[Silence]
[Instrumental, Guitar, Piano, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]
[Intro]
[Instrumental Intro: Deep Rolling Bass, Water-Like Synth Pulses, Echo Guitar, Distant Thunder, Rising Organ Swell]
[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
The water rises…
(Beyond the line)
The old predictions…
(Left behind)
[Refrain]
Flooded
(With emotion)
As our home
(Flooded)
… in the flood zone
(I’ve a notion)
Going down
(Down, down, down)
Don’t wanna drown
(Going down)
Down, down, down
[Verse 1]
Once they called it once in time
A rare event beyond the line
Five hundred years before it came
A number written in the name
But the numbers started changing
As the climate kept rearranging
What was rare began to show
More often than we used to know
[Chorus]
Flooded
(Overrun)
Water rising
(One by one)
Through the streets
(Across the ground)
Where the dry land
(Used to be found)
[Refrain]
Flooded
(With emotion)
As our home
(Flooded)
… in the flood zone
(I’ve a notion)
Going down
(Down, down, down)
Don’t wanna drown
(Going down)
Down, down, down
[Instrumental]
[Guitar Solo]
[Heavy Bass Groove, Rolling Drums, Organ Waves, Synth Sounds Like Rising Water]
[Verse 2]
The atmosphere can hold more weight
More moisture building while we wait
When the skies release the load
Rivers surge beyond the road
[Pre-Chorus]
Ten-year storms
(Return again)
Hundred-year floods
(Became the trend)
[Bridge]
Statistics move
(When systems change)
Probability
(Rearranges)
The past is not
(The same guide)
When the future
(Changes tide)
[Breakdown]
[Minimal Beat, Deep Sub Bass, Spoken Vocal]
A flood is not only water.
It is probability.
It is energy.
It is a reality.
[Refrain]
Flooded
(With emotion)
As our home
(Flooded)
… in the flood zone
(I’ve a notion)
Going down
(Down, down, down)
Don’t wanna drown
(Going down)
Down, down, down
[Final Chorus]
Flooded
(With emotion)
As our home
(Flooded)
… in the flood zone
(I’ve a notion)
Going down
(Down, down, down)
Don’t wanna drown
(Going down)
Down, down, down
Flooded
(Feel the tide)
Changing currents
(Changing lives)
What was rare
(Is now near)
What was distant
(Is now here)
[Outro]
[Instrumental Outro: Water Effects, Echo Guitar, Deep Organ Chords, Slow Synth Fade]
Going down…
(Down, down, down)
Don’t wanna drown…
Flooded…
(Flooded…)
About the Song
One of the simplest ways to understand climate change is through the changing frequency of extreme events.
Climate change is not merely causing temperatures to rise. It is fundamentally altering the probability of extreme weather. Events that were once considered extraordinarily rare are becoming increasingly common.
In the 1990s, what was considered a 500-year flood had only a 0.2 percent chance of occurring in any given year.
By the early 2000s, many of these same events were being reclassified as 100-year floods. By the 2020s, they increasingly resembled 10-year floods. Today, in some regions, comparable flood events are occurring every few years.
This does not mean that every flood is becoming larger than previous floods. Rather, the statistical framework itself is changing. The atmosphere and oceans now contain significantly more energy and moisture than they did several decades ago, increasing the likelihood of extreme rainfall events.
Floods
From the album “Extreme Energy“