After The Flood

After The Flood (BBC Top Gear Session) - Van Der Graaf Generator

Continuing the story humanity stumbles

Gone is the glory there's a far distant rumble

The clouds have gathered and exploded now

Axis shattered there is no North or South

Far off the ice is foundering slowly

The ice is turning to water

The water rushes over all

Cities crash in the mighty wave

The final man is very small

Plunging in for his final bathe

The water rushes over all

Cities crash in the mighty wave

The final man is very small

Plunging in for his final bathe

This is the ending of the beginning

This is the beginning of the end

Middle of the middle mid-point end and start

The first peak rises forces the waves apart

Far off the ice is now reforming

Poles are fixed once more

Water's receding like death blood leaving

And when the water falls again

All is dead and nobody lives

And when the water falls again

All is dead and nobody lives

And when the water falls again

All is dead and nobody lives

And when the water falls again

All is dead and nobody lives

And then he said every step appears to be

The unavoidable consequence of the preceding one

And in the end there beckons more and more clearly

Total annihilation'

This is the ending of the beginning

This is the beginning of the end

And when the water falls again

All is dead and nobody lives

And when the water falls again

All is dead and nobody lives

And when the water falls again

All is dead and nobody lives

And when the water falls again

All is dead and nobody lives

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