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Flood pt.1 Lyrics
Lift your head from wild and wicked sleep
where seven-headed serpents hiss soliloquies
and while picking snails from the river of the valley
you don't see the storm clouds piling up so quietly
The rushing river rattlesnakes your legs
and baby boy has got you drinking from the dead
you lick your lips and paddle for the levee
the sinking banks are sifting through your teeth
As you float up, see the river skins the valley
and strips the sleeping sediment of memory
You lift your head from wild and wicked sleep
the withered river sputters at your feet
and all around the sound is slow and muddy
the sunlight scatters pennies through the leaves
As you wake up see the river skins the valley
you'd love to wash this summer from your memory
where seven-headed serpents hiss soliloquies
and while picking snails from the river of the valley
you don't see the storm clouds piling up so quietly
and baby boy has got you drinking from the dead
you lick your lips and paddle for the levee
the sinking banks are sifting through your teeth
and strips the sleeping sediment of memory
the withered river sputters at your feet
and all around the sound is slow and muddy
the sunlight scatters pennies through the leaves
you'd love to wash this summer from your memory
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I think that this song mght be about having a terrible, possibly drug filled, night and waking up in the early morning afterward.
The lyrics are striking and so is every note played.
I agree I think this song describes a dream "As you wake up see the river skins the valley you'd love to wash this summer from your memory" Unbelievable song
I know the album Glory Hope Mountain is a concept album about his mother making the journey from Honduras to Canada. So the first guess about a drug-addled night out is probably not anywhere near what they meant.
Not to say that it wouldn't accompany the sights and sounds of one.
But it seems like how a young person would visualize the stories from their parents about fanastical, exotic lands. Full of mysteries and danger.
The Daytrotter version of this is absolutely beautiful.