Here Comes The Flood - "Drink up dreamers, you're running dry"

[polyculture]

This is a song in various versions by Peter Gabriel - one version appears on an album by Robert Fripp "Exposure" where it's preceded by a taped section of J G Bennett talking about scientists predicting a flood (I'm pretty sure Peter has been influenced by him or allied people - others may know more - I don't "follow" Peter Gabriel) and features Frippertronic guitar. Lyrics below.
A lot of the lyrical images remind me of the "Wave" and the move into 4d existence.
Several Youtube versions - the "Rockiest" one is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQYlKg7_isw&feature=related
with relevant images.
A Great Song in my opinion. Hope you enjoy it!

"Here Comes The Flood"

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.

 

[Rodmen]

This is really highly synchronistic: my brother passed on this song to me some 3 or 4 months ago and even though I've been listening to Gabriel's music since the early Genesis records were released, I had never ever heard it before. I immediately uploaded it to my tiny little ipod and is actually the only Gabriel song I have there.

I've grown to love it so much because I've been listening to it quite often lately on weekend nights while I'm all by myself in a rustic wooden cabin up in the mountains. It makes me feel sad at all the familiar things that may become "washed away" sooner than we may think, and gosh!, the video link you included couldn't be more poignant and straight to the point, with all those muted radio-telescopes like huge ears trying to pick up some distant early warning signal and then the massive, colliding celestial bodies...

Thanks for that one.