After the Flood

 

Continuing the story,

 

humanity stumbles -

 

gone is the glory,

 

there's a far distant rumble.

 

 

 

The clouds have gathered and exploded now:

 

axes shattered, there is no North or South.

 

B B E E C C D D D D B B E E D C+g D

Em-D-C-Bm

Far off, the ice is foundering slowly,

 

 

the ice is turning to water,

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

 

o-of the end,

 

middle of the middle, mid-point, end and start:

 

the first peak rises, forces the waves apart.

 

B B E E C C D D D D B B E E D C+g D

Em-D-C-Bm

Far off, the ice is now re-forming:

 

 

 

INSTRUMENTAL BRIDGE in D - F - D - F

 

 

poles are fixed once more,

 

water is 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 no - body lives.

 

And when the water falls again, all is dead and nobody lives.

 

 

 

g g# a# d c f c# e d# b f# a - this riff is repeated several times, then

improvised, finally fades out...

 

D C D C etc.

 

 

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 annihila-tio - o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o - o - on'

 

 

 

 

This is the ending

 

of the beginning,

 

this is the beginning

 

o-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 no - body lives.

 

And when the water falls again, all is dead and nobody lives.

 

 

Fades out to the omnious Coda.