Bruce Springsteen - Lost In The Flood Lyrics
The ragamuffin gunner is returnin home like a hungry runawayHe walks through town all aloneHe must be from the fort he hears the high school girls sayHis countrysides burnin with wolfman fairies dressed in drag for homicideThe hit and run, plead sanctuary, `neath a holy stone they hideTheyre breakin beams and crosses with a spastics reelin perfectionNuns run bald through vatican halls pregnant, pleadin immaculate conceptionAnd everybodys wrecked on main street from drinking unholy bloodSticker smiles sweet as gunner breathes deep, his ankles caked in mudAnd I said hey gunner man thats quicksand, thats quicksand that aint mudHave you thrown your senses to the war or did you lose them in the flood?That pure american brother, dull-eyed and empty-facedRaces sundays in jersey in a chevy stock super eightHe rides `er low on the hip, on the side hes got bound for glory in red, white and blue flash paintHe leans on the hood telling racing stories, the kids call him jimmy theSaintWell the blaze and noise boy, hes gunnin that ***** loaded to blastin pointHe rides head first into a hurricane and disappears into a pointAnd theres nothin left but some blood where the body fellThat is, nothin left that you could sellJust junk all across the horizon, a real highwaymans farewellAnd he said hey kid, you think thats oil? man, that aint oil thats bloodI wonder what he was thinking when he hit that stormOr was he just lost in the flood?Eighth avenue sailors in satin shirts whisper in the airSome storefront incarnation of maria, shes puttin on me the stareAnd bronxs best apostle stands with his hand on his own hard wareEverything stops, you hear five, quick shots, the cops come up for airAnd now the whiz-bang gang from uptown, theyre shootin up the streetAnd that cat from the bronx starts lettin loose but he gets blown right off his feetAnd some kid comes blastin round the corner but a cop puts him right awayHe lays on the street holding his leg screaming something in spanishStill breathing when I walked awayAnd somebody said hey man did you see that? his body hit the street withSuch a beautiful thudI wonder what the dude was sayin or was he just lost in the flood?Hey man, did you see that, those poor cats are sure messed upI wonder what they were gettin into, or were they just lost in the flood?
