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Flood in the Desert
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Johnny Flynn
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In the daylight of our heartbreak In the moonlight of our making Two thousand years laying buried Under stones, the dust was shaking Where the deep down, deep down story The deep down, deep down play Between Tigris and Euphrates Where the dust will have its way And we'll build a boat to sail, oh Time runs still, hand to hand Long songs, where gods and men are men There's a flood in the desert The wed shaped wood lay broken Chained, enchanted in the Cuneiform The story, stories still unclaimed Till' bearded men in uniform Followed the lines of separation Loud they spoke and proud they stood And found the newest congregation For actions in the cedar wood And we'll build a boat to sail, oh Time runs still, hand to hand Long songs, where gods and men are men There's a flood in the desert Smashed in the sand by the killers Found again in the buried palace Gripping hard now to the tiller Time hangs, hangs in the balance Rain falls and water rises And the desert will be drowned Scant handful of survivors A raven, a dove, the smell of dry ground So we'll build a boat to sail, oh Time runs still, hand to hand Long songs, where gods and men are men There's a flood in the desert The wing lion and the wing bull Feel the surge as the sail fills When there's a low one of us Pick up the slack of the story we tell So hold on the sheet and watch for the land Dig deep as the storms rage Surface lost with words in hand The end of a dark age The turn of a new page So we'll build a boat to sail, oh Time runs still, hand to hand Long songs, where gods and men are men There's a flood in the desert We'll build a boat to sail, oh Time runs still, hand to hand Long songs, where gods and men are men There's a flood in the desert
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