Through plumes of smoke
A few houses a blaze
Your eyes scan over the water

Where the city's outline is faded and erased

Cries in the night

After the storm
Arms entangled in wave and wire
Frozen below in the darkness


Days float
Buildings sway

Tensions rise with the waters
As the sense of your fears worsen


What's at stake
Once the levee breaks
No one could imagine not returning

Nor the shots that echo and ringing

No second line

Will lay you down
The delta moon weeps and weeps
As the tide folds it little babies to sleep

'Neath the darkness
Sleep now sleep
Sleep now sleep