Flood Diary / Settle for the Sounds Lyrics

Oh

Everything's going around

And it goes like this

And I'm only in this town for maybe two or three months out of the year

Everyone is walking circles saying "have no fear!"

And everything starts to rhyme

And it's a fool that says we're out of time, but we're out of time

And everything is tangentially related to everything else

I feel bad for every flatlander that picks us off the shelf

I never needed a pick-me-up more than I do right now

This would be easy to fix if I knew the first thing about

How you did it right

I knew you on that cold dark night across from me

I'm a fool to believe you know what's going on

I just thought that maybe I had it wrong

My wife's family used to own the General Store, for example

Back in the day, the G Store was where you can get your movies

You can get your nails and a hammer,

Like, you can think of anything and it was, like, really the General Store

Where the community comes around

And everyone knows each other's quirks, it's more personal

Everything is just becoming generally more sterile

It's a good state to be in if your state of being's too cold to tell

An oscillating eighty miles a minute saying "go to hell!"

But in the summer the rain

Might as well be brimstone, that's the game

And every Monday night there's a motherfucker I see here at the store

And he comes up to me and tells me "I need more!"

Well, that's the way of this town

If you don't get money, you have to settle for the sounds

It's how you did it right

I knew you on that cold dark night across from me

I'm a fool to believe you know what's going on

I just thought that maybe I had it wrong

Oh!

Maybe I had it at one point or another

but right now it's gone

It's gone

It's gone

It's gone

It's gone

It's gone

Oh, it's gone

Oh, it's gone

Oh, it's gone

Oh, it's gone