Lyrics The Tempest - Stick Men, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto

The Tempest

Took a walk up on Riverside
By the Fireman’s Stone
Where a wall of candles said
They would not spend this night alone
Meanwhile under the city
Where the tunnels run hot
Exchanging glances shared tonight
What before we could not
Ah… connected now
Joined at the hip
Much deeper and steeper
Than your ipso facto citizenship
Ah… connected now
Fused by the fire
We used to look up to our leaders
But now we‘re looking higher
It travels deep like the rivers
When they‘ve grown into a flood
When we feel the rhythm of the ages
Hear it singing in our blood
It flows as murky as our history
It sits as ancient as the stones
We sense it pulling us together
Something tribal in our bones
Sooner or later
We know the tempest will come
Laying waste all that‘s before it
Taking lives but sparing some
And in the cold night that follows
As we huddle by the flame
Something new has come upon us
But something ancient still remains
Ah… connected now
What was there beneath the things we lost
Was hiding under the surface until
The day we were the tempest-tossed