Humanity is so depraved and wicked, God is left with no other option but to punish the world with a catastrophic flood that will destroy all living things - except Noah and his family. And the animals God sends their way.
Maybe no other song is as directly tied to the stories of Genesis as this one. It came out while I was in high school and I actually remember a non-Christian friend asking me about it before I'd even heard it. He had heard it on a secular alt. rock station. It took the imagery of The Flood and allegorized it a little so it applied to us personally. We all are weak, dying, and in need of God's help to save us.
Jars of Clay's classic, Flood:
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