Here Comes The Flood-Peter Gabriel

[00:18.96]When the night shows [00:21.12]The signals grow on radios [00:26.42]All the strange things [00:29.13]They come and go, as early warnings [00:33.65]Stranded starfish have no place to hide [00:38.90]Still waiting for the swollen Eastern tide [00:46.78]There's no point in direction [00:51.18]We cannot even choose a side [01:00.75]I took the old track [01:03.73]The hollow shoulder, across the waters [01:08.82]On the tall cliffs [01:11.79]They were getting older, sons and daughters [01:16.44]The jaded underworld was riding high [01:22.22]Waves of steel hurled at the sky [01:30.34]And as the nail sunk in the cloud [01:34.46]The rain was warm and soaked the crowd [01:43.00]Lord, here comes the flood [01:50.48]We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood [01:58.25]If again the seas are silent [02:03.23]In any still alive [02:06.85]It'll be those who gave their island to survive [02:14.71]Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry [02:24.44]…… [02:42.65]When the flood calls [02:44.77]You have no home, you have no walls [02:51.00]In the thunder crash [02:53.36]You're a thousand minds, within a flash [02:58.29]Don't be afraid to cry at what you see [03:03.75]The actors gone, there's only you and me [03:11.73]And if we break before the dawn [03:16.04]They'll use up what we used to be [03:24.27]Lord, here comes the flood [03:31.96]We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood [03:39.88]If again the seas are silent [03:44.31]In any still alive [03:48.52]It'll be those who gave their island to survive [03:56.58]Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry