Lyrics & Music by Bernd Harmsen as sudden as a thunderbolt I ruin lives in a single blow wash villages and roads away fill living rooms with trash and mud drown careless people in the flood all in a matter of one day the signs were there and pretty plain heavy rainfalls, rising creeks bulging dam walls showing first leaks I was here decades ago but people have short memories this time I've brought them to their knees I spoil freshwater, stocks of food I wipe out harvests, lay waste to woods destroy the new-build railway bridge downstream you can watch and gape as lives float by in the shape of TV-sets, a car, a chair, a fridge the signs were there and pretty plain heavy rainfalls, rising creeks bulging dam walls showing first leaks I was here decades ago but people have short memories this time I've brought them to their knees as sudden as a thunderbolt I ruin lives in a single blow wash villages and roads away fill living rooms with trash and mud drown careless people in the flood all in a matter of one day a warmer climate does me good humid seasons make me strong I think I'll come here more often I do mudslides, I do floods I drown cattle, I break dams, don't expect me to soften as sudden as a thunderbolt I ruin lives in a single blow wash villages and roads away fill living rooms with trash and mud drown careless people in the flood all in a matter of one day
