Lift your head from wild and wicked sleep
where seven-headed serpents hiss soliloquies
and while picking snails from the river of the valley
you don't see the storm clouds piling up so quietly

The rushing river rattlesnakes your legs
and baby boy has got you drinking from the dead
you lick your lips and paddle for the levee
the sinking banks are sifting through your teeth

As you float up, see the river skins the valley
and strips the sleeping sediment of memory

You lift your head from wild and wicked sleep
the withered river sputters at your feet
and all around the sound is slow and muddy
the sunlight scatters pennies through the leaves

As you wake up see the river skins the valley
you'd love to wash this summer from your memory





Lyrics submitted by serial7

Track duration: 04:22


Flood pt.1 song meanings
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    My Opinion:The Daytrotter version of this is absolutely beautiful.
    Flag tealeafon May 28, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I know the album Glory Hope Mountain is a concept album about his mother making the journey from Honduras to Canada. So the first guess about a drug-addled night out is probably not anywhere near what they meant.

    Not to say that it wouldn't accompany the sights and sounds of one.

    But it seems like how a young person would visualize the stories from their parents about fanastical, exotic lands. Full of mysteries and danger.
    Flag furious_george13on October 10, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I agree I think this song describes a dream
    "As you wake up see the river skins the valley
    you'd love to wash this summer from your memory"
    Unbelievable song
    Flag U4iaon August 11, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I think that this song mght be about having a terrible, possibly drug filled, night and waking up in the early morning afterward.

    The lyrics are striking and so is every note played.
    Flag russeon April 18, 2008   Link

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