Possible Clues:

• Ebbing and flowing for the boy with it back there
• Word with "wave" or "pool"
• Having ups and downs in liquidity
• Word before basin or pool
• Start of a big wave?
• Fiona Apple "Shadowboxer" album
• Like Drinkwater's waterfalls, say
• Like some almanac data
• Some fetid algae subject to ebb and flow?
• 4 down is coming in this way