Don't Fall In-Kate Tempest

[00:00.76]We came from the four corners, we are the raw waters [00:03.02]The course the four horsemen would drink from, the water that pours [00:05.88]We carry the river, the reservoir, the residue [00:08.10]Rising waves, she sprayed the inevitable [00:10.69]Churn across many voices in our vape [00:12.82]As we surge and gush, we were steam and a distant heat [00:15.52]We move rapid over landscape, gatherin' speed [00:18.28]There's a land, city, forest, and beach [00:20.41]Headin' for the people that sleep, ready to bleed [00:22.82]Unleash the torrents, come clean [00:24.73]Carry many lessons that the water teach [00:26.97]But you better learn to swim or you'll get caught beneath [00:30.89]Hard rain falling on all the halfhearted [00:32.73]Half formed, fast walking, half fury, half boredom [00:35.42]Hard talking, half dead from exhaustion [00:37.87]Half pushed but the puddles keep forming, don't fall in [00:41.21]Some saw us in their tea leaves, some felt us in their knees [00:44.28]Most left it to the weathermen to tell them there was nothing to see [00:46.48]You can play dumb and ignore for so long [00:49.25]But we've been in the mountains gettin' strong [00:51.44]We've seen you filling up the sky with your fumes [00:53.80]Sitting in your rooms like you're all that ever lived [00:56.13]Heads down to the lives of the others in your towns [00:58.44]Running from the rains like you've never been kissed, look [01:01.43]Leave your possessions and fun so your friends [01:03.77]That you've gone to make peace with the things you've never done [01:05.93]Come dance in the deluge, spill like the flood [01:08.84]The weathervane swings, things will never change [01:10.92]Single the moneymen who close their eyes and pretend [01:13.62]That this rumble must be low planes, so strange [01:16.82]Hard rain falling on all the halfhearted [01:18.73]Half formed, fast walking, half fury, half boredom [01:20.78]Hard talking, half dead from exhaustion [01:23.65]Half pushed but the puddles keep forming, don't fall in [01:27.35]And they will run to the highest hill, consult their old books [01:30.24]Ask the dead mystics for wisdom they don't trust [01:32.39]The people will flock to the garages [01:33.93]Stockpile cannisters of gasoline, tinned, fish, and bandages [01:37.17]Count the seconds between the thunder and the lightning [01:39.78]Scared of every other body runnin' 'round frightened [01:42.13]"We can't carry on like this," you will mutter [01:44.89]Staring with disgust at the people weepin' in the gutter [01:47.16]"Yeah, we made no trouble, we played by the rules [01:49.54]I worked double shift to get my kids from school!" [01:51.87]But you were so focused on your own little part [01:54.46]You went plowin' on blind in the dark, no heart [01:56.67]Now we're not the dreaded storm that will end things [01:59.19]We're just your playful, gale force friend in these end times [02:01.81]Come to remind you you're not an island [02:04.70]Life is much broader than borders [02:06.64]But who can afford to think over the walls of this fortress? [02:09.22]Of course, it's important to provide roof and floorboards [02:11.99]For you and yours and be secure in your fortunes [02:14.13]But you're more than the three or four you go to war for [02:16.72]You're part of a people that need your support [02:18.96]And, who's world is it if it belongs to these corporates? [02:21.70]The people are left on the doorstep, door shut [02:23.86]Nauseous and tortured by all that they've lost [02:27.14]Hard rain falling on all the halfhearted [02:29.60]Half formed, fast walking, half fury, half boredom [02:32.26]Hard talking, half dead from exhaustion [02:34.60]Half pushed but the puddles keep forming, don't fall in