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]