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"Flood" By Jars Of Clay
Album Jars of Clay
(c)1995 Brentwood Music
Transcribed by Skip Woodstock
Posted by Jeremy Kozdon Icepick111@aol.com
Guitar Intro verse 4x
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Pre-Chorus 4x
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Chorus 2x
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2nd Chorus
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Stop
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2nd Verse Pre chorus Chorus Stop on this note
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Middle Break (Strings)
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Pre Chorus, Chorus, 2x, end ont build up on "c" note
Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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SaM Lead Player |
#1 by SaM at Jan 3, 1973 at 1:55 PM EST |
| does anyone know where i can download a full version of this song for free? besides kazza? | |
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Chazzman Professional |
#2 by Chazzman at Nov 6, 1974 at 7:45 AM EST |
| this song is obviously about Noah's Ark. If you want to take it metaphorically, this song could be about being strong in your faith; no matter what happens, things will come out right if you have faith in yourself and others. | |
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Jo Wanna Be |
#3 by Jo Sterling at Mar 31, 1975 at 4:18 AM EST |
| As far as the faith part, I'm pretty sure that the songwriters' intention was faith in God :) | |
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Nyle Average |
#4 by Nyle Leddy at Apr 2, 1976 at 7:54 PM EST |
| The lyrics are obviously intentionally designed to have multiple meanings and references. The story of Noah is the background theme, with the frequent references to rain, huge flood, waves, and the "forty days." But the story of Noah isn't the main message of the song - it's only the background. Is the song really saying anything at all *about* the story of Noah? Not really. What it *is* doing is drawing a pretty cool metaphor with the story, as it is applied to the pain and struggles of the individual. The great storm/waves serve to represent the struggles that a Christian may go through with their faith and with sin. The rain represents tears, hence the "rain on my face" that "drench my eyes" The rest of the lyrics emphasize God's restoring ability when we feel that we've lost our foothold ('can't feel my feet touching the ground) or that we're just overwhelmed and think we can't make it ("falling", "drowning",...etc). And finally, the song as a whole is actually a prayer, and a really humble one at that. It reminds me of many of the Psalms. Great song 1 | |
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darin Average |
#5 by darin ? at May 22, 1977 at 4:46 AM EST |
| Well, looking at all of your comments, I can see that all of you are right! The song can be taken in so many ways! I don't think it was strictly about Noah's Ark, but it did rain for 40 days and 40 nights! But the part about Jesus' temptation in the desert and having faith in God are probably the key points of this song! :) | |
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Indy Lead Player |
#6 by Indy Windrose at Mar 23, 1979 at 8:22 PM EST |
| yeah i think it's a plea for help from God, when you are 'drowning' in sin. | |
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mark Badass |
#7 by mark at Mar 8, 1986 at 8:34 PM EST |
| this song is like a person who is not yet saved and then he asks for forgiveness | |
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storm Average |
#8 by storm at Aug 27, 1988 at 5:15 PM EST |
| but they also said it means so many different thinks to so many different people that was just wat they wrote it for | |
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stephen Average |
#9 by stephen warunki at Jan 24, 1989 at 3:17 PM EST |
| this is a good song. its seems to me that he is over whelmed with thoughts that counter dict his own. like things changing his Religion and maybe his way of life. I think if it Challenges you to think differently doesn't make it a bad thing. I despise Religion and Hate blind following. remember to think and not to feel like you're betraying God by challenging what you been told to be true. A belief is a thought, Not away of life. don't just choose to love god, find reason for loving him, & DO NOT block out the bad in life, because it is just as important as the Good! Remember what you see and hear comes from people, even some of the sickest and most unimaginable things. they were thought of in the minds of men and sometimes acted out. when the Davinci Code movie came out, we had Religious people protesting the movie say that people that see the movie are gonna think that is what happen. so what if they do! people that go to church tend to think