Flood

You, you have been blackened

You, you have been burned

You, you have been broken

A bruise never blossoms if you’re born blue.

But you, you have been chosen

You, you have been changed

You have been charged with current and fire

They cannot extinguish you.

Lightning will light up the scars on your body,

the places where they beat you down.

Thunder will applaud for you

when you rise up,

run like mad from this twilight town

build your haven high above ground

You, you are a soldier

for your lonely country of one

You are a hero for the souls who burned

from someone else’s selfish sun

You, you extract honey

from this poison pit of despair

and their banners and cannon fire

cannot reach you, do not dare

Lightning will light up the scars on your body,

the places where they beat you down.

Thunder will applaud for you

when you rise up,

and the storm will bury the town

this cold, cruel, callous town

(Let fortune flood , let fortune flood…)

They have broken your ribs

with the cracks of a war’s worth of gunshots

(Let fortune flood, let fortune flood…)

They have brought you to your knees

with rusted prisoner’s chains

(Let fortune flood, let fortune flood…)

When you rise and race on

they won’t see where you’ve gone

and the storm will bring the rains

Let fortune flood

Let fortune flood

Let fortune flood…