Don't Fall In

We came from the four corners, we are the raw waters

The course the four horsemen would drink from, the water that pours

We carry the river, the reservoir, the residue

Rising waves, she sprayed the inevitable

Churn across many voices in our vape

As we surge and gush, we were steam and a distant heat

We move rapid over landscape, gatherin' speed

There's a land, city, forest, and beach

Headin' for the people that sleep, ready to bleed

Unleash the torrents, come clean

Carry many lessons that the water teach

But you better learn to swim or you'll get caught beneath

Hard rain falling on all the halfhearted

Half formed, fast walking, half fury, half boredom

Hard talking, half dead from exhaustion

Half pushed but the puddles keep forming, don't fall in

Some saw us in their tea leaves, some felt us in their knees

Most left it to the weathermen to tell them there was nothing to see

You can play dumb and ignore for so long

But we've been in the mountains gettin' strong

We've seen you filling up the sky with your fumes

Sitting in your rooms like you're all that ever lived

Heads down to the lives of the others in your towns

Running from the rains like you've never been kissed, look

Leave your possessions and fun so your friends

That you've gone to make peace with the things you've never done

Come dance in the deluge, spill like the flood

The weathervane swings, things will never change

Single the moneymen who close their eyes and pretend

That this rumble must be low planes, so strange

Hard rain falling on all the halfhearted

Half formed, fast walking, half fury, half boredom

Hard talking, half dead from exhaustion

Half pushed but the puddles keep forming, don't fall in

And they will run to the highest hill, consult their old books

Ask the dead mystics for wisdom they don't trust

The people will flock to the garages

Stockpile cannisters of gasoline, tinned, fish, and bandages

Count the seconds between the thunder and the lightning

Scared of every other body runnin' 'round frightened

"We can't carry on like this," you will mutter

Staring with disgust at the people weepin' in the gutter

"Yeah, we made no trouble, we played by the rules

I worked double shift to get my kids from school!"

But you were so focused on your own little part

You went plowin' on blind in the dark, no heart

Now we're not the dreaded storm that will end things

We're just your playful, gale force friend in these end times

Come to remind you you're not an island

Life is much broader than borders

But who can afford to think over the walls of this fortress?

Of course, it's important to provide roof and floorboards

For you and yours and be secure in your fortunes

But you're more than the three or four you go to war for

You're part of a people that need your support

And, who's world is it if it belongs to these corporates?

The people are left on the doorstep, door shut

Nauseous and tortured by all that they've lost

Hard rain falling on all the halfhearted

Half formed, fast walking, half fury, half boredom

Hard talking, half dead from exhaustion

Half pushed but the puddles keep forming, don't fall in