that what is preached to them is the truth! keep an open mind and don't live under God or Jesus's shadow! I think if you cant Question Gods will and find the real reason for liking the man or the object than..why love him? there is no love in Fear and if you fear to challenge god or what you been told to be true than there is no sense in having LOVED GOD. some christian are good people and some claim to be. Satan is what you think he is...remember if Satan was bad and you are a bad person, than you have something in common and might just get along great...much like with Jesus and God. Tool also did a song called Flood and here are the lyrics to it. Here comes the water. All I knew and all I believed are crumbling images that no longer comfort me. I scramble to reach higher ground, some order and sanity, or something to comfort me. So I take what is mine,and hold what is mine, suffocate what is mine, and bury what's mine. Soon the water will come and claim what is mine. I must leave it behind, and climb to a new place now. This ground is not the rock I thought it to be. Thought I was high, and free. I thought I was there divine destiny. I was wrong. This changes everything. The water is rising up on me. Thought the sun would come deliver me, but the truth has come to punish me instead. The ground is breaking down right under me. Cleanse and purge me in the water. After listen to Tools Flood i began thinking about what "I" believe to be true...Tool is considered a Satanic band by many Christians, but in reality they our far from it. Tool will challenge you to think and open your mind or your "Third Eye" as Tool sometimes calls it. They're a very good group for people that want a different prospective of reality or thought. don't love god because of fear, don't love God because your told to, and don't love god for the Good things in life and blame Lucifer for the bad! things are thought up by man, not told to man by God or the Demons... remember if GOD only wanted you to love him unconditionally, than i have no love for him. if you don't sin you have nothing to fear weather you love god/Jesus or not. I'm only 17 & one day my thoughts may change........ | |
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Eskil Oscar Average |
#10 by Eskil Oscar Svendsen at Jan 26, 1995 at 5:17 AM EST |
| I don't just think blindly. I love God because he sent Christ to take the punishment I deserved. I love much because I've been forgiven much. wwsd? you name is creative yet disturbing. We know what Satan would do. He seeks to appear as an angel of light to deceive all he can. He's a sinking ship and he wants to take as many people down with him to the lake of fire. | |
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The Penguins Tr Professional Badass |
#11 by The Penguins Tried To Kill Me The Other Day at Oct 22, 1995 at 3:23 AM EST |
| One of all-time favorite songs...gotta love it. Ever wonder if 40 days could means both the flood and the time of temptation? | |
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Eric Wanna Be |
#12 by Eric Griggs at Aug 5, 1998 at 7:08 PM EST |
| more brainwashing | |
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matthew Rhythm Player |
#13 by matthew robinson at Jan 28, 2003 at 7:55 AM EST |
| This song is great...trust God! < :0) | |
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Alyssa Professional |
#14 by Alyssa at Dec 11, 2004 at 10:49 PM EST |
| This song is not about the flood. The forty days refers to Jesus' forty days on earth after his ressurection. The key is "cast down the waves of sin" Acts 1:3-8 speaks of the baptism of the holy spirit. He also spoke of how he would not always be with them and there would another comforter "The Holy Spirit" to be with us when he was gone. In this song not being able to swim after forty days means not being able to remain faithful with out Jesus here on earth guiding us. The person is asking the Holy Spirit to lift him up and keep him from drowning in waves of sin. | |
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Alex Wanna Be |
#15 by Alex TABASH! at Mar 21, 2006 at 8:23 AM EST |
| this song is about the ark i heard it from jars themselves | |
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Marks Average |
#16 by Marks at Mar 24, 2006 at 11:18 AM EST |
