Dan Bull - Hell Or High Water lyrics

Hi, neighbour, nice day, but might rain yet
And by the way
Climate change makes a great ice breaker
Hope, you don't mind
If I say what's on my mind lately
You do? Well
I hate being the guy to break it to you
But humankind ain't advice takers by nature
We're stuck to our ways like
Stubborn bugs to flypaper
Rising tides aren't quite so high
When spied from skyscrapers
So we'll keep making money now and
Decide how to survive later we'll be fine
We're primates with a migratory mind of state
But where do you relocate to
When you can't find a dry acre?
It's so polluted though that you've
No hope to hydrate here
Entire states lie in waste
The change is night and day
This type of failure's kind of major, but
Hey that's the price we pay
For infinite growth inside a finite place
Isn't it gross? Revenue became
Our entire life's aim
Looks like the only way we'll learn to
Change our way is via pain

When the levee breaks through
Then it's fairly late to
Regret every mistake you may have ever made
Come hell or high water
We'd better make a change
Why I ought to, well, but then again
Heavy rain, ever so heavy rain
Funny how the flood is spreading
As if it's aflame
And the heavy rain, ever so heavy rain
See, never will the sea level
Ever be the same

I remember civilisation started to
Creak at the seams
It seemed increasingly frequent to
See the freakiest scenes
Streets full of people ceased to be peaceful
There was bleeding and screams
As they received beatings from eager
Police for breaching the peace
Here we see freedom in freefall, I mean
Is there even a need for thieving to eat
Or is it merely more evil and greed?
We've all ignored the awkward things that
We've seen in our feed
But now they're written in
Your flood of tears, so read them and weep
See the double meaning to "we're in it deep"?
But inner demons and beasts? We
Can leave them deceased we don't need them
Now that even our seasons have ceased
At least seasonal depression has
No reason to be
But now the sea's at our feet
We're feeling weak at the knees
It's either gills
Or survival skills we'll need just to breathe
It's getting wetter, and we'd
Better do better, but if there's one thing
To bring people together
It's immediate pressure
It's such a deep dilemma
For the complete beginner
How did the dove of peace become
A piece of meat for dinner?
Just pull off the beak and
Feathers, now come on, let's eat together
Roast it over open flames
So the taste is even better

Seven deadly sins end in
Several deadly plagues
Yet never did we know
Was our co-architect the end of days?
Everything we've ever made buried under waves
Guess they're sending us a genesis
To get our penance paid
Heavy rain, ever so heavy rain
Every day we wade in, we play a deadly game
Heavy rain, ever so heavy rain
We'd better have a gameplan
Better than merely praying

Why do we need to pick
Between unity and liberty
If it seems whatever team you
Tick will lead to misery?
To disbelieve truth is easy
If you choose to disagree
Though pictures of it's pitfalls litter
All of human history
Old worlds sink beneath the new
At least initially
'Till it repeats, and it repeats
And it re- geez!
Look overhead! The sun's corona's
Thrown a solar flare!
The comms are blown up thus there's
No numbers to phone repair
So prepare for hold ups all
The bumpy road ahead
And shadows that are so intense
You won't detect a polar bear
All progress frozen for a moment there
So unfair
Au contraire though, mon frere there's hope
Don't despair let's set the record straight
You're getting maced with "face
It" pepper spray best set up base
This is the day for which the preppers pray
Unless they face the lesson that
The desolation's there to stay
It ain't a getaway
Or lazy daydream on a bed of hay
Best not get up late
We're set in our ascetic ways
And when there isn't anaesthetic, antiseptic
Sepsis takes
Interest in your intestines with a kiss
To take your breath away
So let's assess the question
Eh? Maybe there's a better way?

Heavy rain, ever so heavy rain
Funny how the flood is spreading
As if it's aflame
And the heavy rain, ever so heavy rain
See, never will the sea level
Ever be the same seven deadly sins end in
Several deadly plagues
Yet never did we know
Was our co-architect the end of days?
Everything we've ever made buried under waves
Guess they're sending us a genesis
To get our penance paid

Gather 'round the campfire now
How to even start this?
We're running out of gaslight
But carry on regardless
Funny how we'll only see it
Now we're in the darkness
Salaries and spas flipped to
Tragedy and hardship
Our values fell after we
Sank the flooded markets
So now we're bound to starve
Unless we gather in the harvest
And that's the legacy we left
- a planetary carcass
Now we're really stardust
Aren't we bloody marvellous?
You know it's nothing advanced
You've so much blood on your hands
These flows are flooding your lands
Sunk your boat and scuppered your plans
And only after the catastrophic event occurs
You go: "Oh
So that's what I probably should have
Done to prevent it first"
We need a rebirth to appease Earth
I plead that you heed these words, each verse
I didn't mean to flood this beat
With such a deep dirge
But beneath the heat lurks a
Hunger that'll feed thirst
I'll jump in feet first
I want to see this Earth
Reimbursed for each hurt that we
Deemed to be worth
Inflicting terror on our victim
Terra should be being nursed
But ever since we started living on
It seems cursed
We birds tweet, perched on the steep verge
Of a ravine, verdant leaves, fir trees
Sweet birch and green ferns
Then deny the fact the
Fire's happening despite
The fact we see it burn
Like: "Ah, there's been worse"
'kin Lee Hurst we need to reverse the
Mentality of "me first"
I'm telling you humanity could either
Be a brief burst or we could reach further
Than we'd even rehearsed
A valiant crew that's gallant to the planet
In which we serve

Heavy rain, ever so heavy rain
Every day we wade in, we play a deadly game
Heavy rain, ever so heavy rain
We'd better have a gameplan
Better than merely praying
When the levee breaks through
Then it's fairly late to
Regret every mistake you may have ever made
Come hell or high water
We'd better make a change
Why I ought to, well, but then again