After the Flood - Talk Talk

My folks own the land round here And our big old house now for some fifty odd years We'd all seen a few rough days But I never dreamed I'd watch it all get swept away No one knows what causes angry rain The water rushed right through this town just like a great big train Years of hard work and memories Are floatin' down big river on their way out to sea. After the flood After the flood The land it washed away Felt like my flesh and blood I'd rather be shovelin' Through the slush and mud Than to leave my home Where I grew up Life goes on After the flood The Clover Inn Bar was hit pretty hard The piano's lyin' in the street broken apart My favorite old oak tree's rooted up But I'll plant myself a new one after the flood After the flood After the flood The land it washed away Felt like my flesh and blood I'd rather be shovelin' Through the slush and mud Than to leave my home Where I grew up Life goes on After the flood A place to call your very own Means so much Though it's a little soggy After all the water's gone I'll scrub it clean And make it home again A natural disaster can't hold nothin' on me Their quakin' out west and freezin' back east So I think I'll stick around And show a little faith in a weary town After the flood After the flood The land it washed away Felt like my flesh and blood I'd rather be shovelin' Through the slush and mud Than to leave my home Where I grew up Life goes on After the flood After the flood After the flood The land it washed away Felt like my flesh and blood I'd rather be shovelin' Through the slush and mud Than to leave my home Where I grew up Life goes on After the flood

Turn the lights out, in the lighthouse I saw you coming Felt the shipwreck, saw the wreckage I heard you yelling Just then that's when I saw your reflection in the sand Wondering where you had washed up Oh, I ran to the water (mmm) I could put my hands down in it But it won't bring nothing up Sitting on the shore all day Just waiting on the tide to come But you can't hold on to water It fills you up but never stays It's only good to wash away, today And you're loving me like water You're slipping through my fingers, such A natural disaster love Bringing on the flood of love Love me like a flood of love Bring it on Stay the night out, by the beach house It's oh so quiet Lit a candle, by the window So you might find it Hope you know you'll always have a place to call your home Still I can't help but think I could have saved you from drowning (oooh) I could put my hands down in it, yeah But it won't bring nothing up Sitting on the shore all day Just waiting on the tide to come But you can't hold on to waterIt fills you up but never stays It's only good to wash away, today And you're loving me like water You're slipping through my fingers, such A natural disaster love Bringing on the flood of love Love me like a flood of love Bring it on I knew the waves were icy When I felt them all retreating Went to take a dive in the deep end Oh, what was I thinking? But you can't hold on to waterIt fills you up but never stays It's only good to wash away, today And you're loving me like water You're slipping through my fingers, such A natural disaster love Bringing on the flood of love Love me like (love me like) a flood of love Bring it on (Ohh ohh) The rising and the falling of my tears Rising and the falling of my tears that fill the ocean The ocean The ocean My tears that fill the ocean

I know you keep your silence. I know that secret better than you. Sometimes all the matters of the heart Are the chaos and the cowardice that keep us apart. I know you want to shut down. I know you think we're better alone. Sometimes all the words are unsaid But you listen to them argue every night in your head. Just breathe in and out. Because all I want to do is just talk talk talk to you. Please hear me out. Because all I want to do is just talk talk talk to you. I know that you've been pushed down. I know you think we're better as two. Sometimes well the miracle of love is meaningless And clumsy like the beating of a heart. Just breathe in and out. Because all I want to do is just talk talk talk to you. Please hear me out. Because all I want to do is just talk talk talk to you. Calling out. Got to hear an echo got to get to you. When I'm walking out. All I want to do is just talk talk talk to you. Well you can hide away your feelings. And burn your bridges in the dark. But I know you want to break through. But we're worlds apart. Just breathe in and out. Because all I want to do is just talk talk talk to you. Please hear me out. Because all I want to do is just talk talk talk. And I'm calling out. Got to hear an echo got to get to you. When I'm walking out. Well all I want to do is just talk talk talk to you yeah Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk Talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk talk...

Place my chair at the backroom door Help me up, I can't wait anymore Blessed love, the love I've seen Stair by idle stair, faith one path and the second in fear Stare down, a half wit am I read Stare down And tread dependance beneath my feet Step right up, something's happening here Something's happening here

When do you know, you know, you know you learn D'you die in sin, born again With will to wind and wander, climb Through needle neck to consent When do you know, you know, you know you learn Arrive at spring once again And still to rise beyond the tide And mortal track Fretful of fair By straw, by strap Toughening tear Dust to dust, to dust, to dust Consume For what is worth Upon me Nascent, naissant

It's okay If you don't like the words I say Throw them away But sing it just the same I know inside I'll get them back again Back again It's okay But I won't? again Let's hit it away Why don't we think and play I know inside I'll get them back again Back again It's okay If you don't like the words I say Throw them away But sing it just the same I know inside I'll get them back again Back again