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 human kind ain't advice takers, by nature We're stuck to our ways, like stubborn bugs to fly paper 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 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 ways 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 Heavy rain, ever so heavy rain See, never will the sea lever 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 on our feed But now they're written in your floods 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 feather, 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 its pitfalls litter all of human history Old worlds sink beneath the new at least initially 'Til 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 frére, 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 anesthetic, 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 Heavy rain, ever so heavy rain See, never will the sea lever 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 merely stardust aren't we bloody marvelous? 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 face 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 ever 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