[Silence]
[Instrumental Intro: Deep Sub Bass, Echoed Guitar Swells, Progressively Faster Tribal Percussion, Low-Frequency Drone Building From Near-inaudible Rumble to very loud]
[Intro]
Hold back the water
(Hold it back!)
Build up the wall
(Build up the wall!)
Think you’ve got nature
Right where you want her?
Then comes the rainfall…
(Reign fall)
And down comes it all!
[Verse 1]
Stack up the concrete
Pile up the stone
Tell the river
“Stay in your zone”
(Yeah, leave us alone)
[Pre-Chorus]
Water keeps rising
(The water keeps rising)
Water keeps rising
(The water keeps rising)
… ain’t that surprising
[Refrain]
Dam!
(So there “I am”)
Or so I thought
(Therefore I was?)
Damn!
(I mean gosh darn!)
… unneeded harm
(Should cause alarm)
Washed away
(Back to yesterday)
[Verse 2]
A wall of water
A wall of mud
A wall of debris
Coming like a flood
The river remembers
The path to the sea
You can change its direction
But not her destiny
[Refrain]
Dam!
(So there “I am”)
Or so I thought
(Therefore I was?)
Damn!
(I mean gosh darn!)
… unneeded harm
(Should cause alarm)
Washed away
(Back to yesterday)
[Bridge]
Dam!
(Damn!)
Dam!
(Damn!)
One little word
Two meanings collide
One holds the water
One asks us why
Thought we could trust it?
(Watch our actions bust it?)
[Breakdown]
Hold!
(Hold!)
Back!
(Back!)
Rise!
(Rise!)
Crack!
(Crack!)
Then—
Whoosh!
[Instrumental]
[Heavy drums / distorted bass / guitar]
[Final Refrain]
Dam!
(So there “I am”)
Or so I thought
(Therefore I was?)
Damn!
(I mean gosh darn!)
… unneeded harm
(Should cause alarm)
Washed away
(Back to yesterday)
[Outro]
Yesterday…
(Yesterday…)
The dam was there
(The damn unaware)
Today…
(The dam gave way)
Today…
(The damn came to stay)
[Drum hit]
Dam!
From the album “Fluidization“