Here Comes the Flood - 2002 Remaster

In this song from Peter Gabriel's first solo album, he gets rather poetic, singing about stranded starfish and a jaded underworld before exploding into the chorus, where the flood comes. Said Gabriel: "I was referring to a mental flood... a release, a wash over the mind."

This presents an image of a society where people can read each other's minds. Those who are honest and open will thrive while those who have not will be exposed for who they really are.

Gabriel was inspired by a dream he had in which people could see each other's thoughts, producing a psychic flood.