Above the Flood Line
Same call-and-response chorus, but one take soars like a hymn and the other grinds like blues rock.
The stories behind Above the Flood Line
- The Two Takes of Above the Flood Line, One Choir, One Slide Guitar — Same call-and-response chorus, but one take soars like a hymn and the other grinds like blues rock.
- Above the Flood Line Is About Moving a Generator Before the Storm — In hurricane country, hospitals relocate generators and medical gas above the flood line long before the water ever comes.
Lyrics
Lift it up, lift it
up, lift it up
Above the flood line, above the flood line
Yeah, yeah
Generator used to live down
In the basement low
Switch gear, I've decided
Where the water's bound to go
Make gas on the ground floor.
No, sir, not this year.
Moved it up past the surge line long before the storm
got here.
Lift it up. Lift it up.
Above the flood line.
Above the flood line.
The water don't read no maintenance schedule,
Lord So we lift it up in time
In time
Now we drill it in the daylight
Switch off every screen
Pen and paper charting
Like the network's never been
They started one big storm
And the numbers told it true
Where power fell, the odds are dying
Rose at seven days and thirty -two
Lift it up, lift it up
Above the flood line
Above the flood line
The water don't read no maintenance schedule,
Lord So we lift it up in time
When the screens go dark
When the network's down
When the power fails
Where's the generator?
Up high
Lift it up Lift it up
Above the flood line
Above the flood line
The water don't read no maintenance schedule,
Lord, so we lift it up in
time, in time
In time
