Before the Water Gets Too High
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โฑ๏ธ 4:05 duration
๐ ID: 2334410
๐ Lyrics
Seldom have I ever questioned the end
Still I grow frost when I'm reminded
Euphemisms on a loop interchange
Which hands get to turn the final page?
In whose throat belongs the swan song
Crisis, warming, denial, change?
State TV helps the public explain
Broadcast beamed into the dry terrain
Images of drenched survival
Without hope but soaked with pain
Consequences of reality felt
All conditions of humanity built
On the bridges
Tent villages waiting for the state to help
Glass barely bends before it cracks
Embedded down into our path
Paved in the crimson of our tracks
Without the chance of turning back
Before the water gets too high
Before the water gets too high
If the clock strikes midnight then
What becomes of our demonstrations?
To which fate have these gatherings fell?
Which halls echo all the chants we yelled
Into faces on the coins we tossed into the wishing well?
Drinking water on which we subsist
Mixing into rivers that did not exist yesterday
When all the warning signs were there but sorely missed
What's it worth all the money we made
Floating idly in a newborn lake?
Far above financial centers
Cities sink like market rates
Glass barely bends before it cracks
Embedded down into our path
Paved in the crimson of our tracks
Without the chance of turning back
Before the water gets too high
Add up the bribes you take
And know time can't be bought
By the profits that you make
Before the water gets too high
To float the powers that be
Or is it someone else's job
Until the rich are refugees?
Before the water gets too high
Before the water gets too high
Before the water gets too high
Before the water gets too high
Still I grow frost when I'm reminded
Euphemisms on a loop interchange
Which hands get to turn the final page?
In whose throat belongs the swan song
Crisis, warming, denial, change?
State TV helps the public explain
Broadcast beamed into the dry terrain
Images of drenched survival
Without hope but soaked with pain
Consequences of reality felt
All conditions of humanity built
On the bridges
Tent villages waiting for the state to help
Glass barely bends before it cracks
Embedded down into our path
Paved in the crimson of our tracks
Without the chance of turning back
Before the water gets too high
Before the water gets too high
If the clock strikes midnight then
What becomes of our demonstrations?
To which fate have these gatherings fell?
Which halls echo all the chants we yelled
Into faces on the coins we tossed into the wishing well?
Drinking water on which we subsist
Mixing into rivers that did not exist yesterday
When all the warning signs were there but sorely missed
What's it worth all the money we made
Floating idly in a newborn lake?
Far above financial centers
Cities sink like market rates
Glass barely bends before it cracks
Embedded down into our path
Paved in the crimson of our tracks
Without the chance of turning back
Before the water gets too high
Add up the bribes you take
And know time can't be bought
By the profits that you make
Before the water gets too high
To float the powers that be
Or is it someone else's job
Until the rich are refugees?
Before the water gets too high
Before the water gets too high
Before the water gets too high
Before the water gets too high
โฑ๏ธ Synced Lyrics
[00:12.62] Seldom have I ever questioned the end
[00:15.90] Still I grow frost when I'm reminded
[00:26.06] Euphemisms on a loop interchange
[00:28.50] Which hands get to turn the final page?
[00:31.92] In whose throat belongs the swan song
[00:34.85] Crisis, warming, denial, change?
[00:38.12] State TV helps the public explain
[00:41.10] Broadcast beamed into the dry terrain
[00:44.05] Images of drenched survival
[00:47.37] Without hope but soaked with pain
[00:50.94] Consequences of reality felt
[00:54.12] All conditions of humanity built
[00:57.07] On the bridges
[00:58.63] Tent villages waiting for the state to help
[01:03.70] Glass barely bends before it cracks
[01:10.35] Embedded down into our path
[01:16.66] Paved in the crimson of our tracks
[01:22.58] Without the chance of turning back
[01:28.94] Before the water gets too high
[01:41.54] Before the water gets too high
[01:55.04] If the clock strikes midnight then
[01:58.11] What becomes of our demonstrations?
[02:07.57] To which fate have these gatherings fell?
[02:10.43] Which halls echo all the chants we yelled
[02:13.50] Into faces on the coins we tossed into the wishing well?
[02:20.09] Drinking water on which we subsist
[02:23.31] Mixing into rivers that did not exist yesterday
[02:27.33] When all the warning signs were there but sorely missed
[02:32.69] What's it worth all the money we made
[02:36.18] Floating idly in a newborn lake?
[02:39.56] Far above financial centers
[02:42.17] Cities sink like market rates
[02:45.86] Glass barely bends before it cracks
[02:52.62] Embedded down into our path
[02:58.88] Paved in the crimson of our tracks
[03:05.17] Without the chance of turning back
[03:11.00] Before the water gets too high
[03:14.39] Add up the bribes you take
[03:16.94] And know time can't be bought
[03:20.23] By the profits that you make
[03:23.48] Before the water gets too high
[03:26.92] To float the powers that be
[03:29.80] Or is it someone else's job
[03:32.69] Until the rich are refugees?
[03:36.27] Before the water gets too high
[03:42.37] Before the water gets too high
[03:48.88] Before the water gets too high
[03:55.13] Before the water gets too high
[00:15.90] Still I grow frost when I'm reminded
[00:26.06] Euphemisms on a loop interchange
[00:28.50] Which hands get to turn the final page?
[00:31.92] In whose throat belongs the swan song
[00:34.85] Crisis, warming, denial, change?
[00:38.12] State TV helps the public explain
[00:41.10] Broadcast beamed into the dry terrain
[00:44.05] Images of drenched survival
[00:47.37] Without hope but soaked with pain
[00:50.94] Consequences of reality felt
[00:54.12] All conditions of humanity built
[00:57.07] On the bridges
[00:58.63] Tent villages waiting for the state to help
[01:03.70] Glass barely bends before it cracks
[01:10.35] Embedded down into our path
[01:16.66] Paved in the crimson of our tracks
[01:22.58] Without the chance of turning back
[01:28.94] Before the water gets too high
[01:41.54] Before the water gets too high
[01:55.04] If the clock strikes midnight then
[01:58.11] What becomes of our demonstrations?
[02:07.57] To which fate have these gatherings fell?
[02:10.43] Which halls echo all the chants we yelled
[02:13.50] Into faces on the coins we tossed into the wishing well?
[02:20.09] Drinking water on which we subsist
[02:23.31] Mixing into rivers that did not exist yesterday
[02:27.33] When all the warning signs were there but sorely missed
[02:32.69] What's it worth all the money we made
[02:36.18] Floating idly in a newborn lake?
[02:39.56] Far above financial centers
[02:42.17] Cities sink like market rates
[02:45.86] Glass barely bends before it cracks
[02:52.62] Embedded down into our path
[02:58.88] Paved in the crimson of our tracks
[03:05.17] Without the chance of turning back
[03:11.00] Before the water gets too high
[03:14.39] Add up the bribes you take
[03:16.94] And know time can't be bought
[03:20.23] By the profits that you make
[03:23.48] Before the water gets too high
[03:26.92] To float the powers that be
[03:29.80] Or is it someone else's job
[03:32.69] Until the rich are refugees?
[03:36.27] Before the water gets too high
[03:42.37] Before the water gets too high
[03:48.88] Before the water gets too high
[03:55.13] Before the water gets too high