Here Comes The Flood (Radio Version)

from "Here Comes the Flood" (EP) by Oysterband

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lyrics

HERE COMES THE FLOOD
(WORDS AND MUSIC BY CHOPPER / JONES / PARTIS / PROSSER / TELFER)

Factories in the Philippines
Are cutting holes in brand new jeans
For cutting edge consumers
Rich kids in the West, you see
They have no sense of irony
And I could lose my sense of humour

All across the wounded sky
Vapour trails multiply
Trade winds are getting stronger
While we sip Shiraz and chill
They bring us apples from Brazil
New diseases from the Congo

I haven’t prayed since God knows when
My teeth are un-American
Socialism’s orphan child,
unimpressed, unreconciled
Some people think I’m crazy, but I’m not -
Here comes the flood
Here comes the flood

A million TV dishes crown
The skyline of shantytown
Everywhere our aspiration
The word from CNN arrives
We watch the headlines of our lives
Each marooned in isolation
The cool blue light of isolation

Democracy for planet earth
They roll it out like astroturf
Busy men, they are all in a hurry
Cheer and wear a stupid grin
Watch them roll the bankers in
Only the bad guys amongst us need to worry

I haven’t prayed since God knows when
My teeth are un-American
Socialism’s orphan child,
unimpressed, unreconciled
Some people think I’m crazy, but I’m not -
Here comes the flood
Here comes the flood

credits

from "Here Comes the Flood" (EP), released October 1, 2007
JOHN JONES VOCAL
CHOPPER HARMONICA, VOCAL
LEE PARTIS DRUMS
ALAN PROSSER ACOUSTIC 12-STRING GUITAR, ACCORDION, VOCAL

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