Pantera - Floods (Lyrics on Screen Video 🎤🎶🎸🥁)

Pantera - Floods (Lyrics on Screen Video 🎤🎶🎸🥁)

The intro guitar lick is one of those that sounds good the first time you hear it and knowing it will sound even better when heard again. I think this song is about a massive flood coming and washing humanity away. The song is slow and groovy throughout and is nicely written throughout, once of my favorites on the album for sure! The outro solo is really nice, it is rated as one of the best of all time (I'm not sure what number it's at). I feel like I always forget to mention Rex's bass playing and how good it is and how it carries Dim's leads. The solo starts out slow and then get's shreddy towards the end, awesome stuff! Enjoy! Oh also the outro guitar part sounds like Buckethead haha!

🎤 Lyrics 🎤

[Verse 1]
A dead issue (A dead issue)
Don't wrestle with it (Don't wrestle with it)
Deaf ears are sleeping (Deaf ears are sleeping)
A guilty bliss (Guilty bliss)
So inviting (Let me in)
Nailed to the cross

[Pre-Chorus 1]
(I feel you, relate to you, accuse you)
Wash away us all
Take us with the flood

[Chorus 1]
Then throughout the night they were raped and executed
(Then throughout the night they were raped and executed)
Cold hearted world

[Verse 2]
Your language unheard of (Your language unheard of)
The vast sound of tuning out
The rash of negativity (The rash of negativity)
Is seen one-sidedly (One-sidedly)
Burn away the day

[Pre-Chorus 2]
(The nervous, a drifting, the heaving)
Wash away us all
Take us with the flood
[Chorus 2]
Then throughout the day, mankind played with grenades
(Then throughout the day, mankind played with grenades)
Cold hearted world
And at night they might bait the pentagram
(And at night they might bait the pentagram)
Extinguishing the sun

[Bridge]
Wash away a man, take him with the flood
Flood
Flood

[Guitar Solo]

Flood
Flood

[Instrumental Outro]

*Genius.com Annotations*

"Wash away us all
Take us with the flood"
*In this line, singer Phil Anselmo is alluding to the flood described in the book of Genesis in the Bible. All the fountains of the great deep burst open, and the floodgates of the sky were opened. – Genesis 7:11
God detested how evil men had become and used a giant flood to wash them all away. Anselmo seems to be alluding that the same thing should be happening today.*

"Guitar Solo"
*This guitar solo by ‘Dimebag’ Darrell Abbott is one of his most well-known solos in metal, and arguably one of the best he’s done. Both he and bassist Rex Brown had some things to say about it.

That particular solo was thought-out in a more orchestrated fashion than some of the others I play where I just start ripping right off the bat. The thing that really makes the ‘Floods’ solo come across like it does is [bassist] Rex’s playing behind it. He’s using his fingers and he plays a whole bunch of cool licks and shit in there. He definitely adds to the vibe and feel of my lead because I’m playing off his part a lot—it was a great foundation for me to build on, man. -Dimebag Darrell on his legendary solo.
That was one of my favorite bass lines on that song. We’d rehearsed it a couple of times and Dime and I sat down for quite a while with that. It was more of trying to get yourself in a mellow mood. It’s a blazing solo with a really cool rhythm section underneath it. I’m really proud of the bass line. I think that was Dime’s favorite solo on that song. -Rex Brown on the song.*

*Wikipedia Stuff*

"Floods", the album's longest song, contains a guitar solo considered by many to be Dimebag Darrell's finest. Guitar World magazine voted it as the 15th greatest guitar solo of all-time, Darrell's highest-ranking of three solos to make the list (the other two being his solos from "Cemetery Gates", ranked 35th, and "Walk", ranked 57th).

The Great Southern Trendkill is the eighth studio album by American heavy metal band Pantera, released on May 7, 1996 through East West Records. It reached number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart, and stayed on the chart for 16 weeks. Phil Anselmo recorded the vocals alone at Trent Reznor's Nothing Studios in New Orleans[3] while Dimebag Darrell, Rex Brown, and Vinnie Paul recorded the music at Chasin Jason Studios in Dalworthington Gardens.

Considered Pantera's most aggressive album,[4] The Great Southern Trendkill is known for featuring much screaming,[5][6] most notably on "Suicide Note Pt. II" and "The Great Southern Trendkill" while also featuring some of the fastest tempos and most down-tuned guitars ("The Underground in America" and "(Reprise) Sandblasted Skin" were played in standard D flat tuning, with the 6th string tuned to a low G flat.)[citation needed] that the band ever recorded. It also has a more experimental nature, such as the acoustic guitars[4] and ballads.[7]