Song Description
This song attributes the mounting difficulties of a relationship crescendoing on a night of natural disaster.
Song Length |
3:29 |
Genre |
Folk - Rock, Folk - Alternative |
Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
Mood |
Nervous, Poignant |
Subject |
Water, Body |
Similar Artists |
Peter Gabriel, Wilco |
Language |
English |
Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
the street is made up
with revealing struts.
the drunks can't hold their wine
while shouting at the moonlight
for a great flood to arive.
for the floods to rise
when he's attracted back to the sink,
as if she's gonna shake off that limp this time
and not care.
and so she locked the breezeway
without a hint of grace,
before we heard the cry:
"the sink has run dry!"
she knows how it tastes
to throw this away.
but where is her suitcase
as she draws the blinds
to realize she's been lied to?
so then she says
she's gonna shake off that limp this time,
and not care.
and then the moon shakes.
and the earth quakes
when you hear footsteps that make you wet.
as you climb into your bed,
but he's attracted back to the sink!
when the moon shakes.
when you hear my steps.
as you make the bed.
because you know how this will taste,
and you can't help but think it's laced.
she'll learn to lock both doors tonight.