In A Flood - John Cale

You thought you

Had it covered

But you didn’t

The best you had

To offer went

Up in smoke

I heard from other

People where

You went

Down the

Mississippi

In a flood

Somewhere

South

Of

Santa Fe it started

Sinking in

The sweetness you were missing you were wishing

Would come back again was Lost in the shuffle

Along the way

Down the Mississippi in a flood

Swallowed in a storm

You had us worried all along

Tying up the lines to

The State Police

Covered all over in grease

What was under the hood was alright

You would have made it down

The Mississippi in a flood