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
   Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
   and as the nail 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 actors 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.
  
   < Repeat chorus once >