Lyrics

After the Flood
Jenny Bienemann

Wrenching the covers off you
Seemed like a good idea
With the water in the basement rising
Seemed like a good idea

And in our race to higher ground
The regrets and triumphs of the past were drowned

Now I know as little of you
When there’s no past between us
As your eyes say you know of me
When there’s no past between us

And for how many years have we
Loved only each other’s memory?

The water erases these photos, those faces
All that we saved for someday, floating away

Walking forward in the rain
Seems like a good idea
Your hand in mine again
Seems like a good idea

With free eyes to see at last
What’s been obscured by the past