After The Flood lyrics

Song information

Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator
Album: The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other

Lyrics

(Hammill)

Continuing the story, humanity stumbles -
Gone is the glory, there's a far distant rumble
The clouds have gathered and exploded now:
Axes shattered, there is no north or south
Far off, the ice is foundering slowly
The ice is turning to water
The ice is turning to water

The water rushes over all
Cities crash in the mighty wave;
The final man is very small
Plunging in for his final bathe

This is the ending of the beginning
This is the beginning of the end
Middle of the middle, mid-point, end and start:
The first peak rises, forces the waves apart
Far off, the ice is now re-forming:
Poles are fixed once more
Water's receding, like death-blood

And when the water falls again
All is dead and nobody lives

And then he said:
'Every step appears to be
The unavoidable consequence of the preceding one
And in the end there beckons more and more clearly
Total annihilation'

This is the ending of the beginning
This is the beginning of the end
And when the water falls again
All is dead and nobody lives

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