A dead issue (a dead issue)
Don't wrestle with it (don't wrestle with it)
Deaf ears are sleeping (deaf ears are sleeping)
A guilty bliss (a guilty bliss)
So inviting (let me in)
Nailed to the cross

I feel you, relate to you
Accuse you
Wash away us all
Take us with the floods

Then throughout the night
They were raped and executed (then throughout the night)
(They were raped and executed)
Cold hearted world

Your language unheard of (your language unheard of)
The vast sound of tuning out (the vast sound of tuning out)
The rash of negativity (the rash of negativity)
Is seen one sidedly (one sidedly)
Burn away the day

The nervous, the drifting
The heaving
Wash away us all
Take us with the floods

Then throughout the day
Mankind played with grenades (then throughout the day)
(Mankind played with grenades)
Cold hearted world

And at night
They might bait the pentagram (and at night)
(They might bait the pentagram)
Extinguishing the sun

Wash away man
Take him with the floods

Flood (flood)
Flood (flood)


Lyrics submitted by -L3tH4L-, edited by joseph3or, RogueCapregime

Floods Lyrics as written by Philip Anselmo Vincent Paul Abbott

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    This is one of my favorite songs. It has a good vibe to it when you're listening to it. I like the outro solo. It's cool.

    Floods420on December 06, 2001   Link

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