Here Comes The Flood - First Edition: Original 1979 Release

by Robert Fripp

From the album: Exposure

Duration: 4:07

Exposure cover art

Lyrics for Here Comes The Flood - First Edition: Original 1979 Release

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

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