PETER GABRIEL - Here Comes The Flood lyrics

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When the night shows<br>The signals grow on radios<br>All the strange things<br>They come and go, as early warnings<br>Stranded starfish have no place to hide<br>Still waiting for the swollen easter tide<br>There's no point in direction we cannot even choose a side.<br><br>I took the old track<br>The hollow shoulder, across the waters<br>On the tall cliffs<br>They were getting older, sons and daughters<br>The jaded underworld was riding high<br>Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky<br>And as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain was warm and soaked the crowd.<br><br>Lord, here comes the flood<br>We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood<br>If again the seas are silent<br>In any still alive<br>It'll be those who gave their island to survive<br>Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.<br><br>When the flood calls,<br>You have no home, you have no walls<br>In the thunder crash<br>You're a thousand minds, within a flash<br>Don't be afraid to cry at what you see<br>The actors gone, there's only you and me<br>And if we break before the dawn, they'll use up what we used to be.<br><br>Lord, here comes the flood<br>We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood<br>If again, the seas are silent<br>In any still alive<br>It'll be those who gave their island to survive<br>Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.