The point of inspiration is the eponymous chapter of the book that shares the song's title, My Cocaine Museum.
lyrics
You can find it when you face the sun, close your eyes,
And watch the colored lines dance
Follow them, follow the heat and you’ll get there
All the way to my Cocaine Museum
Unlike the museum in downtown Bogotá
Plumb in the center of el capital
My museum lies at the extreme of the border
Where the ocean meets 400 miles of swamp
Where the air barely moves and the rain never stops
Where slaves from Africa brought to mine gold
From the founts of rivers flowing down mountains
Which run north to south but a few miles from sea
This place that I visited weeks every summer
As gold dwindled down and the cocaine appeared
Spread west over mountains from Amazon basin
Where US defoliants drove cultivation
By 1999, oh they were coming
Los tráficos living it up
In the Hotel del Rio, carousing with police
While one river north grew the crops of the FARC
Though fears have abated, they can’t be discounted
In this sense My Cocaine Museum
It stands with its door, with its door all ajar
on the impending apocalypse
…
But I am not that interested in museums
Those dead and hostile places
What I’m interested in is gold and cocaine
Where one is dying and one taking off
The end of the earth where the rain never stops
And the trees reach the sky
A history of things and a history of people
Forced to find their way through these things
What sort of things? Heat and rain, stones and swamps
Forests and rivers, colors and islands
And along with the ghosts that haunt the museum
Nature itself is released with the rush
Of the time-compressed magic of gold and cocaine
The time-compressed magic of gold and cocaine
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