I posted this months back, and thought I'd post it again so that my newer friends could see it. It's a song I wrote many years ago after a dream, at a time when some very bad flooding was occurring in the American midwest. The dream took me right to the edge of an explosive emotional expression... A ferocious repressive reflex kicked in and forcefully woke me from the dream... I immediately got up and wrote this song as a kind of a protest against the destructive emotional repression that's demanded of men in our society.I played or programmed all the instruments. The flood video footage was found at the internet archive. i think the flooding represented there occurred in Pittsburgh..I hope you like it.PaulDown on the Flood Plainby Paul SonnenbergWell, a good man is a strong manAnd a strong man is a stoneWe were born here, bathed in hot tearsTold to strike out on our ownAnd you ask me whyEvery tear we've ever criedIs a pearl of price that buys us only shameWell, what can't be boughtAre the years that we have lostLosing lifeblood in the staking of our claimDown on the flood plain.When I hear the sound of thunderAnd feel the lightning charge the airWell, I cannot help but wonderWill the levy hold this year?And you ask me whyIn the cradle of the nightDo I waken with a start and bate my breathJust a foolish dream of a rushing streamWith a liberty somehow akin to death.Chorus:Somewhere there's a place where the rivers cut deepAnd the wildness of the raging torrent flowsBut the tears of a man are a river early dammedFor the working (taking) of the good land down belowBelow the flood plainDown on the flood plain.We chide women for their weaknessAnd we hate them for their strengthAnd we envy them the weepingWe must avoid at any lengthAnd you ask me whyWhen the tears begin to flyDo I cover up and head for higher groundWell, rain's heaven sentAnd may be your elementBut I fear the sky could soon come tumbling downHere on the flood plainSomewhere there's a place where the rivers cut deepAnd the wildness of the raging torrent flowsBut the flood of grief rages strong beyond beliefAnd I fear one day the banks will overflowHere on the flood plain.

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