Tipping points.

They’re like subway stations, I guess. If you miss one, it’s gonna be a helluva ride back.

And sometimes, having missed your stop, you find yourself at a place where it really can be said: You can’t get there from here.

That’s what a lot of people have been saying for a long time — but there was no money in their message and it was ignored and ignored again — and now we seem poised to find out just how true their jeremiads will prove to be.

Anyhow, I feel sorry for all the little furry, feathered, and scaled creatures who will be swept along with our sorry furless backsides in the floods to come…

Somehow, I feel the cockroaches will survive. Like the forces of the Old South taking over the Party of Lincoln little more than a century after its founding, they will probably be the victors over man, mammal, bird, and lizard… but what will be left of the spoils?

previous AYoS version 12 Nov 2005

Time for Another Flood

People think heaven is behind the sky
People thinking crazy things and not thinking why
They think the answer’s going to fall from above
I think the answer is another flood

It’s time, time for another flood
It’s time, baby, time for another flood

People live in wickedness and dwell in greed
They’ll murder their brother to get more than they need
They even rape the Mother and swim in her blood
I call on the Father for another flood

It’s time, time for another flood
It’s time, baby, time for another flood

All of this truth has all been a lie
Our immortal souls have already died
The time for salvation has come and gone
and all that’s coming now is another flood

It’s time, time for another flood
It’s time, baby, time for another flood

(C)1991, TK Major

A Year of Songs 21 April 2006