Lyric discussion by LeFleurDuMal 

Cover art for After The Flood lyrics by Talk Talk

I think bigdt87 has got something quite right. The french symbolistic poet Arthur Rimbaud also wrote the poem "Après le déluge" that in english was entitled "After The Flood".. Arthur Rimbaud is also very known as an "outsider of society", and he did also write a lot of what bigdt87 also mentions: "not having a reason to live, not knowing oneself".