Dave Smallen - Underneath the Flood lyrics

rate me

I knew love in dripping coffee

Flooded streets and rust and rotting

I knew love in drunken talking

'Fore the weather changed.

And long before the fever dreams

The pale-faced machinery

For the rain came like artillery

Pulled me underneath the flood.

And underneath the flood it's quiet

All my thoughts are softly dying

All the rain, the rain is silent

Underneath the flood.

Well I was bred in anxious tryst

All soft of hand and soft of fist

Through sanity so tedious

I'm searching in the blood.

Well my hatred needs no victim oh

My hatred like religion

Crucify me while I'm kicking

Pull me underneath the flood.

And underneath the flood it's quiet

All my thoughts are softly dying

Oh the rain, the rain is silent

Underneath the flood.

And underneath the flood I'm drowning

Have no friends to gather 'round me

Oh my god my greed has found me

Underneath the flood.

And underneath the flood

My tears are turning to the water

Rusted coins and crumpled dollars

I sink underneath, sink underneath.

I sit here in torrential silence

Coffee keeping up my eyelids

Thoughts of you all turn to violence

Trying to find love

But I hate how you believed in me

You believed with such cold objectivity

So tired I relinquished everything

Fell underneath the flood.

And underneath the flood it's quiet

All my thoughts are softly dying

All the rain, the rain is silent

Underneath the flood.