![Before the Water Gets Too High - Parquet Courts](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/32847578357863925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 17.05.2018
Record label: Rough Trade
Song language: English
Before the Water Gets Too High |
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 |
Glass barely bends before it cracks |
Embedded down into our path |
Paved in the crimson of our tracks |
Without the chance of turning back |
Before the water gets too high |
Before the water gets too high |
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 |
Glass barely bends before it cracks |
Embedded down into our path |
Paved in the crimson of our tracks |
Without the chance of turning back |
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 |
Before the water gets too high |
Before the water gets too high |
Before the water gets too high |
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Wide Awake | 2018 |
Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience | 2018 |
Total Football | 2018 |
Tenderness | 2018 |
Berlin Got Blurry | 2016 |
Stoned and Starving | 2016 |
Human Performance | 2016 |
Freebird II | 2018 |
These Boots Are Made For Walkin' | 2014 |
Violence | 2018 |
Pretty Prizes ft. Parquet Courts, Karen O | 2017 |
Talisa ft. Parquet Courts, Karen O | 2017 |
Death Will Bring Change | 2018 |
Walking at a Downtown Pace | 2021 |
Extinction | 2018 |
Mardi Gras Beads | 2018 |
Borrowed Time | 2016 |
Normalisation | 2018 |
NYC Observation | 2018 |
Back to Earth | 2018 |