| I bought the CD single of "Flood" when I noticed there was a special display up at the register of the music shop I got it from--the special promotional price of just $1.99 was an added incentive, barring the fact I saw this video once or twice on Trinity Broadcasting's Sat. night video show lineup and liked the tune in itself. Growing up, I was raised in the Baptist faith, and at 8 or 9, became born again through the love of Christ who so loved us all enough to have been crucified on the cross and died so we maybe washed clean of our sins and have eternal life in Heaven. At least that what was constantly advocated from Sunday School into the weekly sermons our church's pastor gave, with the Bible as our literal guidebook to understanding God's plan for us. Meanwhile, in my secular musical tastes, I was getting rather bored with what constituted FM radio we middle-schoolers listened to around '77-'78: either "album rock", i.e., heavy metal, aging '60s giants like the Stones, Led Zep, and the Who, and prog-rock crossovers like Jethro Tull, who I actually liked in their earlier years! Or Top 40 hits--even having been an ABBA fan rivaling some of my more "outed" gay male friends as 20-somethings later on, unless you knew the good local AM stations in the area, the FM stuff was all about Sheena Easton and Olivia Newton-John with a few bands like the Cars, the Knack, Chic, and P-Funk to liven it up to be remotely standable. One lazy summer afternoon, a simple twist of my stereo's dial to the left end of the FM band landed on the college station out of UConn that just happened to be playing a punk/new wave show at the time. Of course we kids heared of the Sex Pistols and how so gross they were to puke and spit on their audiences to actually be banned to play in several states, LOL. Plus Blondie, played up by Top 4o DJs as "that New Wave band from NYC that played CBGBs along with punk rockers, The Ramones", had a break-out disco type hit, "Heart of Glass" I liked enough to get the album, "Parallel Lines" much like when the Cars ("a great new band right here from Boston") got my attention to buy their first album. That actually scored points with this "popular" gal in my homeroom to tell me, "Hey, you have good taste in music!" which looking back I could've answered back with a "woohoo, glad you bothered to notice, yawn..." LOL So what's the connection between why as an 8th. grader, I set down the foundation for a long-time punk/alt. music bent I still manage to follow even as a (gasp!) 40-something and this particular tune by, frankly, a band that largely I thought wasn't all that as the best of the burgening Christian alt./hip-hop scene. What, later on when I had time to read the production & engineering credits on the back of this CD, clued me in all the sudden was Adrian Belew had produced that track, "Flood". Belew was the creative genius of classic '70s prog-rock legend, King Crimson, a band our local Portland, OR indie treasure, the Decemberists, collectivelly enjoyed enough to inspire the current sound of their latest album and 1st major label release, "The Crane Wife". Oddly enough, Colin Meloy, the frontman and songwriter for the Decemberists got the idea of this 3-part title song from his old day job shelving children's books at Powell's, Portland's other claim to fame as the "world's largest independent bookstore on the planet". One of the books he found of interest was a Japanese folk tale, "The Crane Wife", about a man who nursed a crane back into this beautiful woman whom he married, but was told by his new bride to never try to peek into the room she wove this wonderful cloth that instantly brought them much prosperity to their household. But of course, curiousity overtook him enough to risk peeking into the room his wife had told him not to see her weaving in. Due to his driving need to just take a second to glance at her working her loom through the crack in the door, he soon realized he had caused his "crane bride" to become sickened and die. Not exactly one of those folk tales where the couple lived happily ever after! Also, Belew, after leaving King Crimson, became a well-known producer of some of the '80s best alternative acts; I believe XTC had worked with him on one album (can't remember which) and IMHO, Andy Partridge who was frontman and songwriting genious behind XTC to make them legends in their own right to inspire such '90s bands like Barenaked Ladies to be known as "Canada's answer to XTC". Quite the honor, eh? (hehe..) As far as the secular alt scene to give an otherwise lackluster "Christian alt." band such as Jars of Clay actual airplay on college and comm. alt stations much less more than a second listen to warrent their label to market "Flood" as a $1.99 impulse -buy CD single aimed for the stores that specialize in independent artists--at least as a definite "keeper" in my own music collection just for the excellent job Adrian Belew did producing "Flood", a song I still enjoy a lot. God indeed had given his musical servants, Jars of Clay, a blessing by pairing Belew on such a beautifully crafted, and Biblically meanful song the band wrote as witnesses to the power and the glory of God. Amen! | |
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Kevin Wanna Be |
#17 by Kevin Woolard at Aug 18, 2006 at 5:42 AM EST |
| fgbiad, I think that you are so right in this. Because the Holy Spirit is supposed to lift you up to help you keep the faith. But there are so many meanings to this song. | |
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