the flood is coming - Intellectual

[Intro]

Do you recognize the sound of your reflection?

Do you recognize?

Don’t lie, you know

Don’t hide, you know

Listen, listen, listen, the sea

What karma harms and breathe, the salt and drown

Out the sound of your cries for help

And let my pity devour any semblance of power you once had

I know, I know, I know

I'll rot with the body I fought and thought to throw into the fucking river

Thanks for your concern but I know I'll burn

How dare I call myself a mother

For if great God above wiped the earth clean of his creations

Despite all his love, despite the mourning dove

To spite you, to spite me, to spite all we see

Oh, then you know the flood is coming

You know the flood is coming, the flood is coming

You know, oh, then you know the flood is coming

You know the flood is coming

You know, you-y-y-you know

I’ll fucking drown, I’ll fucking drown, I’ll fucking drown

I have walked and prayed for this young child an hour

And heard the sea-wind scream upon the tower

And under the arches of the bridge, and scream

In the elms above the flooded stream

Imagining in excited reverie that the future years had come

Dancing to a frenzied drum out of the murderous innocence of the sea

Don’t let your memory starve of uncertainty

God knows, I know

God knows I love you

Don’t you go drown on my blood, here, I’ll help, take a sip

Gasping waves breathe me in

And I beg that you don't drown, don’t drown on me

Don't drown, don’t drown on me

Darling, I love you, oh, darling, I see you, oh

Forgive the sea