Name: Wake Of The Flood
Duration: P00H02M58S
Description: This song basically wrote itself. I had been listening to Yo La Tengo's Drug Test a lot, and in that song the narrator mentions listening to Wake Of The Flood on headphones. The phrase stuck with me, and not long after the whole lyric fell together without much editing. Engineer Blair did make a crucial edit that greatly improved the track.

Wake Of The Flood

from Looking For An Answer by The Kevins

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This song basically wrote itself. I had been listening to Yo La Tengo's Drug Test a lot, and in that song the narrator mentions listening to Wake Of The Flood on headphones. The phrase stuck with me, and not long after the whole lyric fell together without much editing. Engineer Blair did make a crucial edit that greatly improved the track.

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WAKE OF THE FLOOD by K. Dennis

Lives battered
A family shattered
Crushed by the weight of the fate
In the wake of the flood

Sittin' on the roof
I'm watching roots float by
Nothing can be set right
In the wake of the flood

Why'd I have to go and let the levee break?
Let that river of hurt engulf the plains
Why'd you have to go and never look back?
Won't you give me my last second chance?

Six feet high and rising
A great lake to the horizon
There on the wall, a water line
Marks the new beginning of time
In the wake of the flood

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from Looking For An Answer, track released June 16, 1998
Written by K. Dennis (c) 1998 Slowfist Productions

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The Kevins Arvada, Colorado

The Kevins (Denver, CO) have been conjuring up home-made rock music since 1998: original songs by K. Dennis, tunes by friends & colleagues, and covers (Steppenwolf, Blondie, The Delfonics, Husker Du, The Banana Splits, more). Inspired by Neil Young, John Fogerty, Paul Westerberg, Ian Hunter and many more, The Kevins' continuing quest is to create the perfect single - or at least some cool b-sides. ... more

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