Before the Water Gets Too High-Parquet Courts

[ti:Before the Water Gets Too High] [ar:Parquet Courts] [al:Wide Awake!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Before the Water Gets Too High - Parquet Courts [00:06.72]Composer：Austin Brown/Andrew Savage/Sean Yeaton/Max Savage [00:13.45]Seldom have I ever questioned the end [00:15.46] [00:16.46]Still I grow frost when I'm reminded [00:19.92] [00:26.26]Euphemisms on a loop interchange [00:28.83]Which hands get to turn the final page [00:32.08]In whose throat belongs the swan song [00:35.35]Of crisis warming denial change [00:37.91] [00:38.98]Stage TV helps the public explain [00:41.01] [00:41.56]Broadcast beamed into the dry terrain [00:44.17] [00:44.83]Images of drenched survival [00:48.08]Without hope but soaked with pain [00:50.68] [00:51.87]Consequences of reality felt [00:54.30]All conditions of humanity built [00:57.58]On the bridges [00:59.40]Tent villages waiting for the state to help [01:03.48] [01:04.62]Glass barely bends before it cracks [01:07.67] [01:11.05]Embedded down into our path [01:13.95] [01:17.46]Paved in the crimson of our tracks [01:20.24] [01:23.82]Without the chance of turning back [01:26.95] [01:29.42]Before the water gets too high [01:31.38] [01:42.24]Before the water gets too high [01:43.84] [01:55.95]If the clock strikes midnight [01:57.43]Then what becomes of our demonstrations [02:02.91] [02:08.65]To which fate have these gatherings fell [02:10.47] [02:11.32]Which halls echo all the chants we yelled [02:13.64] [02:14.50]Into faces on the coins we tossed into the wishing well [02:20.14] [02:21.45]Drinking water on which we subsist [02:23.23] [02:24.11]Mixing into rivers that did not exist yesterday [02:28.80]When all the warning signs were there but sorely missed [02:32.94] [02:34.26]What's it worth all the money we made [02:36.08] [02:37.00]Floating idly in a newborn lake [02:40.06]Far above financial centers [02:43.26]Cities sink like market rates [02:45.76] [02:47.01]Glass barely bends before it cracks [02:50.03] [02:53.52]Embedded down into our path [02:56.57] [02:59.87]Paved in the crimson of our tracks [03:02.59] [03:05.98]Without the chance of turning back [03:09.01] [03:11.80]Before the water gets too high [03:13.90] [03:15.14]Add up the bribes you take [03:16.95] [03:17.78]And know time can't be bought [03:20.03] [03:21.39]By the profits that you make [03:23.13] [03:24.39]Before the water gets too high [03:26.40] [03:27.68]To float the powers that be [03:29.60] [03:30.32]Or is it someone else job [03:32.56] [03:33.34]Until the rich are refugees [03:35.91] [03:37.15]Before the water gets too high [03:39.21] [03:43.65]Before the water gets too high [03:45.38] [03:50.02]Before the water gets too high [03:51.94] [03:56.54]Before the water gets too high