Red Tide lyrics

Nature has some new plague

To run in our streets

History has some new wrinkle

We are doomed to repeat.

Fugitives at the bedroom door

Lovers pause to find an open store

Rain is burning on the forest floor

And the red tide kisses the shore.

This is not a false alarm

This is not a test.

Stay out of the sun

It only burns my skin

Sky full of poison

And the atmosphere's too thin.

Bless the sun, the rain no more

River running like an open sore

Black wind falling to the ocean floor

And the red tide washes ashore.

This is not a false alarm

This is not a test

Nowhere we can fly away, nowhere we can rest

The party is disrupted by an uninvited guest.

Deadline approaches

For the weary land

It used to be something

But we let it run down in our hands.

Too late for debate, too bad to ignore

Quiet rebellion leads to open war

Bring a sea change to the factory floor

As the red tide covers the shore.

Now's the time to turn the tide

Now's the time to fight

Let us not go gently

To the endless winter night.

Now's the time to make the time

While hope is still in sight

Let us not go gently

To the endless winter night