a serious subject, for a change...
Apart from his musical skills Clemens - "Beyolie" - has the talent of picking my - Bernd's - more obscure lyrics.
Story behind the song
we German's were not used to flash foods, so when it happened in 2021 it hit real hard
Lyrics
as sudden as a thunderbolt
I ruin lives in a single blow
wash villages and roads
away
fill living rooms with trash and mud
drown careless people in the flood
all in a matter of
one day
the signs were there and pretty plain
heavy rainfalls, rising creeks
bulging dam walls showing
first leaks
I was here decades ago
but people have short memories
this time I've brought them
to their knees
I spoil freshwater, stocks of food
I wipe out harvests, lay waste to woods
destroy the new-build railway
bridge
downstream you can watch and gape
as lives float by in the shape
of TV-sets, a car, a chair,
a fridge
the signs were there and pretty plain
heavy rainfalls, rising creeks
bulging dam walls showing
first leaks
I was here decades ago
but people have short memories
this time I've brought them
to their knees
as sudden as a thunderbolt
I ruin lives in a single blow
wash villages and roads
away
fill living rooms with trash and mud
drown careless people in the flood
all in a matter of
one day
a warmer climate does me good
humid seasons make me strong
I think I'll come here
more often
I do mudslides, I do floods
I drown cattle, I break dams,
don't expect me
to soften
as sudden as a thunderbolt
I ruin lives in a single blow
wash villages and roads
away
fill living rooms with trash and mud
drown careless people in the flood
all in a matter of
one day
