I knew love in dripping coffee   Flooded streets and rust and rotting   I knew love in drunken talking   'Fore the weather changed.   And long before the fever dreams   The pale-faced machinery   For the rain came like artillery   Pulled me underneath the flood.      And underneath the flood it's quiet   All my thoughts are softly dying   All the rain, the rain is silent   Underneath the flood.      Well I was bred in anxious tryst   All soft of hand and soft of fist   Through sanity so tedious   I'm searching in the blood.   Well my hatred needs no victim oh   My hatred like religion   Crucify me while I'm kicking   Pull me underneath the flood.      And underneath the flood it's quiet   All my thoughts are softly dying   Oh the rain, the rain is rising   Underneath the flood.      And underneath the flood I'm drowning   Have no friends to gather 'round me   Oh my god my greed has found me   Underneath the flood.      And underneath the flood    My tears are turning to the water   Rusted coins and crumpled dollars   I sink underneath, sink underneath.      I sit here in torrential silence   Coffee keeping up my eyelids   Thoughts of you all turn to violence   Trying to find love   But I hate how you believed in me   You believed with such cold objectivity   So tired I relinquished everything   Fell underneath the flood.      And underneath the flood it's quiet   All my thoughts are softly dying   All the rain, the rain is silent   Underneath the flood.