Before The Water Gets Too High lyrics by Parquet Courts - original song full text. Official Before The Water Gets Too High lyrics, 2024 version | LyricsMode.com
Request & respond explanations
  • Don't understand the meaning of the song?
  • Highlight lyrics and request an explanation.
  • Click on highlighted lyrics to explain.
Parquet Courts – Before The Water Gets Too High lyrics
[Verse 1]
Seldom have I ever questioned the end
Still I grow frost when I’m reminded
Euphemisms on a loop interchange
Which hands get to turn the final page?
In whose throat belongs the swan song
Of crisis, warming, denial, change?
State TV helps the public explain
Broadcast beamed into the dry terrain
Images of drenched survival
Without hope but soaked with pain
Consequences of reality felt
All conditions of humanity built
On the bridges
Tent villages waiting for the state to help

[Pre-Chorus]
Glass barely bends before it cracks
Embedded down into our path
Paved in the crimson of our tracks
Without the chance of turning back

[Chorus 1]
Before the water gets too high
Before the water gets too high

[Verse 2]
If the clock strikes midnight then
What becomes of our demonstrations?
To which fate have these gatherings fell?
Which walls echo all the chants we yelled
Into faces on the coins we tossed into the wishing well?
Drinking water on which we subsist
Mixing into rivers that did not exist yesterday
When all the warning signs were there but sorely missed
What’s it worth all the money we made
Floating idly in a newborn lake?
Far above financial centers
Cities sink like market rates

[Pre-Chorus]
Glass barely bends before it cracks
Embedded down into our path
Paved in the crimson of our tracks
Without the chance of turning back

[Chorus 2]
Before the water gets too high
Add up the bribes you take
And know time can’t be bought
By the profits that you make
Before the water gets too high
To float the powers that be
Or is it someone else’s job
Until the rich are refugees?
Before the water gets too high
×



Lyrics taken from /lyrics/p/parquet_courts/before_the_water_gets_too_high.html

  • Email
  • Correct
Songwriters: Andrew Savage, Austin Bradley Brown, Maxwell Savage, Sean Yeaton
Before The Water Gets Too High lyrics © DOMINO PUBLISHING COMPANY

Before The Water Gets Too High meanings

Write about your feelings and thoughts about Before The Water Gets Too High

Know what this song is about? Does it mean anything special hidden between the lines to you? Share your meaning with community, make it interesting and valuable. Make sure you've read our simple tips.
U
Min 50 words
Not bad
Good
Awesome!

Post meanings

U
Min 50 words
Not bad
Good
Awesome!

official video

0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z