Howling Bells are prophetic (2)

[blade]

Ages ago houdini started a thread saying the some of the Howling Bells lyrics were prophetic. Well, in the month that Cities Burning Down is released as a single, Australia is suffering its worst ever peace-time loss of life in bush fires in Victoria - whole towns have been destroyed - while Queensland is being battered by unprecedented storms and floods.

Raging fires sweeping round bends.....

Rising water.....

Victoria is Juanita and Joel's home state - let's hope they haven't been affected personally, but even if they haven't they must still be incredibly concerned.

[riseandfall]

iTs just terrible what's going on and to think that it may be arson is just even worse.

[houdini]

Yep it seems pretty tragic, but consider the lyrics

Dreamt of rising water
it was a love that filled the sea
dreamt it kept on rising
a haunted love was she
dreamt of raging fires
swept around the bend
dreamt I had a nightmare
the cities burnin down again
the cities burnin down again

and the storm it kept on comin'
all the while I saw the sun
then the earth made a sound (cant make it out....)
the sities burning down again

so help me out please

The firefighters and residents ref to the fires as a storm. Some towns were burned to the ground -- nothin left