can walk on the moon

clever; showing inventiveness and skill
Heard in 15 songs (6.4M+ combined views) — most famously in "Saltwater" by Julian Lennon.
Updated August 1, 2026
Time: 0:55
We'll make the desert bloom
We're so ingenious
We can walk on the moon

Time: 2:05
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Oh, how ingenious the centuries of lies
Ezekiel's chariots streak across the skies

Time: 2:46
The golden age's vanished and more
The ingenious knight knows it's over
He no longer denies there's a real me

Time: 2:43
A gps you need
You're lost and not really ingenious
Me eat you fi di breakfast like a big bowl

Time: 0:44
Setting the mood, by the use of this groove
Is an ingenious, perceptive, brilliant, a very clever move
Because the bassline, combined with the fresh rhyme at a slow tempo enticed passion to grow

Time: 0:14
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And you can take them back to lie with you in this ingenious room
But they can never take the pain away, or brighten all the gloom

Time: 0:02
Sgt. Pilcher, Sgt. Pilcher, ingenious Sgt. Pilcher
He's found a way to make them pay

Time: 1:03
It's so incredible the way he shaped your bod
Ingenious mixing soft wit hard
Little sweet little heat spicy hot

Time: 0:47
I'd try to leave your sorry ass, but end up spending the night
Your sweetness, my weakness, you're mean though ingenious
Nothing can go between us (aye, have you seen us?)

Time: 0:16
With these two little metal things to make it go ding, ding, ding
George Duke is now applying an ingenious technique
To the finger cymbal itself, as a prelude

Time: 0:33
Never been oblivious, stress so mysterious
Ingenious trickery who's aftermath is serious
I WILL NOT STRESS

Time: 1:32
The need to say what we deem right
Ingenious harmless compromise
I never even saw myself as having to explain

Time: 2:06
Then we would say, "Well, these people are, after all
Not very ingenious, you know?"
PhDs, how many of them are there?

Time: 0:47
My life
So ingenious and silent
I fell on over with the violent

Time: 3:24
No institution gonna disrupt
The constitution of my ingenious hairdo solution
See I got my sly pomade, my jelly in a jar!
