My intuition (and events around the world) seem to be telling me that things are spiralling out of control, and are likely to have tragic consequences. All-out war in Israel. Rampant global warming at an all-time high. China flooding causing 17000 houses to collapse, and 200,000 to evacuate their homes. 2.8 million people in India affected by floods there. And now, a super-saturated and flooding South and midwest facing the added waters of approaching hurricanes, and the Taiwan typhoon races towards Hong Kong. Attacks on US personnel in Iraq on the rise amid massive demonstrations. Another car bomb exploded in central Baghdad outside police headquarters. Some are even saying we have already lost the war...
And I have to get my car inspected...
Expect shark stories and news blackouts...
Peter Gabriel
When the night shows
the signals grow on radios
All the strange things
they come and go, as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There's no point in direction we cannot
even choose a side.
I took the old track
the hollow shoulder, across the waters
On the tall cliffs
they were getting older, sons and daughters
The jaded underworld was riding high
Waves of steel hurled metal at the sky
and as the nail sunk in the cloud, the rain
was warm and soaked the crowd.
Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
When the flood calls
You have no home, you have no walls
In the thunder crash
You're a thousand minds, within a flash
Don't be afraid to cry at what you see
The actors gone, there's only you and me
And if we break before the dawn, they'll
use up what we used to be.
Lord, here comes the flood
We'll say goodbye to flesh and blood
If again the seas are silent
in any still alive
It'll be those who gave their island to survive
Drink up, dreamers, you're running dry.
